89 replies to this topic

[leeuk]

Cheers Keith, I could of been left with nothing but an unusable engine so im thinking myself lucky to get the £1870 back,
I just hope no other members get stung by this seller as its been quite a stressful few days and nights not knowing what the outcome was going to be.

[mini-luke]

Here's some pics, shame I didn't get some of the pistons as they were second hand with valve marks and chunks missing where it had been detonating!

It was supposed to have a modified big valve head, instead it had a seriously rusty unmodified small valve



Uprated valve springs?



Didn't even change the water pump



Lightened flywheel?!



New HIF44 and inlet, the HIF is the only one I've seen with play in the spindle. Obviously the seller didn't intend Lee to use the water heating!




Essentially this was a second hand engine with a lick of paint and a shiny rocker cover, it hadn't even been re-bored

[Guess-Works.com]

Surely you get to keep the roller rockers as you've paid for them ?

[leeuk]

Surely you get to keep the roller rockers as you've paid for them ?

Yes mate that's true i have the roller rockers here as i lost my paypal claim for them i wasn't going to send them back with the engine.

Thankyou for posting those pics Luke they give other members an idea of the state this "new and unused from new" engine was in when i received it

[leeuk]

He charged me £150 for that carb setup too

[Fast Ivan]

glad it got mostly resolved.
Put a note about this seller in here for the future reference of other members

http://www.theminifo...rvices-reviews/

what you should do now is post on the forum looking for reputable engine builders, there are some out there, fear not.

[jaydee]

Add ebay member here:
http://www.theminifo...id/page__st__45

[leeuk]

Add ebay member here:
http://www.theminifo...id/page__st__45

Done lads thankyou .I have just added him to the list

[100ev8]

he has just listed more engines

[mini-luke]

I hope the fleas of 1000 camels infest his arse.

[Badboytunes]

All his feedback is from sellers not buyers. How ironic !

If you can, leave him negative feedback.

[mini-luke]

If you can, leave him negative feedback.

He bought out of eBay unfortunately

[Shifty]

Phew!!

I'm glad this had a happy ending, I'm glad I could be of some help to you.

I hope you get the engine you want!!

[leeuk]

Phew!!

I'm glad this had a happy ending, I'm glad I could be of some help to you.

I hope you get the engine you want!!

Cheers Shifty, Very much appreciated mate

[Jordie]

with your money. you could have that block rebored with new pistons. crank regrind with new bearings and thrusts. make a better job of it and cost less.

changing inlet manifold etc can be done fairly cheap.

a donor 1275 in unknown condition is 200+ on ebay these days.