update on broken motormount and frame failing

i hit up a shop in my city and the mechanic accepted but later denied me since the owner was worried about doing the work. i end up calling my mechanic in tijuana who works on my truck all the time and hes likebring it down. i head south and he checked it out and said i dont have to remove the motor and took me to a fabrication shop. as soon as i got in there maybe 20 - 30 trucks were getting worked on, including a mcneil racing truck that raced in the baja 500 last june. he told me it would take half a day to finish and he charges 200 bucks a day, but hed charge me 100.

i left it over night and ill come back tomorrow for it at noon. the owner said he would reinforce it since it looked like i fucked around alot with the truck.
he also told me that if i wanted a rear tubed bumper it woulkd cost me 200 bucks and all i needed was a picture to shop him how i wanted it.

 

cool,hope it all turns out well.

 

that really seems like a deal to me. I would wait until i inspected his work on the motor mounts before a paid for the rear bumper but i would jump on a 200$ bumper, if it was good quality.

 

Did this happen when you were going 30mph on the trial in Pine Valley and flew off the road after almost hitting the two Jeeps head on?

You and James should hit the trails sometime. lol

 

I'm pretty sure he doesn't like james

 

yeah i learned from that mistake! and ive toned it down. but yeah we'll see how the work turns out tomorrow. 100 bucks aint bad. the joys of mexico. and yeah i dont like james

 

whats not to like?

 

nah i dont dislike him, some of his actions, im not too fond of

 

yeah like bull riding yuch

 

go check out the girls at pdr events, ull regret saying yuck

 

Last time I went south of the border (Baja 1000), I had to walk home after my truck got ripped-off.

It wasn't all bad. I had a 1988 4X4 with 500K miles that wouldn't die. Lucky me I insured it with SCORE-recommended insurance (with theft) and now I'm sport'n a fresh Taco.

RZ Rob

 

ur a sucker!, i always take my truck down there!, plus noone wants a leaned motor ahha

 

update: went to tj, truck was stolen. lies.

truck was fixed!, i took my gfs camera and took pictures but there was no memory card and no cables so im fucked.

anyways, they pulled out the motor mount from the frame, welded a plate over the hole, welded the motor mount on the plate and another plate ontop of the motor mount and on to the bottom of the frame.

100 bucks, they did screw up my alignment which cost another 20 bucks, no big deal.

anyways heres the update, pete mcneil (races in the baja) owns this fab shop in tijuana and his nephews own a fabshop right next door, cool!

 

gracias. it would have been fixed soo much sooner, but oh well. i paid almost nothing!

 

^^Glad everything worked out.
Still wanna see pics though, post up when you get a chance.

 

will do!, you worried about ur 06??

i just need to find the caBLEs and itll be up

 

A little, I don't really see any difference between the '05s and '06s so I might just reinforce mine anyway. A lot of bad roads over here and I think my wife actually aims for the potholes.

 

haha! good one. yeah and dont let them bullshit u into removing the motor!

 

OK, thanks for the heads up. Seems like you took it to a really good shop so I want to see the pics, print them off and tell the guys over here this is how I want the reinforcement done (minus the repair).