Outer Limits 4x4 Board

whats the most stupid thing you have seen in terms of mods or maintenence etc. like i have heard of a mate driving around with hose clamps (those abw yellow ones) on his leaking rear brakes.

or a mates welding thats so bodge you don't know if you can let him go home without fixing it up...

my favourite one is a good mate that was too tight to buy new body mount bolts (or get at) the ones in his serria so he d grad tacked 2 nuts together and used all thread to lenghten them and wait for it soft rubber boat rollers cut in half on a band saw for a 2" blocking.

cheers

bru

When I first got the zook I drove it a short trip to a panel shop with no seatbelts, no dash, no bumpers, no windscreen, no b pillar or roof

It was only 2km but it was like drivin a wierd beach buggy
nothing above the line of the doors

Lets start this reply with ALLEGEDLY and that all parties involved shall remain nameless.

I was "adjusting" the steering shaft (firewall to box) on a car previously equipped with an engineers cert. (I had just moved the steering box 2" forward) and was having some trouble welding fillet welding the tube of the shaft to the splined end

I was having trouble welding it because it was "fabricated" from galvinised tent pole with <1mm wall thickness.


There has been other stuff, like oversize (and imperial) nuts slotted, pinched together in a vice and "threaded" onto metric bolts.

Washers installed under steering arms where the ball joints tapered section came right through the hole in the steering arm and the nut couldn't be tightened up.

In fact, I have seen some really really interesting "high steer" conversions, and I am putting together a small museum at home.

Radiator hose as fuel filler hose.

Oh, and a non braided bottom radiator hose installed by a "reputable" workshop on a 2.4 to 2.8 diesel hilux conversion that lasted about 3 months.

As Jimmy Nylund once said in Fourwheeler years ago, not everyone who works on a car has the appropriate descision making skills.

Oh, can anyone recall the link to a "scary steering" site that had some really grouse fabrication in it?

now watch the Zuk guys come out of the woodwork

I think we might see some "a friend of mine once......." on this thread

theres only been quality stuff on my Zuk

Like the box section body lift I allegedly had

Gwagensteve wrote:Oh, can anyone recall the link to a "scary steering" site that had some really grouse fabrication in it?

I think if you do a search for Fracken Taco it's on his site or linked from there.

but a Mini we (I mean someone I know) bought for just the body had to be driven from Dandy to mt Eliza. We (I mean they) got it going roughly, had to cut the exhaust off as it was about to fall off anyway. Had 4 different sized tyres and rims, no windscreen the seat we(they) speed taped to the seatbelt brackets and the doors were tied shut with rope as they had no latches. it was an interesting drive as it had to be kept going with hi revs. At every traffic light some idiot in a Commodore wanted to drag race

I pulled a Sierra apart a little while ago. Gee, the GUY who owned it before I got to it really must have LOVED_MUD... he must have some stories to tell

The rear diff was full of grease, becuse the oil kept falling out of the cracksthat ran the whole way around the top 1/2 of the pumpkin hat. It's a shame photos aren't working, the picturs of the chocolate mousse in the back diff were priceless, as was the handfull of sand in the front diff.

using a spacer and washers to try and allign fanbelt altenator and waterpump pullys because they have different offsets.

hehehe you should try and get a multi V vitara alternator jerry rigged up to run on an early 1.3 eeeurrrgh

See - there is a patter here - all Zuks

Gwagensteve wrote::rofl:
I pulled a Sierra apart a little while ago. Gee, the GUY who owned it before I got to it really must have LOVED_MUD... he must have some stories to tell

The rear diff was full of grease, becuse the oil kept falling out of the cracksthat ran the whole way around the top 1/2 of the pumpkin hat. It's a shame photos aren't working, the picturs of the chocolate mousse in the back diff were priceless, as was the handfull of sand in the front diff.

That wasnt grease ... it used to be oil (that was what nature had done .. not me ..)

As of the sand in the front diff .. I am truely at a loss .. I heard it was good for helping lap in the gears

I owned an Ex-army Landrover for $3000 and then sold it to somebody for $4000k, I spent easy double that on stuff from the hardware or construction site leftovers to improve it's value that much

Gwagensteve wrote:
I think we might see some "a friend of mine once......." on this thread

Well a friend of mine did a bodylift and needed to do it whist his parents were oversea's and couldn't wait for blocks so he went down to halls and got some old rubber bodymounts for a gq middle (about 35mm thick) and used 2 of em as body blocks per mount , lets just say it moved around a fair bit and this "friend" keep it like this for some time cos i couldn't be farked swapping over to the good ones.

Sheered off both sets of u bolts on my first hilux (xtra cab) in the rear...... don't ask what we were doing at the time..

Needless to say we were out bush playing.

wrapped chain around leafs and axle and d shackled together cept ran outta d shaks so on the back left we used a loackwood padlock to secure the last one

Drove from mansfield all the way home to attwood. Very scary experience.

Had a neighbour that did an oil change to his Datto 120Y.......took 11.5 litres of oil according to him..........Didn't start - he couldn't work out why

Big Red Toy wrote:

Gwagensteve wrote:
I think we might see some "a friend of mine once......." on this thread

Well a friend of mine did a bodylift and needed to do it whist his parents were oversea's and couldn't wait for blocks so he went down to halls and got some old rubber bodymounts for a gq middle (about 35mm thick) and used 2 of em as body blocks per mount , lets just say it moved around a fair bit and this "friend" keep it like this for some time cos i couldn't be farked swapping over to the good ones.

please tell me you have replaced these

Hey roverrat.

The 4by in your avatar needs new shocks - the suspension doesn't settle!

Scott

Don't know if it's safe but I'm driving around with my rear brake line clamped. Good pedal, just doesn't stop completely.

Mandy

I wouldn't comment if i were you mr ifs pajero

no comment

had a mini panelvan that smoked heaps and the cops put it off the road so we drained the oil out, filled it with water and drove 6kms to the garage to get the roadworthy, 1 km back to the copshop to get the roadworthy removed and 5 kms back to work.
drained water and refilled it with oil again and used it for another week before putting a cooper S motor in it.

big red wrote:had a mini panelvan that smoked heaps and the cops put it off the road so we drained the oil out, filled it with water and drove 6kms to the garage to get the roadworthy, 1 km back to the copshop to get the roadworthy removed and 5 kms back to work.
drained water and refilled it with oil again and used it for another week before putting a cooper S motor in it.

Mandy

A friend of mine rolled his Rangie on Moreton or Fraser, not sure, and absolutely rooted the vehicle. It went of a bit of an embankment. He had part of the engine chocked up with a piece of wood that was jammed up against the extractors too.

He got it back to the main land with one tractor wheel he got from someone because he had bent his rim.

He lived in Sydney and had to get home. The vehicle was crabbing down the road and he drove it all the way to Sydney like that. He was is a convoy with some others and would call him every now and them to tell him when his wood was on fire again. He got a piece of garden hose and ran it down to the wood and up next to the steering wheel. He had a bottle of water and when ever he was on fire again, they would ring him from the car behind so he could take a mouthful of water and spit it down the hose to put the fire out because he got sick of stopping to put it out.

I've seen some dodgy stuff people bring me to certify. I had a lady turn up in a van that had home made seat bases and a seatbelt that had been chewed 1/2 way through by a dog. Her: "Can I have a mod plate and I will fix it later, I want to get it registered today....." Me: "errr No"

Cross member hacked with a gas axe to fit a gearbox and no reinforcing.

You would be suprised how many people think it is ok to use wooden blocks to mount a seat to. I have had a coulple of vehicles that I recommend to the owner to trailer the vehicle home.

One of the dodgies things I think was a vehicle that had been converted from left to right hand drive by some dodgie shop. They had mounted the passengers airbag to the firewall in such a way that is was about 30 degrees from sitting square in the vehicle. They had made a diy airbag flap and sickaflexed it to the dash with no restraint so if the airbag was deployed it would pop the airbag cover off and you would copy of the cover in the face. Not a good start.

Seatbelts welded in instead of bolted..the list goes on

Nothing to do with 4x4s but................. doing a 1min 33sec skid in front of an undercover cop armed with a shitty old corolla and a video camera
Six months loss of licence and $750 in fines. Needless to say I had abit of trouble say it wasn't me.

After the VW was burnt out we decided to cut the roof off. Yet to take it off road but we are waiting to see if the roll cage will stop it from completely folding in half.

And the reduction hubs, witch are ment to be filled with oil, are filled with grease.

I can relate to Bru's story about boat rollers for body lift. Had a mate try to copy my bodylift , used boat rollers cut into 4in lengths on a Hilux. I also knew someone who pop riveted the hole in the end of front brake line to stop the calliper leaking. Had a customer bring a car in for a RWC try to bounce the front to check shocks both front guards fell off .Plenty of others as well.

Kyle

my friend...
i think this is the sit you wanna look @

http://128.83.80.200/taco/scarysteering.html

scary steering, priceless.

Ive seen or read about Scary steerin stuff on this here forum too...

Bazzle

i saw a left to right conversion using a bicycle sprosket on the end of the colomn, and another on the end of the shaft from the box, under the dash, with a bike chain!! it had heaps of slop!!

saw a rust repair, using chicken wire to fillt he hole, and bog over the top!