This is so bizarre I just feel compelled to share it. After sitting in its crate for months I finally got around to installing the engine @cutlassefi built for me. When we went to pull the old 330, I noticed the motor mounts were shot, which I anticipated. Once the engine was out this is what we found. 2 pieces of all thread, 4 nuts, 8 washers and 4 chain links. The nuts were able to be removed by hand.




I haven’t driven this car a ton since I got it, it’s never really ran or driven that great, but after this and a few other things we found I’ll be going through it bumper to bumper before I trust it enough to stab the go pedal.

 

Nice!!!🙄

 

All that screwing around could'ev had two new mounts installed. Must have been all out of common mounts that day at the Piggly wiggly. I'm sure that's all grade 8 hardware. DOH!

 

Is that like Ethiopian solid mounts?

 

I said something very similar. I’ve seen a lot of halfass work over the years, but this one doesn’t make sense to me. There were so many easier ways to jury rig something. There was pride in this somehow.

 

Wow!

 

What does that even accomplish? Maybe their jack broke and they picked the front up from those?

 

That’s what we can’t figure out. I’ve seen stuff where I’m like “ok, you were on the farm and you had some angle iron and an arc welder laying around and you made do with what you had. I get it”. But this, I just can’t wrap my head around how you get here.

 

That’d be a high end repair in Havana.

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You gotta do what you gotta do to make those 3 cylinder Russian tractor engines fit in your tri-five.

 

Thats ***** funny…lol

 

It never ceases to amaze me the junkyard fixes you find in old cars. 99 times out of 100 fixing it the right way would be so much easier than the cobbled crap you find. Forget safety. I used to have an old Ford farm truck. I swear the guy who 'fixed' the fuel line must've gone to Home Depot and bought one of every brass fitting he found in the plumbing isle and pieced that thing together. A brand new original style replacement line was easily found at NAPA for around $15. Crazy.

 

There are 3 ways in doing any repair. The right way, the wrong way, and your way.

 

MAC (1992) movie. John Turturro Quote

You remember...there's only two ways to do something.
My way and the right way.
And they are both the same.

I told my workers that for years.