Topic: Parts Cross Reference Book Project

[Orcinus]

I brought up the following post the other day in a thread about finding a cross reference book, and other than a couple posts concerning other ways to find parts used by multiple models, it didn't get any direct responses to this idea.  Before I throw the idea out as unworkable, I'm going to repost it incase it just got buried and unread by the majority.

This may be talking thru my hat, but one could go thru the fiche drawings on crotchrocket.com, type up all the part numbers in a comma seperated format.  i.e. 

1234-56-7890,77,750,F,0987-65-4321  Which would be   Stock #,Yr,Size,Model,Stock # it replaced (if any)

Then we could enter this into a database program such as Micro$oft Access and put together our own Cross reference book.  This would be alot of work, but if multiple people each took a different few pages or a single year and model it wouldn't be a ball breaker and we'd all benefit.  We would all have to agree on the format and who was responsible for what pages up front so there wasn't a duplication of effort nor missed pages.

I think this would be a great project, not for someone to sell on ebay, but as a group benefit of being in SOHC4

Now, with all that said, I'm not necessarily volunteering to ramrod this idea.  While I'd like to participate in a piece of it, I already have too many projects and not enough time.  So, what does everyone think?  Could we do this together?  I assume we should do it for all of the SOHC4's but we could start small with just the 750's.  It seems to be the most commonly owned...

So, we've got one volunteer... Any others?

[puppytrax]

It sounds like a good Winter project...for those of us who actually have a "Winter"...   

Personally, I don't have or use that program [M$ Office?] you mention. And I only have the 500/550.

And that sounds like hundreds of thousands of entries  ...and possibly a duplication of efforts...   

Does anyone have a contact inside a Honda dealership that could actually tell us if something like this already exists??? It would seem to me that Honda must have a cross-reference...

[bill440cars]

                I don't know of any myself but, it would be cool to be able to look up and find the needed 
     part from another model listing. You know that there are parts that are used on several models and
     Lord only knows how many there are. Sure would be a deep and long lasting project, if ther isn't
     already one out there somewhere.              Later on, Bill

[Orcinus]

Well, I agree that it's a huge project but the benefits are pretty big too.  I'm fairly sure that Honda doesn't have anything along these lines.  Not only has no one ever mentioned having seen one despite several threads talking about cross referencing parts, but Honda wouldn't have any need for one.  When they need a part, they look it up on the fiche, then pull the part number off the shelf or order it, they DON'T CARE what ELSE it fits.  It's those of us scrounging for second hand parts on Ebay that would benefit from it.  There are thousands of entries, yes.  But all that needs to be typed is a short line of mostly numbers for each item.  This can be done in Notepad, wordpad or the wordprocessor of your choice.  No one needs to use the database program except the person putting all the information together.  Pick any bike, and subsystem off of the crotchrocket site and it's probably less than 40 pieces per subsystem.  That's 40 lines of type which most people could do in less than an hour.  If enough people worked together at this, it would be fairly easy.  And finally, yes, there would be duplication of effort.  Some of us would be entering the same information, but those are the parts that cross reference, the duplicates are what we're looking for.  If there were 20 volunteers, we could assign each one of them certain bikes and subsystems.  i.e., I think there are 17 CB750s (Just as an example, I don't care if we start with the 550, the 350 or the 400) 10 K's, 4 F's and maybe 3 A's.  That's less than 1 bike per person.  I don't know, maybe it's alot to ask, but I think that the benefits are worth the effort.

Think about it guys...

[dusterdude]

car junk yards have a listing called the hollander listing,does all kinds of interchange stuff.i wonder if motorcycle yards have something similar.

[750goes]

Happy to contribute, just let me know where to start...

It would certainly come in handy if knowing that before bidding on ebay if the part/s fit or you just bought some more pieces to store away for thenext possible project....

 

[graydanielm]

Honda dealers can look up on their I N system by part number and it will tell them if the part number is superceded, in stock, NLA, backordered, what warehouse, how many, slow moving or fast mover, and every year and model that the part was used on. I think it will even tell them in another section if the backorder is due in and when but that part is never 100% accurate. You could limit your idea to a few bikes like CB400F/CB350F and get all the crossover. And yes, Hollander has something like this for the car industry but the car industry is more incestuous than the bike industry. Toyota and GM are in bed together, Mazda and Ford, and on and on.

[MrZxp]

Yes! Count me in. I'm happy to help out.  Spent at least a couple of hours the other day checking through crotchrocket.com's fiche for headlight reflector parts that are common throughout the models...

Cheers, Phil