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Here he is:

Gene Quick Motorsports, 817-838-6933

WARNING, he likes money !!!!

Call him and tell him what's up and you're looking for a machine shop to deal directly with as you're about to sue the third party you first delt with. Don't tell him who the third party is as he may know them.
 
kelleysguy, did you say "get a lawyer" ? And sue ?
Judge Judy's more like it..
 
I posted this list of Machine shops in the DFW area nearly two weeks ago. If they want to contact true machine shops all they have to do is call.

You can lead a horse to water...


swift6 said:
I found this list of Automotive Machine Shops with a simple yellow pages search of the DFW area.

Blaines Motor Supply Inc 2144264400 4700 Scyene Rd Dallas TX 75210

City Motor Supply Inc 9724842611 11670 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas TX 75229

Commercial Head & Block Service 2146384774 2528 Irving Blvd Dallas TX 75207

Midwest Engine 2149481590 3502 E Kiest Blvd Dallas TX 75203

Shipp Rebuilders Supply Inc 2143885431 PO Box 271007 Dallas TX 75227

Trinity Casting Service Inc 2146314248 2126 Ruder St Dallas TX 75212

Accurate Engine Service, Inc. 8173354483 115 Arthur St Fort Worth TX 76107

Automotive Machine & Supply Inc 8173359331 212 Carroll St Fort Worth TX 76107

Forbes Rebuilt Engines 8173327643 2712 White Settlement Rd Fort Worth TX 76107

Mike Smiths Machine Shop Inc. 8176266800 2463 E Long Ave Fort Worth TX 76106

Petes Machine Shop 8178313592 4103 E Belknap St Fort Worth TX 76111

Precision Motor Rebuilding Company 8179213800 3346 South Fwy Fort Worth TX 76110

Wess Machine Shop 8178310581 2320 Higgins Ln Fort Worth TX 76111
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swift6 said:
I posted this list of Machine shops in the DFW area nearly two weeks ago. If they want to contact true machine shops all they have to do is call.

You can lead a horse to water...


swift6 said:
I found this list of Automotive Machine Shops with a simple yellow pages search of the DFW area.

Blaines Motor Supply Inc 2144264400 4700 Scyene Rd Dallas TX 75210

City Motor Supply Inc 9724842611 11670 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas TX 75229

Commercial Head & Block Service 2146384774 2528 Irving Blvd Dallas TX 75207

Midwest Engine 2149481590 3502 E Kiest Blvd Dallas TX 75203

Shipp Rebuilders Supply Inc 2143885431 PO Box 271007 Dallas TX 75227

Trinity Casting Service Inc 2146314248 2126 Ruder St Dallas TX 75212

Accurate Engine Service, Inc. 8173354483 115 Arthur St Fort Worth TX 76107

Automotive Machine & Supply Inc 8173359331 212 Carroll St Fort Worth TX 76107

Forbes Rebuilt Engines 8173327643 2712 White Settlement Rd Fort Worth TX 76107

Mike Smiths Machine Shop Inc. 8176266800 2463 E Long Ave Fort Worth TX 76106

Petes Machine Shop 8178313592 4103 E Belknap St Fort Worth TX 76111

Precision Motor Rebuilding Company 8179213800 3346 South Fwy Fort Worth TX 76110

Wess Machine Shop 8178310581 2320 Higgins Ln Fort Worth TX 76111
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That's super awesome, except the work was done months before you posted this list. So in this case, if you're honestly trying to criticize us for not using your list with your 'horse to water' comment, then I'm going to ask "Why bother dragging a horse to the trough if it died 4 months ago?" :laugh: Perhaps 'beating a dead horse' would be a more accurate equine based colloquialism?
 
kellysguy said:
Here he is:

Gene Quick Motorsports, 817-838-6933

WARNING, he likes money !!!!

Call him and tell him what's up and you're looking for a machine shop to deal directly with as you're about to sue the third party you first delt with. Don't tell him who the third party is as he may know them.
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Thanks. I'll call when I decide what I'm going to do with the block

poolboy said:
kelleysguy, did you say "get a lawyer" ? And sue ?
Judge Judy's more like it..
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I can't stand watching her show. Yeah, the people are idiots but she's beats them BOTH up. I didn't watch this one episode but supposive this one local boy sued a driver when he hit this stopped car when he skateboarded right into her, even though there are signs everywhere stating that skateboarding wasn't allowed. I'm sure she chewed out the boy, but the driver was still at fault.

swift6 said:
I posted this list of Machine shops in the DFW area nearly two weeks ago. If they want to contact true machine shops all they have to do is call.

You can lead a horse to water...


swift6 said:
I found this list of Automotive Machine Shops with a simple yellow pages search of the DFW area.

Blaines Motor Supply Inc 2144264400 4700 Scyene Rd Dallas TX 75210

City Motor Supply Inc 9724842611 11670 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas TX 75229

Commercial Head & Block Service 2146384774 2528 Irving Blvd Dallas TX 75207

Midwest Engine 2149481590 3502 E Kiest Blvd Dallas TX 75203

Shipp Rebuilders Supply Inc 2143885431 PO Box 271007 Dallas TX 75227

Trinity Casting Service Inc 2146314248 2126 Ruder St Dallas TX 75212

Accurate Engine Service, Inc. 8173354483 115 Arthur St Fort Worth TX 76107

Automotive Machine & Supply Inc 8173359331 212 Carroll St Fort Worth TX 76107

Forbes Rebuilt Engines 8173327643 2712 White Settlement Rd Fort Worth TX 76107

Mike Smiths Machine Shop Inc. 8176266800 2463 E Long Ave Fort Worth TX 76106

Petes Machine Shop 8178313592 4103 E Belknap St Fort Worth TX 76111

Precision Motor Rebuilding Company 8179213800 3346 South Fwy Fort Worth TX 76110

Wess Machine Shop 8178310581 2320 Higgins Ln Fort Worth TX 76111
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First off, with those locations my car might get car jacked while there. The other thing is just because they say they're a machine shop doesn't mean they do cranks. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. Like I said, I already found one that didn't.
Richter12x2 said:
swift6 said:
I posted this list of Machine shops in the DFW area nearly two weeks ago. If they want to contact true machine shops all they have to do is call.

You can lead a horse to water...


swift6 said:
I found this list of Automotive Machine Shops with a simple yellow pages search of the DFW area.

Blaines Motor Supply Inc 2144264400 4700 Scyene Rd Dallas TX 75210

City Motor Supply Inc 9724842611 11670 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas TX 75229

Commercial Head & Block Service 2146384774 2528 Irving Blvd Dallas TX 75207

Midwest Engine 2149481590 3502 E Kiest Blvd Dallas TX 75203

Shipp Rebuilders Supply Inc 2143885431 PO Box 271007 Dallas TX 75227

Trinity Casting Service Inc 2146314248 2126 Ruder St Dallas TX 75212

Accurate Engine Service, Inc. 8173354483 115 Arthur St Fort Worth TX 76107

Automotive Machine & Supply Inc 8173359331 212 Carroll St Fort Worth TX 76107

Forbes Rebuilt Engines 8173327643 2712 White Settlement Rd Fort Worth TX 76107

Mike Smiths Machine Shop Inc. 8176266800 2463 E Long Ave Fort Worth TX 76106

Petes Machine Shop 8178313592 4103 E Belknap St Fort Worth TX 76111

Precision Motor Rebuilding Company 8179213800 3346 South Fwy Fort Worth TX 76110

Wess Machine Shop 8178310581 2320 Higgins Ln Fort Worth TX 76111
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That's super awesome, except the work was done months before you posted this list. So in this case, if you're honestly trying to criticize us for not using your list with your 'horse to water' comment, then I'm going to ask "Why bother dragging a horse to the trough if it died 4 months ago?" :laugh: Perhaps 'beating a dead horse' would be a more accurate equine based colloquialism?
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1) though what's done is done, I still asked twice after the fact
2) I revived this "dead horse" because I felt that an update was nessicary. Especially since my other thread seems to be mostly about France instead of the new motor
 
UmmYeahOk said:
2) I revived this "dead horse" because I felt that an update was nessicary. Especially since my other thread seems to be mostly about France instead of the new motor
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Well, I still think EuroDisney is a mistake! :laugh:
 
Richter12x2 said:
That's super awesome, except the work was done months before you posted this list. So in this case, if you're honestly trying to criticize us for not using your list with your 'horse to water' comment, then I'm going to ask "Why bother dragging a horse to the trough if it died 4 months ago?" :laugh: Perhaps 'beating a dead horse' would be a more accurate equine based colloquialism?
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The reason I posted that list was because of the complaining about not being able to find a machine shop. 'Forcing' the two of you to take the crank to a third party shop. I put together that list in less than ten minutes of a simple Internet yellow pages search. Continuing to work with this third party shop, to me, seems like a continued headache, which from the 'update' seems about right even though they sound like they mean well. I was trying to help you find a better resource for future machine work and possibly a resolution or save of the original block, crank etc...

Mentioning the align hone (which is critical in the Triumph I-6 engines), the rod resizing etc... etc... was an attempt to educate you in some of the peculiarities of the Triumph I-6 engine. A voice of experience, if you will, from someone who has built several of these engines.

I brought the list back up, and the horse to water comment, because it seemed as if you were happier complaining about the third party shop with no interest in finding an actual machine shop. As to the locations, yes, machine shops tend to be in heavily industrial areas that may seem shady, especially in large metropolitan areas. You won't win friends with them by asking or stating that your car will get jacked by going to them. Your also right that not all of them will turn cranks, especially I-6 cranks as they are longer than typical V8 cranks. The list also contains phone numbers. I would be happy to call them for you, but then I might have to bill you for my time.
 
If you think you need a machine shop in DFW, maybe just give a Red River Triumph club member a call and I'm sure you'd get a line on a shop that has worked on these engines. Or call up Jeff Sloan at British Auto Specialists (formerly TR Sales and Service, Haltom City), he's been in the Triumph business for eons - I bet he knows a good machinist.
 
Call the shop I listed first, they show a crank grinder on their site. Ask if they do them in house or send them out. If they send them out, find someone else. Call Gene just to get a recomendation. Don't send the crank in through him. Thank him for his time and hang up.

I'd say there has to be at least 5-10 places that turn cranks in the DFW area, as we don't have squat here after Katrina and there still is a few places.

Don't say "mill" when you call as you "grind" a crank. I find the more inexperienced a customer sounds, the more likely the price will go up.

I googled "Fort Worth Crankshaft" and came up with the same list. If you can't find someone who does it in house with that, I don't know what to tell you.

Remember, it's not, "How much do you charge?", it's, "Do you grind cranks in house, or send them out?" If they won't tell you who to send it to for in house, thank them for their time and hang up and move on to the next #.

If you follow my suggestions, you ~WILL~ find what you need. It's what I did for a living when I lived there. Good luck.
 
kellysguy said:
Call the shop I listed first, they show a crank grinder on their site. Ask if they do them in house or send them out. If they send them out, find someone else. Call Gene just to get a recomendation. Don't send the crank in through him. Thank him for his time and hang up.

I'd say there has to be at least 5-10 places that turn cranks in the DFW area, as we don't have squat here after Katrina and there still is a few places.

Don't say "mill" when you call as you "grind" a crank. I find the more inexperienced a customer sounds, the more likely the price will go up.

I googled "Fort Worth Crankshaft" and came up with the same list. If you can't find someone who does it in house with that, I don't know what to tell you.

Remember, it's not, "How much do you charge?", it's, "Do you grind cranks in house, or send them out?" If they won't tell you who to send it to for in house, thank them for their time and hang up and move on to the next #.

If you follow my suggestions, you ~WILL~ find what you need. It's what I did for a living when I lived there. Good luck.
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TR4 nut has a good sugestion too....but he might want to send it in.
 
Actually the term is "turn a crank" so the question would be, "Do you turn cranks in house or..."
 
Actually my wife likes to complain quite a bit. For my part, we've already got a second engine with a perfect crank, so the only irritating thing to me is that the first shop wanted to come look at the engine block about a month ago, and still hasn't managed to find time to drive 15 minutes to the house. (And still has our crank.) I understand that they're busy, but a month?

So we actually have a good shop that does head work and such, it was just the crank that seemed to be a pain, and like my wife said, we used this shop before (and were currently using them for something else) when I asked if they could do it, since we called three machine shops and engine builders who couldn't. When they said "Sure" we left it with them. The price wasn't bad, the work seems pretty good, all of the mains are spot on 2.3" +/- .0005" across the board. They just screwed us by telling us they were 2.290" and we made the mistake of assuming they knew what they were talking about.

So for my part, I'm done. My wife would like them to fix the engine, since it may be 'number's matching' to the car, but realistically although it's a cool little car, even if it is, the amount that's worth in higher sale price is probably less than the cost of the British Heritage Certificate cost to prove it, and she would never sell it anyway. Thanks to this awesome club, we sourced another engine for free that looks like it'll work a treat. I just wish the first place would come and do whatever it is they're going to do because I'm tired of having to leave the dead engine block and broken main caps in an accessible area of the garage (2 car garage with actual 2 cars in it) taking up space until they can make time to come over. Word just needs to trickle back to the machine shop to say "Hey, because you didn't measure twice and told us the wrong number, you bricked a perfectly good engine" so it doesn't happen to someone for whom a numbers matching engine will change the price of their car 10k or better.
 
Yeah, I think hilsider (aka Mr Langford) deserves a definite attaboy for sourcing that engine so close to home. Attaboy hilsider!
 
They've once again assured us that they are coming, just as soon as they Google the directions. :laugh:

A friend actually had a good suggestion, I should be able to fit the block in the hatch of my 928, so I might be able to get it down there after all.
 
...ouw!!! ...easy on that shoulder, 4nut!
 
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