How to bodgey you car to get home or for other reasons

[wclark001]

Reply to #18. Here here. Mate could not have summed that up any better. It shits me up the wall too, its all about remove and replace these days. And then even have to replace 3 or 4 components to fix one bloody problem, that, most of the time, is bloody SIMPLE.

[walkierep]

i got one was in my old pulsar and went over a cattle grid and broke the exhaust manifold off went and snitched a bit of 8gauge fencing wire and wrapped some aluminium foil around the broken manifold and tied it all together with the wire and drove the 80km's home ears where ringing though by the time i got home sounded worse then a v8 with bad timing but it got me home

[mik_73]

another one for squeaky fan belts is to spray the belt with hairspray, makes the belt tacky and provides grip

[BowTie]

Most auto shops have belt spray now. And its usually cheaper than bacon, bananas and hairspray.

I spend a lot of time in remote bush so a 12v soldering iron and some silver solder is an essential parts of the spares kit to repair rads.

For carb motors that have run dry, choking them with your hand helps, but pouring 20mls fuel straight down the throat to 'scotch' it works even better like aerostart.

I had a fuel pump fail on a carb magna years ago and gaffed a 2l coke bottle to the a-pillar and gravity fed the carb like a motorcycle. Worked great and you have a visual fuel gauge that the wiper bottle doesnt do.

Another way to clean fouled plugs is hold them upside down with pliers, fill the cavity with fuel and light it. Let it burn off then brush the carbon off with a wire brush.

The bead of a flat tyre can be broken to fit a tube with a plank of wood. Place the plank like a ramp going onto the tyre and get another car to slowly roll up it.

If starting to get bogged in a single spinner diff, apply the handbrake until you feel it drag firmly but not enough to stop the wheels turning. The diff will lock and you will be able to drive straight out before you dig a hole and bury the car.

[BowTie]

You can make nearly any gasket for emergencies out of phone book covers.

[BowTie]

If all else fails,

spit makes grease, cum makes glue.

[Hesher]

Orrr. you could just fix the problems properly and get a genuine RWC... of course that's just a extra ordinary thought tho/

[[ - 5LCOMMY - ]]

haha readin through most of this learnin somethin new every day lol