Zeke, I hope it works out for you. This has gotta be tough to read just when you were convinced everything was OK. I'm sure none of these posts are intended to hurt you. Just looking out I think.

i also noticed that,but i chose not to comment,zeke has been told to forget this and he still feels he wont get screwed,you can lead a horse to water,but you cant make it drink!

It's 6/20

This is too good, I printed it and will save it for future use, thank you!

I hate reading threads like this, and now it is too late so what the heck, why not comment. I would have run first off, but for sake of argument, lets go forward. I would have contacted the guy and explained my concern due to his history. Very up front, not being crass, just stating the facts and your concern. State you still want to go through with it, but since there are other problems, you wanted to be up front and let him know that the transaction through the card was being challenged due to the time line and pending 90 day deadline. Let him know your intent on following through on the purchase. If you need to, put up some good faith money on a new charge, hopefully the 90 days starts new then which saves some of your rights. If he intends to honor the sale, he should go along with it. If he already spent all your money, he won't be able to, in which case you know you are screwed because he needs money to build your engine. He had parts, so he doesn't need the full $8k up front to buy everything new. Some new parts and machine work, but not all of it.

As far as the pictures go, my machine shop would not do anything before hot tanking the engine. Tank and clean, magnaflux, then machine work, then new bearings and freeze plugs. Came back without a spec of paint on it. Rebuilt an engine and no magnaflux on the block and crank for $8k? All of my motors were running when they were pulled out, you still check. I think my block and crank were around or less than $100 to check.

Like I said, no bone in the fight. But well spoken and resonable request are usually easy to work out. If not, that is a big tip off to me.

Brian

Hows the eng ??? Should have it by now.

That carb looks just like the one I got. If it is it needs to be gone thru before you run it, it'll be nasty inside and some of the air jets on top are probably plugged up with that black crap. Mike

Maybe it IS the carb that you got.....

It could be but he did say he had two not that I would believe much he has to say at this point.

Im down here in sarasota with Dave, been out on the gulf in his warlock today, and got a killer motor. Hes a great guy and does try to go the extra mile to help people out. It was well worth the wait.
And for the comments that are on the machining of the block. this machine work was done at a top notch marine engine shop here and the pistons were cut and coated to make a 10.1 compression thats why they are big chief pistons. Im not going to say which shop did it as they dont want there name mentioned on the threads on oso

zeke,i hope it all works out for you.