Clearing the air on the rebuild of Dieseldoods truck

[CSnyder]

For everyone who doesnt know the entire story Im going to type it out in short form for everyone to read and hope you all can better understand and then proceed to explain myself for typing this up.



In the beginning of 2007 I became a partner with Jim Daly (Spicyjam)at Triple D Performance. This partnership consisted only of us sharing the same name and vendors for product. His business was his business and mine was mine only sharing those things mentioned along with shared experience to better fulfill the needs of current and future customers. That pretty much sums that up and anything else is our personal business and we split at the end of the year for personal reasons that a few of you already know about.



Now for Josh's (Dieseldood) truck we decided as a partnership to take our friends truck and rebuild it for him and not let him know what we were doing other than make it run after it sat for a good spell in pieces. The entire build process took place in my shop located on my property here in Iowa. This entire project, other than donated items from Amsoil products by Duluthdiesel and Icebox, was funded and put into place and materialized by myself and my good friend and employee Kenny Cornelison. Now Jim made several trips here to my place but never took part in ANY labor or finances of this project but made it appear so by taking over half the credit for the trucks progress from beast to beauty. Myself, Kenny, and several others can attest to these facts and wish for them to become public knowledge. At the time Jim expressed he wished to give Josh his truck back at the dyno event held at HiTech Motorsports and time was an issue with an engine out of Joshs truck needing a complete rebuild yet. I agreed to donate my low mileage rebuilt engine to Josh's truck project in order for this to happen on the agreement that Jim would take Josh's old engine and rebuild it for me to compensate me for doing all the work and him taking half the credit or more for something he never touched. Josh was given his truck back at the OCT 07 dyno meet at HiTech in the twin cities and I was very happy and proud to be a part of doing something wonderful for a very deserving man who has always been there to help anyone in time of need. Josh... you are a great friend and I have ZERO regrets doing the truck for you!



I am writing this because I have given Jim over a year, after splitting partnership, to produce a rebuilt engine to me for his share of the credit he took and for the wrongs he has done to me since. I have had my name drug through mud to MANY forum members, by Jim, and Ive had enough of being treated like crap. I have emailed and sent PM after PM to Jim asking the progress of my engine and NO reply or excuses. I now have my engine back in my pocession(thanks to a very dear friend) and its not rebuilt as I was promised... only in pieces as when it left here. One other thing I would like to mention is that a few people asked me if I received the money they sent as a donation to the project because they knew it happened here and honestly I cant tell any of you where those funds went to because I never got them. Please talk to the person you gave them too. For those of you, (I wont mention names but you know who you are), who dropped in and gave a hand, even if briefly, I want to again say thank you for the help!



Sincerely, Chris Snyder

 

[darkhorse]

So sorry this has happened.

 

[jgillott]

Though I never posted a comment original thread, reading about the generosity displayed in the rebuild of Josh's truck, had to be one of the most touching and memorable acts I've wittnessed here on TDR. It is a shame that anything negative had to come out of such a well intentioned gesture.



There's an old saying that goes "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished". I think that expression quite approprately applies to your situation here. Through the years, I've found myself in many situations where I have put my heart and soul in to something only to feel somewhat shortchanged by the end result. It has happend to me in business, in the volunteer work that I do, and even in friendships. Any time you allow yourself to do something to aid or assist another, you open yourself up for that possibility.



As I get older, I find myself making the same mistakes over and over. I continually put myself back in to the same situations where I've been burned before and even by the same people. Trust me, it's not because I love the misery that it sometimes brings. The personal satisifaction of sharing the time and talent that God has given me, to help someone even in the smallest of ways, makes it all worthwhile. Please don't allow your spirit of giving to be hampered by what has happend here.



Lastly, and the part that you probably don't want to hear from a total stranger is, I strongly encourage you to sit down with Jim and get these things worked out. Business relationships sometimes have a strange ability to pull otherwise good friends apart, change lives forever, and lead to lots of regrets. Money is just money, trucks are just parts, and life is just too dang short to care about anything but each other.

 

[CSnyder]

Though I never posted a comment original thread, reading about the generosity displayed in the rebuild of Josh's truck, had to be one of the most touching and memorable acts I've wittnessed here on TDR. It is a shame that anything negative had to come out of such a well intentioned gesture.



There's an old saying that goes "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished". I think that expression quite approprately applies to your situation here. Through the years, I've found myself in many situations where I have put my heart and soul in to something only to feel somewhat shortchanged by the end result. It has happend to me in business, in the volunteer work that I do, and even in friendships. Any time you allow yourself to do something to aid or assist another, you open yourself up for that possibility.



As I get older, I find myself making the same mistakes over and over. I continually put myself back in to the same situations where I've been burned before and even by the same people. Trust me, it's not because I love the misery that it sometimes brings. The personal satisifaction of sharing the time and talent that God has given me, to help someone even in the smallest of ways, makes it all worthwhile. Please don't allow your spirit of giving to be hampered by what has happend here.



Lastly, and the part that you probably don't want to hear from a total stranger is, I strongly encourage you to sit down with Jim and get these things worked out. Business relationships sometimes have a strange ability to pull otherwise good friends apart, change lives forever, and lead to lots of regrets. Money is just money, trucks are just parts, and life is just too dang short to care about anything but each other.

Please reread my last paragraph. I have sent many numerous PM's and emails to Jim to get settled and was going to offer him a settlement figure for his share of the credit he took. He is in hiding and cant be found.

 

[bmoeller]

Man Chris. What a slap in the face for doing such a great thing for someone else.

 

[BILLVO]

Ol Spicy just fell off the planet since last fall on several forums or maybe just hiding under his Boulder. :-laf

 

[BigPapa]

He quit and came back. See what you miss!



Scott