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    30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures

    Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    03/22/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    One of the guys on my forum has had this everchanging debacletrain of a twin turbo... then QUAD TURBO setup on a 4.6L SOHC...




    Looks like he deleted the rest of his fail lol

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    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    I love that fucking tuba.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    Okay, there's an awful lot of horrible welds in there, and a lot of the lifts look downright suicidal... but there's some pretty decent ghetto/junkyard engineering going on with some of those turbo setups... "we can't afford a proper plenum"... "hey you still got that old muffler?"
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    Image of cyanics cyanics
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    alot of those suspension jobs are hard-rigged for mud running. clearence, and not flex.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/20/09

    @cyanics: Who is Clarence?
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    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    Some people should never be allowed near welding equipment.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    How I miss Murilee's daily dose of quality fun...
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    Image of Braff Braff
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    It is like they have been watching our photoshops of ridiculous vehicles and then trying to bring them to life... I salute their "efforts"
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    Usually people this clueless don't actually attempt to mess with their cars.


    It's like, if you were smart enough to know what a turbo was, and (roughly) how it worked, had the tools, skills and workspace to pull all of those parts...how are you so stupid as to think that would work?


    Same goes for the giant spring spacers in there.


    The combination of ingenuity and idiocy is amazing.

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    Image of area_educator area_educator
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    That snorkel on the first lifted pickup truck... What is this guy planning on fording?
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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    03/20/09

    @area_educator: My guess is Lake Michigan.
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    Image of HDC HDC
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    There used to be a guy on the tubez who had a rather impressive compendium of seriously horrifying homebrew steering set ups for trucks and off-road rigs. Jeebus, I wish I could find it again. It was worse than all of these examples.


    I'm off to google.

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    03/20/09

    @HDC: Jackpot!

    [128.83.80.193]
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    03/20/09

    @HDC: Damn, you beat me to it.


    I love Scary Steering.

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    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    Wow...

    At first, I saw that Honda with the turbo sticking out of the hood and thought, "well, that's not so bad. It's kinda ingenious really, like the Ghettocharged Miata."


    But then I saw those lifted trucks, and my only thought was "Dear God! What the hell are you thinking?! You know that's going to shear off and kill you, right?"


    If all these people were doing was off-roading in the woods, I say take away their spare gas can, cell phone, and first aid kit, and let them loose. Natural selection will run its course and we won't have to see this kind of thing again. But I suspect that some of these trucks are actually driven on the street, which means that humanity is doomed.

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    03/20/09

    @discontinuuity: Mostly I was thinking about this:



    Clearly some people have never heard of bending moments or shear stress.
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    Image of racerx racerx
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    What is going on with the front differential? It looks like it has some sort of brake on it! Can anyone figure out what's going on?



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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    03/20/09

    @racerx: Rockwell toploader military axle w/ pinion brake. Not an uncommon axle choice for a rock crawler.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    03/20/09

    @racerx: That's a Rockwell axle out of military 6x6.


    The diff drops in the top of the center section (rather that the front/back on a normal axle), and there's a mounting pattern for a disc on the pinion.


    Increases effective brake torque, but you run the risk of having no brakes if you bust an axleshaft. IIRC, these are illegal for highway use because of that.

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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    03/20/09

    @racerx: Those are rockwell axles. Again, it's more effective to brake before the gear reduction of the differential.


    Oddly enough, that's the one thing that mouth-breather did right with his truck.


    Just looking at how it's lifted, I can only imagine the danger posed by the steering system.

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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    It is a coincidence that all this horrible bodgery centers around turbos and lifting trucks? I think not.
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    Image of FormerlyPreferredCustomer FormerlyPreferredCustomer
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    There is a lesson to be learned from the fact that 100 percent of these involve turbocharging, lift kits, or both.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    03/20/09

    @FormerlyPreferredCustomer: You beat me by exactly one minute...
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/20/09

    @Tanshanomi: Your use of the word (?) "bodgery" puts your score ahead in my book.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    03/20/09

    @Slantsick, with Infinite Improbability Drive: Well, damn! I think it got me a star! Whoo hoo!
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    03/20/09

    In reply to 30 Epic Do-It-Yourself Automotive Fabrication Failures
    some of that suspension work looks like it'll be smooth as silk over them there bumps...


    and the header mods... seriously?


    the home made turbo's are always good though, cheaper to fix in the long run as most Wal*marts are now open 24 hours and leaf blowers are readily in stock!

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