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chevymad

First, I guess diesels now days require a chimney instead of an exhaust pipe. I sooo want to get some red brick to stack around this thing.. maybe a weather vane for the top?

After that I had a 70 chevy pickup in. Has a set of rebuilt heads on it from somewhere, but the exhaust valve on #6 was leaking badly. The woman who owns it said her husband started it up with his foot to the floor.. she asked him wtf he was doing and he told her "warming it up for her" LOL.. Anyway, this is what happens with severe valve float, broken spring, smacked valve and nearly burnt seat. This by the way.. is the spring! Shocked

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:12 pm Post subject:

yummy!

-Schultzy

izcain · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject:

Niiiice

Sounds like the lady that brought her suburban in with 70k on the clock and didn't realize that you have to change oil and she never had!

And she was wondering why it would knock when going up a hill........... Only a trace amount of oil left in the pan. The rest was all sludge

QwkTrip · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:47 pm Post subject:

I see those stacks through the bed all over the place. Ruins the function of the bed. Obviously belong to people who don't use a truck as a truck.

chevymad · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject:

The truck has a fifth wheel setup in it.. I'd hate to see the front of his trailer.

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:18 pm Post subject:

Diesels are becoming like FWD import cars a decade ago. Just a bunch of morons and stickers and smoke-blowing bulls**t.

Pipes like that say three things about a man:

1) Idiot
2) Doesn't ever haul anything
3) Small d**k

Also, in defense of the woman's husband, I bet the engine was warm after the valves floated! Laughing

izcain · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject:

Lots of posers in the diesel world it's the silent ones you have to watch for lol not the one with goddy pipes.

Whiskeychick · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:35 pm Post subject:

I love trucks with stacks. Not sure about this unistack thing though... But have half a dozen trucks like that, that come to the drags. They school almost everything out there. One of them does a 4 wheel burn out, fantastic to watch Razz

chevymad · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:22 pm Post subject:

Something new today.. an alcoholic come in, said he had a wire caught under his car and his brakes didnt work..

Check this out..

Wonder where he picked up this "wire"? Laughing

iansane · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:28 pm Post subject:

GM front driver. Grand Prix/am? Impala?

Yikes... Mattress remnants?

Dewey316 · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:31 pm Post subject:

chevymad · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:33 pm Post subject:

Looks like a woven wire or cyclone fence to me. And yes.. its the dirtiest nastiest stinkiest 04 impala you've ever seen.

QwkTrip · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:58 pm Post subject:

That's great!

I can't wait to see tomorrow's customer of the day. Very Happy

chevymad · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:27 pm Post subject:

BTW, this car was driven to the shop, sans brakes.. and with that mess dragging on the ground mashed between the floorboards and the pavement. I wish i'd seen it come in.. should have been sparky. Very Happy

DBL_TKE · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:56 am Post subject:

IROCDave · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:50 pm Post subject:

The pictures remind me of a couple of customers that brought there " problems " into the boat shop I worked at 22 years ago.

#1 - a women brought her 24' cuddy cabin in because it quit running. This was in the month of May. She said her husband drove it for a half hour, then it died. They killed the battery (and starter) attempting to start it and had to be towed back. First thing I noticed was the chocolate milk in the bilge. Pulled the dipstick, all choco. Pulled the spark arrester / air filter, all choco. They didnt winterize it and Sacramento had a hard freeze that winter. The block, exhuast manifolds and intake all cracked. The crankcase filled with water yet the little 305 Volvo Penta kept running until the oil / water mixture was pushed out of the valve cover breather into the air filter.

#2 - guy brought in a mid 80's 21' low profile boat that would have normally had a BBC and Berkley jet drive but rather had one of Mercruisers first fuel injected SBC's and early Alpha outdrive instead. He said he left the drain plug out and it sank in saltwater. We turned him away. That was the coolest MPFI manifolds I have seen. Mercruiser only made it for a couple of years and did not carry the parts any longer. What a waste.

#3 - We sold a 27' Carrera offshore boat to a known gang member. He proceeded to stuff it into a rock levy on the Sacremento river the following weekend. It tore the lower half of the Bravo 1 drive off and tore up the bottom of the boat. It spent 4 months in the shop being repaired.

chevymad · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject:

Well here's a pic of the inside of that impala. It almost made me puke from the smell. What you dont see are the old dog bones sitting on the back seat.

And todays project, a 944 that the water pump seized up on. This cars a real POS but its at least not stanky.

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:06 pm Post subject:

rednecks wanting to go high-class, but lack the funds?

chevymad · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:25 am Post subject:

My thursday.

rjmcgee · The Hammer Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2328

What happenned Brandon? That is one fine knowlage bump.