Have you ever seen a thing going down the road that was just mind-bendingly disgusting or stupid?
(or just plain hilarious)

POST 'EM UP! I'll start:

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A mere $79.99 and that li'l beauty can be yore very own pride and joy...

* 2" by 2" hitch receiver required

 

That terlet comes in handy when shredding pastures or out on a remote hunt. Better than holding on to the bumper and free-ballin'.

Or so I have heard.

 

As I recall, the original didn't come with a bucket underneath. I'm assuming that's an add-on item for AMAZON purchases of thirty five dollars or more...
(He statezzz drily)


*How droll can I be - I sometimes ponder that

 

TP is the most important item for hunting dumps.

 

I was taught that if there was nothing else pick some large leaves. But anyway...

Pic's???



This isn't a modification - but it sure fits the profile!

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DOH!!!


Maybe the thread should have been titled:
"Auto Repair by the Unprepared"

And then there is the category of:
"I'm sorry, but I just don't understand why..."

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This next one had to've taken some time, thought, and quite possibly a whole bucket full of ruined sawsall blades:
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And finally:

WAIT - NO!!! Stop, you ain't real...
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Now I ask you; after having combed literally (Umm - about a half dozen) internet sites...
Just how many examples of automotive jack-holes must be out there?


"Some motor vehicles are like 'Night Train' wine. It ain't too comfortable but it gets you there..."

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It's really sad to see some of these cars done this way - I have a soft spot for Ford Escorts. Just not four doors.
A wagon or a hatch two door would deserve something better...

Oh well, when a fool owns a car - the car becomes what a fool deserves. TANSTAAFL

* If you don't understand what "TANSTAAFL" means, maybe Terry will enlighten you. I consider it something every literate human being already knows. But then - you have a computer and can save some embarrassment by looking it up yourself..

 

the only way i can explain this is that is from Australia.

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and you are wrong. i get a free lunch every time i go to the parents place.

 

Here is a bad fix #ad

 

Hmmmmmmm. Not how to make a compressor cycle properly John??????

 

The only way I can imagine that working is if the orifice valve between the high and low side are hogged out, and/or they are too cheap to replace IT or lost refrigerant.

Because if the compressor ever seizes up that belt will be gone like last years gas prices...

Yo Sunshine - the Aussies are forever dreaming up new slants on the Falcon UTE.

The downside is that every one of those has to get the blessing of a certified Australian engineer before it can be registered to drive.
I'm lookin' at the body lines and seeing parts of three different vehicles


*Oldest son in law had a perfectly sweet Taurus coupe at one point, and they ran the A/C so much the clutch bearings grenaded. His fix?
Dumbass ran a shorter belt that by-passed the compressor entirely. It was given to his wife by her family brand new.

Some people deserve to suffer.


***Come to think on it - those welds look so bad they might have been done with a pair of deep cell batteries and a coat hanger wire. Last I looked compressor clutches like those can be removed by taking off the locking nut in the center and disconnecting the wire - lots cheaper than replacing the whole unit.

The truly frightening part of it is of course that abandoning the right way to do things makes some kind of horrid sense to those who go there...


A young fella in Maryland once tried to convince me and a roomfull of people (after I had gone to several automotive classes that covered it) that "OCTANE" was the measure of how EXPLOSIVE gasoline was. I spent two hours attempting to introduce the bugger to the concepts of precombustion, compression, and the need for fuels to resist pre-ignition due to compression and heat.

In the end I had to leave before suffering from contagious brain damage - the guy was so sold on his own crap he wasn't about to hear anything else.

* Gasoline doesn't even explode - it burns in a controlled and measured fashion. NITROMETHANE is classed as an explosive, and is way different.

 

I love the octane comment Wolfie. Been there and done that too and it was in an auto tech class at school. I looked at the instructor for help and he just grinned like you opened that can, now close it. I did. I stood up, looked at the clown and said "f you, you just failed today, " walked out of the class and down to the shop. The instructor followed me. I got to write "I will not say f you" 500 times. 501 said "F you too!" with a smiley face. The instructor just laughed.

For some strange reason, I always seemed to draw the problem cars for solving after the dumbasses could not fix them or really screwed them up. I loved the shop class, especially when I stood back and laughed at some of the stupid s*** that they did. The best was alignments. You know, center the gearbox, then make sure the steering wheel was centered, if not fix, then do toe-in, then caster/camber and then reset the toe. Then check everything once again. I would find 20 shims in one side and 4 in the other with no explanation.

One time I was under a Chevy that had a bad U-Joint in it. They had already rounded off the nuts. I muttered to myself "Now how in the hell am I going to fix this F up." I then heard a little cough. The instructor had rolled under it without me knowing it. I though, well, I will be writing again. He looked at me and said they really F'd this one up, didn't they. Get the torch.

Wheel balance was another. I won't even go there, but me and the instructor got some gut busting laughs there too! And these idiots wanted their cert papers. Not with my signature on them. I got my cert papers in 6 months. Some of them were there for two years and still flunked. LOL

Oh hell, memories past!!!!!

 

You bring back memories of a Taurus Wagon I once had, an '89.

I had to leave it with "the family" when I went away on cruise, picked it up to go from Memphis to Norfolk in, and it had a way bad shimmy when the brakes were put on. Turns out they had a CV joint axle replaced while I was away, by a GOODYEAR shop - no less. Brand name, and I see no reason to cut any slack.

Anyway - I wheeled it to the Millington Base auto hobby shop to look at that. They have an adequate facility for hobbiests there, and every time I go there I end up helping everyone else out, it's just the way I am.

The original brake discs for that year were made of stamped steel with cast iron discs mounted on what amounts to a metal plate. The obvious warning here is DO NOT USE PRY BARS TO GET THE DISCS OFF....

Yep, no schlits. You see what's coming, don't you?

*In the process I decided to replace the longer of the two axle halfs. The grease seal boots were ripped

In taking down the brake discs, I found that there was a rust factor damned near making one of the discs one piece with the hub. The one on the opposite side had been easy, and sure enough it was the one on the side where the axle had been R&R'd.

BOTH OF THOSE DISCS WERE BENT FROM PRYING ON THEM.

I chose to replace the axle and CV because the grease boots were busted.

The replacement DISCS (BOTH of them) were forged single piece units. ~Wobble no more....


All of this told me a lot about what had gone down. The jackholes at GY (on Stagecoach Road, Memphis TN) were incapable of taking the discs off, so they did only one side and socked it to the wife for the repair. In the process they caused serious damage and never breathed a word about it.

Among their other oversights was that the "STUPID BITCH" they did the work for had a husband far more competent than any of them - and who has at times done "INVESTIGATIVE" repair, as in determining what is really wrong, how things were done wrong, and who did it, for various other people that it seemed to me were getting ripped off. I still do that for friends sometimes

I can look at a car or truck, I'm sure you can too, and read the whole story


The list of bad guys goes on and on, and when you know how things work and see some of the stuff idiots do it's enough to make a sane mechanic or tech vomit.

Or at least an honest one...

 

You last two paragraphs says it all!

 

Correct...but, the vapors damned sure do.










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Here's a subtle car for ya...Must be Steve's.



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And they thought rednecks were exclusive to the US....


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