Ebay 2.1 "rebuilt" Gernade

insyncro · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:52 am Post subject:

I can appreciate that some have been taken by Jake.
I was not.
I do not have his home address, phone number or any other info. to track him down.

I was paid via PayPal by "his banker" and all shipping was handled on his end.

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insyncro · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:57 am Post subject:

Denver, CO

raymino · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:31 pm Post subject:

Hi Dylan,

Would you share where you sent them to?

Thanks
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insyncro · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:35 am Post subject:

FYI,
Jake, Ken....whoever, purchased 9 good used long block 2.1 waterboxers from me in the last year.
All motors were from running vans and were excellent cores.
I have no idea what was done to them by JLP as "rebuilt".

I know who Jake is.
He was the only rebuilder willing to pay my price for the motors and had them shipped on his dime.

Hope this helps.

dylan

McVanagon · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:51 am Post subject:

Linking other threads that share other "too good to be true" rebuilds that reuse rod bolts for future search results.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=255728
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445712
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calcite5......... YOU MUST BE KIDDING ME................I MEAN YOU MUST BE KEN MORGAN!

Ken buys all his parts used at Junkyards...............

it goes like this..................

This toasted motor in California has a marginal head...............this other toasted motor at another salvage yard has another marginal head,

Ever wonder why ken can offer a "remanufactured" complete motor for $975? the reason is the motors are all junkers habbed together from core motors that have been painted and cleaned up to look nice.

***THIS IS A FACT FOR MANY OF THE MOTORS JLP SELLS.

Remanufactired really mean habbed together from junkyard builder motors Laughing

KEN IS A THIEF AND A LIER AND I HAVE PERSONALLY SPOKEN & EMAILED WITH ATLEAST 30 PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN BURNED BY THIS SCAMER!

veloseller1 · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:09 am Post subject: Jake lake Ken Morgan

I am the person who Ken sold an AAZ engine to that he never owned.
And who Ken lied to my face about this for 6 months.

***TO THIS DAY I HAVE NEVER BEEN REPAID 1 PENNY FROM THE MONEY I PAID KEN MORGAN FOR THE AAZ ENGINE***

It has been about 2 years now!

**Most likely calcite5 IS KEN MORGAN**

And calcite5's post is totally bogus.

The story of what happened to me is,

I bought a Vanagon Syncro that had thrown a few rods and Ken knew I needed a replacement enegine so Ken lies to my face and promises me he has an AAZ engine!, And if I want it I need to prepay him for it and he explains its in Ohio and he is heading to Washington DC to deal with this piston company and investors and then he is going to Ohio to his warehouse to get my engine and he will bring it back in two weeks................

After I paid him the money in full, 2 weeks turned into next month, then... I will have the engine in another few weeks, oh next month
I will have your AAZ Jeff I promise you.

Not only was the money for the AAZ engine, Ken Morgan had promised to do the install of the engine.

Well its been about 2 years now and he has never given me my money back or the engine or done the install.

This is because he never had the engine to begin with! it was a lie.

He looked me in the eye and promised me he had the engine took my money and never delivered / installed the engine.

About 4-5 months after I pre paid him for the AAZ he promised he would have in 2 weeks, Ken changed his phone # and did not stay in touch with me or update me of his new phone# All the while he had my money for the AAZ and my Vanagon Syncro.

The fact it 5 month after I had paid and still no engine,the lack of communication and continued lies left me no choice but to get the police involved to get my syncro back.

Beyond the fact Ken ripped me off and lied to my face for months and months and beyond the fact I came to learn how so many other of us VW lovers have been conned and ripped from this guy!...........Beyond that I never had any ax to grind with Ken Laughing

I read today NOV 29 2009 on the Samaba of yet another poor VW lover sole who Ken burned.

This man prepaid Ken big bucks $$$ got lied to and told one story after another for months and months lost his whole Vanagon Camper to ken!

And the money he paid Ken!

ken claimed he failed to pay his storage lot bill so they took the Van.

I AM SURE GLAD I GOT THE POLICE INVOLVED TO GET MY SYNCRO
Back!

***I JUST WANT TO GET RE-PAID FOR THE MONEY KEN STOLE FROM ME FOR THE AAZ ENGINE***

AND I WANT TO HELP OTHER VW BROTHERS NOT GET BRUNED FROM THIS MAN.

Captain Pike · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:58 am Post subject:

Bevs buiz practices weren't the best. Once Gary split that was it. Lack of wrenches kills your rep.The inventory on parts that most likely went into a dumpster Sad

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onwardtothestars · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:33 am Post subject:

Bill W - most of us remember Bevsons... as greasy and expensive.

Anyway - see my other post here.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=255728
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Captain Pike · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:51 am Post subject:

I wrenched in Denver in the early 90s' for Bevsons and I've never heard of this guy. All I did was build VW bus, bug, vanagon and jetta engines.We knew the guys from True Blue, Berts, Auto metrics......bla bla bla. Bevsons and Berts are gone, don't know about the rest.
$1200 is too cheep to do a good job with new parts. Reuse of the P and L is fine. Recycled rods,cam,lifters, and OG heads cut costs but the 2.1 flaws are still there.
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Escorial Syncro · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:41 pm Post subject:

I think there should be more places for sarcasm and patronization! Very Happy

And you're right...I don't know you from Adam. You're Calcite5. Not Adam, not Jake, not Ken. My bad. Well, you've sure done your research on Ken Morgan. Best of luck on the engine or service you've purchased from him. I hope yours is a better experience than those other bad experiences you've researched and told us about in detail. Joel
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calcite5 · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

Joel...there is no place for negative sarcasm and patronization. You don't know me from Adam, so to throw an ill equipped jab in terms of this being my first post ever is sad to say the least. I was practically born in a '69 bug. I've owned VW's all of my life. Just because you haven't seen me here doesn't mean I have not been here all along. Lets be objective.

And I've heard the story of the police assisted recovery of the syncro here on the samba and from other information arenas outside of this forum. From what I gathered from all sources available, the person who owned the syncro had a vendetta against Ken and needed the van to make good on a hedged loan that was going into default. After a series of three phone messages in the course of one day, this individual panicked after not being able to reach Ken and contacted the police.
Here's a caveat to the events that took place. Leading up to this unfortunate circumstance for both parties, Ken was solely mechanically servicing this person's Vanagon flipping/restoration business until Ken advised this person that he needed to stop the servicing help to find time to pursue business leads elsewhere.

Believe me...after reading every post I could find on Ken, I wanted to do my homework outside of the forums and search for answers in the real world before I jumped to a conclusion. I've found in my experiences there is always more than one way to look at an issue. We must analyze all of the available data and make an educated decision based upon the results...whether it be in politics, science and engineering, the dynamics of ordinary life or vetting a mechanic who may be working on our highly revered Vanagons.

mblotz · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:43 am Post subject:

my thoughts exactly joel. my van (when owned by the previous owner) is one of the ones in the early decade that took police action to recover waiting on its 3rd eurocar motor, and was eventually found abandoned on the streets of aurura co after several months of no contact. financially ruined the owners. i have plenty more stories, even ones involving fire imediately after fuel line replacement

Escorial Syncro · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:33 pm Post subject:

Hello Calcite#5,
Welcome to our community. In your first post ever on the forum you wrote:

"Ken is the real deal...and yes, he did have some mishaps earlier in the decade."

Earlier in the decade? How about in the last six months? I have a friend that pre-paid Ken/Jake for an AAZ motor to be installed in his syncro and it took help from the Denver Police to get the syncro back. Last I heard he was still trying to recover the money for the work and engine he never got. He posted the story to several lists and forums, maybe even this one.

I'm all for second chances and fresh starts and folks making a living. But if you, I mean Ken/Jake, keep screwing fellow vanagon owners, I feel I have to let people know who their dealing with.

Joel
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?Waldo? · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:47 am Post subject:

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calcite5 · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject:

I find it funny that most of the "negative feedback" comes from a small minority...I have dealt w/ Ken and have found him to be a phenomenal mechanic...BTW...a little tidbit on Ken...he has an MB to go along with an electrical engineering degree

A little more info...Ken is a wholesaler of 2.1's and other assorted VW engines...he has access to a large volume of cores.
My understanding is that he and his team dissemble the cores and hand pick the best components for his basic rebuild...i.e. what you see on ebay
Everything is double checked, cleaned and put back together w/ the care of a 35 year VW wrencher.

Ken is the real deal...and yes, he did have some mishaps earlier in the decade. This was due to a piston program that he had developed. The test cars seem to be running exquisite and the program went into full swing until a flaw in the piston manufacturing specs was discovered. The machine shop was to blame, but Ken took the heat...and replaced the engines that were already out on the streets...the financial burden of the recall took his shop down. So it wasn't a run for the hills as I have read
After a slow rebuilding process Ken is now getting back into the game.
Hope that sheds some light on the subject.
If you have any questions or comments...post it

?Waldo? · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject:

I would also add that a 12 month warranty from a no-name with bad feedback on eBay is worth less than the energy being used to display it on your LCD monitor.

Andrew

mblotz · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject:

its taken me a better part of 1.5 years to get a jake lake (AKA ken morgan, aka JDP--i wonder what his real name is?) molested van back to a safe to operate vehicle. we are talking EVERY nut and bolt has had to be gone through. luckily for me in knew exactly what i was getting into since i had seen the workmanship before being in the vanagon community in denver for a long time. we are talking a history from the eurocar era (previous name) that involved 3 grenaded motors. leaving it sitting for 2 years on the last one. its easy to talk a big talk, hide behind the big Jebus, and make it sound like a knowledgable, trust worthy wrench, sounds like some presidents we've had to

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