Is it me or does this look like some sloppy work?

[fjman]

I brought the 60 in to have some ford towers mounted up. Should I have specified that the old towers should be removed? The fords are actually welded to the old shock towers on one side. They seriously chopped up my inner fenders too.

Should I be an unhappy camper right now?

 

[fjman]

Here's the other side...

 

[robustbambi]

thats some pretty lazy work.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

P, probably the best the guy could do.. I'd grind those welds down and re-weld, or get a competent welder to do it for you for a few bucks and a 6 pack.

Did you pay for that work????

EDIT..... Re read 1st post.. yes, I'd be upset and

SOME PEOPLE SHOULD NOT TRY TO BE FABRICATORS

J

 

[fjman]

This was actually an offroad shop and I bet they will try to charge me $200 for the work.

Not sure what I can really do about it other than never use them again. I don't even know if they will stay on for the long term

 

[The Phoenician]

first ask them to fix it, if they say no, post up their name and location so no one else makes the mistake of using them.

 

[fjman]

That's the plan. I'm almost scared to have them fix it

 

[dbleon]

I strongly dislike mechanics. Been worked over way too many times to count. That's why i do my own work.. if it's shoddy there's no one else to blame

 

[Randy88FJ62]

I don't like the first picture where they angle grinded the hole in the ford shock mount. The shock mount is now weaker because of that. The ford shock towers are not meant to have holes in them.

I consider my self a functional doer on my truck where things work but don't look pretty and the pictures you posted is s***tier work than I do on my own truck.

The fact that they did not take the time to remove the old upper shock mounts is the first hint. One person in my club did trim his fenders to install his upper shock towers. I did not.

 

[fjman]

I expected a little trimming but nothing like this. It totally escapes me as to why they wouldn't remove the old upper mount? As it is, the drivers side is welded up through the hole that I'd image houses a bolt on an f250 and welded to the side of the old shock mount. I don't even know if that will even last... Plus , cutting a hole in the new tower.

This was basically a small job that would have led to me giving them lots of work on the truck had they done it right. They were also supposed to handle my rear driveshaft but 2 weeks later say they can't make it work. Looks like I'll be either driving really slowly to, or shipping, the truck to who I'd prefer do the work anyway.

Should I pay for this? I'm no cheapskate , but I question their ability to fix it and clean it up. How would you guys approach this?

 

[Randy88FJ62]

How you handle this is a personal mater between you and the shop. Hard to tell someone else what to do given personalities and not knowing everything.

I guess it really depends how explicit you were when you agreed for them to do the work...

If you have to, you can drive in FWD with rear driveshaft disconnected. I wouldn't drive across the country like this but at low highway speeds, 55 mph, you should have no problems. If you get heavy vibrations then slow down.

 

[fjman]

Well I'd need to have a front driveshaft in there first. I need to cut my crossmember to do that.

 

[fjman]

Gieco will tow me 50 miles for free in VA if I need to do that

 

[Randy88FJ62]

I took measurements flange to flange for my rear driveshaft and the local company was able to make it.

You can go that route then bolt it up in the fabricator's parking lot and move it...

 

[fjman]

It has a rear shaft on it but it backwards and a combo of two different driveshafts (the pinion flange is from an earlier truck). They could have prob just balanced the one on the truck currently.

 

[Spike Strip]

Randy is right, IMHO - That first pic is a mount waiting to fail. Your gut is right: Shoddy work.

 

[Dynosoar]

Horrific! That is a botch, and I have seen some ghetto fab stuff before but this is about the worst.

Dyno

 

[The Machinist]

Holy crap that's s***ty work! He should be paying YOU his shop rate for that quality. I wouldn't pay a shop a cent if they did that to my truck.

That hole they cut in the first side and the quality of those welds is terrifying.

 

[90FJ]

Booger welds, they look like they got enough penetration to be solid just not pretty. Either they didn't prep enough or they used a stick welder. I wouldn't be concerned about the hole they cut in it, easily enough material and angles to be solid.

I'd be more concerned with the angle of the shocks, they seem to be slanted and rightly so because they're offset from the original location. The bushings will wear out and put undo stress on the shock and mounts.

Also, are those the shocks you're gonna run? We're the pics taken ride height because they look like they are pretty much fully extended.

 

[Spudman]

I agree the welding looks pretty shoddy, but I can sort of understand what the guys intention was when he cut those holes and then welded inside the holes to strengthen the support.

With the Toyota shock mounts they use those rivets and we all should know how strong they are, I removed some on my chassis the other day to mount a steel bullbar and they're a right pita to remove.

Unfortunately someone that supposedly does welding for a living should know that a welded joint is the weakest link, if he wanted to add strength to the middle section he should have put a couple of bolts in there.

I'd go back to him and ask him what is intention was and whether or he has done this type of work before.