The Poor Worksmanship Thread

[MEK-Dangerfield]

Suddenly, I'm starting to feel better about things.   

[Prowler Orange Challenger]

Well on my car let's start here. How about the wiring mess? You all remember my thread about my car being dead. Then he had a cheap electric fan that didn't even began to cool the car correctly. Then found he had overtightened the radiator hoses. Let's see how about a rubber hose from the carb to fuel pump. Let's see an amateur paint job on it but, its 10-11ish years old now. How about the 205/75/14 tires on front and 235/60/14 tires out back?    Anyways, this thing likes my money but, hopefully in the end it will be worth it. 

[FeO2 bucket]

Pop rivets.

More pop rivets.

And after I drilled those out even more pop rivets.

The trunk on my '70 Barracuda was made of old street signs. Many layers thick it was like ancient archaeology removing all that. The cowl and inner fender had patches made from aluminum roof flashing held in with ....yup more pop rivets . Lower quarters artfully sculpted from bondo as usual.
And apparantly, instead of saying "Scrap the 'cuda Clyde" Clint Eastwood said "Patch the lower right fender". It was about orangutan level of workmanship.

[Prowler Orange Challenger]

Wow gotta love those pop rivets. 

[hemi71]

There are some good ones on here, especially the coil springs!

I've seen some choice repairs in my 90+ Mopars, and passed on quite a few cars where what i saw just scared me away!

Some i can think of off hand....untold numbers of rich running misadjusted carbs, found a set of plugs gapped at .020, had a later small block with the air injection ports blocked up with sheet metal screws (so thats where that small exhaust leak is!) Cast crank 440's with forged crank balancers on them (quickly pounds out rear main seals)
Had a 340 with only 2 intact exhaust manifold studs per side, all the others were snapped off. The AAR i had was missing the center pin of the 8 3/4 sure grip center section, had about 1/2 inch of end play on the axle bearings.

[falcon50flier]

I'll add Ray Barton Racing to this. In January I ordered a custom oil pan for my hemi to give me some ground clearance and take advantage of the AlterKtion I run that eliminates the drag link and makes a 'dragster style' pan work well. RB quoted me 2 weeks to fabricate, so I gave my CC# and approved the order. THEY JUST DIDN'T SPECIFY WHICH 2 WEEKS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT. Two and a half months later I got my pan, and because they were so late, I had to pay express shipping to get it in time to leave for Mopars at the Strip. As a gesture, Ray "split" the shipping with me.

Then I get the pan out of the box and as I go to install it I discover it has no notch in the pan rail for the dipstick to pass by. So the day before I leave for the road trip, I have to hire a TIG welder/fab shop by the hour (+overtime) for $200 to mod the pan that was $550 to start with. This is now one expensive pan. When I bring this oversight to Ray's attention, his manager tells me, "that's the way we build them all, nobody runs a dipstick on our pans". No settlement discussion, no callback from Ray, no concession.

You decide who the dipstick is, I feel like I just got my oil level checked ,if you know what I mean..