LS Service Manuals

[PCABE5]

It took about 12 hours for mine to be available.

What time of day did you order it? If it was after hours you might have had to wait for someone to process the order.

 

[tomplum]

I would say if you want one, don't delay. The folks I got my manual from were an LS dealer doing it on the side. Then all of a sudden, no more. My dealer wouldn't set me up either.

 

[spruce Deere]

Got my service manual download from my dealer.... after some hounding from us.

As we were in the prosses of purchasing the tractor I told the dealer that I wanted a service manual....around two weeks later after talking with the secretary, sales run-a-round game, we got ahold of the owner and a download link showed in the email for one.

 

[PCABE5]

I know my dealership told me that to view the manuals they have to login to the LS site so they monitor or can monitor what dealers do. If that's true, maybe that's why you are seeing this being stopped. Don't know.

John Deere, Massey Ferguson, CNH, Kubota, Yanmar, and probably others I'm forgetting but they all offer service manuals for sale. Why LS doesn't is a big question. If you think about it they are loosing money by not offering one and dealership's are too by giving it away.

I told LS North America last year that they needed to start offering service manuals for sale and a parts website like the bigger manufacturer's do. To date I've not heard anything from them and that was expected.

 

[Diggin It]

I told my dealer I wanted them since I was far enough away that I couldn't bring the thing to them for little jobs. I wanted to be able to look stuff up to know what parts or problems to ask them about and to be able to point them to the pages I was looking at. Guy never even flinched, just asked me if PDF was OK.

Maybe the bigger machines would be different.

With such a small dealer network and so many of us so far from dealers, you'd think they'd make them available.

 

[JCoastie]

good news for me,

...I will also get the parts and service manual on a thumb drive for you, it will take a day or 2. Ordering fresh thumb drives.

 

[SeidelRanch]

Ships From: Battleboro, NC

Maybe these are the real service manuals from LS.

 

[PCABE5]

This is what it looks like.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

You guys got me interested.... So I called my dealer today. He is going to send me a thumbdrive with the service manual. I am also a great distance away and do my own maintenance / repair, so that may be a factor.

 

[spruce Deere]

This is what it looks like.View attachment 691832

Yep, looks like my PDF also.

But on my tractor cover pic on my PDF file, you can plainly see new Holland decorations on the hood!!!

 

[TJ303]

Try this company for LS parts manuals.

https://partsforlstractors.com/files/XR4000_Part_manual.pdf

 

[SeidelRanch]

This is what it looks like.

How many MB is the file? Is it huge with lots of detailed pictures? I have a service manual for the XR4100HC and it's 103 MB.

Might get the MT3C one if it's nice and detailed, but since the XR4100HC was so close to the MT3C, I bet mine are 95% the same.

 

[PCABE5]

How many MB is the file? Is it huge with lots of detailed pictures? I have a service manual for the XR4100HC and it's 103 MB.

Might get the MT3C one if it's nice and detailed, but since the XR4100HC was so close to the MT3C, I bet mine are 95% the same.

It 216MB.

Laid out similar by chapter to the XR41 manual. I honestly haven't had to much time to look through it yet but pictures and diagrams are about the same in quantity and quality.

 

[bmaverick]

I know my dealership told me that to view the manuals they have to login to the LS site so they monitor or can monitor what dealers do. If that's true, maybe that's why you are seeing this being stopped. Don't know.

John Deere, Massey Ferguson, CNH, Kubota, Yanmar, and probably others I'm forgetting but they all offer service manuals for sale. Why LS doesn't is a big question. If you think about it they are loosing money by not offering one and dealership's are too by giving it away.

I told LS North America last year that they needed to start offering service manuals for sale and a parts website like the bigger manufacturer's do. To date I've not heard anything from them and that was expected.

Actually on some of the Yanmar global sites, the manuals are offered for immediate download as FREE. All one has to do is provide name, email and a phone number. Then the Yanmar site places you in the download section with hundreds to pick from.

Now, why was Sears Craftsmen riding mowers were so popular in the day (decades upon decades)? It's because they made all their manuals available for FREE. Customer loyalty and a strong following developed. Toro has done the same thing. Cub Cadet Compact tractor manuals are all for FREE on the MTD site too.

Would you buy a new vehicle for 20K and then need to pay out $50 to $100 for an owners manual? How absurd that would be.

People with part manuals use them. They order parts. This gets the parts supply chain going strong. Having no info reduces the amount of interaction of ordering parts. The Parts Manuals also show other OPTIONS. A tractor owner can get really interested in an option should it be necessary to have. They then can search, find a source and order the option like a closed OE cab, or hydraulic valve body, etc.

As for Service Manuals, yes, those need to be of value sold by the manufacture or dealer or a parts supplier.

Many of the John Deere OPS manuals are online for FREE too along with the data sheets.

 

[sadams4431]

I have one for ls mt125 on pdf from dealer if anyone needs a copy I can email sections to you

 

[PCABE5]

Actually on some of the Yanmar global sites, the manuals are offered for immediate download as FREE. All one has to do is provide name, email and a phone number. Then the Yanmar site places you in the download section with hundreds to pick from.

Now, why was Sears Craftsmen riding mowers were so popular in the day (decades upon decades)? It's because they made all their manuals available for FREE. Customer loyalty and a strong following developed. Toro has done the same thing. Cub Cadet Compact tractor manuals are all for FREE on the MTD site too.

Would you buy a new vehicle for 20K and then need to pay out $50 to $100 for an owners manual? How absurd that would be.

People with part manuals use them. They order parts. This gets the parts supply chain going strong. Having no info reduces the amount of interaction of ordering parts. The Parts Manuals also show other OPTIONS. A tractor owner can get really interested in an option should it be necessary to have. They then can search, find a source and order the option like a closed OE cab, or hydraulic valve body, etc.

As for Service Manuals, yes, those need to be of value sold by the manufacture or dealer or a parts supplier.

Many of the John Deere OPS manuals are online for FREE too along with the data sheets.

About the only thing I can agree with what you said is that Owners Manuals are free, or FREE if you prefer. But nobody is really talking about owners manuals though.

 

[Doofy]

You got lucky. My dealer said no.

You are getting the run-around from your dealer then. Any Dealer worth their salt will provide you with a link to download the service manual. They usually place a time limit for that ability.

 

[tomplum]

It may be in there dealer agreements that the service manuals are the company's intellectual property.

 

[RSR]

That is a wonderful find! (Looking now to see if I can find the manual for my xr4145hc). I will happily pay $50 for the manual.

 

[jdeilus]

I have one for ls mt125 on pdf from dealer if anyone needs a copy I can email sections to you

Do you have the service manual or parts manual?