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Leaf spring lowering kit.

 

Now thats all wrong, you need some solid skid plates as well.

 

In the first one everyone knows you have to use hardwood. Pine or fir is too soft for serious suspension work.
The second one at least will save the ends of the U bolts. once they drag a few times the nuts won't come off and you have to cut them and buy new ones if you don't have a welder to tack a new threaded piece on. I put the U bolts on upside down to protect the threads. You have to retighten them occasionally because the rounded end will tend to straighten out over time.

 

That would be a lift kit, not a lowering kit. To be a lowering kit, the axle would have to be above the spring. Unless the car was on its roof and you are looking at it from the bottom....

I never would have thought about skid plates, do those void the scrub line rules? Asking for a friend, maybe he will get a different answer then the one in my head.

Actually, I'm guessing the guy was probably bending the bottom plate trying to keep the U bolts tight, the tubing is to keep the plate from bending, or maybe not...

 

There was a thread not long ago about scrub line where one guy had the idea of castor wheels (or similar) under the low parts so the car would roll along instead of skidding along in the event of a flat tire.
Worst part about it............... HE WAS SERIOUS!!!!!

 

Steering shaft kit.

 

I looked at a car for sale once with Craftsman universal sockets welded to concrete reinforcement bar shaft. “Um no thanks”

 

This was a sad day for someone.thats why you don't run glass fuel filters!

 

And red plastic fuel hose!

 

The " I have no fuckin idea what is going on here!" kit.

 

Well sshhuoorre the lower shock mount bust.
The bands restore stability.
See?e? there they really do - dooo

 

"That bar thingy used to be hooked up over there. It came loose and was banging around, but I finally got it fixed so it don't bang no more. I fixed it all by myself."

I saw a lot of these owner repairs come in at my welding shop. A surprising number of those owners didn't want to pay to have them fixed correctly. I should have taken pictures of some of them.

 

not sure if I missed someone else posting this. The most used tool in my garage.

 

Looks like a hardware store puked, Amazing, probably more $$$s in junk than the cost to fix correctly. Simply amazing - speechless!!!! I’m thinking people watch the Red Green show as a how to program.
Dan

 

Fifty something years ago, my favorite weldor had a sign on the wall.
"Minimum charge $8.00. If it ain't worth $8.00, throw it away!!!"

 

The Giraffe, is the only animal in the bar that can truly say,
"Gentlemen, the highball's are on me"

 

Early inspiration for Steve Martin's original stage act.

 

They actually sell a crescent wrench now with both standard & metric markings. I guess for those who really need to know.

 

No worries, I welded it myself!

 

How can a person weld that badly?

 

One of my favorites back in the day....

 

Practice practice practice
Dan

 

A 110 volt harbor freight mig , no doubt. I admire how they beat the joints together so it would match perfectly too!

 

Ahh, the definition of a booger weld! ^^^

 

ONE OF the best post on the board
6sally6

 

TTT

 

"I cut it off three times and it's still too short!"