[AT] Mechanic work performed by dealers & "professionals" is not professional.....

[Cecil R Bearden]

Ken:
I think  you hit the nail on the head.  What is left can't pass a drug 
test or if they can, they burned out what few brains they had left.   
The old timers got fed up with the "new" management style and retired..  
This is the same problem in the government sector.   I am still 
consulting in Geotechnical Engineering because of their stupidity.  The 
"management" would not let me find someone to take my place and train 
them before I left.  They kept my position open and put the money 
somewhere else on a BS program for some legislator, and then pulled a 
guy from another department that really could not really speak English.  
Then, all the History I had left on over 4500 dams & reservoirs on the 
state was put into a proprietary digital format  over the last 8 years  
from 3 different vendors.  Each time something was lost until there is 
not anything useful left.  They destroyed the plans and kept the 
correspondence.

Sorry for the Rant.........

I got the TS110 NH torn down and the Main bearings are in. Tomorrow the 
Pistons, then timing the balancer....   The Head I go from Wengers may 
be a good magnafluxed head, but is sat with water in it for a while.  
The surface is pitted very bad and every valve seat will have to be 
replaced.

A BARE head is what I got for sure!
Cecil in OKla



On 7/14/2015 1:38 PM, Ken Knierim wrote:
> Question for you Cecil,
>       Is it possible anyone with a room temp IQ and a pulse has been pulled
> into the oilfields?
>
> Just an off-the-wall thought based on what I've heard out of the Bakken.
>
> Ken in AZ
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
> wrote:
>
>>> I have had another experience with these shysters in OKla.  I don't
>>> know whether it is from stupidity or just plain do not give a damn...
>>>     I started removing the bad piston from the engine today.
>>> Doing this while waiting on suspension parts and brake parts for the
>>> wife's car.  We have 2 Dodge Mini vans and I put sway bar links on the
>>> backup minivan last night, they were squeaking terribly.  The regular
>>> one had broken a sway bar link and it was hitting the axle shaft.
>>> Our roads are terrible here.
>>    I pulled the drain plug from the pan and was surprised to find black
>> thick oil draining from it.    When the engine started knocking last
>> year, I drained the oil to check if any pieces were in the oil.   I
>> refilled the engine with new oil to make sure it was not started without
>> oil.   I had thought the drive plate ( clutch ) was broken.  The dealer
>> was advised not to start the engine until a new plate had been installed.
>>
>> If the dealer did not start the engine, why was the new oil so dirty?
>> If they were going to pull the pan, I can understand why there was only
>> 1 pt of oil in the pan when I pulled the plug.  I don't think the new
>> oil would get black just sitting in the pan even though the tractor was
>> hauled 100 miles.  There are numerous bolts that were not replaced and
>> not with the tractor, the bolts that were replaced were not tightened
>> sufficiently, and the tractor now has an oil leak from the rear that it
>> did not have when it left.  It also has a flat on a brand new tire that
>> was holding air fine when it left...
>>
>> I just had another bad experience with mechanic I was using on my
>> vehicles.  I had a broken flex plate on my F150, the Drug runner truck.
>> It had an oil leak also on the valve cover that the mechanic replaced
>> when he installed the new engine.  I got charged for removal of the
>> broken bolt on the cover and also for a new A/C compressor, tensioner
>> and belt that was replaced to stop the knocking noise in the engine.  I
>> paid the $853 bill and when I started the engine it still knocked.  I
>> was told the A/C compressor needed replacement anyway!!!   The A/c would
>> freeze you out, so I did not believe that...
>>
>> I took the F150 to a transmission shop and when they finally got to it,
>> the Flex plate was broken.  The transmission shop replaced it for
>> $700...This time I found an honest shop.
>>
>> I am ready to talk to my attorney about this NH tractor and the
>> dealership, the head could have been used if they would have not started
>> the tractor again.  the level of incompetence in this country is
>> astounding.
>>
>> End of Rant....   It's only money....  but it's my money......
>>
>>
>>
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