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Jul 28, 2011 19:50:11 GMT
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...if you didn't spend half the time you spend working on a car undoing the bodges some other monkey has done to it before you got your paws upon it. Today the seemingly simple job of changing an indicator bulb on the Pontiac was complicated by the fact some previous "mechanic" has "adapted" the bulb holder from holding a dual filament bulb to a single filament one with the aid of some form of putty. Feel free to share your own less than choice modifications...
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Last Edit: Jul 28, 2011 20:02:52 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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camper damper
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Another car bites the dust
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Jul 28, 2011 20:20:00 GMT
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You could have tried my fun someone welded the spring bolt to the body on my camper why would any one do that it wasn't even needed the nut was there
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Copey
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Jul 28, 2011 20:23:17 GMT
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i had fiberglass wings held on with wood screws, lol
and also welded over the access holes for the rear leaf springs...why!!!
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1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire GLSi with 2.0 Zetec 1985 Ford Capri 3.0 (was a 2.0 Laser originally)
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Jul 28, 2011 20:34:42 GMT
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TBH, I would rather any of those bodges than the renault 19 driveshaft gaitor I'm trying to replace. Just have to slide the gaitor over the middle of the shaft, which is twice the diameter of the hole in the gaitor. Yeah, right.
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prey
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Jul 28, 2011 20:37:45 GMT
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i would say this hobby would be better if....
some pixies tidied up for me.
i seem to spend half my life putting shizzle away in the garage lol....
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Jul 28, 2011 20:40:06 GMT
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ripping the whole inside loom out my mr2 after some pleb decided to wire the radio in to the hazard switch
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Some days you just need to take a grinder to an inanimate object, just to make your day a tiny bit better!!
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Jul 28, 2011 20:43:35 GMT
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I would say this hobby would be better if.... some pixies tidied up for me. I seem to spend half my life putting shizzle away in the garage lol.... My problem is the pixies hide my shizzle. I spend half of any job looking for the parts, spanner, keys, mug of tea, etc. I had in my hand 30 seconds previously.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Jul 28, 2011 20:49:21 GMT
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bodgers seem to be disillusioned or blinded by their own imagined sense of knowledge just put to rights a bodgers idea of fitting an exhaust not using hangers but jubilee clipping tight to the body if there was cause for bodgers to be interogatted before buying tools at halfords or boot fairs with intent to damage perfectly good cars then bring it on seriously bodgers can potentially cause accidents always run an eye first over any car i get
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bortaf
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Jul 28, 2011 20:49:36 GMT
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TBH, I would rather any of those bodges than the renault 19 driveshaft gaitor I'm trying to replace. Just have to slide the gaitor over the middle of the shaft, which is twice the diameter of the hole in the gaitor. Yeah, right. easy IF you have a gator expander, shocked me how far thw can open up. rounded bolts! it has to be the one you cant hammer a socket on
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R.I.P photobucket
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bl1300
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Jul 28, 2011 20:50:24 GMT
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Spotted some light bubbling appearing around the front of the DAFs sill. Thought I'll catch that before it gets bad. So attacked first with DA. The swearing that insued when I discovered that the first six inches of outer sill was carefully sculpted filler over chicken wire. Oh and the bodger had mixed iron filings in with the filler so my big magnet didn't detect it.
Saying that though it does give a sense of satisfaction when you correct a bodge and do it properly. Found a good one on the neighbours car when she asked me to service it. Cam cover was held on with some bits of string and was actually touching the cam belt. Needless to say she now has a new one properly attached
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Current fleet.
1967 DAF 44 1974 VW Beetle 1303s 1975 Triumph Spitfire MkIV 1988 VW LT45 Beavertail 1998 Volvo V70 2.5 1959 Fordson Dexta
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prey
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Jul 28, 2011 21:18:10 GMT
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I would say this hobby would be better if.... some pixies tidied up for me. I seem to spend half my life putting shizzle away in the garage lol.... My problem is the pixies hide my shizzle. I spend half of any job looking for the parts, spanner, keys, mug of tea, etc. I had in my hand 30 seconds previously. lol have item, walk to other side of garage, not have item anymore and not be able to see it anywhere, pace back and forward several times, still not see item. give up and find another 'item' that will sort of work, do job. then find item in random cupboard with no idea how the hell it got there. or something like that, happens to me a lot as well!
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Jul 28, 2011 21:29:12 GMT
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I heard a funny noise from the brakes... turned out to be the unfortunate sound of money leaving my bank account Luckily there were no annoying bodges as I don't think the rear brakes had ever (in 95000 miles) been replaced!
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Jul 28, 2011 21:42:03 GMT
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seen many a bodge in my time none moreso than when i went to fit the coil overs on my B5 A4 shock felt knackered so used that as a good reason to fit ciolovers on when removing the rear shocks found one of them had snapped shft that had been welded back together with washer welded half way up the saft to stop it bottoming out on the welded up bit can only imagine the accident that could have caused if it had let go
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BiAS
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 147
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Jul 28, 2011 23:41:28 GMT
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Friend sent me this picture the other day, presented for MOT with this 'modification' What do you do if the bottom balljoint on your Daewoo Matiz has a load of play? Nice!
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(car+wheels)-rideheight=WIN
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camper damper
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Another car bites the dust
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Jul 28, 2011 23:52:48 GMT
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My brothers old car had been crashed and the damage was bad the front left of the car was off a 91 fiesta and the rest was 95 but this is where the shock is the cut and shut was only tack welded on and filler used on the rest so it looked OEM till i hit a pot hole at speed and the hole left side went its own way pulling the steering wheel and putting me into a ditch and landing me in hospital for a few weeks i knew the last owner who had it from new and said it to them this is what they said "Oh sorry about that i forgot to tell you about it" needless to say i was not happy
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I'd have smacked em up side the head!
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Remember the days when sex was safe and motorsport was dangerous. Vintage bling always attracts pussy.
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Bias Camper - that one deserves a punch in the gob! Alistairk - could be Garage Monkeys. They lurk in the dark places and when you drop something they grab it. Also move tools & things around in the night. Probs related to the Beer Monkeys that re-arrange your place after a session. ;D Re bodges, a nice one was the rubber glove cable-tied around a leaking brake union with some silicon (on a bike).
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'66 Amazon <-> '94 LS400 <-> '86 Suzuki 1135 EFE
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I would say this hobby would be better if.... some pixies tidied up for me. I seem to spend half my life putting shizzle away in the garage lol.... My problem is the pixies hide my shizzle. I spend half of any job looking for the parts, spanner, keys, mug of tea, etc. I had in my hand 30 seconds previously. Strangely i can always find all of my tools bar one. The T handled 10MM drive. I put it down and i swear it grows legs. I find it somewhere I'm pretty damn sure i havnt been for weeks... That and pouring a pint of ale in a glass. Putting it on the stool in the garage, Then wondering where the hell i put it. Ive given up before now and only found it the morning after...
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g40jon
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i bought a golf cabby that some scene kid had been slammed on coillies. They removed the coillies and refitted std suspension (well most of it) my wife complained her golf cabby was squeeking when turning the steering, so I took a good look and found that the front springs were seated on the top mounts and the spring caps which the springs are meant to sit in were totally missing. I was rather angry to say the least.
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I've just remembered one, not so much a bodge as just a really REALLY curse word mechanic,
My old 68 bug, bought when I used to live in Wales, used as my daily for 12 months through a very snowy welsh winter and used to drive back to the east coast to see family every few months, you get the idea of well used then, great running car apart from a strange knocking when you rev'd it, just before it got back down to idle it would go *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* and you could feel it in the floor of the car!
Loose fly wheel....NOPE, pulled engine out and the flywheel was sound, engine still ran fine so I just shrugged my shoulders and chucked the engine back in.
Que run too the sun, 2006, normally 9-12 hour drive in an aircooled vdub from hull, we did it in 26 hours!! TWENTY SIX HOURS!!! no sleep, engine overheating and getting worse, drive for a bit, pull over and let it cool down then drive some more, like that for 26 straight hours!
After we got back home on the Monday on the back of a breakdown wagon, I start to strip the engine.......
I found 1 complete missing main bearing (both shells) and one half of a big end bearing missing! Not in the sump, not even fitted to the engine during the rebuild!
The knocking, as I'm sure you can now imagine, was the crank slapping about in the case and a con rod slapping about on the crank! And I did about 8000 miles on that engine!!
I've still got the engine actually, it's all fubar and in bits, but couldn't quite bring myself to chuck it.
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Remember the days when sex was safe and motorsport was dangerous. Vintage bling always attracts pussy.
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