Re: [Chrysler300] It's getting embarrasing.

[kmaniak@xxxxxxx]

Thomas:

Well said and I couldn't agree more.

Chris, the K MANIAC
Concord, California



-----Original Message-----
From: DeBusk Thomas L. <tleed@xxxxxxxx>
To: Ron Waters <ronbo97@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chrysler300 <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, Aug 18, 2013 6:30 am
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] It's getting embarrasing.


Brandt,
Add my voice to those who say it's time to move on. I'm an attorney and enough 
f a shade-tree mechanic to say you probably don't have or need to initiate a 
egal problem and you don't have a mechanical problem. You have a personal 
roblem, and perhaps a financial problem. Apparently you have a sufficient 
ersonal connection to this transmission rebuilder to think you need to stick 
ith him. Maybe it's just as simple as the fact that you think he's invested 
nough time on the task and he's done enough of it with sufficient attention to 
etail to warrant your continued trust and patronage. Or maybe he's a personal 
riend you don't want to insult him by packing up and leaving. And perhaps 
ou're too personally involved with him to consider "demanding" your money back. 
ell, consider this:
A while back I had problems with the Velvet Drive transmission in my boat. It 
verheated and broke down. It's a very common transmission in inboard boats and 
ebuild kits are relatively cheap. With the expert assistance of an extremely 
opar-savvy professional mechanic and personal friend, I rebuilt it. Twice. One 
ime I did most of the work, and one time my friend did most of it. It didn't 
ast long either time. In the course of the work, my friend told me the 
ransmission looked very similar to a typical small Chrysler automatic of the 
ame era, so I had a lot of confidence in his work.
But when it failed the second time, I decided I needed something more reliable 
nd I shipped it to Florida (I'm in Virginia) to be rebuilt by a boat 
ransmission specialist. It just so happened that the Florida guy was a brother 
o someone I know here in VA, so I had a lot of confidence in him as well. Once 
e took my transmission apart, he told me it had been subjected to so much heat, 
he internal tolerances to too many parts were beyond acceptable limits and it 
asn't worth rebuilding. He said it wouldn't last, no matter how well it was 
rebuilt" because the typical rebuild kits didn't contain all the parts that 
ere defective in my transmission. He offered instead to sell me a new, 
eavier-duty version of my transmission. As I recall, I think that was about 
1800. Ouch! My rebuild kits were about $100. But that transmission is still 
orking just fine. I don't think my local Mopar-mechanic was insincere or 
specially incompetent. He did very careful work. But the truth is 
he wasn't knowledgeable enough about THIS PARTICULAR TRANSMISSION to recognize 
he out-of-tolerance parts and realize it wasn't salvageable.
Your situation sounds similar. Apparently your transmission rebuilder is missing 
omething important. You are now contemplating an advanced educational training 
ffort where the textbook is the correct original manual, and the class 
xperiment is your transmission. But the sad truth is that the tuition YOU HAVE 
LREADY PAID to educate this rebuilder isn't enough to guarantee him a 
ufficient profit to make the exercise financially successful, either from your 
oint of view or his. He's already spent more time than it's worth on this one 
ransmission, and you still have a mostly dead patient. And it's entirely 
ossible that the problem he's missing in your transmission might not be found 
n that particular manual. If so, you're still on a track that's very likely to 
esult in continued failure. That doesn't necessarily make him a bad guy. But I 
on't think continuing to work with him is a sound choice.
>From what you've written, it's probably not helpful to doubt his sincerity or 
uestion his intentions either. But that's not the same as  admitting that he 
ust doesn't know enough right now to identify what's going wrong with your 
ransmission and correct it. He's just human, and right now that means this one 
s beyond him. Time to get a second opinion. Pack it up and send it away. Don 
erity could be a good choice...
Thomas DeBusk
n Aug 17, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Ron Waters <ronbo97@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brandt -
 
 You hired this guy to fix/rebuild your transmission. He failed to adequately 
 do the job. You've brought it back to him three or more times already and 
 it's still not right. Time to get a refund and send it off to someone that 
 can do the job.
 
 Ron
 
 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "Brandt Jimerson" <brandt300g@xxxxxxxxx>
 To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 6:49 PM
 Subject: [Chrysler300] It's getting embarrasing.
 
 Hi to all again. Hard to start off my usual way but Melissa is still a 
 'problem tranny child'! Ha...Even after correctly adjusting the linkage it 
 is still a problem. For the first 30 minutes of driving as I said before, it 
 is okay. However, after that, if I floor it from a dead stop it stays in 
 gear to long and of course, kickdowns, the wrong ones, happen at too fast of 
 a speed. I will say this though...Thanks to the group my G is the fastest 
 that it has EVER been! Don't get me wrong...Melissa really needed it. Thanks 
 to Bob J. and the group! Anyways I stayed off the listserver for a while 
 because I was a little embarrased, but I can't save my face and my %$s at 
 the same time so here it goes: I need to ask Greg for my money back or have 
 him take her apart all the way, and start with the correct book. Can someone 
 please assist me to obtaining a pamphlet or booklet on the correct way to 
 rebuild the letter car trans, not the New Yorker? Do I
 need the 1960 Chrysler/Imperial book? Will that info given to Greg be 
 sufficient? I seem to have misplaced my '60 manual but I do Have my '61. Do 
 I need '60? Another question, can the torque converter hub runout be 
 incorrect!? I remember someone bringing that to question at one time and 
 maybe I should have looked closer into that. If so, Greg needs to know that. 
 Greg needs to rebuild by the book, or my $ back! I hope that doesn't become 
 'interesting' but I know he can also follow instructions because he did a 
 GRET job the linkage adjustment. The anti-stall unit was even in the correct 
 position.
 .....Anyways, I need help and I also need to remember how great this club is 
 so I shouldn't really feel embarrased, it's just time for me to get this 
 tranny fixed once and for all. This has been going on for a couple of years 
 now and as a good member told me, it's time to move on!! :-)
 
 Sincerely & 300ly, Brandt H J with yes, a G.
 
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