Can anybody beat this?

[zKars]

This winter I'm working on restoring a club members 12/70 240, and today along with many other things, I had to remove the mud flaps.

Now, you wouldn't expect this to be a process that typically warrants sharing with you, but I am sure I win some kind of award for what I found and what I had to do. Just had to show you.

As you will see by the first picture, there were eight different fasteners with a variety of nuts/washers holding the two front mud flaps to the fender, four each side, requiring, if I remember, seven trips back and forth to the tool box to get the right wrench/screw driver/nut driver/plier etc. What impressed me most is time it likely took that guy to find those bits and pieces was about the same time it would have taken to go buy 8 sheet metal screws from the store. What was he thinking!?

Taking them both off required thirty minutes. And the owner wonders how my billable hours add up so fast....

Mind you this is the same car that I found many other ingenious solutions "applied" during past "restorations" such as the fuse box replacement noted in the second picture.

A first glance, you think, hey, that's slick! Those little breakers are great!. The time required to fabricate it was not small!!

But think; when you blow a "fuse", how do you tell which one is tripped? Sure, they reset shortly, but if it blows again, and again, how do you tell which circuit has the problem!!?!? Arghhh....

There is much more to share, but this was the best so far.

Wish me luck!

Jim

[geezer]

It looks like someone would rather rummage through an old nuts & bolts bin, then make a run to the store. I know people like this, who will take all the time in the world in order to save a buck. Do you suppose the fuse box is the work of the same guy? Probably seemed like a good idea at the time. The worst I have seen, pertains more to metal repair & body work. I've seen everything from coke cans to old licence plates used to fill holes. I wish I would have taken a pic before I removed the "metal repair" that was done in this pic. It was priceless. Nice frame repair too.

[hls30.com]

I think Al's using two tiewraps to hold in the new A/c he installed in Larrys car goes the other way...

Will

Edited February 2, 2009 by hls30.com

[ta240]

That looks like farmboy engineering.

[ktm]

That fuse box is a huge no-no if I am correct about those "boxes". It looks like he used automatically-reseting circuit breakers.