RIMCO

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I had a set of cylinders, bored, honed and trued, by Rimco (Riddle Machine Co) last year, 103 opened up to 105, it was $80 to bore and hone, and $30 to true the tops.

I, picked up a set today, that I droped off last monday, 103 opened up to 105, it was $135 to bore and hone, and $40 to true them, WHAT A FN REAM JOB, $65 WORTH OF REAMING.

I asked smiley about the price, he says thats the price, it takes a couple of hrs to do that work, I said it wasn't the price on the last set I had done, smiley then said they raised the prices, I said yea you raised the prices at the beginning of last year, and the other set was done after the increase. I took the cylinders and left.

I, went back in three min later, I asked smiley, to speak to the other guy, the other guy came out, I asked him about the price, I told him what I paid for the last set, he comes of with, you said you were in a hury, and our boring machine was set up for something else, so we set up another machine to do your cylinders, so it cost more. I just shook my head and left.
At no time did I tell them I was in a hurry, I asked them what the turn around was, they said give a call wed, I called wed, they were finally done friday.

In less than 5 min I had 2 different bull**** stories, from 2 of there employees.

I, don't know if anybody else has had any problems with them, but ever since they raised there prices last year, and lost a few of there big accounts, us little guys are getting reamed (Reamed, :fist:, Rimco, Toilet Rim ) , easy way to learn things is by association

Rimco is not the only place that has good machinists, local for us California boys and girls.


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Sorry to hear that. I know how you feel as i got the shaft from MoFoCo.

I do think you Cali peeps are spoiled with all the aircooled scene out there.

I am soon to have the ONLY low riding splitty bus in Tallahassee Florida.

peas
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[RonR]

Try the Riffles iin Hesperia.

[mharney]

Yeah, I got hosed by them too on some lifter bores they did. Check it out:

http://www.shoptalkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=76153

It took a lot to get my refund, but I did.

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[nsracing]

Now that is what I call a ream job. So sorry about your experience.

This is all the more reason some of us should try to find the little guys out there who can also do machine work.

The status quo names are not always the best either.

There are small timers out there just as heavily equipped with machines and just as abled.

Try them out. Maybe they can be of some help to a bunch of us.

regards, NSR

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First, who are you? When did this happen? What kind of engine was it? You say the cam had a Blemish on it that caused it to eat the bearing....what was the reason you had the engine tore down? Why didn't you send it back for us to tear down? Also what does the sentance "the valve was soon to be dropping" mean?

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Ok, I'll give you a little background on me. I have been working here my whole life. I took over engine building almost two years ago. I don't understand what you are saying. Why did you have the engine torn down? What was the problem? Was the blemish on the cam raised higher than the rest of the journal, or was it a scratch that was lower than the rest of the journal? Also, how can the valve seat be bad? The reason that valve seats drop is overheating or being put in without enough crush. Crush is the difference between the OD of the seat and the OD of the hole for the seat. All I'm trying to do is figure out what happened.

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Ok, I'll give you a little background on me. I have been working here my whole life. I took over engine building almost two years ago. I don't understand what you are saying. Why did you have the engine torn down?

The engine was making a LOUD tapping noise.

What was the problem? The Flange on the Cam bearing was laying in the supm of the motor. Was the blemish on the cam raised higher than the rest of the journal, or was it a scratch that was lower than the rest of the journal?

It appeared to be higher.
It took 8 months to eat through the flange.

Also, how can the valve seat be bad? The reason that valve seats drop is overheating or being put in without enough crush. Crush is the difference between the OD of the seat and the OD of the hole for the seat. All I'm trying to do is figure out what happened

I couldn't tell you why, All I know is that the mechanic noticed that it was bad and had a new seat put in the NEW head
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Well, I'm sorry that this happened but blaming us is totally insane. We use reground or new cams in our engines. It can't be ground with a raised blemish on the cam journal. That just makes no sense. And it is also hard to make any assertion without seeing it. As for the valve seat, even God can't tell when the seat will fall out. It is either out or in, so that is a load of BS if someone told you they KNEW it was going to fall out. The only other way to know it needs to be replaced is if it beats so far into the head that it won't seal anymore(like type 4 seats). I do disagree with how you were dealt with, I would have gotten you the replacement parts(if that's what you wanted) for nothing. But I do agree that there is no way it was something done during assembly.

[Envious]

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Thanks envious and well Put.

All you need to know about me i s drive vws like crazy. I wish peeps like roy would have worked at MoFoCo at least I could have got somewhere.

Anyway it is ancient history.

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