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Weirdest experience when repairing/modifying bump?
Since I serve no other place in these forums, I wanna hear your guys weird experiences when you were modifying or repairing your truck. Something you found or that happened while doing it.
Mine is, I bought a faulty Tachometer that decided it wanted to short. Come to start it the next day, and my truck starts turning over with the right blinker! Every time my turn signal would turn on *Crank*, come to find out, my starter wire had melted onto the right turn signal wire.
So hopefully you guys have a funny experience with your truck to share
Couple years ago when I built my first engine, I went round and round and round some more chasing a double misfire on an all new motor. Turned out to be 2 of the brand new valve springs were collapsed and letting the valves float.
I've learned A LOT from my bump.... that was just the most difficult problem I had.
My 70`s electric fuel pump would cycle when I pulled on the headlight switch.
In my haste the previous day, I forgot to reattach the cab to engine ground strap..... It goes to show the importance of grounds... so additional ground straps were installed.
When I 1st bought my Bump I started going through it. I like to replace as much as the wallet allows. This way I have a starting place for all parts involved. Rubber, tune up, fluids, etc. When I took the R/F wheel off to replace the pads I found a Left caliper on the Right side. The PO has screwed two rubber brake hoses together so they could then reach the caliper's hole pointing in the opposite direction from normal. Shaped like a big O' dangerous "S". Zip tied the metal brake tube that they connected to above the coil spring. Alaska prolly heard me yell WTF?????
When I 1st bought my Bump I started going through it. I like to replace as much as the wallet allows. This way I have a starting place for all parts involved. Rubber, tune up, fluids, etc. When I took the R/F wheel off to replace the pads I found a Left caliper on the Right side. The PO has screwed two rubber brake hoses together so they could then reach the caliper's hole pointing in the opposite direction from normal. Shaped like a big O' dangerous "S". Zip tied the metal brake tube that they connected to above the coil spring. Alaska prolly heard me yell WTF?????
There's a saying that is well known by mechanics and shops...
"You can't fix stupid, but you can charge for it!"
When I 1st bought my Bump I started going through it. I like to replace as much as the wallet allows. This way I have a starting place for all parts involved. Rubber, tune up, fluids, etc. When I took the R/F wheel off to replace the pads I found a Left caliper on the Right side. The PO has screwed two rubber brake hoses together so they could then reach the caliper's hole pointing in the opposite direction from normal. Shaped like a big O' dangerous "S". Zip tied the metal brake tube that they connected to above the coil spring. Alaska prolly heard me yell WTF?????
Uh no thanks, I like to redneck engineer some of my things, but this is more than redneck engineering, this is similar to letting a 2 year old assemble the truck
Uh no thanks, I like to redneck engineer some of my things, but this is more than redneck engineering, this is similar to letting a 2 year old assemble the truck
MacGyver was a redneck engineer.. just without the southern fried accent.
A few weeks ago, with fall in full swing here, I went out to do some work on my engine and all those cavities in the underside of the hood were STUFFED with pine cones. It was parked in my drive under a spruce (soft, gooey, small cones). Pulled out almost a hundred. A week later was underneath it tracing some wires and found the cross member that holds up the tranny and t-case was stuffed too.
Parked it on the street until the season for squirrels to store their winter supplies was over, and saw this yesterday:
When I bought my 72 and started disassembly, I found dirt dauber nests in every concievable location. Inside the frame rails, on the brake hoses, inside the hubcaps, inside the brake drums, in the doors, in the wheel wells. I even found one inside the steering collar under the steering wheel! Hence it's nick name: Dirt Dobber.
It also had a custom seat cover made mostly of duct tape, with foam pool noodles stuffed into the drivers side seat bottom for support. That one went to the dump.
When I bought my 72 and started disassembly, I found dirt dauber nests in every concievable location. Inside the frame rails, on the brake hoses, inside the hubcaps, inside the brake drums, in the doors, in the wheel wells. I even found one inside the steering collar under the steering wheel! Hence it's nick name: Dirt Dobber.
It also had a custom seat cover made mostly of duct tape, with foam pool noodles stuffed into the drivers side seat bottom for support. That one went to the dump.
Reupholstery is expensive on these seats so I can´t blame their redneck attempt at keeping it okay.
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Alaska prolly heard me yell WTF?????
