John, sorry I thought you posted they charged you extra for trying to aline the fender and door better and the ins co would not pay as it was a repro fender ?
I wouldn't expect them to pay for the engine rebuild but it was hit so as long as they covered some of it.
I just remember you getting hit with a large bill. Hope they take care of the trans for you
I did have to pay for them to replace the door hinges. They were original and really worn out. The accident didn’t damage those, that was up to me.
Well, of course it cost more than I thought it would for the engine rebuild, but it was not that big of a deal.
The part that was way more than I thought was the headers and custom h pipe.
And another thing that I didn’t expect was how screwed up my brakes were. Not that they didn’t work good, they actually did. But the guy that rebuilt my car hodgepodged the brakes together. He used a distribution valve instead of a proportioning valve for the front disc brakes. So I had them replace it with the correct valve and it leaked so they had to replace it with another new one. Then after that the master cylinder was leaking and it was pretty old and rusty so I had that replaced. They then discovered that the rear wheel cylinders were mismatched and one of the adjusters was froze up. Had all that rebuilt and then they still couldn’t get the brakes to bleed. Turns out the damn front calipers were on the wrong side. Paul said he has never had a car come in his shop like that, so it was about the last thing he checked. He said he feels horrible that it took so long to figure out. Hell, it’s my car and I never noticed it before and I have looked at them countless times. But, I never had to do anything to them.
Not really sure how they were bleed before, reverse bled? So they spent a ton of time screwing with them and getting them right. He sent me pics too so I wouldn’t think he was just trying to add more work.
So this has just snowballed into more work than I thought. Unbelievable