Ok heres my public apology to speed inc
03-29-2008, 07:04 PM
#62
What happens after Not Just Carzzz in Orland works on your ride.(It goes to a real shop to get all the half-*** mistakes fixed).
-Broken rocker bolt due to not being tightened(hit the valve cover and broke).
-Balancer bolt left loose. Crank pulley moved around and almost ruined the crank.(Note the new ARP bolt and the replacement crank pulley)
-One converter bolt crossthreaded/stripped.
-A couple random missing bolts in the engine bay.
-Random scratches in paint, rather large gouge in the spoiler.
This is just off the top of my head.
Sorry to Speed once again...We never realized how much this guy really fucked E Hat until after we tore into the motor.
05-23-2008, 11:28 AM
#63
What happens after Not Just Carzzz in Orland works on your ride.(It goes to a real shop to get all the half-*** mistakes fixed).
-Broken rocker bolt due to not being tightened(hit the valve cover and broke).
-Balancer bolt left loose. Crank pulley moved around and almost ruined the crank.(Note the new ARP bolt and the replacement crank pulley)
-One converter bolt crossthreaded/stripped.
-A couple random missing bolts in the engine bay.
-Random scratches in paint, rather large gouge in the spoiler.
This is just off the top of my head.
Sorry to Speed once again...We never realized how much this guy really fucked E Hat until after we tore into the motor.
-Broken rocker bolt due to not being tightened(hit the valve cover and broke).
-Balancer bolt left loose. Crank pulley moved around and almost ruined the crank.(Note the new ARP bolt and the replacement crank pulley)
-One converter bolt crossthreaded/stripped.
-A couple random missing bolts in the engine bay.
-Random scratches in paint, rather large gouge in the spoiler.
This is just off the top of my head.
Sorry to Speed once again...We never realized how much this guy really fucked E Hat until after we tore into the motor.
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/96...garage.article
I kind of feel bad...But more so, scared about walking around under a lift like it's no big deal.
05-23-2008, 11:44 AM
#65
I'd say so.
He was a cool guy, I helped him move into his original shop even. But as he got bigger it got to his head or something, and he starting ******* people over. He screwed E Hat out of a few grand, not to mention MONTHS without his car because of it all. He did a trans in another friend's dakota a while back and that was all screwed up as well.
So like I said, I feel bad for him...But I'm not losing sleep.
I think we're gonna sell the shop and buy a Jiffy Lube, just so it has pits instead of lifts.
He was a cool guy, I helped him move into his original shop even. But as he got bigger it got to his head or something, and he starting ******* people over. He screwed E Hat out of a few grand, not to mention MONTHS without his car because of it all. He did a trans in another friend's dakota a while back and that was all screwed up as well.
So like I said, I feel bad for him...But I'm not losing sleep.
I think we're gonna sell the shop and buy a Jiffy Lube, just so it has pits instead of lifts.
05-23-2008, 01:39 PM
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05-23-2008, 04:47 PM
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Well supposedly it was the arms that the body/frame sits on. It sounds a little odd because those are 3" box tubing with something like a 3/8" thick wall...They're tough. So who knows...No one knows the details really of what broke. For all we know he had an f-450 on a lift rated for a 5000lb. vehicle.
05-23-2008, 05:22 PM
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could he passably just not put the arm under a good lift point and the car like shifted and fell and broke the lift on the way down making it look like the lift just broke. i guessing he might have been too comfortable using the lift and might have placed it in a bad spot.
05-24-2008, 10:18 AM
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mechanically, if the locks on the lift are tampered with or not functioning, which is very common, should something happen with cables or hydraulic leak, vehicles going to come down.
05-24-2008, 11:29 AM
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1. He probably did screw with the locks to disable them
2. It sounded like one of the arms let loose, and once that happened not only did the truck lose it's balance, but it overloaded the other 3 and maybe broke 1 or 2 more.
3. Knowing him...Like I said before...He probably had the lift way overloaded with weight.
