A serious problem at my local parts store...any advice?

[Fox80]

I give up...of course no one should be responsible for thinking some stranger in a retail store could have given them incorrect parts. And no one should be responsible if they fail to check the parts before installing those parts or any damage that occurs to an engine that is probably past it's life expectancy, after all engines should last forever. Big brother needs to protect us all.....caveat emptor should always be irrelevant

I didn't think we were in a battle, I was just giving my view on things... I don't think that a parts store giving you the incorrect items, telling you it's correct, but being held completely blameless for any of the consequences of it, is a viable way for things to work. That shouldn't be the new normal, so to speak, at least in MY opinion.

And while I'm sure there might be several of us here that fit the category, I am also speaking as a past parts counter person.

I just get tired of people trying to pass the buck all the time....for a plug to be 1/2" longer why was that not noticed by the installer, plus I can't figure out why he didn't notice the extra number of turns to install the 1/2" longer plug compared the plug he just removed. I always double check what a stranger sold me and if I don't that's my problem. How do you know that the guy at the store even heard the buyer correctly when the part was ordered.

X2 even more surprising is the fact that even a plug 1/2" longer could contact the piston in a 260, when I had mine apart it has about a mile of room in there when it amounts to 7.0-1 compression. But I do agree with most of you, you can't take parts stores today for granted, around my area we have some real champs manning the counters. I for the most part order every single thing from Rock Auto, they give all the dimensions, specs, and for the most part pictures. Like their commercial says do you really want to trust a counter person to look up your parts.

 

[DRIVEN]

I'm with Fox80. It's doubtful that any real damage occurred. If the engine was able to turn over and just smashed the gap closed, a new set of proper plugs would likely have it back up and running. Yes, the store should have supplied the correct parts. And yes, the OP should have caught it.



Always good for a laugh...

My advice would be to definitely not try starting the 260 up for at least 2 weeks and leave the hood open in the garage until some of that oil evaporates before you try anything else or you could make it even worse now

:?

 

[pontiacgp]

I'm with Fox80. It's doubtful that any real damage occurred. If the engine was able to turn over and just smashed the gap closed, a new set of proper plugs would likely have it back up and running. Yes, the store should have supplied the correct parts. And yes, the OP should have caught it.



Always good for a laugh...

My advice would be to definitely not try starting the 260 up for at least 2 weeks and leave the hood open in the garage until some of that oil evaporates before you try anything else or you could make it even worse now

:?

pencero is the same guy who tried to sell me an asbestos laden bear...so I wouldn't taker any of his advise...

 

[DoubleV]

Pencero's posts are always good for a laugh but sometimes they leave you wondering why the asylum gives their patients internet access in the first place.

 

[pontiacgp]

Pencero's posts are always good for a laugh but sometimes they leave you wondering why the asylum gives their patients internet access in the first place.

 

[jacobdavis1979]

HAHA i didnt even see that the first time i went through this thread lol