I'm glad you were willing to pay and didn't expect it for free. Certainly didn't get that from your post. Many people aren't.
As far as being loaded goes, I wish! I'm just a regular guy with a regular job, a VERY understanding wife, no toys other than my race car, a small/1300 sq ft house, and a car that cost more than my annual salary. Many used/ebay/racingjunk parts on it, and good friends and I usually use parts till their about done. Roughly 60k in the whole deal.
Maybe I am a jerkoff for not being willing to "man up" about a parts failure after several years of use in am extreme environment. It just seems unreasonable to me. Maybe my expectations aren't high enough?
Who knows.
I deal with people every day who will blame that leaking pinion seal on me after I change the spark plugs and worse. After all, it wasn't doing that when they brought it in....... :roll: Yesterday was especially bad.
Sorry, I had a moment,
Johnny