Willowbilly3
A *real* tin magnet
On top of the hassles with my baffles, I have a customers Honda 500 4 wheeler to put an engine in and should have been working on it instead of the exhaust.
It was one of those things you commit to and then an ugly story unravels later. He said he had bought a used engine online and only had 2 weeks warranty and could I install it right away when it gets here. His boss is an electrician friend of mine and I asked him to look at putting 220 into my garage. No problem and he will trade out for the engine swap. So they bring the 4 wheeler over the next day and it is in boxes, wish I'd known that before I committed. Then when the greasy, nasty engine shows up, I also find out a shop with a horrible reputation had torn the original engine apart. Now there are the guys who tore it down and the nasty, questionable used engine and everything that can go wrong will be on me. The owners intelligence is unfolding to be about as smart as a sack of 5 pound hammers so you know he'll be back here everytime the battery goes dead.
How do I get myself into these things? You'd think 30 some years in the business would make you smarter. Apparently it doesn't, pretty sure I'm going the other way now.
It was one of those things you commit to and then an ugly story unravels later. He said he had bought a used engine online and only had 2 weeks warranty and could I install it right away when it gets here. His boss is an electrician friend of mine and I asked him to look at putting 220 into my garage. No problem and he will trade out for the engine swap. So they bring the 4 wheeler over the next day and it is in boxes, wish I'd known that before I committed. Then when the greasy, nasty engine shows up, I also find out a shop with a horrible reputation had torn the original engine apart. Now there are the guys who tore it down and the nasty, questionable used engine and everything that can go wrong will be on me. The owners intelligence is unfolding to be about as smart as a sack of 5 pound hammers so you know he'll be back here everytime the battery goes dead.
How do I get myself into these things? You'd think 30 some years in the business would make you smarter. Apparently it doesn't, pretty sure I'm going the other way now.