If there are no damages, there's nothing to sue over, and no point to all the
hassel a law suit involves.  I guess there are the towing charges.  The shocker
here is that   someone could have been killed had that thing dropped at an
inoportune time, as it easily could have.  Check your mounting bolts after a
rebuild!
steve

Tom Young wrote:

> Under either scenario the mechanic clearly touched the bolt (ho loosened
> it or removed it) and then forgot to tighten it properly when the engine
> was reinstalled.  I'd say he's clearly responsible here and I'd sue if I
> had to to get him to stand behind his work.
>
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Joshua Van Tol wrote:
>
> > >Well, I'm an air-cooled guy and may be wrong here, but that sounds just
> > >like the front transmission mounting bolt the manuals all tell me to
> > >loosen when I remove my engine.  Loosening it helps the
> > >transmission/engine assembly to rotate down at the rear so the engine can
> > >be pulled out under the rear apron.  If the same reasoning applies to
> > >removing water-cooled engines, then I'd guess the mechanic loosened the
> > >bolt but forgot to re-tighten it when the engine was replaced.
> > >
> >
> > Or maybe he simply removed the engine and transmission as a unit. This is
> > actually the easier way to pull the engine.
>
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> Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
> Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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