It is possible to find "JOHN DEERe" dealers online as well via newspapers. Likewise, there are many dealer advertisements posted in local stores as well along highways.
Your local John Deere Dealer can give you a printout
John Deere does not have an open database to lookup serial numbers for equipment. Your local John Deere dealer would be happy to help you find the year of your gator. Use the dealer locator on John Deere's website to help you find a dealer.
On John Deere's corporate website you can find a dealer locator. The website for this is http://www.deere.com/en_US/deerecom/usa_canada.html, then find "dealer Locator" and search by your ZIP code or state to find local dealerships.
Try your local John Deere dealer, just by going to google you should be able to find one relatively fast.
The age can be determined. Take the serial number into your local dealer and they can look it up for you.
They are metric bolts 8mm x 1.25 pitch and are hard to find anywhere but your local JOHN DEERE dealer.
One can find this and anything John Deere related on the official John Deere website. There one may also find information about John Deere in one's local area.
Lowes sells the John Deere 100 series lawn tractors. For the complete line of John Deere tractors you'd go to your nearest John Deere dealer. To find the John Deere dealer nearest you click on this link and enter your zip code http://www.deere.com/en_US/ag/redirects/dealer_locator_quickl/index.html.
Write down the serial number and take it to your John Deere dealer.
You can buy diodes all over America. You just have to find one that looks like and acts like the one you need. Check Mouser .com Digital Did you try your local John Deere dealer?
Check with your John Deere dealer. No, not Home Depot or Lowe's but an actual business that works on and sells John Deere mowers.
Your best bet is to go directly to a John Deere dealer. This site www.deere.com/ offers a locater for dealer as well a link to purchase links directly.