buisy day today
well today started out with DC calling and wanting me to help him go bike shopping, so e grabbed a tradin post and headed out to see what there was.... we test rode afew bikes an finally found a dea.... turns out an old friend of both me and DC had a 1983 Kawasaki for sale for a verry reasonable price so DC bought it for $460 and we got it back to his place.... on the way Jeremy called and told me that the grand jury he spoke to on friday was back in........ and they threw it out, I about shit my pants and DC just shook his head. I finally got home around 5 and found a suprise in the living room..... my new camera YAY!! 6.1 MP Kodak Z-650 with the 10x zoom, it will be verry useful in my next project http://www.rancampplace.blogspot.com hey if my asshole neighbors want to complain then I will start complaining about them along with takig dialy pictures of the neighborhood,... now everyone alse will know how t feels to have to deal with the city and the chance that they will take their possessions away aswell, even if nothing happens it will still make me feel good inside.
onto something else that chapps my ass, Cottman Transmissin/AAMCO talk about a ripoff joint.... our family has had many dealings with tom gamble and up until about a month and a half ago we have not had a problem with any work he had done, about 6 weeks ago the trans went out in the durango and sence it was rebuilt by Cottman Transmission about a year and a half ago we took it back there because Tom had told me personally that if I ever had a problem with it to just bring it back and he would take care of it... so much for his word! if I had known that we would only get a little less then 20k on a transmission designed for a lifespan of 100k-130k then I would have never agreed to pay $3100 for the transmission and transfercase in the first place! he had told my mother that the trans was completely burned up and no good (bullshit) about 6 weeks ago when it decided that it didnt want to move anymore so he told my mom tha tit was going to cost around $2000 for parts to fix it (more BS) and at this point I decided to do a little investigating and found a site called the www.ripoffreport.com and they have a whole section dedicated to cottman trans/AAMCO click here to see all the complaints
at this point me and my mom decide that neither of us have the money for that so I decide to gt the old trans from cottman to do a little snooping it is then that I start getting pissed, Tom had told my mother that the trans was junk and not rebuildable but I completely disssembled it and found out that the friction plates and steel plates had worn out, THATS IT!!!!!!!!!!
total cost to fix it was UNDER $100 and all of the other fiction plates and steel plates WERE PERFECTLY FINE!!!! at this point I am furious but I held my tongue for the sake of my mom because I can get real mean and real nasty real fast when I think someone is giving anyone in my family the short end of the stick, and it always upsets her when I yell however sence we found out that info I decided to just comb the junkyards and find one from a running vehicle because tom said that he couldnt rebuild the trans so we found one 4 days later for a reasonable sum of $315 at Airway Auto in battle creek, so we made a day trip of it and went and bought the trans with 38k miles on it and when the guy who owned the place asked who was installing it I said probably myself but if things get tight then cottman would do it..... this is where I started hearing more hororr stories and one cought my ear about a guy with a jeep grand cherokee that had work done to their truck and after it was done while they were on a family vacation a week later the transmission magicly shifted ino reverse causing them to spin out and roll their jeep. and at this point I think fuck this joint I will do it myself but after my mom decides htat se still wantsthem to do it because they said it would be done in 2 days whereas I said I would work on it in the evenings until it was done but less then a week and atleast if I did it I knew it would be done correctly but no she wanted it monday like they said, told my mom that he was full of shit and proceided to make a wager of $20 that wouldnt be done on time.... I won I went down there on wendsday and looked at him square in the eye and said "What the hell is goin on?" and his only reply was that his $5 a hour labor hadnt shown up in 5 days but reguardless he was able to have a tech work on a $100k showcar that came in with a problem over the weekend... I guess we were put at the bottom of the list because we didnt spend the $2k on a rebuild....... and it drug out a week then he needed a seperator plate because he claimed ours was bad ( yea because his hack job mechanics screwed it up) so that was another week and finally when the cat was out of the bag a week later when he found out I had tore down the transmission and ever sence then he has been a total ass to us but wait a glimpse of hope this evening WOW IT IS DONE! too bad the shifter isint ajusted correctly, the transfercase shifter was not either and the transmission was filled with the wrong fluid, my mom drove it about a mile before she took it back to them and said something was wrong... um yea it is a EGR valve and you need a new battery they said....... hmm a 1 year old 1800 cca industrial battery from a Caterpillar BULLDOZER just up and gave up the ghost I dont think so! I have had enough of their bulls#it so I went to their lt and used my spare key and hopped in it and fired it up and took it for a spin and it works enough that it will move under it's own power again so it is comng home in the morning whether they like it or not and I will fix it
onto something else that chapps my ass, Cottman Transmissin/AAMCO talk about a ripoff joint.... our family has had many dealings with tom gamble and up until about a month and a half ago we have not had a problem with any work he had done, about 6 weeks ago the trans went out in the durango and sence it was rebuilt by Cottman Transmission about a year and a half ago we took it back there because Tom had told me personally that if I ever had a problem with it to just bring it back and he would take care of it... so much for his word! if I had known that we would only get a little less then 20k on a transmission designed for a lifespan of 100k-130k then I would have never agreed to pay $3100 for the transmission and transfercase in the first place! he had told my mother that the trans was completely burned up and no good (bullshit) about 6 weeks ago when it decided that it didnt want to move anymore so he told my mom tha tit was going to cost around $2000 for parts to fix it (more BS) and at this point I decided to do a little investigating and found a site called the www.ripoffreport.com and they have a whole section dedicated to cottman trans/AAMCO click here to see all the complaints
at this point me and my mom decide that neither of us have the money for that so I decide to gt the old trans from cottman to do a little snooping it is then that I start getting pissed, Tom had told my mother that the trans was junk and not rebuildable but I completely disssembled it and found out that the friction plates and steel plates had worn out, THATS IT!!!!!!!!!!
total cost to fix it was UNDER $100 and all of the other fiction plates and steel plates WERE PERFECTLY FINE!!!! at this point I am furious but I held my tongue for the sake of my mom because I can get real mean and real nasty real fast when I think someone is giving anyone in my family the short end of the stick, and it always upsets her when I yell however sence we found out that info I decided to just comb the junkyards and find one from a running vehicle because tom said that he couldnt rebuild the trans so we found one 4 days later for a reasonable sum of $315 at Airway Auto in battle creek, so we made a day trip of it and went and bought the trans with 38k miles on it and when the guy who owned the place asked who was installing it I said probably myself but if things get tight then cottman would do it..... this is where I started hearing more hororr stories and one cought my ear about a guy with a jeep grand cherokee that had work done to their truck and after it was done while they were on a family vacation a week later the transmission magicly shifted ino reverse causing them to spin out and roll their jeep. and at this point I think fuck this joint I will do it myself but after my mom decides htat se still wantsthem to do it because they said it would be done in 2 days whereas I said I would work on it in the evenings until it was done but less then a week and atleast if I did it I knew it would be done correctly but no she wanted it monday like they said, told my mom that he was full of shit and proceided to make a wager of $20 that wouldnt be done on time.... I won I went down there on wendsday and looked at him square in the eye and said "What the hell is goin on?" and his only reply was that his $5 a hour labor hadnt shown up in 5 days but reguardless he was able to have a tech work on a $100k showcar that came in with a problem over the weekend... I guess we were put at the bottom of the list because we didnt spend the $2k on a rebuild....... and it drug out a week then he needed a seperator plate because he claimed ours was bad ( yea because his hack job mechanics screwed it up) so that was another week and finally when the cat was out of the bag a week later when he found out I had tore down the transmission and ever sence then he has been a total ass to us but wait a glimpse of hope this evening WOW IT IS DONE! too bad the shifter isint ajusted correctly, the transfercase shifter was not either and the transmission was filled with the wrong fluid, my mom drove it about a mile before she took it back to them and said something was wrong... um yea it is a EGR valve and you need a new battery they said....... hmm a 1 year old 1800 cca industrial battery from a Caterpillar BULLDOZER just up and gave up the ghost I dont think so! I have had enough of their bulls#it so I went to their lt and used my spare key and hopped in it and fired it up and took it for a spin and it works enough that it will move under it's own power again so it is comng home in the morning whether they like it or not and I will fix it
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