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Do you want an factory tank out of the rear of a BJ74 to try? At least get rid of the two, and also verify filler is proper
man is there anything on that truck that doesn't have a problem?
red loctite should fix that
I had not looked through this thread before. That is a bummer to read about the build and Wayne. I remember the build thread, even commenting in it and I liked Wayne on the forum years back.
I am sure it is history for you now but the thread and story brought back memories for me of a very similar experience I had back in the early 2000's. I had a 712m 6x6 Pinzgauer that was in need of a lot of work. On the Pinz forum was a guy, Dennis, who owned Linden Engineering in Colorado. I was in Wyoming so he was kind of close. He seemed like a nice British chap, contributing on the forums, seemed very knowledgeable and he was well traveled and supposedly had worked on a lot of Euro trucks most his life like the MAN, Pinz, Volvo's and others. So I booked a $18+k build with him and took him my truck. Five months later when I got my truck back it was the 4th of July so I jumped in it and went camping. Got it stuck one night, new winched burned up super fast trying to get it out. Clutch froze up the next morning. So I towed it home and started tearing into it. Come to find out many things I paid for like all new brakes on the truck we not done, there wasn't even new parts anywhere in the brakes and I had paid for new gear from master cylinder to brake springs.
I called up Dennis who gave me the run around and a fat line of BS and blamed it on his employees. He continued this way for some time (perhaps hoping I would just go away) until I went public on the Pinz forum as well as threaten to turn him in for fraud. Within a week of me going this route he had come to my shop in Wyoming with every part I request in the build that was not right. He then himself, spent a week installing all the stuff in my truck while I supervised. He regained a lot of my respect for this, as much as he could after many months of BS. And since I had went public with my negative experience I certainly gave him props on the Pinz forum for manning up and making things right. I actually even bought a body off him after this so we did some more business although he never touched a truck of mine again. I did hear from others during my experience with Dennis and for a few years after that they had very negative experiences as well.
I only did on build after this that I paid for before going the route of doing all my own work.
I like your Troopy!
Cheers
Hello RMP&O,I had not looked through this thread before. That is a bummer to read about the build and Wayne. I remember the build thread, even commenting in it and I liked Wayne on the forum years back.
I am sure it is history for you now but the thread and story brought back memories for me of a very similar experience I had back in the early 2000's. I had a 712m 6x6 Pinzgauer that was in need of a lot of work. On the Pinz forum was a guy, Dennis, who owned Linden Engineering in Colorado. I was in Wyoming so he was kind of close. He seemed like a nice British chap, contributing on the forums, seemed very knowledgeable and he was well traveled and supposedly had worked on a lot of Euro trucks most his life like the MAN, Pinz, Volvo's and others. So I booked a $18+k build with him and took him my truck. Five months later when I got my truck back it was the 4th of July so I jumped in it and went camping. Got it stuck one night, new winched burned up super fast trying to get it out. Clutch froze up the next morning. So I towed it home and started tearing into it. Come to find out many things I paid for like all new brakes on the truck we not done, there wasn't even new parts anywhere in the brakes and I had paid for new gear from master cylinder to brake springs.
I called up Dennis who gave me the run around and a fat line of BS and blamed it on his employees. He continued this way for some time (perhaps hoping I would just go away) until I went public on the Pinz forum as well as threaten to turn him in for fraud. Within a week of me going this route he had come to my shop in Wyoming with every part I request in the build that was not right. He then himself, spent a week installing all the stuff in my truck while I supervised. He regained a lot of my respect for this, as much as he could after many months of BS. And since I had went public with my negative experience I certainly gave him props on the Pinz forum for manning up and making things right. I actually even bought a body off him after this so we did some more business although he never touched a truck of mine again. I did hear from others during my experience with Dennis and for a few years after that they had very negative experiences as well.
I only did on build after this that I paid for before going the route of doing all my own work.
I like your Troopy!
Cheers
. Cruchers was one big mouth here sneaking into all kinda threads most of the time with B.S. and calling out people for no reasons most of the time. I am Glad i read this thread entirely as this confirms he is what i thought he was. thanks for this thread.I have got the same nightmare experience with Profitt's cruiser on a hzj79 build. the truck stayed there for almost 2 years and when i got it back after 67 000$ CAD worth of paid bills, i had to go over 100% of the electrical-mechanical work they performed. They gave me a quotation of 35 000$ and a 6 month window for the total work.... ended up almost 2 years and 67 000$. I will leave alone all that was incorrectly installed and everything they screw up , it would take 3 hours writing
