Pre apology for this rant I just had to get this off my chest. I do as much of my own work as I can but I also have a bad back and sometimes need a mechanic to help me get things moving along with my projects. So, I guess it was about 3 years ago my transmission burnt up. Called a trans shop which sent me to another shop that “does C6s all the time” and $1200 later I thought I was in good shape. Turned out the hot trans fluid had internally cracked the trans cooler on the radiator and after figuring that out and replacing the radiator I thought I was good. Not long after that the starter went out. I didn’t know this yet but the trans rebuilder left out the block plate. Took the car to a known local hot rod mechanic who used to be good but now he just contracts out stuff and doesn’t care. Replaced starter, did not catch missing block plate. Starter went out again soon after that and chewed up the flywheel. I took it to a new place I thought was good (turns out no so much) and had them replace the starter, the fywheel and might as well do the rear main seal while you’re there. They discovered the missing block plate. A very nice person on these forums sent me one for free, I cleaned it up and it worked great. I thought things were good. Did have to whack the cheap starter with a hammer one time though. I dropped the gas tank, cleaned it out and fixed it up, new sending unit, etc. and car runs bad and then wont start. I replace coil, Pertronix, distributor rotor, plug wires, still no start. I get it back to the mechanic with a RobbMc starter and a brake upgrade kit that will allow me to switch to front disc later if I want. No start was an issue where something they did with the electric choke was causing it to ground out. They have the car for months, can’t figure out the starter, can’t figure out the brake kit. They aren’t returning my calls. I finally get ahold of them and I ask them to tow the car to another mechanic, they say they will and then don’t. I eventually get fed up, go over there myself, pay them $525 for doing nothing and get the car to the new mechanic, who I think maybe totally honest and a good guy which would be fantastic because everybody in this town sucks. Mechanics are so bad here in fact, I’ve thought about opening a shop because if you could actually do good work you’d be really busy. Anyway, anyone else had something like this happen? 1 thing goes wrong and 3 years and $5000 later things still aren’t fixed?
