Trojan366
trucks are slow
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This is a story written on a local diesel page from a former customer of Eric's aka BadFummins aka 7.3 Performance Diesel. He asked me to share it so that no one else would be taken advantage of.
"Here you go boys and girls.. here's the **** storm I was talking about..Its a novel. .Back in October I talked to eric about getting a new motor for my truck. He said he had a 7.3 long block with 90xxx miles on it and he would sell it to me for $700 and charge me $1200 to put it in.. I dirnt have the cash right then so he said we could wait and I told him that as soon as I got my tax money back I would do it. He agreed.. so our taxes weee done in February and I had been keeping in touch with him during that time and he kept saying he had the block so when the cash came I called him up to get it in and stuff. All of a sudden , the motor no longer existed but he said he could get me another 7.3 long block but it has 130xxx on it and it would cost me $780. I turned all the rest of the financial stuff over to my wife. From there eric had her paypal a "gift" of $780, which cost us another $50. Because she sent $800 to " get this ball rolling". He got the money and said he would go get the motor and let us know when to send the truck.about a week or two later we got the go ahead for the truck to go down. My wife and I caravaned down to londonderry nh from laconia nh to have aaa pick up my truck-free 100 mile tow. Eric said the truck would be done in four days and he would start it on monday.. eric said he would definitely hage it doneand he would meet us at my mothers over in halifax withit and we would pay him the remaining balance then. It didn't happen. He had excuses saying that another truck was on the lift and it was an emergency fix then a clutch had to be replaced in another truck. A four day turned into a week, one week turned into three. I told him I needed and wanted my truck back because I've been using my wifes truck and way more money was being spent on fuel. Eric said that I should send him the labor money of $1200 and he would "hold onto it" for us. My wife said no ****ing way. After about four or five weeks of this I ended up getting laid off and we ended up using the money to help make the mortgage payment. I still had no truck. My wife talked to eric, explaining the money situation but the need for the truck. Eric told her he would drag his feet a little but that he would get it done and he would drive it up to my house for us as soon as it was done. I had also asked him, while he had the truck, to replace the all the ball joints because I bought them but wasn't sure on how to do it. Plus I asked him to finally fix the turbo that he had sold to me that didn't quite fit-free fix according to eric. He and I even joked around about painting my "new" block blue (or as he said pink) but decided on blue. Eric and I agreed to use everything off my engine but just swap out the blocks.six weeks had passed, still no truck. Luckily my best friend in kentucky called me up to come work with him for a while to make some cash. Mind you, I sent my truck down on march 9th and now its april 22nd. I stayed down there until may 23nd, I got a job call to come home. Still no truck. I had kept in touch with eric the whole time and so did my wife, checking on the progress. Eric told my wife that he GUARANTEED the truck would be in our driveway by the time I got home or the day after but I would have it for the weekend so I could get used to the new motor and put her thur her paces and so on.. I got home during the early monrning hours of may 24th-friday and still no truck.I hounded him via text and pm. No replies. All of a sudden eric texts my wife saying he needs $250 for injector o-rings and oil, etc. My wife said no. She told me about it and I said no because they were brand new I had just recently done them and get the truck back to me. So I can get back to work. He finally agreed to meet us somewhere between laconia and were ever the **** he lives off of 93. That was may 27th. My wife and eric agfeed to making and accepting payments from us for the new labor balance we now owed $1300. When we arrived at our meeting spot.I was keepinf in touch with eric via text and he said he fueled the truck up for me before he left but about 60 miles down the rd it was almost on "e". He and amber-his girlfriend was driving my truck- pulled over and put $30 in for fuel.because he forgot his wallet at his shop. Once he finally got to the meet up. He went thur a few things with me saying my number 8 injector had gone bad and needed to be replaced. I needed a new belt to go on the new motor . He washed my engine really well, my truck was suxing down fuel really quickly, so on and so on.. after chatting with my wife (molly) eric and amber. We parted but my wife and eric agreed to a payment arrangement of my wife sending eric at least $100 a week until the full $1300 was paid off. Eric even asked for some cash now seeing how he put his only $30 in for fuel and I gave him a $50 bill. Now we owed $1250. We departed and I romped on her a littl to start to get a feel for my new motor. She bogged a little but finally started to wake up or so I thought..I got to the rest area just over the nh boarded and pulled over. I noticed that all my running and fog lights were working (I have a lot of lights) . Kind of odd because every mechanic that has ever worked on my truck forgets to connect one or two lights. I noticed that oil was still leaking from the same spot that it always had, odd seeing how it was a new motor. But homeward bound we went. I got infront of my wife a few times and she would call me, telling me that it wae still smoking the same, odd being a new motor. I got home finally. On the same qurarter tank of fuel that was in it when eric brought it up. Only another 65 miles. When I got home I realized that it was smoking the exact same way as before and so I started pokig around under the hood and under the engine bay.. my wife came to check on me and I Said " you know what I'm thinking?" And she said "he ddidn't change the motor?!!" "Yup". We researched online and found that ford stamped the motor blocks with the same numbers as what is on the valve cover. I looked the next day and sure as ****, they were exactly the same numbers.. my wife texted eric and he said the valve covers were reused but the block was different. She called his bluff.thru texting he realized you don't **** with my wife and money. We had paid out $880 for a new motor that was never taken care of. Where did the money go and I was ****ing hot. She convinced me not to say a damn thing until we got our money back. I didn't but now its game on.. eric had my truck for 11 full weeks and only fixed the turbo-his **** up anyways ; fixed a power steering hose- a $25 part, give or take , and supposedly fixed a sensor on the hpop. All told my wife agreed to letting him keep $230 but had to pay us back $650. The little ****er aggredd to it. As of now we have only gotten $277. as of right now he still owes us $373. Sorry for the long story but it needed to be told so people know how eric works. He's a ****ing snake. So eric if you read this DONT LET ME EVER CATCH YOU at a truck pul a dyno a show and shine or just driving by me because I will beat you ****ing down like you have never been... and then I will make you brush your nasty ****ing rat teeth of yours. You little no good ****ing smelly ****...."
"Here you go boys and girls.. here's the **** storm I was talking about..Its a novel. .Back in October I talked to eric about getting a new motor for my truck. He said he had a 7.3 long block with 90xxx miles on it and he would sell it to me for $700 and charge me $1200 to put it in.. I dirnt have the cash right then so he said we could wait and I told him that as soon as I got my tax money back I would do it. He agreed.. so our taxes weee done in February and I had been keeping in touch with him during that time and he kept saying he had the block so when the cash came I called him up to get it in and stuff. All of a sudden , the motor no longer existed but he said he could get me another 7.3 long block but it has 130xxx on it and it would cost me $780. I turned all the rest of the financial stuff over to my wife. From there eric had her paypal a "gift" of $780, which cost us another $50. Because she sent $800 to " get this ball rolling". He got the money and said he would go get the motor and let us know when to send the truck.about a week or two later we got the go ahead for the truck to go down. My wife and I caravaned down to londonderry nh from laconia nh to have aaa pick up my truck-free 100 mile tow. Eric said the truck would be done in four days and he would start it on monday.. eric said he would definitely hage it doneand he would meet us at my mothers over in halifax withit and we would pay him the remaining balance then. It didn't happen. He had excuses saying that another truck was on the lift and it was an emergency fix then a clutch had to be replaced in another truck. A four day turned into a week, one week turned into three. I told him I needed and wanted my truck back because I've been using my wifes truck and way more money was being spent on fuel. Eric said that I should send him the labor money of $1200 and he would "hold onto it" for us. My wife said no ****ing way. After about four or five weeks of this I ended up getting laid off and we ended up using the money to help make the mortgage payment. I still had no truck. My wife talked to eric, explaining the money situation but the need for the truck. Eric told her he would drag his feet a little but that he would get it done and he would drive it up to my house for us as soon as it was done. I had also asked him, while he had the truck, to replace the all the ball joints because I bought them but wasn't sure on how to do it. Plus I asked him to finally fix the turbo that he had sold to me that didn't quite fit-free fix according to eric. He and I even joked around about painting my "new" block blue (or as he said pink) but decided on blue. Eric and I agreed to use everything off my engine but just swap out the blocks.six weeks had passed, still no truck. Luckily my best friend in kentucky called me up to come work with him for a while to make some cash. Mind you, I sent my truck down on march 9th and now its april 22nd. I stayed down there until may 23nd, I got a job call to come home. Still no truck. I had kept in touch with eric the whole time and so did my wife, checking on the progress. Eric told my wife that he GUARANTEED the truck would be in our driveway by the time I got home or the day after but I would have it for the weekend so I could get used to the new motor and put her thur her paces and so on.. I got home during the early monrning hours of may 24th-friday and still no truck.I hounded him via text and pm. No replies. All of a sudden eric texts my wife saying he needs $250 for injector o-rings and oil, etc. My wife said no. She told me about it and I said no because they were brand new I had just recently done them and get the truck back to me. So I can get back to work. He finally agreed to meet us somewhere between laconia and were ever the **** he lives off of 93. That was may 27th. My wife and eric agfeed to making and accepting payments from us for the new labor balance we now owed $1300. When we arrived at our meeting spot.I was keepinf in touch with eric via text and he said he fueled the truck up for me before he left but about 60 miles down the rd it was almost on "e". He and amber-his girlfriend was driving my truck- pulled over and put $30 in for fuel.because he forgot his wallet at his shop. Once he finally got to the meet up. He went thur a few things with me saying my number 8 injector had gone bad and needed to be replaced. I needed a new belt to go on the new motor . He washed my engine really well, my truck was suxing down fuel really quickly, so on and so on.. after chatting with my wife (molly) eric and amber. We parted but my wife and eric agreed to a payment arrangement of my wife sending eric at least $100 a week until the full $1300 was paid off. Eric even asked for some cash now seeing how he put his only $30 in for fuel and I gave him a $50 bill. Now we owed $1250. We departed and I romped on her a littl to start to get a feel for my new motor. She bogged a little but finally started to wake up or so I thought..I got to the rest area just over the nh boarded and pulled over. I noticed that all my running and fog lights were working (I have a lot of lights) . Kind of odd because every mechanic that has ever worked on my truck forgets to connect one or two lights. I noticed that oil was still leaking from the same spot that it always had, odd seeing how it was a new motor. But homeward bound we went. I got infront of my wife a few times and she would call me, telling me that it wae still smoking the same, odd being a new motor. I got home finally. On the same qurarter tank of fuel that was in it when eric brought it up. Only another 65 miles. When I got home I realized that it was smoking the exact same way as before and so I started pokig around under the hood and under the engine bay.. my wife came to check on me and I Said " you know what I'm thinking?" And she said "he ddidn't change the motor?!!" "Yup". We researched online and found that ford stamped the motor blocks with the same numbers as what is on the valve cover. I looked the next day and sure as ****, they were exactly the same numbers.. my wife texted eric and he said the valve covers were reused but the block was different. She called his bluff.thru texting he realized you don't **** with my wife and money. We had paid out $880 for a new motor that was never taken care of. Where did the money go and I was ****ing hot. She convinced me not to say a damn thing until we got our money back. I didn't but now its game on.. eric had my truck for 11 full weeks and only fixed the turbo-his **** up anyways ; fixed a power steering hose- a $25 part, give or take , and supposedly fixed a sensor on the hpop. All told my wife agreed to letting him keep $230 but had to pay us back $650. The little ****er aggredd to it. As of now we have only gotten $277. as of right now he still owes us $373. Sorry for the long story but it needed to be told so people know how eric works. He's a ****ing snake. So eric if you read this DONT LET ME EVER CATCH YOU at a truck pul a dyno a show and shine or just driving by me because I will beat you ****ing down like you have never been... and then I will make you brush your nasty ****ing rat teeth of yours. You little no good ****ing smelly ****...."
