What was the Previous Owner Thinking?!?!?!

[HARJO]

Is there anyone else that gets furious when thinking about what the previous owner has done to your truck?

The PO of my truck (and the shop here in Vegas doing some of his work) seemed to have been dropped on their heads a bunch when they were babies. Too many dollars and not enough sense.

For example:
1. Cutting the front crossmember to clear the oil pan, leaving only 1/4" of material in 4 places (pictures attached)
2. Cutting a hole in the center of the bed for the gas cap of a fuel cell.
3. Screwing up a Painless wiring setup (how does this happen?!)
4. Using wheel spacers to fix backspacing issues, leaving only 4 threads to hold on a set of 35" tires.
5. Buys a RamJet 350, can't figure out the fuel injection needs so unbolts it and throws it away in favor of a way oversized carb.
6. Using a fuel injection electric fuel pump at 60 psi, plumbed to a carb that requires only 6 psi.
7. Pulls spark plug wires off with need nose pliers, tearing the boots and causing spark jump to the headers.
8. Pinion angles way off.

The list goes on and on and on...

[6772owner]

WOW! Some scary stuff there!

[Riveted1]

I just had to pick my jaw up off of the floor!

[cam.man67]

Whoa! I mean, I've often wondered that about my black spraybombed interior, an intake manifold with some interesting throttle linkage, but nothing as serious as that!

[292farmer]

wait did you say a shop did this?! my god what kinda workers do they allow these days! though a hole in the bed for a fuel cell though weird i don't think is bad so long as you never haul anything and need to fill up.... and isn't the ramjet just a plug and go system i mean thats based off a 60-70's tech for the corvette right?

[Robertjust777]

what part of vegas do you live in and what shop im here in vegas or well henderson

[Beelzeburb]

Wow. Just wow.

[Jacfourteen]

crazy mods right there!

[special-K]

Cobble job #29,783. A whole lotta ignorant can set in over a 40 year period.

[YBNORML]

Some people should have thier tools taken away!
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[HARJO]

Originally Posted by Robertjust777

what part of vegas do you live in and what shop im here in vegas or well henderson

I'm over by 215 and Windmill, not too far away it seems. It was some "creations" shop out at the speedway, not totally sure of the name.

[68 IRON]

Soooo........Beavis and Butthead did get a job after their show!!! Can you imagine the thought process behind this? Ya, wow!

[HARJO]

Originally Posted by 292farmer

wait did you say a shop did this?! my god what kinda workers do they allow these days! though a hole in the bed for a fuel cell though weird i don't think is bad so long as you never haul anything and need to fill up.... and isn't the ramjet just a plug and go system i mean thats based off a 60-70's tech for the corvette right?

Yeah, the hole in the bed is just dumb and lazy. It's not like there aren't cleaner ways to install a cell and a gas cap system on the cheap.

Yeah, the "modern" RamJet crate was supposed to be plug and play; bolt it up, 1 fuel, 1 fuel return, 12v power, throttle cable and radiator hoses. About as simple a setup for FI that you can get.

[cdowns]

if the previous owner didnt sell you the truck you'd have nothing to say

[674x4ton]

Some people think ,with a cutting torch you can fix any thing. That get in your way.

[Spoof]

They put a carb on a Ramjet? WTF! The RJ IS plug and play but I still can't figure out how to wire up my tach without killing the engine. Soon tho.
And why didn't the RJ oil pan fit?

[Flint70step]

Oh yeah.....that looks safe.......This is a perfect example of ask some one else before cutting!Is this a good idea?

[Murphy IRE]

OMG! I *****, barf and complain about stuff my PO did, but your PO takes the prize! Sorry!!!

[72shortbed12]

Thats ridiculous. They should have their business license revoked. I wouldn't be ashamed to be caught dumpster diving for the fuel injection stuff

[feller]

they screwed up a ram jet??? i wish i could afford one let alone afford one to throw away. why didnt they just get another oil pan?? and i have seen lots of people put the fuel fill in the bed floor but its always in the rear by the tail gate either center or to one side but not in the middle???

[Transformula]

I've seen some crappy places at those shops at the Speedway complex. Some shady people up there!
Ya outta see my cobbled mess of a 4x4 conversion!

[Cbrown67]

I have a few for you this is how the add more length to the exhaust pipes
and this is the steering column a piece of wedged in pipe and an exhaust clamp keeping that in place

[Stricklinator]

That is bad! I cried when I priced the driver's side upper and lower trim the po of my truck threw away because "it was all dented anyway".
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[RCbowtie69]

Somebody wasn't thinking that day,or any day,hope it can be fix. Keep on Truckin''

[1970C10truck]

Looking at these pictures and reading what was done makes me feel like I my project is in pretty good shape.