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I've got a kawasaki engine out of a John Deere gator I'm rebuilding but the spec number doesn't show up on any parts site. Anybody ever ran into this problem? I basically need an entire rotating assembly plus seals and gaskets but hate to buy it not knowing if something has changed from one spec number to the next. It's an FE290D BS28. Any advice on if the parts would be the same?

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JD has exclusive parts supply for any Kawasaki engine used on their equipment. May be other brands also but they are standard Kawasaki parts used on their other engines, but you will not find a spec number from Kawasaki used on JD equipment. A lot of the time you can look up a similar spec and get that part number and it will be the correct part for your engine. Keeping in mind JD will sometimes use parts that were not used on another engine within that series. Easier route maybe to go to JD and get parts.

ILENGINE said:

JD has exclusive parts supply for any Kawasaki engine used on their equipment. May be other brands also but they are standard Kawasaki parts used on their other engines, but you will not find a spec number from Kawasaki used on JD equipment.

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Plain BS. I have no problem looking up the JD Kawasaki engines. You just don't know where to look which is what JD wants you to fall for. Only a very few parts are not available from Kawasaki. Most Kawasaki engines I repair are on JD equipment and I don't buy the parts from JD. Matter of fact I got a Kawasaki fuel pump and carburetor parts coming in Wednesday for the FD440-AS00 on the JD LX178 from my Kawasaki distributor.

I got the head and valves for the FH661V-AS04 engine on the 737 I repaired a few weeks ago. JD wanted $226.91 for it but I got it through my distributor for $174 So I actually sold the head to customer for $195. Made a decent profit and saved the customer money too. Of course there were valves, stems seals, and gaskets are not part of the $195 but I pass along similar savings to customer.

Then of there was the FH601V-FS14, FX730-AS20, and PA540A-BS02 eariler this year that I also got parts for from Kawasaki.

OP, No problem here looking up that engine. Can you put together a list of parts you are wanting?, and I can get the Kawasaki PNs for you. I know you need the head gasket, crankcase cover gasket (oil pan) and the two crankshaft oil seals but what else are you wanting? Are you actually wantng the crankshaft, rod, and piston?

StarTech said:

Plain BS. Only a very few parts are not available from Kawasaki. Most Kawasaki engines I repair are on JD equipment and I don't buy the parts from JD. Matter of fact I got a Kawasaki fuel pump and carburetor parts coming in Wednesday for a engine on the JD LX178 from my Kawasaki distributor.

I got the head and valves for the engine on the 737 I repaired a few weeks ago. JD wanted $226.91 for it but I got it through my distributor for $174 So I actually sold the head to customer for $195. Made a decent profit and saved the customer money too. Of course there were valves, stems seals, and gaskets are not part of the $195 but I pass along similar savings to customer.

OP, No problem here looking up that engine. Can you put together a list of parts you are wanting?, and I can get the Kawasaki PNs for you. I know you need the head gasket, crankcase cover gasket (oil pan) and the two crankshaft oil seals but what else are you wanting? Are you actually wantng the crankshaft, rod, and piston?

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I didn't say that you couldn't get the parts from Kawasaki. What I am saying is your will not find a FE290D-BS28 in the Kawasaki parts lookup system. I did a poor job of trying to explain that.

ILENGINE said:

I didn't say that you couldn't get the parts from Kawasaki. What I am saying is your will not find a FE290D-BS28 in the Kawasaki parts lookup system. I did a poor job of trying to explain that.

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Still BS as I can find it on the Kawasaki system. Here is a partial screen shot.

and here is another couple examples from the Kawasaki site without the Cylinder/Crankcase line drawing as its watermark reveals my source.

When I put FE290D-BS28 into the kawasakienginesusa website for parts lookup I get no record found. And you gave me your source anyway.

Then all I can say is you are using the wrong site...

Got to go my Gardner sales rep is on the phone.

Thanks for the help but I don't see the purpose in keeping the website a secret. So for future reference if someone comes across this thread with the same problem then they'll know which website to go to. That website is https://www.kawasaki-engines.eu/en/support/electronic-parts-catalogue/

Go ahead and just start working for free while you are at it. I can use someone like you working for me for free.

Working for free..... Yeah that's the same as letting people know where a website is. ??‍

nxslt1 said:

Working for free..... Yeah that's the same as letting people know where a website is.

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That's why I don't tell how to access my resources like the Briggs Power Portal, Kohler Partners (formerly Kohler Plus), ARI, and Partsmart sites. They are there so I can make a living. Nor do I link anyone to my Google Drive resources like the Stihl, JD and ATV/UTV manuals that I have. Even if anyone finds a way to access them they are doubled encrypted using 256bit encryption.

But if you serious about working for free I got a Honda 300 that needs the front drive and suspension rebuilt in the shop now. Plus the JD 445 fuel injected mower that needs an engine rebuild. It has 60% leakage on the number two cylinder plus a broken motor mount and driveshaft coupler. The engine has to pulled just to get the motor mount off. And this not counting the several chainsaws and brush cutters that in the shop for rebuilds.

And I just got in a Troybilt ZTR and another Husqvarna chainsaw.

I couldn't really care less how many "secret" stashes you have. I've got a boatload of manuals saved from years and years of working on equipment you've probably never even heard of. I work on these little engines for fun most of the time. Dude you're just weird.

Not really
For you , if a maker gets upset & bans your access to their web archive it is no real problem , you will still have food on the table .
For the techs who make a living from fixing small engines & mowers it can mean no food on the table .
brands often have crackdowns on people allowing unauthorized access to their data .
I have only been doing this for 9 years now but still spend on average 1/3 of the repair time trolling through IPL's when attempting to find parts.
And this is non billable hours.
When I sell out the new owner will get what I did not, about 400 G of manuals & IPL's plus about 200 hard copy manuals .
I am always happy to let individuals know where I get information from but there is no way I would ever publish that on an open public forum.
For no other reason than just about every time some one shows how smart they are by publicising a method, or an unauthorised archive then makers shut it down .
So then I have to spend hours trolling to try & find an alternative source for the information .

Star is fairly good with information & will happily publish an individual screen shot of the relevant parts sufficient for the OP to understand what is being said / happening / missing etc.
IF I want to do the same then I have to find the diagram on Parts tree, Jacks , Pro parts etc etc etc then post a link to a site that like the JD parts look up could change every couple of years so those links go dead over time.
And for me it is a big problem as a lot of makers data archives are geo-locked under agreements with the local franchisor who wants the information only available to their dealers.

One my pet peeves is all this DIYers fixing mowers for others and not paying any income taxes on that work where I do.

It is a website on the interwebs for billions of people to see. It's not locked away for only the elite to use but whatever.

nxslt1 said:

It is a website on the interwebs for billions of people to see. It's not locked away for only the elite to use but whatever.

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Yes the site is an open one for now. But here many sites are blocked; unless, I use Tor to access them. Also they can easily put the regional lock down on that site at any time.

For some reason even places like Autozone and Oreillys when I try accessing through Firefox are blocked. So I just access them through the Dark Web.program I have here. And I buy from these two vendors on a regular base as I have tax exempt accounts with them.

But there reasons I guard my sources, I just don't want some corporation taking them down. Here I am already losing parts of the Zama website because of Stihl dealer only policy. Parts that I used to buy through my Zama distributor are no longer available; unless, I go through China which takes up to a month to get the parts. Even the Hong Kong website is now down. It takes orders but they are never processed. This is after Stihl brought Zama and it has taken me over a year to find replacement resources. Some items I will probably never have access to again. Even the local Stihl dealer can't get them.

There also have been several other sites that have been taken down by corporate lawyers which have made my job a lot harder to do. Even the local JD parts website no longer allows me to check the local dealers inventory so I no longer know which has the parts in stock. So the local dealers don't get the parts sales like they did in the past. Its their way of milking another $20 out of the part sales. Well they don't get it that easy.

Besides there are people that should never have wrench in their hands as they only rig stuff instead actually repairing it. It is like the Husqvarna chainsaw I just repaired where some idiot removed the complete chain brake system because they couldn't figure out how to reset it. Yes it takes a special tool to reset it easily which I had made. If the idiot had only removed the brake band it would had not cost so much to repair but he gutted the whole system. Or the idiot that bypasses safety switches just because they are too cheap to buy the parts. Then I have to repair the system because he destroyed the ignition coil or when the mower took out the side of his wife's new car. Yes he did it twice. His wife sold his tools afterwards and won't let him any where near the lawn mower. Or the idiot that tried repairing his kid's ATV after getting an estimate from my shop. I should have never listed the parts on the estimate. He gave up trying to fix it and brought it back for me to fix. During the retest the engine fired and I had a foot race to catch it before went out into the highway. Of course I charged extra for saving the ATV. Ever since I keep the drive axles off the ground; unless, I know things haven't been monkeyed with. It the same with other equipment too. I have too check and repair the safeties on a lot of equipment where the systems have been hacked. A lot time that I shouldn't have to waste because of idiots.

Even the JD 445 I am working on, the owner was too cheap to replace a plug wire. He spent extra time rigging up a screw on the old plug wire when all he had to do was to screw in a new $1 lead but now I got the replace the $20 coil too.

"TSMO" TOP-SECRET MOWER OPERATIONS!

StarTech said:

Even the JD 445 I am working on, the owner was too cheap to replace a plug wire. He spent extra time rigging up a screw on the old plug wire when all he had to do was to screw in a new $1 lead but now I got the replace the $20 coil too.

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$17 for a 20ft roll of plug wire from stens (on scAmazon), that's what 85 cents a foot....

Scrubcadet10 said:

$17 for a 20ft roll of plug wire from stens (on scAmazon), that's what 85 cents a foot....

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I can get it for .6255 /ft from Stens for the 7mm version but I do need to make a profit on it. And if I use the Stens suggest retail pricing that is $1.303 per foot minus the customer's senior citizen discount. Besides I am still working to roll from 3 yrs when I paid .5895 /ft.

Amazon

vs my Stens price

Sounds like you need to get out of whatever commie country you love in then.

mmoffitt said:

"TSMO" TOP-SECRET MOWER OPERATIONS!

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A lot civilians just don't understand how businesses works. They think we are to buy things and sell them at cost and we can stay in business. They are free to buy whomever they want to; just don't expect us businesses to provide it for cost or less. They just don't know or care about the costs involved doing business. Even me stocking up before the economy went into such price gouging mode I still barely ink out a defect profit margin to pay my wages. I just like to know how many of them can manage to pay their with an average $500 per month of disposable income. I got less $250 to spend after paying the electric and phone companies monthly bills. So I see more beans and rice than I care to ever see again but that is what it takes to food in my tummy. Beans 3x a day does get old after a while. Even what most call weeds tastes good after awhile; at least it is a change of taste. That reminds me anybody in for a good bowl of Lambquarters tonight or maybe some white thistles Sunday.

Just look how the Afghans did. They expect us and the rest of the world to defend them for the rest of their lives while still pumping tons of money into their cowardly military and government crooks. Their so called military would not even fight when the time came for them to do so. They just turn tail and ran away without even a whimper. They had a whole generation to get off their backsides and defend their country but they didn't even try.

Posting a link to a website has turned into poor pitiful me eating nothing but beans all the time. Somehow you dragged Afghanistan into it too. ??? If you've got enough time to constantly post on here it sounds like your problem is you don't have enough work, not that people expect you to give away labor and parts.

And just so you know I make zero dollars off of parts and I make a damn good living.

I am only posting because I am at the computer researching parts for '97 Honda 300 atv that I am rebuilding for a customer and I keep getting emails from the forum. Like it said I spend about 1/3 of the day looking for parts and those are non billable hours.

Looks it been pouring down rain and lightning all morning here and I am not going tear down equipment in the rain and lightning. And sure in heck not going to do a welding job in the rain. You're welcome to do it if you wish to do so.

And btw I am nearly half the labor per hr of the local shops and the customers still bitch about it.

But I will solve the whole problem of me posting here. I just say bye to the forum as it has become nothing but pain in my backside that I don't need right now. I got enough problems dealing with customers and the vendors.

Besides most here are just looking for something for nothing anyways.

BYE. I done with the forum. I am removing all links here to the forum.

I don't see what rain and lightning have to do with working on motors or welding unless you're working outside. ?‍

I will re-open this thread if the further replies will be ON Topic of Repairs, so if anyone has any pertinent information for the OP's original problem or another question, PM Me and I will reopen for on topic replies.