Crappy service work story

[COExploder]

I ran my explorer through a river that was a little too deep and nuked the engine right after I got it. I paid $4000 for a remanufactured motor - not too bad because I only paid $1500 for the truck with 130k miles. Ever since I got the motor replaced the truck has been going through about 1qt of oil every 1000 miles. I took it back to the shop about every two months and complained and every time they replaced something and claimed to fix it but they never did. About a year later I finally decided the truck must have bad rings after I noticed some smoke out of the exhaust on startup. When I took it into the shop they declared it must have been caused by heat damage to the engine and thus the three-year replacement warranty was void!!!!! WHAT!!!!! The transmission started going out about this time so I gave up, parked the truck and bought a Mazda 626. Recently I got a hair up my butt to replace the transmission myself. I started up the truck and moved it about 30 feet. When I climbed under it I noticed a small pool of oil and a drip coming from the gasket where the engine joins the transmission. The metal gasket was broken, bent out, and had about a 3/4" gap where it was holding the motor and transmission about 1/8" apart spitting out oil. *******S!!!! If you live in the Denver area DO NOT GO TO ALPINE AUTOMOTIVE TO GET YOUR TRUCK WORKED ON! I'm going to replace the gasket MYSELF when I get the tranny out.

--Jon

 

[RTStork]

That sucks but I'm glad that you found the problem. After you fix it I'd go down there and chew some @ss!

 

[Jason_25]

$4000?? Good grief. I've seen them reman. for about half that much. When I flooded my motor I got a used one with 29k miles on it for $800. Installed for around $1650. I understand what you mean about crappy service installing it though. I could tell at the very beginning of the job that the rednecks that did mine were gonna screw something up. And sure enough they did. They routed the vacuum hoses too near the exhaust manifold and burnt them up, and they screwed the computer up, which was about a $400 trip to Ford.

I hope everything works out for you.