this might be a little long winded...ill try and make it as straight to the point as possible...but bear with me here because i need to get it all out because im a little fusterated.

so about a month or 2 back i brought my truck to get the tranny rebuilt. the guy who did it was just opening his business. i have no complaints about the tranny. but i needde some other work done to my truck that i just didnt feel like doing myself. such as wheel bearings and axle seals in the front. so i figgured this nice guy (mark) who rebuilt my tranny said he would do any work i needed..i brought my 96 1500 4X4 to him. he did wheel bearings axle seals and brakes/calipers/wheel cilynders/rotors/drums/everything to do with brakes. so after this, when i could cut the wheel all the way one way the drivers side tire would lock up. i also has a clunk in the front end. so i brougt it back to mark. he replaced the wheel bearing on the drivers side for free and he tightend the one on the passangers side. but when he tigntend the passangers side he said he stripped out a nut so he put a new on one. well i still have this clunk comming from my passangers side and if i jack the truck up i can wiggle the tire up and down and side to side. i know this isnt right and i know its not ball joints because those are new too. and this is only on the passangers side. so instead of waiting and spending money i took the wheel bearing off and exchanged it for a new one for free because of the warranty. so i put it in tonight...everything done with an imact gun. i tigntned the 3 bolts in the back. and tried tigntening the big a$$ nut in the center of the wheel bearing that holds the axle shaft. well it tightned to a certain point and stopped. so i figgured ok this is the one mark screwed up and it held for 2 months now it must be fine so i put the cotter pin in and away i went. well i drove down the road about 3-4 miles and all kinds of stuff went wrong. i was lost. so i pulled over and my buddy gets out and hes like dude ur tire is about to fall off so i get out and look and sure enough the passangers side front tire is about to fall off. the 3 bolts in the back of the wheel bearing are still there and holding tight. but the half of the bearing where the studs are for the wheel, ya thats not attached to the rest of the bearing. and i made sure eveything was right before i finished and drove it. so either this guy mark owes me an axle (his warranty was 6 months and it hasnt been 6 months yet) or i just got a bad wheel bearing. after i reintalled the new bearing i still had the same movement and know one could see it so i figguted when it broke i would get a new one. well now its broke and i feel mark owes me an axle (shaft that is) another axle seal on the passnagers side becuase now thats leaking again too and a new wheel bearing for free. its not my fault that he stripped out the nut in the first place and now its fallen apart. anways thats my long stoy. does anyone else feel that he owes me? or am i just cheap and greedy? any idea? anything at all??

thanks alot for the help in advance guys

p.s. i had the scariest tow truck ride of my life home. ill tell about that tomorrow because im going to sleep now that its nice and late and i have to be up extra early

 

You tore into it w/o taking it back to him if I was him I'd tell you to F-off because you messed with it instead of bringing it back to Mark to fix.

In my experience with anythnig, is, if its covered by warranty(as is the case ere) only the person who is warranting it, should cover it(as is the case here) you messed with it, and its not how he left it, for all we know, you messed it up.

 

Unfortunately, I agree. Since the last work done on it was by yourself, he's going to probably tell you to take a walk. And he'd be right to do so. I look at it this way.. if I fixed something and then the owner went in behind me and changed the work I'd done and then it tanked.. I wouldn't feel bad whatsoever telling them they're on their own.

Good luck with your truck bro.

 

ya i see where ur both comming from. but as far as im concerned he doesnt know i touched it and hes not gunna know. i shouldnt have messed with it but im tired of bringing it back to get fixed and im tired of dumping money into it. i bought the truck in december for $4000 and ive put over $5000 into it so far. tranny rebuild and everything. and he wrote it on the invoice that he stripped the nut. so as far as im concerned i didnt touch it and its his problem

 

I can see it both ways. Carzykid you did work on it after him so you could have screwed it up. Also "mark" didn't fix it the first or second time it was at his shop so I don't think crazykid made it worse. I'd take it back and tell him it didn't work and tell him that you tried to fix it and if he won't fix it for free, maybe he'll at least help you fix it.

 

If your going to bring it back to him don't lie about it.

integrity - adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

Something seriously lacking now a days.
My 2 Cents.

 

yeah working on it yourself was a pretty stupid move. should have called him and gotten the work checked by him before you touched anything.

 

He did take it back a second time and he fixed it again, but this time the nut was stripped, so I don't think crazykid made it worse. Read the post.

 

thanks junkman. ur the only one whose a little on my side. i dont think you guys are understanding here. "mark" lied to me. he said he stripped the NUT out. he even wrote it down. he said he got a NEW nut from the dealer. well the nut deffinately was not new (im not as stupid as ur all making me seem. i can tell the difference between a "new" nut and an "old" nut. sounds crazy but all you gear heads know what im saying...i hope) and the threads on the axle were stripped themselves...the nut would thread on and off fine untill it got to that certain spot where mark stripped the threads and then it wouldnt tighten anymore. either mark is screwing me, or hes an inexperienced mechanic and he should have known the threads ON THE AXLE were stripped and that it WAS NOT the nut that was stripped. and he shouldnt have said he got A NEW NUT from the dealer if he DIDNT GET A NEW NUT.
is that a little better for everyone to understand...and see where im comming from???? im not some stupid kid trying screw some guy. i DO have morals and INTEGRITY ztenec but i have dumped over $5000 into the truck and all to mark and my truck is still effed up. something needs to be done on his part. even if i was a hack and i did screw something up, what is a $130 wheel bearing and an hour of labor in the big picture of 5000 + dollars. its not all money. its also customer satisfaction and keeping the customer happy and keeping ur company name clean.

im not gunna jump the gun and blame this one on mark. but its one more thing that makes me believe hes got something funny going on. while he had my tranny out i asked him to do the rear main seal because it had a little leak. so he agreed and he got paid for the part and the labor to install it. well its been appox. 2 months since then and i still have a leak. theres that little thin dust guard i guess in the front of the tranny. and oil drips out of there. nothing fast or major but its the fact that its leaking. and im not stupid it is oil and not tranny fluid. im not 100% positive that it is the rear main seal. i dont know? could it be the plenium? or is the rear main the only thing over under there? but im going to have the famous mark check it out and if he didnt replace the seal then hes doing that becuase i paid for it and thats also on record. and if he did do it but its still leaking then i also expect something done about that because it wasnt done right the first time. if he did it and its something else leaking and he ends up treating me good and not giving me any problems then ill have him fix it

 

I see your point, and agree that "Mark" should be held responsible for any and all repairs that he did. If I take my vehicle somewhere and they lie/screw up I take it back and they fix it, if they do it again I'm not going back and they are paying to get it fixed elsewhere. I give people 2 tries, but after that I don't see a point to take it back again. My comment earlier is based on what you had said about him not going to find out that you touched it. Personally, I would go to him, explain, then state what you want/need to be satisfied. If you lie your no better than if he lied to you IMHO.

Once again I do see your point so don't take this as a personal attack.