Fun: Biggest Bodge?
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) Capri. Made of Isopon and coat hangers...I've had loads of these in my Kit car days. I even had a "get me home wire" which was a wire with crocodiel clips at each end which allowed me to bypass any electrical system.
Biggest bodge of all: driving home, went over severe drop (roadworks not marked, they had taken 4" out of the road). My car dropped down at the back and it severed the petrol line. How I got home? Sat a friend holding a petrol can on his lap in the passenger seat with a pipe going out of the window hole under the bonnet (held only by 1 clip) to the fuel pump.
Ahh fun days
Biggest bodge of all: driving home, went over severe drop (roadworks not marked, they had taken 4" out of the road). My car dropped down at the back and it severed the petrol line. How I got home? Sat a friend holding a petrol can on his lap in the passenger seat with a pipe going out of the window hole under the bonnet (held only by 1 clip) to the fuel pump.
Ahh fun days
A few years ago, driving back from the Highlands in 4 inchesof snow in my trusty Fiesta 950, when a large block of ice dteched the handbrake cable from the underside of the car.
One hiking boot lace later, and another 100 miles, no problems...
Edited by Neil Menzies on Sunday 4th November 19:14
One hiking boot lace later, and another 100 miles, no problems...
Edited by Neil Menzies on Sunday 4th November 19:14
driving an old military lightweight land rover to an exercise. It was a pool vehicle and total F*cked.
it kept jumping out of high ratio so after getting my passenger to try holding it in gear i got one of my boots from my kit bag and jammed it between the transfer leaver and the seat box.
driving further the fog came down so i put the lights on . oh great ones of thems pointing allover the place. stop and have a look and its not bolted in just sitting there. i didnt have any tape or anything so i jammed it in about the right place using two of the major i was drivings sandwiches. managed 100 miles like that. I fortunatly didnt have to drive it back as it broke the gearbox main shaft during the ecxercise... ( i wasnt fdriving it then and i had taken my boot back...
it kept jumping out of high ratio so after getting my passenger to try holding it in gear i got one of my boots from my kit bag and jammed it between the transfer leaver and the seat box.
driving further the fog came down so i put the lights on . oh great ones of thems pointing allover the place. stop and have a look and its not bolted in just sitting there. i didnt have any tape or anything so i jammed it in about the right place using two of the major i was drivings sandwiches. managed 100 miles like that. I fortunatly didnt have to drive it back as it broke the gearbox main shaft during the ecxercise... ( i wasnt fdriving it then and i had taken my boot back...
Well I don't tend to bodge but I did see the most horrendous bodge on a Pug 205GTi that I was about to buy at the auctions about 8 years ago (I'd just turned 20)
An arfur Daley type trader saw me nosing around the motor and asked if I was interested. I said I was - and he said "Son, look very carefully at the wheels...." and walked off without another word.
Puzzled, I took a close look and discovered after close examination that each wheel had one real wheel nut on it holding it on - the other 'wheel nuts' were in fact filler shaped to look like wheel nuts over the studs, and painted silver.......!!! Ye Gods!
An arfur Daley type trader saw me nosing around the motor and asked if I was interested. I said I was - and he said "Son, look very carefully at the wheels...." and walked off without another word.
Puzzled, I took a close look and discovered after close examination that each wheel had one real wheel nut on it holding it on - the other 'wheel nuts' were in fact filler shaped to look like wheel nuts over the studs, and painted silver.......!!! Ye Gods!
My second car, a Mk1 XR2, had obviously been the victim of an under bonnet fire. If that wasn't bad enough, the disaster of a DIY wiring system that the preivous owner inflicted on it gave it the most unreliable electrics ever.
I used to dread putting a spanner anywhere near the engine bay - everything seemed to be live - as this invariable resulted in a spectacular shower of sparks. All my tools were soon covered in little 'weld spots'. My (long suffering) girlfreind, who used help out, was convinced the car was trying to kill her.
Happy days.
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
I used to dread putting a spanner anywhere near the engine bay - everything seemed to be live - as this invariable resulted in a spectacular shower of sparks. All my tools were soon covered in little 'weld spots'. My (long suffering) girlfreind, who used help out, was convinced the car was trying to kill her.
Happy days.
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
A mate tells a story about an ancient Astra(?) he had. Waiting at a T-junction the clutch cable detached itself from the pedal causing the car to leap across the junction and halfway up the entrance steps of the local library. Quick fix with some safety pins from his "very metal" denim jacket was put together to get them home. Six months later the car failed its MOT ... amongst other problems the inspector didn't like the safety pins that were still holding cable and pedal together.
About an hour from the end of a superbike endurance race I was the guilty rider who threw the bike down the track, the damage was fairly cosmetic with it all being on one side, plastic got duck taped and cable tied, new hangers for pegs all about 4 mins in pits however the worst problem then got noticed that the radiator cap and filler spout had been ripped off, to fit a new rad would take atleast 10-15mins and cost about 8 laps. Foutunatly the "lucky" champagne cork from a podium finish earlier in the season still lived proudly jammed into the top yoke this it was soon discovered was a perfect fit with a mallet into the severed top of the radiator. This bodge saved us about 10 places in the final pecking order !
Also on my (ill fated XR2), part of the clutch cable failed\stretched.
By packing the adjuster out with a spanner (lot's of sparks - see earlier posting) I managed to get from Stoke to Stafford on the M6.
I trundled down the slow lane, terrified that this novel contraption would fall to bits, leavling me stuck in gear, but I thought it was less risky on the m'way, rather than A roads as I'd have to change gear less. (Only taxi drivers seem to have that 'drive everywhere in top gear' knack).
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
By packing the adjuster out with a spanner (lot's of sparks - see earlier posting) I managed to get from Stoke to Stafford on the M6.
I trundled down the slow lane, terrified that this novel contraption would fall to bits, leavling me stuck in gear, but I thought it was less risky on the m'way, rather than A roads as I'd have to change gear less. (Only taxi drivers seem to have that 'drive everywhere in top gear' knack).
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
In the days before in car CD players, I wired a transformer in reverse directly to the alternator in my Capri.
Hey presto, 240 volts from the 12V alternator and a 13 amp plug socket hanging from the dash for my home CD player.
Also, for Saturn 5, I used a margerine tub lid on my girlfriend's Mini floorplan to achieve a much cleaner finish!
Hey presto, 240 volts from the 12V alternator and a 13 amp plug socket hanging from the dash for my home CD player.
Also, for Saturn 5, I used a margerine tub lid on my girlfriend's Mini floorplan to achieve a much cleaner finish!
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