Purchase deal went wrong. Need Advice
03-18-2009 | 11:07 PM
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Yes, you are correct, the note was an email from my mechanic which start saying "Hi Mike, he does indicate blocks were bored, but at one point he indicated to me that after doing one, they noticed the crack and checked for the second block. I just wrote a post, indicating that i will have the blocks checked if still possible to see if machining would do this type of cracking. If you have any advice in this matter, would like to hear it and also recommendations as well. Due to the situation, i will have to hold on to these motors and figure what i am going to do. Meanwhile, fixing the other motors i purchased and getting ready to have lot's of fun. I'm posted off, due to the circumstances, but again any used parts could go wrong, but i did not expected to be this bad, when talking to the seller and his mechanic, it was suppose to be in running condition. This is the issue here
Yes, you are correct, the note was an email from my mechanic which start saying "Hi Mike, he does indicate blocks were bored, but at one point he indicated to me that after doing one, they noticed the crack and checked for the second block. I just wrote a post, indicating that i will have the blocks checked if still possible to see if machining would do this type of cracking. If you have any advice in this matter, would like to hear it and also recommendations as well. Due to the situation, i will have to hold on to these motors and figure what i am going to do. Meanwhile, fixing the other motors i purchased and getting ready to have lot's of fun. I'm posted off, due to the circumstances, but again any used parts could go wrong, but i did not expected to be this bad, when talking to the seller and his mechanic, it was suppose to be in running condition. This is the issue here
Hmmmmmmm, by an earlier post you stated that the machinist had already bored both blocks (it clearly says "after boring the blockS"). Now you are saying that he had just started on one of them? Here it is from your early post:
" Hi Mike,
Yesterday I went over to the machine shop to check the satus of your engines. I was not very happy when I saw the results. After boring the blocks we found two cracks in each block, in the same place ob both blocks. In cylinder # 3 & 5 about half way down. The strange part is that they are staight lines in a circular direction ( the do not follow the direction of the piston-up and down). Pete (the machinist) has never seen a crack in this form before, after consulting with other machine shops and myself, we decided that it is too risky to try to sleeve the block. We are afraid that the block will try to separate, the deck from the bottom. It is our conclusion that the engines had water in them at freezing temps which caused the cracks."
Now, in plain black and white (or whatever color), we see you changing your story about how things happened. You would expect your word to hold up in a court of law with a guy like Jeff that would have a mile of people lining up to testify on his behalf? Of course I have printed all of these posts just in case sometime in the future your recollection needs to be adjusted.
Now what was it? Were they were both bored and then the cracks were found? or was one was bored, the crack was found, and then the other one was also found cracked? Your machinist is pretty clear what he thinks (they were both bored before finding the cracks) based on his email. If he is as honest as you say, and I would believe based on the other guys that he is, then his word must be good and they were bored before the cracks being found.
I'd say that it is probably time to save face, admit that you should have at least done a little bit of due diligence before purchase. Find some used blocks (and have them maganafluxed), switch some parts, and get on the water. You have drug a good mans name through the dirt long enough.
Hmmmmmmm, I wonder what role Pete, the machinest and the 4th person on your side (you, mario, engine builder, Pete) to see the blocks before the cracks were found, played in this? He was the one and only person in this entire delema that did any work whatsoever to the blocks before the cracks were found. I wonder if Pete got a little overzealous with the boring tools?
" Hi Mike,
Yesterday I went over to the machine shop to check the satus of your engines. I was not very happy when I saw the results. After boring the blocks we found two cracks in each block, in the same place ob both blocks. In cylinder # 3 & 5 about half way down. The strange part is that they are staight lines in a circular direction ( the do not follow the direction of the piston-up and down). Pete (the machinist) has never seen a crack in this form before, after consulting with other machine shops and myself, we decided that it is too risky to try to sleeve the block. We are afraid that the block will try to separate, the deck from the bottom. It is our conclusion that the engines had water in them at freezing temps which caused the cracks."
Now, in plain black and white (or whatever color), we see you changing your story about how things happened. You would expect your word to hold up in a court of law with a guy like Jeff that would have a mile of people lining up to testify on his behalf? Of course I have printed all of these posts just in case sometime in the future your recollection needs to be adjusted.
Now what was it? Were they were both bored and then the cracks were found? or was one was bored, the crack was found, and then the other one was also found cracked? Your machinist is pretty clear what he thinks (they were both bored before finding the cracks) based on his email. If he is as honest as you say, and I would believe based on the other guys that he is, then his word must be good and they were bored before the cracks being found.
I'd say that it is probably time to save face, admit that you should have at least done a little bit of due diligence before purchase. Find some used blocks (and have them maganafluxed), switch some parts, and get on the water. You have drug a good mans name through the dirt long enough.
Hmmmmmmm, I wonder what role Pete, the machinest and the 4th person on your side (you, mario, engine builder, Pete) to see the blocks before the cracks were found, played in this? He was the one and only person in this entire delema that did any work whatsoever to the blocks before the cracks were found. I wonder if Pete got a little overzealous with the boring tools?
03-18-2009 | 11:11 PM
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The crack thing is what throws a wrench in the gears for me.....wear and deterioation will give a crack that runs with the cylinder (up & down).....the fact that it is cracked around the circumfrence of the cylinder throws up a major red flag.....so back to my statement about when were the cracks found and it seems to be that from tango 36 quotes of empires posts that we have the answer which is NO DUE DILIGENCE really leaves NO RECOURSE.....
Norty how's the haps out there buddy!!!!!
Norty how's the haps out there buddy!!!!!
Busy busy......SCOPE kickoff is this weekend. I won't be able to go.....Jake's 2nd birthday is Satruday! Where does the time go!
03-18-2009 | 11:18 PM
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Mike wrote:
I emailed you the pictures
I emailed you the pictures
If you are not a $$ member of OSO you can't upload pics.
You can email them to me and I'll post them if you want! [email protected]
You can email them to me and I'll post them if you want! [email protected]
03-18-2009 | 11:23 PM
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That is a good deal, will look into it
03-18-2009 | 11:29 PM
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03-19-2009 | 09:40 AM
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EMPIRE0007,this is my .02 cents on this.[1] you did buy USED ENGINES at a cheap price.[2]we don,t have all the facts on who did what with them after you got them.[3] if in fact the blocks are cracked,why was their no water or watermarks in the cylinder?the red in the cylinder is a step in dy checking for cracks,the red does not indicate a crack,if you ever used the product,you would know this,in one of your posts you said you don,t know what you are looking at.[4]it does not matter if he spent the money after you paid him,IT IS HIS MONEY.[5].mr brosovich has been in buisness for a long time,so i don,t think your threat of a lawsuit worries him,but probibally angerd him,[just for the record,i don,t know mr brosovich].if the blocks are junk,don,t buy used up ones to replace,get new ones,have your guy put the engines back togerther,you will still have way less money in the engines than they are worth.like i said,just my .02 cents worth.
03-19-2009 | 09:54 AM
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[QUOTE=WeaponX;2824245]I will throw out just for fun that Chip from Competion Marine told me it was amazing the motors made the last runs at the Shootout. 
Larry ran the motors for years.
Ditto on that Anthony ,sounds like the same conversation i had with CMC
give me a shout
Larry ran the motors for years.Ditto on that Anthony ,sounds like the same conversation i had with CMC
give me a shout
03-19-2009 | 09:59 AM
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Happy birthday to Jake wish I could come to the SCOPE thing myself it would be nice to see everyone again
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