How hard is it to find Peterbilt 359 parts?

No one stocks parts anymore the way it seems. You have to order too much. When I had a 359 a few years ago I never had any harder time finding parts for it than other trucks.

 

Body parts outside of the hood, well dealers won't have much.

Most likely junk yard stuff is needed for body repairs.

Engine parts are a different story.

 

Junkyard your only hope. There was a yard in SW Wisconsin, that had a bunch of them, where I got most of my stuff, but that was 20 years ago. Mechanical stuff is still on the shelves, or can be gotten overnight, but interior and body parts could be a problem.

 

Unless you have a really oddball engine, parts are plentiful on the drivetrain.

Only thing you’ll run into is like on our 1994 379. The air operated heater control was leaking bad. The only option for replacement is to find a good used one or retrofit the whole system to the newer electric control. We ended up finding a overpriced used control, and it seems to be holding up fine, but you never know with used air parts.

It’s the little stuff that will cause you problems finding on older trucks, but it’s usually not something that will shut you down while waiting on a part. Like on our 1995 FL Classic, the sun visor bracket broke to where it wouldn’t stay up. The factory bracket was a cheap plastic part that FL discontinued. A piece of scrap metal, a drill, and a saw, and I fabbed a replacement out of steel that will never break.

 

Dan's Shop Inc. 1033 Hwy 7 SE Montevideo MN 56265 1-320-367-2120

Most anything you could ever need specific to the 359 you can get here. Plenty of antiques still working everyday, you just need to have a little foresight to have the parts on your shelf before something breaks.

 

359 parts are all over, at least where I'm at anyway you can get about anything for them including interior pieces, they're not necessarily cheap but you can find em. Look for Dan's shop on the internet, he's in Minnesota somewhere and he has about everything for them.

 

Almost any air or running gear part can be had. Many at Napa or 1-2 days away. Suspension - I had a suspension hanger crack. Ordered a new OEM one from a firm in Pennsylvania and had it in 3 days. 250 bucks including shipping. Lighting is all readily avail on ebay. I replaced all the oem side lighting with aftermarket that looked identical. Bought for $50 bucks for 10 fixtures, and replaced the lights with LEDs for 20 bucks more. Easy... Only hard part that I had to get was the window mechanism for the pass side. Ended up retrofitting one from a similar model to switch it to manual instead of air. Air replacement was ridiculous money. Power steering reservoir was leaking. Finally found one on amazon (new) for a bit over $100 bucks.

Sometimes you have to scratch around but have not found anything that is not avail somewhere.