Re: 1992 175 fried again!
The break in procedure is what the builder told us to do. 3000 for an hour then 3500 for an hour then 4000 for an hour then 4500 for an hour and on up to full throttle. So we followed his directions. I could understand him not wanting to touch it again if I showed up after 30 days or a few months, but two weeks and after following his break in instrucitons.... Now let me get you up to speed a little more.
We rebuilt the motor the first time but could not get it to run right. We brought it to him and he said he would not touch it, which I understand. The he said he would if we paid for him to rebuild it, basically go throuh the motor and make sure we did everything right, by the way no parts etc. We paid him 1500 for that. We get it back and on the first trip out it eats itself, burnt up a pison, threw a rod through the block, which we just had machined and destroyed a head. I also checked it out when I got it back, and he had not opened up the block, removed the intake, etc. b/c the sealant we put on was still there, and a few other reference marks (places we kind of gobbed the sealant on and smeared it around, you could tell it had not been removed or tampered with) We bring it back to him, he gets us another block, crankshaft, pistons, etc, then rebuilds the motor again. Gives us a line about the timing thing, says he ran it and it is running good. We pick it up and take it out and now it starts knocking and has watter in the bottom two cyl. Bring it back to him and he says sorry, I have done all I can for that motor and I am 500 into it now, I think you have a bad motor and the best thing you can do is trade it in on a new one. Well what about the 1500 I paid him to rebuild it, and get it running correctly. At this point if I take it somewhere else I am looking at at least 1500 for labor and possibly another block, piston or two, rings, crank (maybe)...... So basically I just bent over and let him give it to me.
The first time he had it, it had a freshly machined block, new pistons, rings, and bearings. The only problem he found was one piston was upside down. Over 800 in parts inside it, granted one piston was upside down. Big mistake I know. We think he just flipped that one piston over. He called the next day and told us it was ready. The second time when he actually did rebuild it, he had it for three weeks. Now it is dead again with water in the bottom two cyl, and it is sitting in the driveway probably rusting the crank, rods, bearings, lower crank bearing, etc.
Sorry for the rant, but I am worse off now than I was before I went to this guy.
