Worst things you've seen on other peoples rigs

Today I saw an older (early 90's) buick with a pressure treated 1x4 as a front bumper. it was weathered enough to have been on there for a few years.
 
heh-heh, it was me! (uh, not the buick above!)--when i was much younger and dumber I replaced the rear bumper on my '74 ford pinto with a 2X10-it lasted until one cold icy night up north I spun it 180* on an iced over steel trestle bridge and ended up in the middle divider, the steel beam which stopped me hit dead on the bumper mount drivers side-talk about being watched over, those things had a tendency to explode when hit in the back...
have tried since then to not do any more crappy fabbing!
 
rattlecanpaint said:
Today I saw an older (early 90's) buick with a pressure treated 1x4 as a front bumper. it was weathered enough to have been on there for a few years.
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The PO of my jeepster (NOT the Commando) used 2x4s with a drywall screw into the remnants of the fenders for the rockers... liberally slathered in Bondo & fiberglass. :shaking: First vehicle I've ever seen with termites...

Possibly the most irritating "stupid PO trick" was gluing the "salt n peppa" boat carpet to the interior of the Moss... with what I guesstimate to be an entire 5gal. container of vinyl flooring adhesive! :rolleyes: I would take it (carpet/glue) out, but figure it may be holding everything together... at least that's one thing I can count on NOT rusting!:flipoff2:
 
OK, well finally got his damn jeep out of my garage.
Figured out the problem.
Well
some of them.
The previous owner was a moron that half assed and redneckified the shit out of this thing.
So he stuck an AX15 in there, right before selling it.
like 3 months before.
Didn't mention it was chomping starters in the terms of sale, sold it.
Well when he first got it, it toasted a solenoid, so Rafique replaced it. (It's what most of us would no, and not think twice)
Well then the starter went out.
He chomped 2 Advance Auto starters, (then was told they are crap, so got a different brand one)
Chomped a third one, then the fourth one was the one we replaced.
So we figure it's a bad flywheel. Yeppers, it was.
So we replace it.
then realize the new flywheel, new starter, it starts it, but it won't disengage all the way.
I look at it.
Turns out the damn PO used the old style starter and just was "making it fit"
Basically it would grind off the teeth on the front of the starter enough that it would "disengage" enough to work for a while.
So we stuck in the RIGHT starter, rewired it a bit, and problem solved.
Argh.
Damn Jeeps.
 
1990, bought a 79 Toyota Celica from a Pontiac dealer, runs, but isn't right. hmm......

full tune up later, ( 20R ) runs MUCH better, but it won't idle down, and every time you crack the throttle, it pops thru the carb. timing adjusted to the stop, pull dizzy, back it off a tooth, jack the idle down a bit, and the car purrs, runs really well, I drive the hell out of it for 5 years ( 100k+). find out the head gasket had been replaced by the Poncho dealerhsip, hmm......

1994, found an '82 Toy 4x4 pickup w/ NEW 31x10.5 BFG AT's, dude wanted $250 for it, runs, leaks oil like crazy, and the rear axle is sitting cocked in the springs. Turns out he'd put Ranchos that were too long on it, then loaded it down with 25 bags of concrete ( 80lbs x25, do the math ) which in turn busted the spring mounts that the shocks bolt to on the axle, go figure. bought it, spent $30 on gaskets, engine never leaked another drop of oil. replaced the spring mounts and Ubolts, drove the truck 500 mile out of state the next week, previous owner was PISSED !
drove it for a year and a half, got rear ended, accordioned the frame where it had rusted thru, insurance settled for $2500 and I kept it, traded for $1000 on another Toyota 4x at a dealership, drove that one till 2003

1997, bought an '85 4Runner, Sweet, I have a toy to build on now.
First order, remove 60+ft of wiring for a hack stereo/amp install, all wired directly to battery, no fuses, and the wires were run thru fenders, doors, under carpet, thru a seat track, and to the rear of the truck. several cut, scortched and burnt places. If I'd have done that 'chit, the thing would have burned to the ground.

had a brand new water pump, but 6 bottles of stop leak wouldn't keep the head from leaking, this was a barganing point for me when I bought it, knocked $1000 off the $4k asking price. n

Rebuilt the engine, lifted and locked it, drove it for 110k, life was good for 9 years, sold it for what I bought it for.
 
It wasn't so much the rig itself, but rather what was towing it down the highway. I was on 421 and up the road I saw this lingering smoke trail rounding a curve in the road. I got a little father ahead and smelled burning oil and head the worst engine sound ever. I passed this beat to hell 70's style Chevy Camero towing a modded crew cab Tacoma. Mind you this was up a mtn.
 
Bwahahahaha! It should've been the other way around!
 
MAybe it was pushing ?
 
I thought the old primer gray and rusted K5 with stacked 2x2x1/4 square tubing "blocks" on the FRONT AND REAR that was parked at the Eldorado Outpost opening weekend kinda said it all. We were all saved from certain head-on death on Daniel by the fact that the steering box and the associated chunk of fatigued frame had dislocated itself from the rest of the well-rusted frame as he unloaded it from a home-brewed booger-welded refugee-from-a-crusher trailer he had hauled it in on.

Yeah, I know it's a run-on sentence.
 
kcar711 said:
It wasn't so much the rig itself, but rather what was towing it down the highway. I was on 421 and up the road I saw this lingering smoke trail rounding a curve in the road. I got a little father ahead and smelled burning oil and head the worst engine sound ever. I passed this beat to hell 70's style Chevy Camero towing a modded crew cab Tacoma. Mind you this was up a mtn.
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I think I heard the worst engine noise ever today, sitting inside and heard the worst sounding piece of crap ever fly by my house. It was so loud I went out to see what it was, my neighbor heard it too and was also coming outside. While we were talking about it, we heard it coming back, an early 90's I guess XJ, sounded like it was knocking on all 6, if it had any oil in it I'm sure it would have smoked up the whole neighborhood. The girl driving it passed by my house about 4 or 5 times after that, suprised it made it that many times. I guess you can't kill them 4 O's :driver: :shaking:
 
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