The other day when i soaked 1 of the hood hinges in vinegar i noticed the hinge bolt had just a threaded bolt & star washer with end ground down to the nut acting as a lock nut. The other hinge had a regular unthreaded hinge bolt with snap retainer. I started to realized bubba had been everywhere in the front half of the car. Or to be politicaly correct - less than professional repairs made only up front. Just replaced the lower splash shield fender to skirt that was bailing/saftey wired on - this was holding my skirt to fender together as the bond is broken to the fender. The running board wasn't helping as no scews touched the fender (drivers). Only thing holding running board on was a couple sheet metal screws cross threaded into the 10-24 body nut/fasteners. This is what burned my butt the most as someone would not even drive to the hardware store for 10-24 screws. Well at least the r/b adds sructural support now.
Some mysterious reason ensured the less than professional repairs (bubba) never worked aft of the seats - lucky for me.
So to Rant and get it out'a my sysem i'm make'n a list of my less than professional repairs.

Mirrors - sport type and not original chrome - not a big problem except that adjustment **** digs into my leg.
Heater/AC box - no seals. Yep hot engine compartment air blows into P-compartment.
- Plastic ears just broken off the box held in with meteric 10mm sheet metal screws.
- No seal between htr box and windshield defroster ducting.
Engine - New GM goodwrench 350 wiped exh lobe on #4 with < 35k mi.
- All smog equip long gone (no big deal here).
- New MSD dist with tack drive cable smashed/broken against firewall.
- MSD 6A wired in wrong (probaly trying to cure the low rpm miss from wiped exh lobe).
- starter brace and stock heat shield gone.
- missing fuel pump casting bolt allowing engine oil to just leak out at will at front of block that should have covered the fuel pump rod.
- found broken engine mount also but that could have been the result of my no-longer favorite trans shop letting the engine hang during clutch R&R.
- all freon out of AC sys.
- wrong year core support and brackets.
- radiator leak from puncture of too long bracket bolt leaking coolant down to rot out wrong year core support.
- missing all but 1 shroud seals.
- oh yea that core support was missing a brace to the front bumber too.
- looked like just lug nuts used for self-locking nuts on the A-arm cross-bar bolts.
- yea that hood hinge bolt.
- and that safety wired d-side lower splash guard.
- cross threaded running board screws.

Okay thats 20 for me. Ahhh, this feels better.
But ya know what feels best is when i gett'm fixed better than original. That way i won't be brake-down along side the road wait'n for AAA.

Feel free to add ur list here. cardo0

 

Bubba had Champain tasts and a beer budget! He was just tryin to "Get her done"!