I am shocked!

[mikep]

About 4 months ago when I built the motor for my 68 I took the rotating assembly down to get balanced. They sent it out to their guys and when I got the assembly back they had lost my spirolocs to retain my wrist pins. I didnt find this out until the day I was assembling it and had planned on going on a long trip a few days later. It was a sunday and nothing else was open so I went down to that shop and they couldnt find my spirolocs but the guy at the counter gave me some internal snap rings that he assured me would do the trick. 4 months later I am dissassembling my motor to have the #8 cylinder wall sleeved from where the wrist pin ate the cylinder wall. The internal snap ring failed. So I take the block down to the machine shop where the machinist tells me to go back to the parts store and raise holy hell. I dropped off the block to get sleeved and went back to the parts store ( the two shops are affiliated ) and before I went in yelling like an idiot ( like I normally do ) I walked up and explained to the guy at the counter the situation. He asked me what I wanted out of it . I told him and within a minute they had agreed to eat the cost of the labor and sleeve on the block, to buy me a new piston, and to buy me new spirolocs. Its not everything but it keeps me from having to hit the old lady up for the credit cards. I was going to change a few things with the motor anyway like the cam and heads so I'm not out all that much.