I've been working on my Farmall A and I just got the crank and rods back from the machine shop and I've not yet recovered from the sticker shock.
To turn the rod & main bearing and resize the rods it was $1100.00 bucks. Is it just me or does that seem quite high?
Honestly I'm feeling burned over the whole process. They wouldn't give me a quote when I dropped the parts off (they need to evaluate the parts before they can do that) but said they would call me with one. I waited weeks and heard nothing. I tried getting in touch with them for over a week then finally went in to get my parts back. Of course when I showed up they said they were working on them as we spoke so I couldn't have them. Didn't think about asking about the quote.
2 more week I get the call everything was ready and today I picked it all up.
I'm not even sure the rods needed resizing, I measured them but wanted them to double check. I guess that's a free pass to do as much billable work as possible.
K
To turn the rod & main bearing and resize the rods it was $1100.00 bucks. Is it just me or does that seem quite high?
Honestly I'm feeling burned over the whole process. They wouldn't give me a quote when I dropped the parts off (they need to evaluate the parts before they can do that) but said they would call me with one. I waited weeks and heard nothing. I tried getting in touch with them for over a week then finally went in to get my parts back. Of course when I showed up they said they were working on them as we spoke so I couldn't have them. Didn't think about asking about the quote.
2 more week I get the call everything was ready and today I picked it all up.
I'm not even sure the rods needed resizing, I measured them but wanted them to double check. I guess that's a free pass to do as much billable work as possible.
K