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Preybird1
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 04:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Do not use old parts that are smaller it will grenade!!
As for paying to fix it try and at least (ASK FOR DISCOUNTED LABOR) If it was my shop i would cut the price to keep you happy and shopping with me, And not somewhere else because your gonna shop somewhere!
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Jos51700
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 05:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My "thing":

I'd like to hear, from CP, exactly how an installer could've done that(#1), and (#2) NOT had it fail until now....

I'd probably remind them (although, NOT recommended), this is the age of the internet, the piston says CP right on the bottom, and the people at Wiseco don't have pictures of their broken 1250 pistons all over the 'net....
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Jos51700
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 05:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

There used to be, in the old HD books, guidelines on how much more oversize one piston could be over the other...
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Jos51700
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 05:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

And any court worth it's salt (with the exception of Court Canfield, of course) would toss that, based on the age of the repair, and nature of the vehicle.
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Court
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 09:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


quote:

And any court worth it's salt (with the exception of Court Canfield, of course) would toss that, based on the age of the repair, and nature of the vehicle.




I'd toss it and no other court is going to accept it either.
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Eshardball
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 07:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

From the tone of these posts, this sounds like someone's disaster. I seem to have come in from the middle of the conversation. What happened and what shop did it?
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Eshardball
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 07:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Never mind. Just read the Archived post. I shouldn't be on the internet before coffee.
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