Am I justified in my frustration?

He gave me $100 to shut up.

Hey, since you’re talking to him about this maybe you can find out how long the open rearend was out in the weather? Ask him if he tried to pull the stuck axle. There weren’t any nuts on the backing plate. Maybe he did and couldn’t free it either. That would have been good info to have. You know, if he was an up front kind of guy?
Cat seems to get his tongue when I posed those questions to him, ....multiple times.

im sure he’s going to respond. I’m not speaking for him.