Hey Fellow Stangnet Users!
New to the forums looking to get some feedback and help on a current issue I am having. I hope I am posting this in the correct section. Anyways here goes I own a 2000 mustang GT 4.6L of course and at about 150,000 miles in July 2014 one of the timing chains snapped and did a real number on the engine and its parts. It cracked pistons and the block, etc. I paid for a new engine block new pistons, etc through a shop in Sacramento, CA. I ended up spending over $4,000. Yeah I know insane anyways fast forward to Jan 15 2015 or so and one day I start to see a black oil leak in my drive way. So I start thinking GREAT one thing after another. I take it back to the same shop that did the engine swap and they tell me its a possible ATF leak from the pump seal and will cost me over $600. I know basically nothing about cars as you can tell, anyways I start to think well shouldn't you guys have checked to see if that was leaking when you pulled the engine from the transmission??? I think so. So then I take a look at my $4,000 dollar receipt and see that they charged me for a Repair Sleeve / Rear main seal part number 162551, Now I do not know how many real main seals there are in a 2000 mustang GT but isn't that the same as a Pump seal for the transmission the same thing that is leaking?? Please help me out here I feel as though I am being ripped off.
Thanks in advanced for your help!
New to the forums looking to get some feedback and help on a current issue I am having. I hope I am posting this in the correct section. Anyways here goes I own a 2000 mustang GT 4.6L of course and at about 150,000 miles in July 2014 one of the timing chains snapped and did a real number on the engine and its parts. It cracked pistons and the block, etc. I paid for a new engine block new pistons, etc through a shop in Sacramento, CA. I ended up spending over $4,000. Yeah I know insane anyways fast forward to Jan 15 2015 or so and one day I start to see a black oil leak in my drive way. So I start thinking GREAT one thing after another. I take it back to the same shop that did the engine swap and they tell me its a possible ATF leak from the pump seal and will cost me over $600. I know basically nothing about cars as you can tell, anyways I start to think well shouldn't you guys have checked to see if that was leaking when you pulled the engine from the transmission??? I think so. So then I take a look at my $4,000 dollar receipt and see that they charged me for a Repair Sleeve / Rear main seal part number 162551, Now I do not know how many real main seals there are in a 2000 mustang GT but isn't that the same as a Pump seal for the transmission the same thing that is leaking?? Please help me out here I feel as though I am being ripped off.
Thanks in advanced for your help!