I guess I'm imagining something like a red cloth shop rag being left in the motor somewhere.

After everything was installed, where would that rag possibly be? And outside the oil fill hole, where else would you pull pieces of the rag from once everything was back together?

 

Well you know a rebuild is new parts to replace any damaged parts.

 

I was thinking the same thing, must have been a small piece of paper shop towel maybe?

 

 

 

so he put the cylinders on over the rag..wow...that's a new record for being a special kind of stupid..a dumbass of that caliber should never be allowed to handle anything sharper than a Twinkie

 

The question is why did you let them rebuild a brand new bike? That is what they did when they installed the stage 4 kit. The only thing thing they will be doing that they haven't already done is split the cases. Are they offering to replace the crankshaft? It may or may not need that, but I would probably want that done. You could also demand that they replace the oil pump, oil cooler, and oil tank since small pieces could have gone through the pump and gotten into the cooler and the tank. If they just install a new motor they might not replace the cooler and the tank.

If they replace the motor with a new one and you still want the stage 4 kit, they will have to tear the new motor down to install the kit, they don't come from the MOCO with the kit installed in them. If the MOCO operated like most auto manufacturers they would offer the upgrades installed at the factory and let buyers order them, but they don't.

Sorry you are having problems, but things can happen when you're working on a motor. How a rag gets left in one is a little beyond my comprehension. You do know that the stage three and four kits have a much higher incidence of sumping than the stock motors? When I first started reading this thread that is what I thought had happened until I got to the rag part.

 

I find that remarkable. But I have changed my mind, I would demand a new motor, why in hell would they do a motor partly in gray and partly in black. That motor should be blacked out all the way!