Grumpy....

[malc4d]

Happy New year all. Hope 2014 treats you all well.

This damm rebuild is making me more grumpy every day and l must apologise to all about my occasional grumpy rants. . . . . .

But after the last rant over trying to find dowel bolts after my 'conversion kit' supplier threw away all the bolts, including the important dowel bolts... . . . .

Here's my latest Stag supplier shock.....Picked up my very expensive engine rebuild the other day and got round to unrapping it yesterday. Looked really nice, black engine except for a row of yellow painted (build no. ?) script and some cool looking silver paint everywhere else. Although the silver looked good l prefer the original metal colour, which is lucky for me as every time l touch the engine the silver paint flakes off !!!! Making the engine look absolutely terrible.
WTF !!! Why would a company who ' specializes' in rebuilds waste both their time and mine, l'm guessing here, not making sure that the parts are clean and degreased before slapping the engine back together ?..it comes off just by rubbing it.

Now it needs to be taken apart and all that silver paint removed from the few places it stuck to. Who pays for that ??
Also they seemed to have used a red mess around the parts rather than gaskets, didn't change out the sensors or water nipples.. Is that normal ? . . . . .I does make me wonder if they even took it apart or just sprayed everything silver.... NOT at all happy (sorry)

Grumpy old man.

[wb50]

Malc, did you not use a reputable engine builder? I would not trust anyone who did not know the TV8 engine, I have had 5 engines rebuilt but I only trust 1 person, hope you get it sorted and happy new year. Will

[V Mad]

That is annoying Malc. As you say it doesn't bode well.

Did the rebuilder have a spec sheet on what they would do for the money? Speak to them asap and tell them you are not satisfied. If necessary put it in writing, but unless you are sure you are keeping it, don't do any work on the engine because you will be deemed to have accepted it as yours. I know it's annoying but give them a reasonable chance to respond. My advice is not to name and shame until you have contacted them and tried to get things sorted. I have experience with a very similar case of another member, and he just made things worse for himself after he berated them on the internet. We did eventually get most of his money back in the end though.

Sorry, not meaninng to tell you what you probably already know. I just hate it when people get bad service.

[KOY 23]

Sorry, not meaninng to tell you what you probably already know. I just hate it when people get bad service.

I agree with you.

[malc4d]

Didn't speak to 'builder' self. I did ask if anyone here on the forum would like to rebuild it but seems no one was interested . . .so gave it to a well known Stag specialists. He gave it on.

[Peter Hills]

Malcolm,

It might help you to speak to Barry Brown - sometimes a forum contributor and husband of Diana, the Cambridge Area Co-ord. Phone numbers in the Stag Mag.

Hope this helps

Peter
(Cambridge Area)

[malc4d]

So supplier said they cant do anything and that they know the engine rebuilder wont either..... "So give me their number then and i'll tell 'em just what l think " ........Wouldn't do that. soooo spent some time scratching what was left of the useless silver paint off. Looks better as the original metal anyway.
They apparently don't change out the water nipples in the manifold and pump because they can break or take out the threads and really make for a bad day !! ok that sounds reasonable, me thinks. Now should l give it a try, or let sleeping dogs lie ? thinking leave well alone.