Allan,
I have never said we were perfect--only trying to get that way. Ford, Honda, NASA, (Columbia...), Kirkham have all had their mistakes. Good companies do their best to find them, (thank you for your information), and then to correct them. There have been many pages here on this forum where Kirkham has fixed mistakes or tried to help customers. I am not astonished at that and I do not know where you could have read that. If I indeed did say that, I certainly would apologize as it is not the case nor did I inted to come across that way.
You must be careful in your characterization of Kirkham as "hiding" defects. Said differential was NOT built by Kirkham, but by a former sub-contractor. The holes were indeed stripped and "repaired" with Loctite, but the sub-contractor did not inform us of the problem. Kirkham, in no way, was aware of the problem and therefore it is an unfair characterization of Kirkham to state Kirkham was "hiding" anything. Furthermore, we were not happy with any other work on the same differential and therefore threw it in the scrap heap. We are currently waiting on parts to give the customer a completely new differential and will ship him one as soon as the parts arrive.
As we did not approve of the sub-contractor's mechanical practices we were forced to read a lot of books and eventually even called Precision Gear to learn how to set the differentials up correctly. We even set a differential up and shipped it to Precision Gear and they were kind enough to instruct us in the proper set up of a differential. Currently, we set up our differentials ourselves and Precision Gear sets up the differentials for Shelby. As I said, Precision Gear purchases parts from us to set up Shelby's differential.
Incidentally, the differential to which you refer to was sold to the customer approximately 5 years ago. Nevertheless, the customer noted a problem, and we IMMEDIATELY took steps to correct it eventhough more than 5 years had past.
David
