post crazy ways you have done temporary car repairs

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:47 pm

anything you feel was odd to make it run or keep it going .

i will start this off with 2 that i have done over the years .

1st - i didn't have jumper cables and needed to jump start my 93 ford rancho pickup so in the day of steel bumpers . had to bring the jump car right up to the front of the rancho and touch bumpers and used two crow bars and have them touch the positive terminals of each car and then have some one in my car and turn the key it worked ~ started right up !

2nd -sister ripped the trailing bar off the rear axle and frame of my old beat up 68 Volvo !
she ripped the bar right off the frame !
the car would drive like it was a boat in choppy water. the rear of the car would move side to side kinda looked and felt like it was driving sideways down the road .
so to repair this we welded a sec. of old steel bed frame to the steel car frame and then welded the old trailing bar to the bed frame . it worked till the car was sent to the junk yard some years latter !
(seems cars don't like being forced to drive over curbs - thanks sis )
any way you guys should try drilling old steel bed frames sometime . now that is some hard shit !
we had to get it cherry red with the torch and then drill it with a carbide drill bit .im not sure what that. (bed frames are made of but its some stronge -hard shit metal . .

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:49 pm

Paper clips as temporary throttle linkage on 63 el camino

used two screw drivers and a set of vise grips to shift a 3 speed transmission on a 76 dodge van when the linkage broke on a trip.

actaully i could go on forever, i kinda grew up drag racing cars, living in a junk yard

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:23 pm

paper clip cotter pins, jb weld windshield wipers, RTV weather stripping, removing a rocker arm and prying a valve open to run a V8 with bad rings. god i done alot of other stuff but cant remember it all.

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:25 pm

I put a hole in my Oil pan once, and I used JB Weld wo patch it

Reg Kmet · Post by **Reg Kmet** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:13 am

speaker wire hooked up to the throttle linkage in a 74 GMC "bushtruck" also, method of starting cold

1. Remove air filter
2. Pour can of gas down carb
4. crank over truck
5. If backfire ocurrs, pour beer over flaming carb to extinguish flames
6. if no backfire, slam hood, pour beer down throat, and enjoy!

lol, talk to demrok, this thing was a classic!

TheSovereign · Post by **TheSovereign** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:28 am

punched a hole in my catalytic converter for more HP and filled hte gas tank with ethyl alcohol for emissions testing

Demrok · Post by **Demrok** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:12 am

punched a hole in my catalytic converter for more HP

lol we ripped the cat right off Reg's 78 Monte Carlo, and he had the courtesy to start it up while I was still layin next to the straight pipe

Ran it like that for a couple weeks was it? and then the cops told him to fix it because it was too loud

and the bush trush WAS a classic, just don't let the drunks try to put out the fire on the carb!!

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:19 pm

my ElCamino was the same way... if i let it sit for a week the only way to start it was to pour gas straight into the carbs.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:21 pm

piece of rope for a throttle cable... it was hand activated... cable broke on me 40 miles from home. Just happeend to have some rope with me so i rigged it up punched a hole in a boot in the fire wall and ran it through. What a bitch giving it gas by pulling on a rope lol.