The guy from PTC called me on Friday, and tells me that his appointment that was originally scheduled for Monday, had to be rescheduled for today. so, instead of getting it yesterday, I get it today instead.
They did nothing that I couldn’t have done myself had I had the lathe to ensure that those ”pucks” that they added to the feet were .330”. And if I had the precision drill press to drill, and retap the new holes, and a way to ensure that the pucks, holes and the little spacer ring that they added to the pilot was centered, I might have just done it myself...
But the fact of the matter is I don’t.
In hindsight, it was best left alone to the guys that had all of that sht.
They've had the converter since June 23....A Tuesday. I get the thing back today, 3 weeks later...much longer than I expected, but in the end, worth the wait.
They didn’t charge me to do this.
I knew that I couldn’t hound the guy to rush the converter..I mean Sure, I could’ve, but I’d have to most assuredly pay the piper for that, and as much money as i’ve pumped into this thing in the last 6 months, adding another 300-500.00 wasn’t something i was looking forward to. Besides having the guy rush it served no purpose.....it really didn’t matter in the long run ...I got nowhere to go with the thing anyway....( At least not yet).
So when he hands the thing to me at 6 am this morning and i ask him how I’ll pay him, he says,....” Merry Christmas “.
Its the South...i’m telling ya. Be nice to these guys down here, and they’ll treat you like they’ve known you for 20 years.
The one thing they didn’t do however is check or tune the thing to work with this new engine..it seemed tight to me as compared to the old monster engine where it seemed way too loose. I’ll attribute that to the 3.4 vs 4” stroke, and 1.2 liter displacement difference between the two engines. Hopefully that won’t be an issue.
I took tomorrow off as a vacation day....I’ll back it up against my normal day off on Thursday..The customers I was expecting in by the 15th were split. One got here yesterday, and one won’t be here till Friday. So tomorrow............. it's banana time.