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August 30, 2003.
Why do I mention that day?
That's the last day I saw the wiring in question. That was when I fixed the connection from the fuel pump to the fuel sender.
From that day, to the day I sold the car, it drove 88,836 miles in the intervening 16 years.
I will not entertain the idea that the current set of problems with the car are MY fault in any way.
The car is 35 years old and the age of the wiring probably has a lot more to do with what's currently wrong than the quality of my engine swap.
But if we're looking to assign blame.
You had your mechanic relocate the PCM from where I had it under the dash to the 94-96 OEM GM location under the hood. Are you certain they didn't damage any wiring doing that? Because every wire we're talking about is in the harness they relocated with the PCM.
You had your mechanic replace the drum brake rear axle with a disc brake unit. Are you certain they didn't damage any wiring doing that? The ABS wiring runs into the same harness that runs the fuel pump.
You had the car painted. That means taking off the tail lights and removing the rear bumper. Are you certain they didn't damage any wiring doing that? Because the fuel pump harness exits the trunk and heads towards the fuel pump very near the place that you bolt the rear bumper to the car.
But all of this comes down to one thing.
I sold you my car with no warranty, expressed or implied.
I gave you a thick binder full of documentation of the things I'd done.
I will no longer entertain being blamed for this!
The error is allowing the new owner any response at all. A whiny fumblefinger purchaser always causes issues.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I rebuilt a 74 Fiat 124 Spider convertible with manual 5 to the 'fun to drive' condition with nice paint and acceptable body work, cheap seat covers etc. When sold, it had been in use a year or two and was buckets of fun in summer with local ladies (a bonus to be sure). Sold for a fair price, recovered my expenses and not much profit. New owner proceeded to drive it like an idiot and stuff began to fail, and so the whining begins. I told him that he received a perfectly operating car with all the new parts listed/repairs done. What happens after is none of my business. Being 6' and muscled 230 lbs at the time (1982) did help with the reduction of issues, but it was still an affront. You buy something that works, that you inspected and drove off in, there ends the seller's responsibility. I have bought my share of turkeys and lemons from shady sellers, you just deal with it as a normal human being - fix it yourself or dump it. Hope you can get that message across to the lunkhead.
The buyer is a friend. I wanna keep it that way.
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