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Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: Sprocket
Date: March 9, 2015, 8:16 am
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Having seen that a Series Landrover had been temporarily fixed
'roadside' by using a potato as an ignition condenser (still not
sure I believe it - but let's run with it for now - see
HTML http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2960913/Mechanic-fixes-Land-Rover-POTATO.html<br
/>). I was wondering what other clever 'get me home'
articles/objects might forum members have utilised when ahem,
the 'chips were down'....
You never know - might get you out of a fix one day!
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: Doug_T
Date: March 9, 2015, 8:53 am
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I bodged a rear spring together using fence wire and fencing
pliers when a main leaf snapped.
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: romahomepete
Date: March 9, 2015, 1:29 pm
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More yearscago tha I care to remember we cobbled together a
repair to the rear spring on an 80 inch with a number of pieces
of dexion and some bolts. We were concerned that the broken end
would go through the side of thecfuel tank. The local communal
garage madebus a new main leaf by hand.
Not a roadside repair but I have put steel shim behind big end
shells to take up the slack and stop them from rattling.
Peter
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: S210912j
Date: March 10, 2015, 4:11 am
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Throttle linkage 'gave up' spectacularly one day.
Used a series of cable ties to re-attach it all. Could drive
about 15 miles before a cable tie would break/melt and we'd
coast to a halt!
(thankfully had a bag of 200)
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: blackskidmarks
Date: March 10, 2015, 5:17 am
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I remember having a BSA B31 with a burnt out clutch on a journey
from Lancaster to West Burton Power Station. I was somewhere
near Halifax (no M62 in those days) and walked up and down
picking up matches, which I wedged into the spaces for the corks
on the multi plate clutch. It perhaps only took an hour, but got
me there!
Oh you`ve got me going now!!
I had a MG Y which broke down between Lancaster and Anglesey.
The clutch cable had snapped, so I used a cycle lock chain
between the lever and the pedal. It got me there and was still
on the car when I later sold it!( wish I still had that car!)
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: pintofale
Date: March 10, 2015, 7:15 am
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Mine let go on the A46 up to Lincoln once, luckily near a layby
which I could coast into. Discovered the coil was red hot,
tried the spare but it wouldn't fire up with that. By this time
the original was cold so put it back on and it started and ran.
Packed up again a couple of miles later, red hot again, so I
used cable ties to rig a Roses tin in the engine bay, filled it
with water and dumped the coil in in. Got me the remaining 10
miles to work, and yes there was still some water in the tin
(although not too much!).
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: Snailer
Date: March 10, 2015, 1:20 pm
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great stories, I like this type of thinking. It is borne out of
need and not about thinking others will solve your problem.
Pintofale to everyone, my god, I am feeling generous ;D
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: Albert Ross
Date: March 10, 2015, 6:05 pm
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I recall an old couple in Lincoln, many years ago, had a
Standard Vanguard Estate, and whilst the Husband drove, the Wife
would have 2 biscuit tins of spark plugs. One "to clean", one
"clean".. and when it started misfiring, hubby would grab a
handful from the "clean" tin, and 5 minutes later, put a handful
in the" to clean" tin.... so the cycle continued. Why they never
bought new ones, confused me.
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: rowehillmaster
Date: March 11, 2015, 8:09 am
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I remember my Grandparents came to visit us (395 mile journey)
in their Austin 1100, the electric fuel pump points had given up
on the M1 some where, so my Grandad had rigged up a wire from
the pump that my gran had to keep tapping to earth on the door
frame to keep up the fuel supply to the carb!
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Re: Inventive Roadside Repairs
DIR By: woollen797
Date: March 11, 2015, 12:13 pm
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The joys of classic motoring a bit of ingenuity can keep you on
road. My old van had the centre prop bearing fail just outside
London thankfully as it is an old LDV I carry a grease gun for
the kingpins so I kept adding grease to the bearing surfaces and
it got me back to Leeds plus a couple of extra weeks of driving
around till I had time to replace it
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