Early summer replaced 2 of 3 blade spindles, and 2 pulleys on my 20+ year old JD 155c riding mower. Checked over the others to make sure everything was fine. It's been retired to bagging the leaves and first spring cuttings of grass so not a lot of use anymore.
So in the middle of bagging the leaves last week before the rains hit the deck idler pulley spring decides to commit Hari Kari. Checked Amazona and it was hit or miss for crap springs, so much for overnight/2 day shipping, so had to buy OEM online and a week later got it installed for the second round of leaves.
JD/Pape decided they didn't want a compact tractor/mower sales/repair shop and a HD commercial shop in the same town so they got rid of the small shop after building a new outfit barely 5 or 6 years earlier. Commercial will not even order parts. Hour drive north or an hour south for parts now.