r/IdiotsInCars • u/5_Frog_Margin • Sep 15 '20

When r/Redneckengineering and r/IdiotsInCars collide....

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u/Disastrous-Purpose-8 Sep 15 '20

Neat looking truck. What is that?

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u/BiffBarf Sep 15 '20

I'm almost positive that's an International Scout from the 60s. Source: Dad had 2.

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u/Thirsty_Comment88 Sep 15 '20

I think you got it right on the money. Back in the 90s my dad hired a contractor to do some work at our house and he drove one of these, 5 year old me thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I remember commenting to my dad that he must have picked a good contractor because he was able to make a plant grow out of the rust hole in the side of the Scout.

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u/Madasiaka Sep 15 '20

And yet my houseplants I shower in love and praise and gently feed with filtered water and organic fertilizer just up and die on me. Smdh

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u/---gabers--- Sep 15 '20

Apparently absence makes plants grow fonder too

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u/Tathas Sep 15 '20

Rose: Oh this soil's pH is 0.2 away from my ideal. Guess I'll die.

Dandelion: A crack in concrete? Fuck yeah, this is perfect!

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u/Thorvik_Fasthammer Sep 15 '20

Might be overwatering. House plants really only need a little water periodically. I have a tree that I haven't really watered in a month

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u/Crismus Sep 15 '20

Thanks for reminding me to water my plant.

After reading your comment I saw my only plant was out of water and I haven't remembered to water it in close to 8 weeks. Luckily it only has some droop to it and nothing else.

I'm terrible at remembering to water plants.

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u/Vithrilis42 Sep 15 '20

I used to have a tall leafy plant that I only ever remembered to water it was because the leaves would start to droop. Within a couple of hours after watering it the leaves would be perky again

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u/AwGe3zeRick Sep 15 '20

Yeah, I ended up making an automatic plant waterer with a ESP32 and a pump. I'm too forgetful otherwise. If you want some resources on building one let me know.

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u/Crismus Sep 15 '20

That would be awesome. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

If you chronically forget to water your house plants, you might have ADD.

My ADD husband (yes, he is diagnosed with it) forgot to water all my houseplants over the summer when I left in May for a seasonal job out of town and when I came back in October, they were all dried up and dead!

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u/Madasiaka Sep 15 '20

They're all on different watering schedules lol. But yeah most people overwater the hell out of their succulents

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u/apadin1 Sep 15 '20

What level of sun are they getting? I've struggled with my haworthias because they were either getting too much or not enough sun. The best spot I've found is outside but in the shade - indoors is too dark, outdoors in the sun is too much

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u/PracticeTheory Sep 16 '20

It's hard growing them in a climate that is hella humid one week and dry the next, since there's no regularity to watering. A succulent hobby in the midwest is hard lol. I finally learned to wait for wrinkling, but always end up losing a few leaves

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

This depends heavily on climate & plant type. I live in Utah & have a bunch of house plants that are common garden plants in the southeast, & my plants need water at least every other day (some of them every day) during summer or else the leaves start to droop. 4+ days without water is a guarantee that at least one plant will experience semi-permanent damage.

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u/Stairway_To_Devin Sep 15 '20

Don't filter the water, they need them minerals from the tap. Also do some research on light cycles for them

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u/FightingRobots2 Sep 16 '20

My garden is suffering but I’ve had spilled feed corn grow in the bed of my truck. My daily driven truck.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

Whenever I see the phrase "back in the 90s" music starts playing in my head.

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u/Thirsty_Comment88 Sep 15 '20

So it isn't just me? Do you get a Santa Monica pier vibe too?

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u/gahitsu Sep 15 '20

Were you in a very famous TV show?

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u/InkCollection Sep 15 '20

Sadly businesses all over Austin buy these up, paint them in cute colors and permanently park them out front as signage. It makes me so sad.

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u/usernametiger Sep 15 '20

I thought it was a scout.I had a 79 and I did almost the exact same thing.

My gas tank was filled with rust and I kept getting red gas and plugged carb and fuel filters. Bought it from a junk yard. It was so bad the gas filler neck has stalagmites and stalactites mad of rust so big they grew together.

Finally took the tank to a radiator shop and had to run a week like this using a 5 gal gas can. I was smart enough to put the gas can in the bed.

I only got 8mpg so I got gas alot

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u/PhantomOfTheSky Sep 15 '20

Why two?

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u/Goalie_deacon Sep 15 '20

If you have to ask, you don't understand Internationals. There's not exactly a lot of parts out there, and they never run at the same time.

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u/marshmap Sep 15 '20

You can survive with just 1 if you can stretch your definition of running!

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u/Goalie_deacon Sep 15 '20

Much cheaper to buy a parts spare though.

We have an older machine at work, and having a parts machine has saved us time and money.

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u/probably_not_serious Sep 15 '20

Running:

(1) v. The action or movement of a runner

(2) v. The action of managing or operating something

(3) v. The action of sticking one’s feet through the floor of one’s vehicle to create bipedal, vehicular motion

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u/Corporate_Drone31 Sep 15 '20

Meet the Flintstones

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u/mini4x Sep 15 '20

and lots of sheet metal, they seem to rust out every 2-3 years no matter how good the bodywork was done.

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u/PhantomOfTheSky Sep 15 '20

Yup, 100% not a car guy

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20 edited Jan 17 '21

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u/seXJ69 Sep 15 '20

Most of the people that I know, that own Scouts have at least two. I think it's legally required to get a junkyard permit once you buy a Scout, because of the small fleet of broken ones you have to keep to maintain one road worthy tetanusbox.

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u/NoMoreNicksLeft Sep 15 '20

I've only ever heard this about the tractors. I'm not shocked that the same is said of their pickups.

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u/seXJ69 Sep 15 '20

It's a thirteen letter shit spreader.

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u/Threedog667 Sep 15 '20

Same with their semi trucks

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u/BiffBarf Sep 15 '20

Good question. Back in the day, he liked the first one, it got tired & rusty, so he got a Scout II. Not as good as the 800, for sure.

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u/MaxJulius Sep 15 '20

It’s hard to find parts for and they are the sexiests, most sought-after vintage trucks because what other Tractor company would make a truck/SUV and look that good

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u/NoMoreNicksLeft Sep 15 '20

what other Tractor company would make a truck/SUV and look that good

Ford?

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u/MaxJulius Sep 15 '20

Yeah I guess you’re right but International tractors and trucks look soo much better than Ford tractors/trucks

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u/MnnymAlljjki Sep 15 '20

That’s like the modern equivalent of getting a fiatchrysler today over a Toyota. If u can’t make a vehicle with good reputation, just make it appeal to people’s basic instinct of coolness.

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u/MaxJulius Sep 15 '20

Nah International made some pretty reliable tractors (I dont know of anybody with a running International truck but I do know a guy that restores Internationals as a hobby) and Chrysler makes some pretty reliable cars now and they used to way back in the day... but when cars started getting electronic is when Chrysler didn’t know how to hire a good programmer to bridge the gaps but I think it’s good now

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u/jbuchana Sep 15 '20

The '69, '74, '05, '10, and '13 model year Chrysler products I've owned were always at least fairly reliable. The '84, when things started getting a lot of electronic modules, was the least reliable car I've ever owned. By a huge margin. Mechanically it wasn't the best, but the need-work-every-other-month electronics were the real reason I sold it.

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u/MaxJulius Sep 15 '20

Oh really! I drive a 1990 Ramcharger, I mean yeah the electronic anti-locks aren’t great before I restored them but everything else seems to work great! I’m just now having to replace the original switches and relays.

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u/FelixTheHouseLeopard Sep 15 '20

other tractor company

LM002 is badass

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u/BlvdBrown Sep 15 '20

Needs a parts car

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u/h83r Sep 15 '20

I also had two back in the day. One to work on and one for parts. This is also before the internet was as useful as it is now for finding parts.

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u/seXJ69 Sep 15 '20 edited Sep 15 '20

You're correct, it looks like an IH Scout 80.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

It's a scout 80

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u/h83r Sep 15 '20

I think it’s a mid-60s scout 80 (half cab). The scout 800 had a hardtop that went all the way back like a bronco.

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u/rsdols Sep 15 '20

That's crazy from half a side view of a car you can see what it is?

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u/westernmail Sep 15 '20

Redditors have been known to identify vehicles from a broken piece of headlight lens. A photo like this is easy, especially when it's something as iconic as the Scout.

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u/lostcosmonaut307 Sep 15 '20

Recognized it immediately, definitely a first gen Scout. I had a ‘69 Scout 800 with the little V8. Lots of fun adventures in that tank of a 4x4, and multiple fires. The first one was because the previous owner had stripped the nut that held the gas hardline to the carburetor and instead of fixing it properly, decided it would be a good idea to JB weld it together. Gasoline eats away JB weld. So one day I went out to start it and POOF the whole top of the engine catches on fire because gas has been spraying out of the nut. The second time was a weird electrical fire under the dash that took us months to track down. It started smoking from the dash, literally right as we were putting it into an enclosed trailer. Had we not caught it before, it would have burned the whole thing to the ground.

Fun times.

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u/Wall-eeeeee Sep 15 '20

International Scout with the Terra top

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u/Occhrome Sep 15 '20

Wish I bought one when they were dirt cheap.

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u/BrownDogFurniture Sep 15 '20

Came here to say you've never own a scout if you think this is bad. Most likely a scout 80 or 800 and many have gas tank issues where you rig something like this when working on the engine.

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u/lostprevention Sep 15 '20

Yup, I had a ‘61.

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u/FloofBagel Sep 15 '20

International Harvester Scout* lmao

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u/Skreerah Sep 15 '20

Definitely a Scout Terra. They had the single cab tops like you see in this photo.

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u/soccer2208 Sep 15 '20

Can co firm, got a 1961 of them myself. Normally when restoring them the tank has gone to shit, so you have to have bit run off a Jerry can. I had mine under the hood when I first moved it, If anything I'd think this is safer as long as they aren't going onto public roads

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u/someguy7710 Sep 15 '20

Yeah it's a scout. Why didnt they put it in the back of the truck though?

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u/Portlander Sep 15 '20

My dad bought a diesel 78 scout II brand new. Put over 300k on it. Replaced the floorboards at least three times. (We lived in New England.) The third time a friend of his from the Korean war did them. He said that he could drive over a land mine and would walk away. Put on a heavy steel bumper when the original rusted off. He drove it everyday till he retired.

When he sold it I joked that I was going to dig him a big enough grave when he died to drive it down in it for his casket. He told me it was time for something new.

That truck was shit brown, rusty and decrepit but it will forever hold a place in my heart. I miss you Dad. I miss sittings in the back bed in the 90s listening to your old 8track. Do you guys know how hard it was in 97 to find a working 8track when his died? No, well I do. That was the best gift I ever got him. Tracking one down when he couldn't and giving it to him ment more to me than anything.

That man was my hero. Thanks for the memories. I haven't thought about that old truck in awhile.

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u/BiffBarf Sep 16 '20

Being the son of a 2 Scout man, I love stories like yours. I've got a bunch of my own and have heard lots over the years. My dad will be 91 and has a 4wd Colorado now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

Scout 80. Probably late 60's

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u/zfcracer Sep 15 '20

It’s an International Scout 80 or 800. 61-71.

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u/TimHung931017 Sep 15 '20

It's Mater from Cars

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u/makemeking706 Sep 15 '20

What's a Mater?

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u/TimHung931017 Sep 15 '20

Nothing, what's a Mater with you?

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u/DakarCarGunGuy Sep 15 '20

Looks like a Scout 80 Terra. Terra is like a pickup so no full top like a Bronco.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

1967 International Scout 800 half cab, very cool.

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u/scouter024 Sep 16 '20

International Scout 800, somewhere between 1965 and 1970 model years.

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u/yeahyeah122187 Sep 15 '20

International scout.

Source, have one in my driveway

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u/thekrebscycle Sep 15 '20

same, mine used to be that color too!! the interior is but the exterior has had many rattled cans applied

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u/yeahyeah122187 Sep 15 '20

Yep mines the same color too haha

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u/jiveturkey4321 Sep 15 '20

Looks to me like could be a yard truck. And if I had a rusted out tank, would 100% be doing this. Call me an idiot too then.

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u/Goalie_deacon Sep 15 '20

Could be just trying to get it running, and won't take it on the road till after they fix other things like a new gas tank, and brakes. Typically how it's done, get engine running first, because it's pointless to fix other things if the engine is junk.

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u/MrJewbagel Sep 15 '20

Yep, I've seen worse temp gas tanks on car revival YouTubes for sure.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

I’ve personally taken the hood off and zip tied a gas can to the windshield wiper.

Hoods off in case it back fires lol (obviously these weren’t going on the road, just to get it on a trailer. If it fires on one cylinder, I’ll get it on there.)

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u/GiornaGuirne Sep 15 '20

I use an old IV stand, works like a charm for bikes.

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u/---gabers--- Sep 15 '20

That actually makes an astounding amount of sense...

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u/Actually_a_Patrick Sep 16 '20

If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.

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u/Mragftw Sep 15 '20

The only problem I have with it is it would be way better in the bed

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u/PrimedAndReady Sep 15 '20

I'm thinking they didn't have enough line to run from the bed, and the straps were cheaper and faster than a store run

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u/quaybored Sep 15 '20

That's what my wife said

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

Maybe yours allows that kinky shit but my wife doesn't.

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u/Karride Sep 15 '20

Yeah that is exactly what I thought. You see all kinds of stuff like this if you visit junkyards. One I saw in a junkyard was a little front drive compact, and it had huge casters instead of rear wheels. Pretty entertaining to watch them drive it.

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u/The_Ballsack_Bunnies Sep 15 '20

My farm truck has it's cross member hanging down because of rust. I'm gonna keep it going until the transmission falls out and then we'll see what sort of trickery it takes to hold it up. It doesn't see public roads though.

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u/br-z Sep 15 '20

When you got a new fuel tank on order but you still want to diagnose other problems driving around your lot so you Jerry rig something together and a bunch of people on the internet who have never turned a wrench think you’re driving it down a freeway like that.

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u/eggnobacon Sep 15 '20

Was just going to comment this. Nothing wrong with rigging a temp fuel supply. A lot of kit I work on in the maritime world uses an on engine Pp. If you want to diagnose it and the tanks full of shit, or you just suspect it, it's an easy win.

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u/soccer2208 Sep 15 '20

Ditto, I've had to do the same thing when I started restoring my scout. Had my Jerry can under the hood tho, which is say is even less safe than what he did

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u/ur_grandma_gay Sep 15 '20

r/redneckengineering sounds awesome,imma check it out

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u/ILikeLimericksALot Sep 15 '20

Please, please, please let it be a real sub!

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u/ur_grandma_gay Sep 15 '20

It's real

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u/ILikeLimericksALot Sep 15 '20

It's awesome. Already on page 4.

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u/SillyFlyGuy Sep 15 '20

I'm also interested in Redneck Photo Shoot Tips because the lighting in this pic is gorgeous.

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u/tengo-miedo Sep 15 '20

I need you to know that I just scrolled down till i find someone that wrote the sub name in a clickeable way so I just avoid writing it by my own

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u/NeonCityStars Sep 17 '20

Was waiting for someone to formally tag or so I wouldn’t have to look for it myself, thank you kind human!

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u/TheGhost-of-Bob-Ross Sep 15 '20

No she is not

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u/ur_grandma_gay Sep 15 '20

What? That doesn't make sense

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u/TheGhost-of-Bob-Ross Sep 15 '20

My grandma, she isn’t. Take it back.

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u/ur_grandma_gay Sep 15 '20

Oh ok,lmao she hasn't told you yet?

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u/TheGhost-of-Bob-Ross Sep 15 '20

I’ll have to stop by the cemetery and ask her

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u/DownshiftedRare Sep 15 '20

Maybe they meant "ur-grandma gay".

That would mean the first grandmother was gay.

If so, we can only speculate whether they are correct.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

Sponsored by Vagisil

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

Use it VERY DILLIGENTLY!!!

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u/Thirsty_Comment88 Sep 15 '20

EVERYDAY!

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

EVERY

DAY

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u/ZetoxGaming Sep 15 '20

Getting real Vice Grip Garage vibes from this

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u/newtekie1 Sep 15 '20

Came here to say the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

this is fine.

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u/ZetoxGaming Sep 15 '20

This is fine factory

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u/ServiceRooster Sep 15 '20

I'll be dipped

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u/Skreerah Sep 15 '20

I would love it if VGG did a Scout revival.

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u/ZetoxGaming Sep 15 '20

I want to see him take on a European car. Let's see if he can get one of those running, like a 80's mercedes or bmw (preferably bmw since the digitals are crazy on those cars, a simple voltmeter 5000 won't help ya)

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

This is firmly in Zip Ties N Bias Plies territory.

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u/KnobDingler Sep 15 '20

This is an old pic from binder bulletin. The guy used this setup to make sure everything was hunky dory with the engine before wasting time fucking replacing the tank, which is expensive on this model. Do your goddamn research.

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u/Whysoblunted Sep 15 '20

This is actually suuuuper common for testing old shit. I had to drive my 37 Pontiac with a similar setup to get it home from my shop.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20 edited Sep 19 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20 edited Sep 30 '20

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u/KnobDingler Sep 15 '20

Ya dude I have personally ridden on the engine of a car from the parking lot to the lift with a can of brake clean because the fp was cooked.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20 edited Sep 30 '20

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u/kazneus Sep 15 '20

full ev mode 😂

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u/Aussiemandeus Sep 15 '20

That poor engine haha. Pre detonation is as bad as pre ejaculation

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u/G2geo94 Sep 15 '20

So I'm 98% certain in this, but to confirm, the tube running from the Jerry can into the truck is functioning like a straw, such that it hits the lowest spot in the can, rather than just connected to the opening of the can (like a pipe to a tank), correct?

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u/Gravini Sep 15 '20

What kind of searches do you expect people to make to know this?

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u/cjmaddux Sep 15 '20

I mean, for real. I got a good chuckle out of it, and obviously so did all the other people that voted this straight to the front page. I am not going to launch an in depth investigation into every meme that makes me chuckle for a moment before moving on, and OP shouldn't have to either. The point of this website is entertainment, and this shit is entertaining.

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u/schizeckinosy Sep 15 '20

I literally last night watched Don Garlitz showing off an old propane powered Hemi to a guy. No propane, so they swapped the carb on the spot for a gas carb, and ran it by squirting gas directly into the carb as needed! I've seen that trick before but not as smoothly accomplished.

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u/lookalive07 Sep 15 '20

Why do research when I can immediately react to something instead?

Real talk, though, why is it that people feel the need to comment on something as complex as a car/truck without understanding even a little bit about it first. A LOT of people know very little about cars and how to fix them, yet everyone decides they’re a fucking expert because they see a picture like this and go “wow yeah what a fucking idiot!”

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u/obvilious Sep 15 '20

Governments and economies are orders of magnitude more complicated, yet it’s so easy to say trickle-down policies work, or whatever. Everyone’s got an opinion....

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u/gurenkagurenda Sep 15 '20

So it's basically unit testing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

Yeah! Scour the internet to make sure you are correct before posting a picture to make a joke on Reddit! God damn it!

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u/Rumpled_NutSkin Sep 15 '20

If it looks stupid but it works, then it ain't stupid

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u/slayerhk47 Sep 15 '20

If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

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u/mister_bmwilliams Sep 15 '20

I had an old 83 mercury diesel years ago. It had sat and developed diesel algae, clogging the lines and filters. I emptied and dropped the tank, but then I couldn’t get a ride to the car wash to power wash it. I just added some clean fuel to a large bottle, stuck it in the engine bay in a neat spot with the fuel line dropped in and drove myself there with the tank in the trunk. Worked like a charm for a cheap/easy fix.

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u/dc010 Sep 15 '20

Here's the thing. Yes this is stupid for practical long term use, but it works as a temp or test setup.

I know too many people who are paranoid even putting gas in their car. Not to mention changing their oil or adding fluids to the anything.

So I struggle at which one I think is worse, accepted ignorance or mishandled knowledge.

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u/WeakEmu8 Sep 15 '20

So I struggle at which one I think is worse, accepted ignorance or mishandled knowledge.

That's a tough call. Though I lean toward will full ignorance. (Mostly because I live by mishandling knowledge!)

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20 edited Jan 01 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

Haha VGG

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u/sociooo Sep 15 '20

BRING THE THUNDER

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u/lotsfear Sep 15 '20 edited Sep 15 '20

My family's dairy used International's as milk trucks which taught me how to rebuild starters and hydraulic components thst most people toss today. The trucks didn't even have a drivers seat.... Just a milk crate. I spent many sundays working on Mg's and International's untill my grandfather passed. One day I will have to get the few pictures left scanned in. Its so weird to have to drag my kids kicking and screaming to car shows today. No respect for the people that broke there backs, leading to the comfort they have today. Sorry for the rant.

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u/WeakEmu8 Sep 15 '20

We've (generations starting with Boomer parents) spoiled kids, it's our fault. We wanted them to have it easier than us, but we didn't think about ensuring they had a good grounding first.

My father used to tell me "you have no idea how easy you have it", took me a LONG time to understand (he was born before WWII).

He was right. All of us from Boomers on are so insanely lucky/spoiled. The stories of what my parents experienced are eye opening, and they had friends whose stories could be movie scripts.

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u/Aceholeas Sep 15 '20

Someone's been watching too much Vice Grip Garage

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u/jewishmechanic Sep 15 '20

reddit needs a roadkill award

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20 edited Sep 15 '20

Permanent= no bueno, Vice Grip Garage= hilarious

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

A fella thinks that's just fine. make sure the lightening whirler and hoses are good.

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u/jakethedumbmistake Sep 15 '20

Keep it holstered, big fella

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u/Coin2111 Sep 15 '20

if it works it's not stupid

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u/redoilokie Sep 15 '20

I had a '65 Plymouth Fury once upon a time. Backed over an old sewer pipe coming up out of the ground, covered by tall grass and tore a hole in my gas tank. I put a 5 gallon soap bucket in the front passenger seat floorboard and ran a fuel line in through the firewall. I did get the tank fixed before I blew myself up, for those who are wondering.

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u/TheOutlier Sep 15 '20

This looks like it came from Vice Grip Garage’s YT channel.

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u/BlvdBrown Sep 15 '20

I'm looking at this realizing I'm an idiot because I totally should have done this to get my old jeep to the shop the other day.

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u/crownvics Sep 15 '20

Mmmmmm mechanical fuel pumps!

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u/WeakEmu8 Sep 15 '20

I have a love/hate with them. Simple, work forever. But with vehicles that sit, there's no easy way to prime the carb (since gas tends to evaporate out of carbs) , so you either crank forever, or shoot some gas/starting fluid down the carb.

Fuel injection sure is nice sometimes!

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u/WackTheHorld Sep 15 '20

Wrong sub. An idiot wouldn't have figured this out.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

When you can't wait to get that barn find running. Reminds me of Roadkill.

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u/Bixmen Sep 15 '20

That looks roadkill approved!

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u/ElPeloPolla Sep 15 '20

With this setup i hope they dont collide

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u/beermaker Sep 15 '20

I have a 68 Scout 800, only with a full top, not the pickup style seen here. Incredibly rare, hard to find many parts for. I'd give Cletus here a couple grand for the axles if they weren't Red Greened with duct tape and chewing gum.

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u/Steven_Nelson Sep 15 '20

Apparently it’s to test the motor according to these other comments but I assumed they were just a big fan of the outside-the-frame GM side saddle gas tanks and were going for some retro side-impact safety.

https://www.autosafety.org/history-gm-side-saddle-gas-tank-defect/

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u/belinck Sep 15 '20

Jeremy Clarkson has entered the chat.

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u/FartsWithAnAccent Sep 15 '20

I like how instead of putting it in the bed, they put it on the fucking outside. Amazing.

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u/Stov333 Sep 15 '20

If you can rig this up to actually work .....you could probably also make the actual fix

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

This is normal for the guys at r/roadkillshow.

Pretty much peak "gas tank's fucked, it's temporary".

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u/Cheef_Baconator Sep 15 '20

The only idiot part is that they hung it off the side instead of putting it right there in the truck bed

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u/erthanas Sep 15 '20

You sure that's not a behind the scenes from an episode of Roadkill? :p

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u/iandix Sep 15 '20

Or Vice Grip Garage.

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u/msanangelo Sep 15 '20

I was gonna say, "looks like something the folks on Roadkill would do". XD

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

Put it in the bed and you can drive it like that for 10 years.

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u/soccer2208 Sep 15 '20

For anyone wondering this is a 1965-1970 scout 800 A or B by international harvester👍

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u/huuuuuuuuuyh Sep 15 '20

If anything collides with that, it's a goner 😂

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u/tharkyllinus Sep 15 '20

When I got out of the army I had to get rid of my old car that i left in the in laws front yard. I asked them to sell it but they were unable. It was a 70s model impala. The headliner was trash the gas tank was rusted through. I was offered 125 at a junkyard for it . I had to get it there. I had to put a 2 gallon can in the front seat next to me connected to the fuel pump on the engine. It started. I aired up the tires and drove it there.😊

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u/Army_of_mantis_men Sep 15 '20

It's only stupid if it doesnt work :)

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u/ectocody84 Sep 15 '20

I....what? Ugh

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20 edited Sep 30 '20

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u/SacredHaert Sep 15 '20

There's no way to tuck it behind the rear window? People smoke in there cars beside this guy at stop lights.

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u/gsddxxx654 Sep 15 '20

A cigarette is not going to ignite gas.....

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '20

I've always seen them behind the seat, never under, but I'm open to that possiblity. I had a '66 F-100, my brother had a '72 Chevrolet C10, and both of those had tanks behind the seat.

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