Hokey, ghetto, mickey mouse, whatever stupid fixes you may have seen. Here is what I found when I pulled the filter lid on a running parts truck I bought
Old Ford front crossmembers are prone to cracking in the center. When I first got Henrietta the '38 Ford pickup in 1966, a previous owner had "repaired" a cracked front crossmember by taking off the U-bolts, forming a piece of sheet metal that appeared to have been cut from a large soup can over the crossmember to hold the pieces of the cracked crossmember in place, and hammering the U-bolts down over that and tightening everything up. In the 43 years since then, I haven't seen anything that topped that.
HA! That guy's wife is going to be pissed when she goes looking for her flashlight, extension cords and lamp cords.
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