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engine builder FAIL - {insert name here}
Leaving the name blank for now because I want to see how this will get resolved but it is not looking well.
I wanted to post up and see what the community thinks.
I buy an short block from this builder and bring him all of the rest of my new parts, they very kindly agree to buy what else is needed and assemble the complete engine intake to oil pan for a great price which was great.
Communication before and during the build was amazing!
I pickup the engine, bring it home, install and break in and after parking it the next day I notice an oil leak the size of a silver dollar. Now, if this was a back yard build and some no name place, no surprise, but this is a well known place and a 12k engine should not leak a drop. So I contact the builder, starting to see communication is not that good, getting crickets and when I do get a reply it is excuses on why they can't answer the phone. The gist of the back and forth was I had to find the leak. So I dyed the oil and after pulling the trans and bell I traced it to either the rear main or pan gasket. Now, mind you, one man show here, I am just one guy so this is not an easy job but hey it is what it is.
Contact engine builder. He says pull the engine and bring it to me I will fix it. Whoa, I have to rent a truck and pull the engine and bring it to you? Finally I get him to agree to come and fix it at my house as he lives about 1 hour away. This was very cool of him and much appreciated. So I pull the engine, put it on a stand and he does the work and says give it a couple days and you are good to go.
Okay great! Put the engine back in, trans and all and great, now I can enjoy my car and get it tuned.
During this whole time I was planning a move, so now I do not live 1 hour away but I am wayyyy down south, 22 hours away from him now. I move, get my cars shipped and l park the mustang in the garage.
Sure enough, look under the mustang ( maybe about 30 miles since he replaced the pan gasket and rear main and there is the same leak, potentially the same since I have not pulled the trans to dye it again but there is a silver dollar of oil under the car.
Reach out to engine builder again, same crappy communication and pretty much I am told again, find the leak, there is no way it can be leaking there again. Okay well I didn't change anything else, nothing was done to the car so common sense would tell me it is coming from the same place. Again, he tells me, find the leak. I ask okay so I have to pull the trans and engine again? What then? As far as I can tell I am [email protected] outta luck and pretty much being told to go pound sand. Because okay, let's say it is not the oil pan or rear main again, no matter what is leaking it was not from something I did because they assembled the whole engine minus the valve covers but I know for a FACT they are not leaking.
What would you do, just curious because this has been a dream to have an engine built like this and finally finish my car and now to have to deal with this has been a nightmare that I know most likely won't get resolved, especially since I am living 22 hours away now.
Has anyone else built the engine of their dreams, spent a ton of money to have this or worse happen, what happened?
I wanted to post up and see what the community thinks.
I buy an short block from this builder and bring him all of the rest of my new parts, they very kindly agree to buy what else is needed and assemble the complete engine intake to oil pan for a great price which was great.
Communication before and during the build was amazing!
I pickup the engine, bring it home, install and break in and after parking it the next day I notice an oil leak the size of a silver dollar. Now, if this was a back yard build and some no name place, no surprise, but this is a well known place and a 12k engine should not leak a drop. So I contact the builder, starting to see communication is not that good, getting crickets and when I do get a reply it is excuses on why they can't answer the phone. The gist of the back and forth was I had to find the leak. So I dyed the oil and after pulling the trans and bell I traced it to either the rear main or pan gasket. Now, mind you, one man show here, I am just one guy so this is not an easy job but hey it is what it is.
Contact engine builder. He says pull the engine and bring it to me I will fix it. Whoa, I have to rent a truck and pull the engine and bring it to you? Finally I get him to agree to come and fix it at my house as he lives about 1 hour away. This was very cool of him and much appreciated. So I pull the engine, put it on a stand and he does the work and says give it a couple days and you are good to go.
Okay great! Put the engine back in, trans and all and great, now I can enjoy my car and get it tuned.
During this whole time I was planning a move, so now I do not live 1 hour away but I am wayyyy down south, 22 hours away from him now. I move, get my cars shipped and l park the mustang in the garage.
Sure enough, look under the mustang ( maybe about 30 miles since he replaced the pan gasket and rear main and there is the same leak, potentially the same since I have not pulled the trans to dye it again but there is a silver dollar of oil under the car.
Reach out to engine builder again, same crappy communication and pretty much I am told again, find the leak, there is no way it can be leaking there again. Okay well I didn't change anything else, nothing was done to the car so common sense would tell me it is coming from the same place. Again, he tells me, find the leak. I ask okay so I have to pull the trans and engine again? What then? As far as I can tell I am [email protected] outta luck and pretty much being told to go pound sand. Because okay, let's say it is not the oil pan or rear main again, no matter what is leaking it was not from something I did because they assembled the whole engine minus the valve covers but I know for a FACT they are not leaking.
What would you do, just curious because this has been a dream to have an engine built like this and finally finish my car and now to have to deal with this has been a nightmare that I know most likely won't get resolved, especially since I am living 22 hours away now.
Has anyone else built the engine of their dreams, spent a ton of money to have this or worse happen, what happened?
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Hopefully he oils down the local Starbucks line with is junk and gets embarrassed
That was going to be my initial comment.dumpster fire
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put it in reverse terry.. .back it up terry... oh LORD..
Two kinds of people in the world. Only two.
People who find themselves in a hole and:
1) Stop digging
2) Buy a ****ing tractor
People who find themselves in a hole and:
1) Stop digging
2) Buy a ****ing tractor
He never wanted help, only wanted people to agree with him. It was entertaining but a total waste of everyone's time, especially in the tech forum. It's best he does everything himself or switches hobbies.
like the other 99.99% of the threads on hereHe never wanted help, only wanted people to agree with him.
The entire premise of this thread, I think, highlights what has happened (and not in a good way) to our "social media" centered society. OP wanted to paint a certain picture to the Coral community, hoping to get support to his perception of an unsatisfactory fulfillment of contract with an engine builder. The whole thing about even caring about what a bunch of total strangers thinks about your personal business is ludicrous IMHO. I give a flying crap about what a bunch of total strangers thinks about my situation? WHY?
OP has been offered help with actually trying to help him get the oil leak fixed, that doesn't seem to hold much interest for him. I do hope that he posts back after the cause of the leak is discovered.
If past experience has taught me something about this situation, it is that these types of call out threads never end well. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing multiple times and expecting a different outcome.
Jay
OP has been offered help with actually trying to help him get the oil leak fixed, that doesn't seem to hold much interest for him. I do hope that he posts back after the cause of the leak is discovered.
If past experience has taught me something about this situation, it is that these types of call out threads never end well. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing multiple times and expecting a different outcome.
Jay
Why would be be embarrassed? It would be Starbucks fault of course...Hopefully he oils down the local Starbucks line with is junk and gets embarrassed
Do you know how to prime the oil pump with a priming tool through distributor opening electric drill counterclockwise have either helper take pictures of oil leak or prime engine then you can locate leaksLeaving the name blank for now because I want to see how this will get resolved but it is not looking well.
I wanted to post up and see what the community thinks.
I buy an short block from this builder and bring him all of the rest of my new parts, they very kindly agree to buy what else is needed and assemble the complete engine intake to oil pan for a great price which was great.
Communication before and during the build was amazing!
I pickup the engine, bring it home, install and break in and after parking it the next day I notice an oil leak the size of a silver dollar. Now, if this was a back yard build and some no name place, no surprise, but this is a well known place and a 12k engine should not leak a drop. So I contact the builder, starting to see communication is not that good, getting crickets and when I do get a reply it is excuses on why they can't answer the phone. The gist of the back and forth was I had to find the leak. So I dyed the oil and after pulling the trans and bell I traced it to either the rear main or pan gasket. Now, mind you, one man show here, I am just one guy so this is not an easy job but hey it is what it is.
Contact engine builder. He says pull the engine and bring it to me I will fix it. Whoa, I have to rent a truck and pull the engine and bring it to you? Finally I get him to agree to come and fix it at my house as he lives about 1 hour away. This was very cool of him and much appreciated. So I pull the engine, put it on a stand and he does the work and says give it a couple days and you are good to go.
Okay great! Put the engine back in, trans and all and great, now I can enjoy my car and get it tuned.
During this whole time I was planning a move, so now I do not live 1 hour away but I am wayyyy down south, 22 hours away from him now. I move, get my cars shipped and l park the mustang in the garage.
Sure enough, look under the mustang ( maybe about 30 miles since he replaced the pan gasket and rear main and there is the same leak, potentially the same since I have not pulled the trans to dye it again but there is a silver dollar of oil under the car.
Reach out to engine builder again, same crappy communication and pretty much I am told again, find the leak, there is no way it can be leaking there again. Okay well I didn't change anything else, nothing was done to the car so common sense would tell me it is coming from the same place. Again, he tells me, find the leak. I ask okay so I have to pull the trans and engine again? What then? As far as I can tell I am [email protected] outta luck and pretty much being told to go pound sand. Because okay, let's say it is not the oil pan or rear main again, no matter what is leaking it was not from something I did because they assembled the whole engine minus the valve covers but I know for a FACT they are not leaking.
What would you do, just curious because this has been a dream to have an engine built like this and finally finish my car and now to have to deal with this has been a nightmare that I know most likely won't get resolved, especially since I am living 22 hours away now.
Has anyone else built the engine of their dreams, spent a ton of money to have this or worse happen, what happened?
Leaving the name blank for now because I want to see how this will get resolved but it is not looking well.
I wanted to post up and see what the community thinks.
I buy an short block from this builder and bring him all of the rest of my new parts, they very kindly agree to buy what else is needed and assemble the complete engine intake to oil pan for a great price which was great.
Communication before and during the build was amazing!
I pickup the engine, bring it home, install and break in and after parking it the next day I notice an oil leak the size of a silver dollar. Now, if this was a back yard build and some no name place, no surprise, but this is a well known place and a 12k engine should not leak a drop. So I contact the builder, starting to see communication is not that good, getting crickets and when I do get a reply it is excuses on why they can't answer the phone. The gist of the back and forth was I had to find the leak. So I dyed the oil and after pulling the trans and bell I traced it to either the rear main or pan gasket. Now, mind you, one man show here, I am just one guy so this is not an easy job but hey it is what it is.
Contact engine builder. He says pull the engine and bring it to me I will fix it. Whoa, I have to rent a truck and pull the engine and bring it to you? Finally I get him to agree to come and fix it at my house as he lives about 1 hour away. This was very cool of him and much appreciated. So I pull the engine, put it on a stand and he does the work and says give it a couple days and you are good to go.
Okay great! Put the engine back in, trans and all and great, now I can enjoy my car and get it tuned.
During this whole time I was planning a move, so now I do not live 1 hour away but I am wayyyy down south, 22 hours away from him now. I move, get my cars shipped and l park the mustang in the garage.
Sure enough, look under the mustang ( maybe about 30 miles since he replaced the pan gasket and rear main and there is the same leak, potentially the same since I have not pulled the trans to dye it again but there is a silver dollar of oil under the car.
Reach out to engine builder again, same crappy communication and pretty much I am told again, find the leak, there is no way it can be leaking there again. Okay well I didn't change anything else, nothing was done to the car so common sense would tell me it is coming from the same place. Again, he tells me, find the leak. I ask okay so I have to pull the trans and engine again? What then? As far as I can tell I am [email protected] outta luck and pretty much being told to go pound sand. Because okay, let's say it is not the oil pan or rear main again, no matter what is leaking it was not from something I did because they assembled the whole engine minus the valve covers but I know for a FACT they are not leaking.
What would you do, just curious because this has been a dream to have an engine built like this and finally finish my car and now to have to deal with this has been a nightmare that I know most likely won't get resolved, especially since I am living 22 hours away now.
Has anyone else built the engine of their dreams, spent a ton of money to have this or worse happen, what happened?
That would take work on his part though. Dont you mean "can Jim travel down to your house and find the leak for you while you sit inside?" LolDo you know how to prime the oil pump with a priming tool through distributor opening electric drill counterclockwise have either helper take pictures of oil leak or prime engine then you can locate leaks
UnderstoodThat would take work on his part though. Dont you mean "can Jim travel down to your house and find the leak for you while you sit inside?" Lol
Did you find that leak yet?
that is funny but completely spot onWhy would be be embarrassed? It would be Starbucks fault of course...
I rebuilt my 4.6 4V and had the same type of leak as you described. It ended up being a pinched rear main seal gasket which I swore I put in correct. A new seal and all was good. I was told by a veteran Ford master mechanic to use a genuine Ford gasket as others were prone to leak. Which I did use. Once it was Properly installed, no leaks since.
i was so worried about that i bought the special seal install toolI rebuilt my 4.6 4V and had the same type of leak as you described. It ended up being a pinched rear main seal gasket which I swore I put in correct. A new seal and all was good. I was told by a veteran Ford master mechanic to use a genuine Ford gasket as others were prone to leak. Which I did use. Once it was Properly installed, no leaks since.
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