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[ferretjuggler]

I'm just wondering what the worst/most dangerous bodges you guys have found while working on your jeeps.
I just started stripping the original (3.73) back axle off yellow perril one.
You know those brake shoe retainer springy things, where you have to push down the spring then twist the washer  thingy through 90 degrees to lock it.
Well the previous owner didn't, 'cos he used 4" NAILS to hold the shoes down!
He (she???) pushed a washer down to compress the springs then welded them with the MIG.
Even I never do bodges this bad, frankly, I'm impressed.
More seriously, the LH brake plate was so rotten that the wheel cyl came off without undoing the bolts.
And I drove this thing for about 7000 miles.

[Nosebolt]

I found a rear shackle bolt had been replaced with a lag bolt as you would use on a garden gate,

and the well documented windscreen frame f*ckup that involved an angle grinder, some glassfibre and a clueless twat

[gordy]

My front axle.  Having spent a small futune 2 years ago on a rebuild, over the next 18 months (10000 miles) it got so noisey it was unreal.  Had to get it looked at again so sent it in to FTE.  Now rebuilt professionally I was horrified with what they found.  The oil slinger looked like it has been hit to shit with a hammer was rippled like pie crust.  The bearings had been torqued up to each other, not set up, the oil seal had been hammered in, bla bla bla.  

[Dave69]

ive seen car cills filled with paper and covered with a biscuit tin lid

[Dave69]

just dumped the oil out of the rear diff from my 2.5l petrol xj, TBH it's nice and clean with the smell and viscosity of engine oil, 10w40 by the feel, look and smell. one good thing is everything inside looks clean and intact with very little backlash

[ferretjuggler]

Dave69 wrote

ive seen car cills filled with paper and covered with a biscuit tin lid

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That must have been the same guy who "welded" the chassis on Yellow Perill.
Just enough biscuit tin and tacks of weld to hold all the newspaper, filler, and underseal.
Needless to say the culprit is alledged to be a motor trader, hence the new MOT when I bought it.

[fha772]

1 of my old xj's was a stolen recovered insurance write off. No major damage except for a bent back bumper, dented quarter panel, and door lock repair. I had as the family car for about 6 months, when i fitted a Warn winch and Warn Transformer winch mount bullbar.
It sat there for a month before i used it. I was over at a friends house and he asked if i would give him a hand to move the little dumper he'd had for his self-built extension. We pushed it by hand most of the way until we came to the drive, which slopes slightly. Both of us couldn't quite move it on the drive, so we decided to put the tow strap on it and pull it up the drive on the bullbar's recovery hook.
 It took the strain and moved it at about walking pace for about 12 feet when the bullbar and winch flew off the front of the jeep!! It blew the main fuse and buggered a couple of relays. When i got out, the grill was broken and the front crossmember was still attached to the bullbar. It turned out that the Cherokee had had a very minor frontend bump at some point, no chassis damage just seemed to have done the bumper and crossmember (i assume it hit a post or something). They had only put the new crossmember in with 2 small(about 6mm) tack welds and then undersealed it!!
That was an impressive bodge!!!
(not to mention the rachet strap round the chassis legs so i could get it back from Daventry to Matlock!!)

[Nosebolt]

not quite in the league of some of these bodges but made us laugh, changing the screen in Dans CJ today thought we would look see why the clock didn't work, turns out all we had was a clock face glued to the dash, no clock just the face

[Bulldog67]

dood, they did a CJ with a clock?

funny tho 

[Nosebolt]

http://www.justparts.com/Partner/1976_1986_Jeep_CJ7_Clock_Omix_Jeep_Clock_17215_01/793035.html

looked real sweet too

[Bulldog67]

ha, summink new every day

[Panic mechanic!]

both mine got clocks.

[gazjeep]

Thought this type of old Ironmongery came with sun dials or wind up stuff 

[Bishops Finger]

Gaz....are you implying CJ ownership is of the ahem old school variety...   ie WTF a lekky window....

[Bulldog67]

a window? wtf the fuck is a window 

[Panic mechanic!]

to steal a vw phrase, its not old school, its old 'n' kool!, just as a point of interest in seems in the states new jk owners are being snubbed by wrangler owners now as not being real jeeps