need opinions

Pete, these guys (towguys) are scumbags, they live day to day, no one else will work on they're sht because they got fcd in the past from them, this guy wanted to pick up his trans and send me a check later. there obviously is 2 sides to a story and i dont let them get ahead of me. they are suppose to be leaders, and hand out orders and delegate, in my eyes they are more of a pirate type feeding off broken down boats and salvaging. they're boats are 2 gallons away from sinking and the only time they lift the lid on they're boat is when they smell fire.
Ive been fighting a manifold problem and he was on his 3rd cracked manifold and I went round and round, finding out these idiots removed the restricter plates and thermostat from my engine i rebuiilt. I paid once again for this idiots mistake and i'll be damned if im going to pay for this morons mistake. they are FULL fledged Captains and in other countries they are considered right up there with priests and have the power to marry people.
ask any coastie, any person that operates heavy equipment, any firehouse, you dont start that machine until the fluids are checked plain and simple. its a combination of a group of idiots. your paying so called professionals to do a job thats it....
im going to buy a good used outdrive this morning, i will hang it on the boat and as always because i am liable for the boat, i will loosen the top plug on the drive and check the oil, it takes 30 seconds

and a water test, I was just a little upset with the guy because i gave the trans back 2 months ago and he waited to install it on the friday july 2nd, and it was a 3 hour ride out there...but the ironic thing is I called a guy i know out there to flip the linkage which is also a veteran mechanic and he took him 10 minutes to flip it and he too never pulleed the stick

No Eric I laughed out loud,she was really talking down to me before it happened. You know how it is, if you know so much why you bothering me, go do it yourself.Couple of months later we were out at dinner,and I saw her, had to point her out to the rest of the family, almost didnt reconize her sitting

Keep going Eric,it reminds us were not alone. I was putting a phone line in a multiple unit building for a lawyer. The building was a converted church,the walls being put up and all the conduits were run horizonally instead of fron the attic.I had a hard time finding out where the walls were,I didn't want to drill and find out I was in someones else's office or the middle of the room.She decided I was taking too long so she went up into the attic to show me how to do it.Thats when she fell thru the ceiling in the main hall of the building,clearing out all the other offices wanting to see what all the noise was- I was able to then measure from the big hole to where the wall was

Saturday morning fumb duck, get trans in, its toasted, not even close to rebuildable, new trans 8200.00, found 2 good take out running cores, 750.00 for 1 or 1000.00 for both.
advised customer the transmissions are 1 hour away from him and my proposition is: you buy both trannies send them to me, I will build you one good trans and warranty it for my normal year, i keep the other, I will rebuild your front section (its a BW v-drive) and install on one of these rebuilt back sections. when all done and said you give me another 1000.00.....win win all the way around, out of pocket for him with shipping aproximately 2500.00 fcn chp, compared to 8200.00
now the kicker, Are you going to credit me the 500.00 for the other trans? just shook my head

Eric, what drive was it? clearly is not your fault but a warning label would be the ticket.

Eric, just remember you are the Man..

Don't let them bring you down, because they are ......holes in
this world.




Dave

I would put no oil stickers across the mount holes and bell housing holes. Or maybe get some crime scene type tape with no oil printed on it and completely wrap the tranny in it. I know a guy who bought a generator dirt cheap, someone took it back to Lowe's and said it wouldn't run, he bought it after he noticed they never put oil in it which keep it from firing up.

This guy has some sort of captain's license? I wouldn't let him tow my canoe. If he's the licensed captain of a vessel, and doesn't carry an operating engineer onboard, he should at least be able to carry out the first few basics before operating any machinery onboard:

   1. Know how to start and stop the machinery.
   2. Ensure proper LUBRICATION and cooling.

Etc. Just my 2 cents.

kytom2 wrote: Hard to make thngs idiot proof,cause someone will just build a better idiot.

and DAL is LOADED with them!

Nice one Tom!

a tried rationalizing and reasoning, and spend hours on the phone with do it yourselfers or first timers explaining every step of the way and i guess what threw me on this one is the captain was having his mechanic install the trans, now, to me when you say mechanic or even operate any type of a piece of equipment that your livelyhood is carved from, the very first thing you do is check the oils. this is considered a response vehicle and should be ready at a moments notice...a professional (mechanic) paid to do a job, installed the transmission, and this is part of the job you are being paid for, i did advise the importance of the alignment on this trans...
A good for instance, I installed a v-drive 2 weeks ago and on water tests i took a couple minutes to check 6 dipsticks, engine, trans, v-drive section, the other side had nothing to do with me, but i did check and add.
maybe I assumed again that a competant professional was on the boat...it really baffles me

Eric, I'm gonna say it's your fault and you should have known better. You're a professional for crying out loud. Why on earth would you not put it in there? What were you thinking?

Just kidding.......... I agree with all the above statements. I will second the ty-rap the dipsick to the tranny somewhere or put a tag on it somewhere that states This unit was shipped w/o oil. Even here at DAL the engine mounted generators are nothing but transmissions and we all know that they are shipped w/o oil. HOWEVER, the repair shop put's tags on em anyway for the idiot who isn't paying attention. I'd also note it on the work order/reciept. It's more of a pain on you but it's also a case of CYA.

Riley wrote: What kind of mechanic would install a transmission and then not check the oil before he fired it up?

Good point.

ever buy a crate engine? touche to his mechanic.

I went round and round with another captain on his engine rebuild, someone before me left the restricter plates out between the risers and the manifolds...its uphill so water fails to get to the front...3 manifolds later...

this is daily sht i deal with, things work pretty well until these guys get they're hands in them

What kind of mechanic would install a transmission and then not check the oil before he fired it up?