Machinist installed cam guide hold downs wrong.....am I SOL

[Failure14]

well, how would he fix it? hopefully the damage is not severe if there is any at all.....I can pray!!
How many miles would you expect there to be no damage, like 5 miles? because I may have exaggerated a little bit on that 25 mile value, considering the car is not only illegal and unregistered, but also half the body parts are off so I've only really driven it in, out, down the street and back, thats about it..

And if I don't have the receipt, cant he just be like, oh I dont know you....

Yea i didnt mean like fix it fix it, in other words i kinda ment pay for the damage.

No receipt? ouch...
Yea they could definetly just say "We have never done business with you".
When you deal with things like this especially with your supra ALWAYS keep
a receipt of anything to do with machine shops, They are humans also and will
make mistakes and if you have the receipt you can get them fixed.

Hopefully they will be like oh yea i remember you and go from there...
What i would do is go in there acting like you need some more work done
and make them admit they did work on your motor, then call them out and explain what they did.
Dont just go in there raging. And record it video/audio if you wanna do a claim.

Good luck man, and use this as a lesson, you will see many many guys on here
that will tell you NEVER trust a machine shop and ALWAYS double check there work.

 

[CyFi6]

Why dont you just measure everything first before deeming it screwed? Theres a good chance nothing actually got damaged.

 

[Poodles]

Also a good chance it was align honed with the cam caps on wrong meaning they're fine...

 

[IJ.]

Also a good chance it was align honed with the cam caps on wrong meaning they're fine...

Not many shops are equipped to line bore/hone a 7M so I wouldn't assume that's the case but yes by all means pop the caps and check for damage and at least plastigauge it before pulling the head (sort of assumed that was a given but then again the fact it wasn't picked up between the machine shop and the assembler is a worry)

 

[gotsomegetsome]

So i should plastigauge it and check if it is in spec, if not then...... not sure what the last part was


(sort of assumed that was a given but then again the fact it wasn't picked up between the machine shop and the assembler is a worry)