SERIOUS PROBLEM (Jake Vogel/TKR Mark)

[twack]

Im waiting on marks side of the story on this one its not looking good that he hasnt responded. Mark sold me a wheel bearing/ hub and when it arrived it was obviously a bad wheel bearing at the time i didnt care about causing a fuss about a $30 used part. then My buddy derrick bought an oil filter housing from mark through my paypal and when that arrived its threads where stripped out. I just felt that he sold parts without checking them out really good. but that tranny looks like a hot mess

[Cammaxon]

Mo is checking his other transmission today to see if he gave me the wrong diff. I talked to mark on the phone last night, he said he'll put it back together for me if i want. He said the reason it was still dirty inside is because the "hot tank only gets so much". He didn't say why he put the wrong shift fork in but i'm just trying to focus on getting every thing straightened out and fixed.

[Boostn2g]

F' that. Kick his ass!!!

[Cammaxon]

Honestly, I spent $560 on the evo gears, I gave mark $850... $300 was for the 4 spider(to Mo), $350 was for parts out of the 1g TRE and $200 was to assemble it.

I would probably be happiest if Mark gave me the $200 back since it wasn't assembled properly. THEN i could take that money and pay a transmission shop to assemble it and shim it properly.

What if mark puts it back together again and it's not shimmed properly and it grenades on the inside again? Who's going to pay for the parts? If mark could give me some sort of warranty on his work i would be fine with that but if he can't id rather pay a transmission shop

[scheides]

This is the territory you enter when you have a buddy do stuff on the side. I say let mark fix the problem and then you get what you pay for on a cheek job, or just walk away and send it to shep like you should have in the first place.

[turbotalon1g]

You are retarded. You could of bought a new/rebuilt trans from any of teh 3 big names in the business.

Not only did u spend more money, you even did more work and spent more time on this shit deal.

[blackawdtsi]

You really did get hosed on the deal. I would never trust a local (aside from shops) to build anything for me. I would've bought a big name trans instead of waste time and money dinkin around. If Shep's trannys break anyway, why would you have someone of lesser knowledge build one? Anyway you look at it, it will break again.

In any case, I'd ask Mark for the money back. Sell all your trans parts but the evo gears, send them to Shep, TRE, or Jack's and have them build it.

[EclipseGST]

Apparently... Shep charges $300 for assembly. Send everything in a box and you're set. Thats the route i would go.

[4g63tcrazy]

Good luck trying to get any money back from Mark..

[93gtpeater]

Good luck getting your money back. You should just throw that tranny threw his window. I got a tranny from mark and it lasted 2 miles. He said it was good. I didn't bother to piss and moan about it. I figured he would make it in a bs match. I wouldn't buy anything from him. Everything he does is hack job.