what am I doing wrong??

For them to show up like in Eric's post you need to surround the direct link with img tags. Like this:
Also of note it will not work if the img is capitalized like IMG.

had that originally still didn't and doesn't work

It's not working now because they're links. What I mean by that is when you just paste a link address the forum software turns it into that red clickable link which doesn't work for the image tags. You need to copy and paste the "direct link" from your photobucket so that it's just text. Copy and paste what I posted earlier then post it and you'll see what I mean.

All I did was copy and paste his links into Notepad which removes all formatting then paste them back in and add the img tags.

Direct copy/paste of the first line of code I gave from my post further up:

134-3500_IMG.jpg

You know I saw some on ebay that looked pretty cool, you could get them in black anodized, silver, or chromed for extra money.

Here's the link

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/86-07...spagenameZWDVW