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Today I found some thing so unbelievable on a trunk in the yard that I had to tell other owners about it. I still laugh about it.
I was searching for dent with a manual trans so I could pick pedal springs and such. I'm getting ready for a c6 to ZF swap. I found a f250 with a Mazda 5 speed, which is rare for my yard, on an 89 f250. I checked the pedals to see if I could use anything.
I guess the PO had done a trans swap. The brake pedal did not have a contact for the brake light switch, so they shaved off a piece of wood, with an axe by the look of it, and zip tied it to the pedal arm! I swear.
Then, as I'm laughing, I look to my right to the trans shift tower. The PO had run a wire from somewhere, through the shifting boot, into the cab, and under the dash--with Romex cable! Oh, and they used masking tape to cover the splices/unions.
Not JY finds but just a couple of crazy things I've seen over the years.
I worked for auto zone when I was younger and had a young kid come in who bought a bunch of neons and wired them in to his cig lighter. He blew the fuse multiple times and replaced the fuse with resistors and couldn't figure out why his stuff wouldn't work at all.
Another I was working on a 1940 Olds that was getting a full new harness and engine swap. Well when I was pulling the old harness I found a lot of bad connections and well I will let the picture show the craftsmanship
Not so much a horror story but a fix to get me home... my radiator overflow shattered in the little 1275cc 4cyl Nissan Micra I was flogging around at university.
I figured I'd crack a beer a work the problem out... then realised that a cliptie and an old jumper would turn the beer bottle into a new overflow!
Drove thousands of kilometers like that and sold the car with it...
When I was a teenager I was driving through the central valley in Cal. The car started running hot, and we found the rad low on fluid. We were in the middle of nowhere, without water, so we all took a whiz in the rad., and drove a couple of hundred miles like that.
When I was a teenager I was driving through the central valley in Cal. The car started running hot, and we found the rad low on fluid. We were in the middle of nowhere, without water, so we all took a whiz in the rad., and drove a couple of hundred miles like that.
Pita story for someone else
I'm looking for seats for my trucks and want a common seat so that both trucks remain twinned. See an ad on kijiji for free seat from a 2000 Explorer so I go and pick them up.
Brought them into the house as it's a bit on the cold side and theres still snow coming down plus I need some carpeting before I tear apart my interior. Was inspecting the seats and found a receipt from Pick n Pull about 15 blocks from my place dated Feb 20, 2017 for $43.80 for a pair of seats, he paid 21.49 for the drivers seat because they think it's electric (just the seat belt sensor) and 17.49 for the passenger seat. Environmental fee is 2.73 and gst was 2.09, hmmm, theres a 30 day return for credit statement on the receipt so the guy could've brought them back.
I picked some OEM bucket seat brackets and early Mustang seats out of a Dentside that had a dumpster (huge!) welded to the frame.
OMG that truck and the truck's interior smelled so bad (like a sewer!) and I actually dry-heaved a couple of times... but I got my parts and ya know how hard it is to find them brackets!
When I was a teenager I was driving through the central valley in Cal. The car started running hot, and we found the rad low on fluid. We were in the middle of nowhere, without water, so we all took a whiz in the rad., and drove a couple of hundred miles like that.
Wait, were you on the run Russain invaders and headed to a hideout in the hills? WOLVERINES!............
A few years back, I went to a local yard with my neighbor. I would go once a month just to see if they had anything "new" that I could pick through. There was a mid-'90s Ford truck that I wanted to look at the bench seat. It looked really good, so I went to lean the back rest forward and can you guess what was behind the seat? A football sized bee hive. Neighbor was carrying my tool bag and he dropped it right by the door of the truck. We ran about 30 yards away and waited for about 20 minutes before HE went back to grab my tools. I got two bee stings and he got four. Lesson learned, always bring a can of bee and wasp killer when going to a jy.
I found a pair of rust free doors for my 73. With all the other stuff I was getting I was short on cash so I pulled the doors of and stashed em in a wrecked minivan...no self-respecting junk yard crawler would look there, right? Right.
The next week I went back for the doors...they had crushed the minivan w my doors in it. Heart breaking.
My local Jy has a drop off and sort of store for later spot. Plus I made sure to make friends with the guy that runs it and the guys that work it outside. Also no cobbing of any parts in the hold lot.
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