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Had a request for a bodge today repair an air intake for a Manitou...…………
Or rather rebuild it out of fibreglass haha
Or rather rebuild it out of fibreglass haha
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Come on spill. What did someone do?Keeping half an eye on this thread hoping not to see a long ago sold 88" RRC hybrid
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this bit of galvi plate siliconed into the ns rear cill impressed the frack out of me.
Have a go Joe needs to have his welder privileges revoked.
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Back when I was 15 years old, the ink on my learners permit as wet as the back of my ears.
I believe the saying is, "young, Dumb, and Full of Cum" I am sure a few of you can remember back
that far. wanting to is another story.
I wandered into a junkyard and fell in love with a Bright yellow '74 Porsche Targa.
Obviously there was a reason it was in a junkyard. But you can't tell a 15 year old kid anything
so they happily took six months of my savings. I fixed the tires good enough to roll and dragged
it 4 miles back to my house with my friends '73 monte carlo and in the barn it went.
While it wasn't all that bad looking from the top, it had little frame left to speak of, it didn't start out with a whole lot to begin with. it didn't have much floor either.
But in a few weeks I got it running and did a pretty pathetic job compared to my current standards welding a floor made from another cars hood (bonnet) and several bed frames into it
with my grandfather's old Lincoln arc welder. I didn't even know what a mig was then,
Talk about some dodgy welding I drove the **** out of that car for the next three months
on dirt back roads that were very abundant in the area of southwest New York I was living in at the time. Til it broke in half one fateful night. and back to the scrapyard it went. he even gave me half my money back.
The first in a long career of bodges, That was in fact the beginning the the path that led me here to this fine forum.
I believe the saying is, "young, Dumb, and Full of Cum" I am sure a few of you can remember back
that far. wanting to is another story
.I wandered into a junkyard and fell in love with a Bright yellow '74 Porsche Targa.
Obviously there was a reason it was in a junkyard. But you can't tell a 15 year old kid anything
so they happily took six months of my savings. I fixed the tires good enough to roll and dragged
it 4 miles back to my house with my friends '73 monte carlo and in the barn it went.
While it wasn't all that bad looking from the top, it had little frame left to speak of, it didn't start out with a whole lot to begin with. it didn't have much floor either.
But in a few weeks I got it running and did a pretty pathetic job compared to my current standards welding a floor made from another cars hood (bonnet) and several bed frames into it
with my grandfather's old Lincoln arc welder. I didn't even know what a mig was then,
Talk about some dodgy welding
I drove the **** out of that car for the next three monthson dirt back roads that were very abundant in the area of southwest New York I was living in at the time. Til it broke in half one fateful night. and back to the scrapyard it went. he even gave me half my money back.
The first in a long career of bodges, That was in fact the beginning the the path that led me here to this fine forum.
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Yes. I don't know what a "Seppo" is. Chances are I probably don't want to, but go for it
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A Thomas, Septic, .................................tank ....yank.
Get it. Are you of trumpland birth?
Cheers
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The PO did a bit of welding to the rear chassis spring mount area........plate tacked on, silicone sealant in the gaps and a covering of underseal:
Stripped down and built up from this:
to this:
and this is the cut out 'repair':
But the PO did drop the price by a over grand without blinking
Stripped down and built up from this:
to this:
and this is the cut out 'repair':
But the PO did drop the price by a over grand without blinking
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The PO did a bit of welding to the rear chassis spring mount area........plate tacked on, silicone sealant in the gaps and a covering of underseal:
View attachment 159932
Stripped down and built up from this:
View attachment 159929
to this:
View attachment 159930
and this is the cut out 'repair':
View attachment 159931
But the PO did drop the price by a over grand without blinking
That is some mighty impressive work mate. well done on you for finding it before money changed hands.
I wish I had been so clever.
looks like a pretty decent repair job done afterwards
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