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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: mud-club-matty on September 27, 2006, 22:35:10
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hello so show us tempery fixes or even what u mad tempery and kept it like that for ages done my first on are discovery today seales a hole in the roof with some silicone :D
thanks matty
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welded the rear diff and jubile cliped the starter solinoid
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don't know if this counts and I don't have a pic, but when I was young I had a Mini (a real one), the exhaust fell off and I fixed it with a length of flex............Temporary?
Depends on your definition as it was still holding about 4 months later!
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Once repaired the exhaust back box on a 205 diesel with some fibreglass body filler as a temporary fix to get the wife to work, lasted 18 months, I forgot all about it :shock:
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I went out to a breakdown a few months ago, was told the escort van wouldn't rev, broken accelerator cable, it was actually the cup that holds the nipple on the top of the linkage on the injector pump
I pulled a piece of elastic off a seat cover on the truck and tied the ball piece through the pump and told him to drive it back to the garage
(I didn't fancy dropping the ramps and dragging the flaming thing on to the back of the wagon)
Another one was a broken gearstick ball on a ford cargo, pulled into my drop and borrowed a bailling wire tool, like the ones that you find tying sacks of potatoes at the neck, lifted the cap, and using three wires tied the flaming thing down, then drove 150 miles back to the yard, before I left the drop I phoned the yard and they had a new part waiting to replace when I got back
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ive got an exhaust clamp, jubilee clip and 2 cable ties as an adjustable mount on my custom exhaust, was only gona be for a week till i made up a mount and got a rubber. must have been 3 months ago now, well chufed because the ties havent melted yet! :D
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cool :D
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Always carry gaffer tape- I drove around with this split air intake hose for a year or two!
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f206/laser_jock99/TEMP/gaffer_tape-1.jpg)
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check this then for a bodge - a fan belt made of ...good old cable ties!
it worked for a while :wink:
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I have a gaffa (tank) tape air intake tube as well
Also I taped a hole up in the floor 4 months ago thats still there as well :!: :!: :!:
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Thrasher, Gords & Tonker Toy know about this one. :D
During the Belgium National last year I had a rear body mount break, due to rust, and to keep the body from drooping for the rest of the weekend I jacked up the body and shuved a stone in between the mount and the chassis.
The stone had gone by the time we got home so it was replaced with a piece of wood.
The wood is still there now, I did mean to get a new mount welded on but don't seem to have got round to it yet!! :oops:
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Thrasher, Gords & Tonker Toy know about this one. :D
During the Belgium National last year I had a rear body mount break, due to rust, and to keep the body from drooping for the rest of the weekend I jacked up the body and shuved a stone in between the mount and the chassis.
The stone had gone by the time we got home so it was replaced with a piece of wood.
The wood is still there now, I did mean to get a new mount welded on but don't seem to have got round to it yet!! :oops:
haha nice one :D
it worked soits ok aye!
dan
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fixed a split coolant pipe on the 110 up a welsh mountain using a length of steel tube we found.... (held for 4 months until i remembered about it and replaced it)
gaffa tape on my air intake pipe (common isnt it :lol: )
exhaust on the project held on with garden wire - passed an MoT :shock:
light bar on the 110 held to the roofrack with cable ties (18months ago!!!)
and plenty more...im a well qualified bodger 8)
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jj i seen the lightbar lol :D
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and plenty more...im a well qualified bodger 8)
True, I saw the wire you used to wire up your spotlights!!!
:shock: :wink:
Ian
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I drove 180kms on really poor roads in a remote corner of Northern Kenya with a broken leaf spring tied together with a ratchet strap.
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The stone had gone by the time we got home so it was replaced with a piece of wood.
The wood is still there now, I did mean to get a new mount welded on but don't seem to have got round to it yet!! :oops:
Reminds me of the time I had a front end crunch in my old Rover 216. All the plastic bolt mounts were smashed off the headlight so I wedged it back in place with a block of wood. All was well and good till MOT time came. I took the car to one of those big 'MOT while-U-wait' places.
They sat me down with a coffee in room with a window looking out over the workshop. I was watching the guy doing the MOT as he came to adjust the headlight. He stood back, scratched his head then called his mate over. Then they called foreman over. All three of them were stood round looking at my poor headlight on its block of wood and laughing!
The car passed the MOT and strangely- not a word was said about the wood!