Apex blower repair

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Just had a friend call me to complain about an expensive repair at a local distributorship. Has a prochem apex which was leaking blower oil. Was told it needed to be rebuilt or replaced. He had it rebuilt and was charged $7000 for the job. Does that sound reasonable, considering a new blower is about $2500? Is it really that difficult to re and re a 47 blower in an Apex?
 
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Cleanworks said:
Just had a friend call me to complain about an expensive repair at a local distributorship. Has a prochem apex which was leaking blower oil. Was told it needed to be rebuilt or replaced. He had it rebuilt and was charged $7000 for the job. Does that sound reasonable, considering a new blower is about $2500? Is it really that difficult to re and re a 47 blower in an Apex?
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That sounds extremely excessive! At $2500 for the blower and $100 an hour for labor that would be 45hrs to install. He could drive it down here to my mechanic in Billings and still save thousands.
 
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Cleanworks said:
Just had a friend call me to complain about an expensive repair at a local distributorship. Has a prochem apex which was leaking blower oil. Was told it needed to be rebuilt or replaced. He had it rebuilt and was charged $7000 for the job. Does that sound reasonable, considering a new blower is about $2500? Is it really that difficult to re and re a 47 blower in an Apex?
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Gee whiz! I wonder where that was..... my wife's company sells blowers. I'll ask about a price for new. Too late now but good for future reference.
 
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Cleanworks said:
Just had a friend call me to complain about an expensive repair at a local distributorship. Has a prochem apex which was leaking blower oil. Was told it needed to be rebuilt or replaced. He had it rebuilt and was charged $7000 for the job. Does that sound reasonable, considering a new blower is about $2500? Is it really that difficult to re and re a 47 blower in an Apex?
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That is highway robbery, did he not get an estimate before he approved the work?
It pays to fix your own stuff, my early experience with distributors mechanics was disappointing. I fix my own equipment, wouldn’t let anyone else touch it.
 
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That is highway robbery, did he not get an estimate before he approved the work?
It pays to fix your own stuff, my early experience with distributors mechpanics was disappointing. I fix my own equipment, wouldn’t let anyone else touch it.
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It was supposed to be $4000. Final bill ended up $7000.
 
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Here is the invoice. The labour for the re and re is reasonable. The cost for the blower rebuild is what seems outrageous. With his $2500 deposit, it's over $7500.

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I had Jon swap out a blower on a 405 himself with minimal help. Took him 3 hours. He'll be faster next time.

I preemptively put new bearing in it (<100bux) and put it back in storage.

Justin swapped complete engines several times, couple of hours. He posted pix after a distributor here questioned it.

I don't have time for dealer games.
 
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Is a new blower only $2500? If so, the repair shop should have recommended replacement. Bad shop.

The $800 in tax isn't a joke either.
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New blower is under $4000 CDN including shipping. Distributor had blower rebuilt by third party then added his own charge to that. The customer is not given the breakdown on the blower rebuild or any warranty info, if there is a warranty.
 
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Nothing like second and third helpings at the atm. Another thing that pisses me off is the shop supplies charge. I had a key programmed at a dealership once for 300 bucks.Same key on Ebay was 25 dollars. If that wasn't bad enough to add insult to injury they threw on a 25 buck shop supplies charge. Took them all of 15 minutes. I asked for them to itemize what shop supplies were used and I got some bullshit response about spending 30k a month on supplies. At 135 an hour there should be enough margin to cover it.
 
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Cleanworks said:
Just had a friend call me to complain about an expensive repair at a local distributorship. Has a prochem apex which was leaking blower oil. Was told it needed to be rebuilt or replaced. He had it rebuilt and was charged $7000 for the job. Does that sound reasonable, considering a new blower is about $2500? Is it really that difficult to re and re a 47 blower in an Apex?
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It's a 4.8 blower trilobe or tri flow
 
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https://www.***************/gardner...-bower-pump-pp140611-gycljca0169-p-12461.html
 
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They're gradually killing all the good will they had when the company gave awesome service. Then it went for a shit. I bought machines, wands, upholstery tools and all kinds of stuff off of them. But they pissed in my cornflakes and I fired them.
 
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Can you replace blower shaft seals without removing the blower? Mine are starting to leak a little but I don't have time to pull the whole thing.
 
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