Orange n Black
03-20-2006, 12:55 PM
Beware of Beck at ATCO Transmissions in Montgomery, Alabama on Haskel Road.
I hired Beck to install a set of Richmond 4.10 gears, new bearings, and to replace my crush collar with a solid pinion spacer. He asked for 175 dollars to do the job. I told him that I would pay him 200 dollars if he would take the time to make sure that the solid pinion spacer was installed and adjusted with the right shims. I told him that I wanted to build the most solid 10-bolt that I could (TA Cover, Solid Crush Collar, Richmond Gears, and Heavy-Duty Torsion Diff). He agreed to do this.
I left the car with him on a Saturday morning and picked it up Saturday afternoon. I asked him if he had installed the solid pinion spacer that I had provided to him. He informed that he had. I found the crush collar provided in the kit amongst the box of leftover parts. I paid him 200 dollars for his time, and left with the car.
8 passes later, my rear end broke.
The spider gears died in the differential, so I salvaged the gears. When I pulled the pinion gear out, there was no solid pinion spacer. He had RE-USED my prior crush collar.
I went to ATCO Transmissions to ask him about what had happened, and he very quickly became defensive. He tried to tell me that he had installed them both, and then when realizing how idiotic that sounded, he said that he had installed the rear end however we had agreed to. Even after stating that he remembered being paid extra to install the solid pinion spacer. He also at one point tried to say that the stock crush collar was the solid pinion spacer. I left realizing that I would get no where with words.
I wouldn't take a bicycle to that man. It is sad when a man is willing to trade his integrity for 25 dollars, and not man up to what really happened.
I hired Beck to install a set of Richmond 4.10 gears, new bearings, and to replace my crush collar with a solid pinion spacer. He asked for 175 dollars to do the job. I told him that I would pay him 200 dollars if he would take the time to make sure that the solid pinion spacer was installed and adjusted with the right shims. I told him that I wanted to build the most solid 10-bolt that I could (TA Cover, Solid Crush Collar, Richmond Gears, and Heavy-Duty Torsion Diff). He agreed to do this.
I left the car with him on a Saturday morning and picked it up Saturday afternoon. I asked him if he had installed the solid pinion spacer that I had provided to him. He informed that he had. I found the crush collar provided in the kit amongst the box of leftover parts. I paid him 200 dollars for his time, and left with the car.
8 passes later, my rear end broke.
The spider gears died in the differential, so I salvaged the gears. When I pulled the pinion gear out, there was no solid pinion spacer. He had RE-USED my prior crush collar.
I went to ATCO Transmissions to ask him about what had happened, and he very quickly became defensive. He tried to tell me that he had installed them both, and then when realizing how idiotic that sounded, he said that he had installed the rear end however we had agreed to. Even after stating that he remembered being paid extra to install the solid pinion spacer. He also at one point tried to say that the stock crush collar was the solid pinion spacer. I left realizing that I would get no where with words.
I wouldn't take a bicycle to that man. It is sad when a man is willing to trade his integrity for 25 dollars, and not man up to what really happened.