Repair/Service: Drum to Disc Brake Conversion and Bearings

Hourly Rate: $100

Total Cost: $1400

Beware!! Bad place to do business.

He works on a lot of boats and boat trailers (not sure why...he sucks) at his house then runs the credit cards through this business.

I paid Brian to convert my boat trailer from drum brakes to disc brakes.

At no point did this "conversion" work properly. In fact, he sent my wife out with my 7500# boat with NO brakes. Even when I tested them pulling the emergency lever......did not engage AT ALL. I called a guy who sold the conversion kits and he let me know that the actuator should have been replaced during the conversion. It was not. I had another mechanic replace the actuator (after giving Brian two chances to fix the issue with zero success). W/ the other mechanic replacing the actuator the brakes finally worked.

I also had brian repack the bearings. A couple months later I'm rolling through Port Angeles and have one wheel's bearings burn up. I lose a day of fishing and have to get a guy to come out and replace the bearings in the field. He said the bearings were most likely too tight.

Anther bad job?? He replaced a hydraulic line on the raise lower for my kicker motor. Replaced the line just fine but he didn't put a clamp on the fitting.....which I figured out when it began leaking again out on the water.

This guy is a complete joke!!

by Brestes on October 6, 2011