Find Your Ferris Model and Serial Number Before Ordering Parts
The five minutes that save a wrong part order. Where to find your Ferris model and serial number and why the parts counter always asks for it.
Most wrong part orders start the same way. Somebody orders a belt or a blade that looks right, it shows up, and it does not fit. The fix costs a week of mowing time in the middle of the season. Five minutes with your phone camera prevents all of it.
Why the model number alone is not enough
Ferris builds the same machine family across many model years, and parts change inside a family without the name on the hood changing. Two mowers that both say 300S on the side can take different belts or spindles depending on when they were built. That is why the serial number matters as much as the model. The serial ties your machine to the exact production run, and the parts lookup works from there.
The same is true on the engine. The Briggs and Vanguard engines on these machines carry their own model and code numbers, separate from the mower's. If you are ordering engine parts like filters or plugs, you want the engine numbers too.
Where to look
Your mower has a model and serial plate on the frame. The exact spot varies by model, and your operator manual shows where it is for your machine. Take a photo of the plate once and keep it on your phone. Do the same with the engine label. From then on, every parts order starts with two photos you already have.
If the plate is worn or painted over, do not guess. Call the parts counter at (601) 336-2541 and we will help you narrow it down from what you know.
Ordering once you have the numbers
We list more than 6,800 genuine parts in the online parts store, including belts, blades, spindles, filters, and tune up kits for Ferris machines and LS tractors. Search by part number if you have it, or by category if you do not. Every part we sell is the genuine item, which matters on a machine still under warranty.
If you would rather talk it through, the counter handles fitment questions all day. And if the part turns out to be the symptom instead of the problem, say a belt that keeps shredding because a spindle bearing is going, that is a service department conversation, and catching it early is cheaper than the second belt.
The habit that pays
Photograph the plates today, before anything breaks. When a belt lets go on a Saturday morning in July, you will order the right one in five minutes instead of measuring a stretched belt and hoping.
Order genuine parts any time at dykesmotors.com/parts, or call the parts counter at (601) 336-2541 if you want a second opinion on fitment.