Don't you hate it when Previous Owners....

[85_Ranger4x4]

Somebody popped the fuse (probably because of their trailer) in my F-150 for the left trailer turn signal... so they ran a new wire with a scotch lock to the truck's tail light wire.

I got the truck when it was 3 years old with just under 26k miles on it, and somebody had already buggered it up.

Makes it confusing when the lights work great with the stock four pin setup, but with the T connector going to a round six you have no left turn.

 

[Psychopete]

Worst I've delt with was the Grand Prix I used to own. I sold it.

The stereo wiring was all the same color. When I had removed the stereo, I noticed there was a lot of rewiring behind the dash. Wasn't broken, so there's no way I was going to touch it. There were also only 3 sets of wires for 4 speakers. I eventually got it after a few hours.

The same dickwad had installed a 262 V8 and used cheap light sheet metal fasteners to hold the lower motor mounts in. I didn't notice until I had to pull the engine. They were welded in as they lied, and I put a 327 in it.

The exhaust was hillarious.

Old license plates were used to 'fill' in holes in the floor.

There was hardly any trunk.

The seats had been fastened in with screws, and were on the verge of ripping out.

The car looked okay visually, the body was actually pretty clean for how bad the trunk was, but the PO was just a dumb ass. It was a fun car, but it had to go.

He did some cool things, like made a floor shifter out of a gun handle. But even that was a half ass effort.

Pete

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Duh, duh, duh...

I forgot the worst of all. Somebody down the line put the 2.8L in my Ranger (or a cab off of an earlier truck) and got royally confused with the wiring/vacuum systems and pretty much hardwired it to just run... it is a mess.

Durasparking it helped a lot, I still need another carburator though... but since I finally have a transmission I can get going on the 289.

 

[alaskan155]

attemp to wire a stereo, fubar vacumn lines, my main 2 things

 

[4x4junkie]

Some nincompoop half-assed replacing the damn fuel pump in my BII (huge boogers of solder on the wires inside the tank with no actual bonding to the terminals). This left me stranded near the top of a remote 4WD trail after one of the wires fell off, forcing me to leave my truck there for two days (partly because of weather, but mostly because no one local (that was open on a Sunday) had a pump (I hadn't yet discovered it was just a broken wire)) Fortunately no one messed with it, although within 30 minutes of me arriving back with another pump, a bunch of dudes in two beat-to-hell trucks came rolling through (no one at all had passed by prior, judging by the lack of tire prints). Who knows if they would've messed with it or not had I not been there.