[Roadsters] Motor Blew with 19 miles on it.

Eddie eddietude at socal.rr.com
Sat Apr 25 11:31:08 MDT 2009


It became his problem when I brought the car back to him complaining the 
OP was low, and he said "it's fine, that's probably normal just drive it."

It also doesn't help his case that the EXACT same thing happened to a 
friend of mine.  Seems to be a pattern of sloppy work.

Eddie

Mark Dent wrote:
> This brings up an interesting question:  If the oil pump failed, is it 
> his problem?  Did he use the old pump?  Just wondering.  If he rebuilt 
> the motor but a part that he did not replace happened to fail shortly 
> thereafter, who is liable?
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> Mark
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> On Apr 25, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Eddie wrote:
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>> The block didn't have a crack BEFORE he rebuilt it, as the OP was 
>> fine before the rebuild...
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>> My guess?  Oil pump failed, or something else wasn't done right...
>>
>> Eddie


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