Used DSMs

[sleepydsm]

As some of you know, I bought my third DSM from a kid named Blake. Apparently, Blake has quite a reputation around here with some folks from DSMStyle. Anyways, I bought my red 92 Talon with a quite a few bolts on installed. Today, as I tore the car apart to do the timing belt (he didnt have records of doing, so its piece of mind for me), headgasket, and some other items, I found a bunch of silly stuff. The turbo bolts were not tight at all, nor were the exhaust manifold nuts. There was NO BOLT IN THE FRONT MOTOR MOUNT, essentially making it useless. There was just a bunch of stupid little shit I found that made me shake my head. It just made me ponder how the car had put it together in the past. But then I realized he told me Rick Shindley did most of the work for him. Go figure. At least now everything is to my liking, and I'm fixing shit that might have gone unnoticed. Wish me luck on that t-belt! Hell I even had to fabricate a tool to take the timing cover bolt out from behind the waterpump wheel the pulley bolts to. It has been fun so far! Just a few cut knuckles and the head is off.

[tpunx99GSX]

soon people instead of saying my car crankwalked, they will say it was shindleyed.

[blageo23]

HAHAHA. Also does anyone know if he got it rebuilt? When we took off the head I looked at the pistons and to me they looked like the same pistons I have(Topline Rebuild). And I just thought of this and it might not make sence but could that Fd up injector be a leak when doing a compression test? Cuz I believe it came out of cylender 1 witch on his car was all gheyd up.
Mike

[Swifty1638]

don't feel bad kevin..my tranny came off this weekend..big suprise there!

-A. Swift

[Jakey]

Funny shit, Blake and I used to get into arguments quite frequently, it was great. I believe his screen name on here is B.A.

Hopefully things turn out OK for you with the car!

[Goat Blower]

So you buy some used car and hear that Rick worked on it at some point and blame him for all the problems? There's just NO possibility that this previous owner had something to do with these problems? Funny how people here are quick to judge with little to no actual information.

[sleepydsm]

So you buy some used car and hear that Rick worked on it at some point and blame him for all the problems? There's just NO possibility that this previous owner had something to do with these problems? Funny how people here are quick to judge with little to no actual information.

I was just poking fun at all the drama associated around Rick. I personally have had good experiences with Rick, and I have no complaints other than he sure talks alot.

[howslowcanyougo]

I was just poking fun at all the drama associated around Rick. I personally have had good experiences with Rick, and I have no complaints other than he sure talks alot.


Yes, Please clairify AS you make those kind statements if your only joking, as some people feed their families off from their reputations!

Ricks done only great work on my car in the past, and didn't seem sloppy in the least to me?

[npaulseth]

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Pretty much sums it up.

[TheBlizzard]

All this shit has been covered a million times before. Rick has done good work for a lot of people in the DSM community. Yes he has done some suspect things that didn't go over so well. He is not here to defend himself so I don't want his name being brought up anymore. Like Steve said, the dumbfuck you bought it from could have very well hacked the car together. All the things you described are not things I have heard of Rick doing in the past. I mean someone who has been around DSMs for that many years would not cut them corners when putting together a car. A lot of problems arise with some of the older DSM mechanics is when they don't adapt to the future and live in the past too much, like when 16G was a huge turbo and 17lbs of boost was a lot to drive on the street.

If you have problems with your car we will help you, but don't drag someone into this who works on these cars for a living and is not here to defend himself. If you really want to know why don't you call him and find out if he did work on the car, I am sure he would remember.