Id like to share today's engine carnage with you .

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

Thank goodness for indy shops like yours Fred. I could not imagine how much they would charge at a stealership to do the same job. In the meantime my local indy shop had his leased building renovicted and is waiting for a city permit to get his new location started.

That's a new word to me. Had to look if up. It rhymes with fishy.

Originally Posted by pwd72s

A mechanic also needs to be a bit of a psychologist...I can only imagine Fred breaking the news to the customer..

I think a pic would be enough said. He couldn't have made it look worse if he had swept up the floor and put it all in the pan and poured oil over it.

[recycled sixtie]

[QUOTE=Zeke;12195676]That's a new word to me. Had to look if up. It rhymes with fishy.

Yes it was quite a surprise to the young owner after being in a leased garage for a couple of years to be told to vacate the place as it was being renovated.

So the young owner is trying to establish a new shop in a new location, presumably leased but is now being told by the City that he does not have sufficient permits. In the meantime it costs $50k to set up with new hydraulic lifts etc. He has a young family and it is coming up to no income in two months.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Skytrooper

Impossible for him to not hear carnage of that magnitude!

I lunched a 1985 300ZX engine with a missed gear downshift. Sounded like shattering glass.

Fred - Those engines have the silly oil cooler in the intake valley. Wonder if that contributed if it had been cracked when changing oil?