night
04-25-2007, 11:04 AM
It's been a long time.
But I never forgot. I started working on my car again and this came back to me and has been haunting me all over again.
myaccord7, all I can say is that I am sorry for how that went. I never had any intention of being a thief, although I know it started to look that way. The head was done by PYR soon after he came from Cali. I paid him 500 cash, for what I now know was a crappy job. I took it to his house personally and talked to him and his brother.
But that doesn't matter now. What matters is what happen.
And the truth is I guess I can't ever know for sure. The machine shop called me saying the head was cracked. At that point I was at a loss. I had never had any problems with it for the 3 years or so I drove it. No water loss, no water/oil mixing, nothing.
When I saw the head he had only the exhaust guides out. I was very suspicious as the head had already been dipped and was completely clean. How could he miss that before starting the guides? The head was cracked dead center under the cam between the journals. It seemed very much like they had cracked it taking the guides out. But there was little I could do to prove one way or another. In the end i just didn't know what to do and didn't have the money at the time to return right away.
myaccord7, you did an excellent job scaring my wife, but I deserved it. She picks on me about it still. I shouldn't have prolonged it and come out with the story.
I forget his name, but there was a member in our shop here that I talked to and was about to tell him the story and show him the head as an outside witness for you, but I chickened out. I will take a pic tonight if you would like, I need to charge the cameras batteries.
I hope you can accept this apology. At least in part.
To the rest of 3geez that knew me, I was not the person I appeared to be. I was a very early member here and I really enjoyed the small community. Perhaps I could come back, but I don't know that it would ever feel the same.
John
But I never forgot. I started working on my car again and this came back to me and has been haunting me all over again.
myaccord7, all I can say is that I am sorry for how that went. I never had any intention of being a thief, although I know it started to look that way. The head was done by PYR soon after he came from Cali. I paid him 500 cash, for what I now know was a crappy job. I took it to his house personally and talked to him and his brother.
But that doesn't matter now. What matters is what happen.
And the truth is I guess I can't ever know for sure. The machine shop called me saying the head was cracked. At that point I was at a loss. I had never had any problems with it for the 3 years or so I drove it. No water loss, no water/oil mixing, nothing.
When I saw the head he had only the exhaust guides out. I was very suspicious as the head had already been dipped and was completely clean. How could he miss that before starting the guides? The head was cracked dead center under the cam between the journals. It seemed very much like they had cracked it taking the guides out. But there was little I could do to prove one way or another. In the end i just didn't know what to do and didn't have the money at the time to return right away.
myaccord7, you did an excellent job scaring my wife, but I deserved it. She picks on me about it still. I shouldn't have prolonged it and come out with the story.
I forget his name, but there was a member in our shop here that I talked to and was about to tell him the story and show him the head as an outside witness for you, but I chickened out. I will take a pic tonight if you would like, I need to charge the cameras batteries.
I hope you can accept this apology. At least in part.
To the rest of 3geez that knew me, I was not the person I appeared to be. I was a very early member here and I really enjoyed the small community. Perhaps I could come back, but I don't know that it would ever feel the same.
John