I saw his add on craigs list for rebuilding of 8 3/4 rear ends, the gts I just bought had 2000 miles on it and howls like a banshee, you could see a bad wear pattern on it , not deep but not in the right spot either. So I call him up and he says he can reset the gears, they may quiet down they may not for 250 bucks. I figure 250. is better then 1200 for a new center section, so I roll the dice and deliver them to him. While im there we discuss the sets he has for sale some fully rebuilt some partially rebuilt, he wanted 950. for a partially rebuilt chuck, I told him I may as well spend the extra 300 on a brand new unit if im gonna spend 950. he tells me if I decide to buy a new one he will give me 200 for my old one because despite the miss alighned gears its got the good cone style posi unit in it. So I left my chuck with him to re set up the gears and three days later I go to pick it up .When I get there he has 3 center sections in the back of his truck one being my 3:55 unit he says its reset and the pinion was 30 thousandths of an inch out .I liook at my unit and it was the 489 case I gave him but my cone style posi has been replaced with a different one , a inclosed looking drum of a unit. so we look in the other bucket in the back of his truck n low and behold thers my posi unit with new springs in it in another case with 3:91's in it
he tells me the the guy he has build the rear ends made a mistake and put my unit in his other case. im like wait a minute.... you need to take the ring gear off the posi to go from 3:55s to 3:91 how could you possibly make that kind of a mistake. he tells me they did it to make sure thers no metal in the bearings. I been into mopars for over 30 yrs and have owned 48 ofthem andI have NEVER heard of such a thing. I told him I want my posi put back into my rear end. H e tells me I cant get it back for another week because he is leaveing town to a swap meet, wher I belive he was gonna sell my posi for big money.....or could it really have been a mistake?
Either way im pissed I have a car in my garage that I badly need to get out to make room for my superbee, and its gonna be on jack stands for another week. Besides all that am I feeling like paying this guy 250 after he tried to rip me off? will my rearend that I get back be done right after this fiasco? are they gonna take the new parts out of the posi unit and give me back the old parts they took out? will the unit last? WTF should I do?maybe just buy one from randys ring n pinion n be done with it....
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