previous owner funny fixes?

[lurch115]

i have a couple good ones for ya.....

using a 24oz. beer can to patch a exhaust Y-pipe....

an in my '84 4X4 the P.O. had rewired stuff under the dash with house wiring....

using RTV sealer and numorous size vacuum lines to make one vacuum line.....

garden hose in place of heater hoses...

and carage bolts in place of headlight adjusting screws....

[edman87]

I love this thread!! The bad thing is that the gutter for exhaust and redi-mix for body filler are the only things on here so far that I have not seen for myself, or done myself. I have seen galvanized fencepost for exhaust and inch thick bondo supported by wood screws.
I know a lot of rednecks!!
Oh, and that expanding foam works better than duct tape or fruit of the looms!

[edman87]

Some of the ones I can remember doing or witnessing.
Window screen works for holding bondo where a rust hole is.
3/8" allthread between bedsides pinching tailgate to corners.
exhaust hedl up with logging chain.
treated 2x8for bumpers
paint can lids for grease caps on trailer hubs
expanding foam in cab corners covered in bondo
bailing wire for almost everything and if none is handy, wire coat hangers work almost as well!

[84 400]

ha ha ahwe used to use house wire for exhaust hangging worked well cause even if the rubber melted the wires held it fin.. my buddys jeep we used street signs to patch holes in the floor and cocked around them then bolted them. I beam from a ware house for a front bumper .. loads more but i can't think now

[68GMC454]

well i always carry a roll of bailying wire in the truck..you just never know when you might have to fix somthing to get home...
i have use wire nuts for a house to do stereos..lol
i have uesed 3/4 inch treated ply wood for floors in my old chevelle..made it rough to drive,,raise the front floors alot..

now on my 84 i got now,,the po put in the wrong pilot bushing, when i replaced the cluth the pilot bushing fell out in my hands..was headed fo my face,,but cought it..cost me 42.00 to have one made to fit the new bigger than stock hole..it will never come out..lol
also clear slyacone will patch up small rust holes in the roof...
dust tape is the cure all..

[edman87]

That I beam front bumper reminds me of the 6 foot section of RR iron for a front bumper I had on my woods bronco.
BTW, the best use for aluminum signs is making battery trays.

[jimfulco]

Not a truck, but it's the thought that counts, right? When I was a kid, Dad bought (cheap) an old fiberglass ski boat that had jacknifed into a car's tail fin. It had an 18" hole in the side of the bow that we found to have been patched with venetian blind slats and glassed over.

Then there's the wooden front bumper of my T-bird, etc.

[Palf70Step]

This is one I saw a few years ago. I was taking my daughter to a community college for band camp about 3 hours from my place. This was right outside the campus. I thought about it till I got close. Bad thing is I saw it a few weeks later near my hometown with some very young couple driving it ON THE STREET and someone let them put tags on it.

Want a lift just put frames on top of one another.

[boatpuller]

hey palf,what the heck is that...it looks like two frames making a baby frame.

[edman87]

Yup, double frames. Seen it on mud trucks, but never on somthing that would be driven on the street.

[Palf70Step]

Yep, someone put 2 SWB frames on top one another as a lift method. I had never seen nor heard of this until I saw it on this one. If you look close you'll see that he used pieces of plywood between the frames as spacers. And how they did th steering and all..

[TruckinDaddy]

When I was a kid, spending the summer at grandpa's farm, one of his neighbor's drove down the driveway with a bumper dragging behind his truck.

He asked my grandpa for some twine to fix his bumper "Until I can get home and fix it right with bailing wire!"

My kind of guy.

[bw4sale]

In highschool my Mustang had an old plasitc Coke bottle for a radiator overflow (actually got that idea from Hot Rod magazine). My '72 has a middle hump made by po from a street sign. Nice.

[67chevy2wd]

You would think that the steering would bind up like that. Two Frame are better than one.

[ctouchet]

when i bought my truck it was raining for days so i didnt get to look under it that good, after i bought it i could hear an exhaust leak this is what i found

[us111]

dad had a 59 chevy (car) remember he drove it 4-ever to and from work everyday,,80 miles one way,,,ONLY thing holding the seat in was 2x6's from front to back..i remember actually seeing the road thru what used to be the floorboard!

[mwalker13]

probably two of the best one I have seen 1. I saw a guy with a great mod he had a 92 s-10 with a duct tape and plywood whale tale style wing on the back must have had a hard time keeping the back wheels on the ground with that big ole four banger in there. 2. I was repairing floor pans in a 1968 firebird I had and the P.O had already done some patch work with of all things a pedestrian sign, drywall screws and some latex silicon. And of course when in doubt use speaker wire

[davidh]

Originally Posted by edman87

I love this thread!! The bad thing is that the gutter for exhaust and redi-mix for body filler are the only things on here so far that I have not seen for myself, or done myself. I have seen galvanized fencepost for exhaust and inch thick bondo supported by wood screws.
I know a lot of rednecks!!
Oh, and that expanding foam works better than duct tape or fruit of the looms!

That reminds of an otherwise very clean 86 that had conduit for exhaust!!!!!! That was hilarious.

[Hoods69BadBowTie]

Wow, two frames on a street driven truck and plywood wtf were they thinking. That steering looks like it would just bind up too. On my yellow truck one of the positive wires to the fuse box was just a wire completely wrapped in duct tape and it was done half assed to say the least.

[84 400]

Two frames is for a mud truck for sure never on a street truck!! they must know some one to get it passed or just driving it with another tag. very unsafe

[lurch115]

i forgot a couple the wire nuts on house speakers reminded me of one....using house speakers in a vehicle...seen it a million times

and yet another....had a '93 Camaro RS with soft rear coil springs....someone had shoved a 2 foot long 2x4 in the passager side spring for a lift block...

[cochino12]

I had driveshaft dual exhaust ha ha ha ha

[chevyrestoguy]

My friend bought a 75 Chevy truck in the late 80's that had seen better days. It was going to be used for parts only, and when we tore down the 350, we found that the PO had siliconed shag carpet in the tops of the valve covers to keep the lifter noise down. The same PO had did a slam-dunk rebuild of the bottom end, and had peened the piston skirts to tighten the pistons in the bores and had peened the letters F@$K YOU in the tops of 7 of the 8 pistons. The 4-bolt block and steel crank was salvageable, though. And to top it all off, he did a 3-inch lift kit using 1/2 drive 3/4" deep well sockets. I really wanted to meet that guy................classic.
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BUY VAPORGENIE

[lurch115]

and yet another....saw this earlier this week....duct tape for a tail gate latch on the top 2 corners...

[Srubydo1986]

I got one for you My donor 4x4 trucks cab had a very good looking carpet for a truck that has seen it better days. I knew it wasnt original it was a pepboys style carpet. that wast bad what i found under was under the carpet was housing installation i was wondering why it was so squishy.

Funny thing was it was all held to gether by ducktape and the carpet was glued in by house hold carpet glue.