More scary ass modifications

Yes, someone needs their tools taken, and their mom called "lady, slap the **** out of your son please"

 

Did someone call me .....???

 

I think I can top that, when I bought my '59 pick up one of the rear shocks was attached with a padlock instead of a bolt, and the rear brake lines were cut and crimped closed, don't ask me why, Worst of all the guy was driving it every day to work from Merced to Fresno about 55 miles down 99 freeway, my son and I determined that by buying that truck I had saved the idiots life and maybe someone elses also.... no he wasn't living in a trailer park and yes he did have a mullett

I should post some picture of that thing...

 

I'd think the taste would give it away....

Gary

 

well i would think compressing some of your coils together and reducing your spring rate to ****, would make it ride just wonderful

yea a snow cone that tastes like s...,or a brain freeze in the wrong place.

 

I thought i was the only one who had seen this, at least the padlock shackle is hardened, if that's any consolation.

 

That there is comedy gold......ROFLMAO....

 

wow, thats scary! so how did you fix it, take em out and cut em the right way or start over w/new springs?

 

I used them. Back in the 70's. I was 17 at the time seemed like a good idea.

"Did they work as advertised?"
"How was the ride affected?"
I don't remember.. it was the 70's..lots of good cheap weed in CA back then.

Did I regret it.......who cares it was the 70's lots of good cheap weed in CA back then.

 

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You would actually increase your spring rate...

 

JC Whitney and a couple of other companies sold tons of kits to do that to springs. I knew several guys in High School that used the kits! The springs on the front end of a '64 Impala that I bought looked worse than your friends. Car rode like **** of course and when we really got under the front end the springs were about all that didn't need to be replaced. Live and learn. (No, I didn't crawl under the car before I bought it, just drove it, bought it and drove it home.)

 

I bought a p/u once from a guy with a mullet. On the way home I stopped and got some headers. Put them on and went the next morning to get a couple used flow masters welded up. When the truck was put on the lift the Mexicans in the shop all started to laugh and point an the front coil springs and rear leafs. I knew it was bad when the guys who have seen it all laughed.
The front was lowered by heating the springs in one spot. The coils were rubbing the shocks. The rear leafs had been heated in one spot as well. One leaf had broken and was welded back up. Ugly

Be careful lowering the rear on comets. There is usually 3 bump stops in the rear. The one in the center is an inch lower than the two outer. Hurts the old 3rd member.

 

Wow, someone else who has a Comet with a suspension as screwed up as mine. My '64 had the coils cut so low in the front that you could grab and shake them. Someone had shoved those little aluminum wedges in there to try to bring it back up - like that was going to work. The rear had Maverick leaves which were too short, air shocks, 3 inch blocks, slotted out spring plates, generic too long U-bolts, cut up rubber isolators with later model isolator clamps and no centering pins! They also cut and spliced the driveshaft and two of my three bump stop mounts were smashed flat. I ordered all new parts front and back - unfortunately some of them were offshore parts and didn't fit - so out they came. The rear springs were American made but too short - finally found a slightly used set that were right. As for the front end I've installed and removed it five times now I think. Wrong coils twice, bad spring saddles, etc. etc. I'm actually waiting on parts right now to try it again this coming weekend. So much fun.

 

Dumb *** **** I would rather walk than rig somthing and kill someone. How on earth does this seem like the thing to do.

 

That coil was not broken when the clamps were installed. The clamps bend the spring beyond its springiness range, and it fatigues and breaks.

 

I just love this thread! Old timey hot rod traditional modifications, done by apprentice hop up mechanics. I use to spend hours looking thru the J.C. Whitney catalogs, dreaming of purchasing the cool items they offered for sale. It wasn't until the 90's that I found out about Speedy Bill and his Speedway Motors catalogs!

 

She drove it a looooong way here from the other state she lived in.
-gulp- Gonna get another set of springs and make it right. The other side is also broken just about the same.
Yeah....I think the tack weld really is really the top of the whole thing.

 

Now you tell me .

You know how tough it is to get black cherry syrup out of *** hair ?

 

Autozone still sells those things, but thats tops it all.....using them to "fix" broken springs. Wow. I bet they voted too.

 

holy **** batman.

 

ok.. ok..OK!!!!! I done it, and I am not ashamed!!!!well maybe a little, but I have been guilty of worse!!! and darn it, I would probably do it again!!!
I used these a few years ago, and had them in a long time, and I don't remember any problems, at all with them!!!
Come on, get off your soap boxes people!! I here people all the time on here, cutting springs, heating springs, etc, etc, etc...
Of course I know the proper way, to drop the front end, is to buy a set of drop spindles, and do it right the first time. ****tt of course I am alot older and wiser now!!!!(well maybe just older) but I still ant got no more greenback, than I had then!!
But still I will probably, do the right thing, and just save for the spindles, so these pictures of parts that I have been looking up, is just for amu*****t purpose only!!!
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/Search?storeId=10101&sku=87ZX7218x&catalogId=10114

http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/Search?storeId=10101&sku=71ZX2550w&catalogId=10114

 

I remember sitting in my car at the high school waiting for cl*** to start, when a guy pulls in and backs his Impala into a parking space, the front suspension on the right side just fell apart. Broken ball joint, spindle comes flipping out from under the fender...the best part, the thing was held together with a dog chain. Even as a teenager I knew better than that. I ended up dating the guys sister later on, even she said he was a dumb***.

This was 30 years ago.

 

Just so I could add something worthwhile to the HAMB today, the band Ratt actually started out as Mickey Ratt until Disney made them change it....and I believe a snow cone could actually be used for a **** plug in a pinch. The coldness would add to the level of kink.

 

Small World, I saw Stephen Pearcy brake his ankle in '97...........and I have to question the snow cone as a **** plug, just cause I think the severe taint and **** heat would melt it too fast, not to mention all the giratin' and stuff......but i do agree the shape would prolly work.

 

"dont know the difference between a snow cone and a **** plug"

Yea, I think I'll put the fudgesicle back in the freezer for later.....

 

sweet set-up.

 

Nice. Now this is the type of information I can actually use.

 

My left knee is a testament to the level of stupidity I once had...

I was a high school junior working on a 351W, had lifted it up to about 6 feet with a come-along... Secured the chain with some wire wound around some links about a hundred times... who'da thunk that copper would let go so fast...

Stupid knee is startin to act up now that 2 decades have p***ed...

We all have done stupid things. I am CONSTANTLY schooling the young pups who come to me to help them get their cars and trucks back on the road. I have seen things that, frankly, would make me poop my pants if I realized I was driving that way. Gave away a lot of free parts to damsels in distress because I didn't feel right about letting them leave my garage with their car in that condition too. I actually had a lady come asking me for help, her tie rod was held in place with baling wire and duct tape!

High praise to the hamber that sees **** and has the good sense to not let them leave in a death trap...

 

haha a friend down the street had a rear brake line rust through on his S10. He goes IM just going to smash it with vise grips it doesnt do much its just one line. I was WTF????
He took it to his buddy thats a certified mechanic to put a clutch in and he found it.
He really told him off.