Bubba strikes again !
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Bubba strikes again !
During my front-end rebuild I found several things assembled incorrectly and evidence everwhere that Bubba could barely work on cars, let alone a vette ! :eek:
Oh simple things like the sway bar on wrong (metal to metal) and the coil springs not fully seated.....and beat :smash: marks from where Bubba had some trouble getting the bushings to seat.....so on and so forth....
Vote below or enter your most INFAMOUS or RIDICULOUS strike of Bubba on your vette.
:crazy:
Oh simple things like the sway bar on wrong (metal to metal) and the coil springs not fully seated.....and beat :smash: marks from where Bubba had some trouble getting the bushings to seat.....so on and so forth....
Vote below or enter your most INFAMOUS or RIDICULOUS strike of Bubba on your vette.
:crazy:
Melting Slicks
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From: I may be getting old but I refuse to grow up
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (GDaina)
Square bore Holley on a quad manifold
water pump had 3 correct 3/8" bolts and 1 7/16" short bolt
running a tach distributor without the gear for the cable
temp sensors in each head - only one hooked up
just getting started :lol:
Steve :steering:
water pump had 3 correct 3/8" bolts and 1 7/16" short bolt
running a tach distributor without the gear for the cable
temp sensors in each head - only one hooked up
just getting started :lol:
Steve :steering:
Melting Slicks
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From: Dayton Oh
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (verskel)
Bubba drilled a hole in the fan shroud and a piece of wire to prevent the shrould from being hit with the fan. Bubba should have just loosened a couple of bolts and repositioned the shroud. :crazy:
Bubba had cut and blocked all vacuum lines. Turns out that the only thing wrong was a bad vacuum switch and EGR valve. :eek:
When Bubba sold me the car, he said it needed another carb and offered me a "real deal" on square bore Holley. :lol:
Bubba had cut and blocked all vacuum lines. Turns out that the only thing wrong was a bad vacuum switch and EGR valve. :eek:
When Bubba sold me the car, he said it needed another carb and offered me a "real deal" on square bore Holley. :lol:
Melting Slicks
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From: I may be getting old but I refuse to grow up
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (81' Corvette Guy)
STPMAN...is that a bubba emergency brake I see on the back wheel of your vette??? :smash: :crazy:
Steve :steering:
[Modified by stpman, 3:40 PM 3/1/2004]
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Safety Car
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From: Warren MI
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (verskel)
Bubba hooked a wrong wire to "repair" the ac/heater blower moter. When I got the car the blower didn't work. The "quick fix" was a total rebuild of the the fried switches, wires, moter, etc. about $700.00 for parts and labor.
Race Director
Joined: Jul 2002
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From: A 12/8 man in a 4/4 world
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (verskel)
I voted for bubba never touching my vette. I was wrong.
Istalled cheap foreign produced brake calipers on all four corners.
replaced the rear ones last year... leaking like a sieve. front ones are still holding together. on my list to do.
Istalled cheap foreign produced brake calipers on all four corners.
replaced the rear ones last year... leaking like a sieve. front ones are still holding together. on my list to do.
Burning Brakes
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From: Olive Branch MS
St. Jude Contributor
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (79Fever)
While cleaning up engine and valve covers, found where bubba had used a lug nut to stop up the hole in the valve cover where the vent tube goes to the breather. Then took a pcv valve and taped it to the lug nut to make it look functional. Now That Is BUBBA"D. :lolg: :lolg: :lolg: :lolg:
Le Mans Master
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From: Wildwood IL
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (verskel)
Headlight Vac T'd off Disrib vac advance.
No correct screws or bolts anywhere.
Sloted sheetmetal screws in machine'd holes.
Wires to nowhere...connected to nothing.
Wires spliced by twisting the ends together.
RTV used to mount vac tank
Self tapping hex head screws drilled through the floor to mount seats
New seat covers installed OVER the old.
ARRGGGGGG..... :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad \
Eddie
All is corrected and the Vette gods smiled!!!!
[Modified by Silvr77, 10:46 AM 3/13/2004]
No correct screws or bolts anywhere.
Sloted sheetmetal screws in machine'd holes.
Wires to nowhere...connected to nothing.
Wires spliced by twisting the ends together.
RTV used to mount vac tank
Self tapping hex head screws drilled through the floor to mount seats
New seat covers installed OVER the old.
ARRGGGGGG..... :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad :mad \
Eddie
All is corrected and the Vette gods smiled!!!!
[Modified by Silvr77, 10:46 AM 3/13/2004]
Instructor
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From: Brighton Colorado
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (verskel)
I got some bubbas living down the road, talk about hillbillie, any one ever seen a car door for a gate on a fence??? ever rap a sock around a propane line and blow up your nasty dirty house, ever cut your finger off and put it in a ziplock bag beside your bed????? WTF ever sleep with power tools, ever paint a 96 dodge cummns with spray paint???? these hillbilles have, and man do they smell!!! :eek:
Race Director
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From: Lenoir City Tennessee
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Re: Bubba strikes again ! (Silvr77)
Seems like every time I take something off my car I find where "Bubba" has been hard at work. My car has been put back together with more wood screws than I car to remember. The front bumpers were put on the car with 3 inch bolts that had a stack of 5 washers and a lug nut to take up the slop. The nuts on the bumpers were actually welded to the car side of the bumper, making nice little holes in the body. The headlight switch was wired up using lamp cord and wire nuts. :crazy: I could go on. It makes me crazy.
Safety Car
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From: Charles Town WV
Re: Bubba strikes again ! (rexx78)
Holy cow! So the back of the Kraco 6x9 speakers from K-mart were just going to be exposed to the open road!!