Weird Things You've Done to Keep Going.

May years ago I was out the back of Heathcoat in Victoria at a popular weekend river site A bloke had left his car radio going all day for entertainment (old valve type radio) when he went to leave his battery was flat He asked me if I would send the RACV out to start him. in stead I drove my car hard up against his car Bumper to bumper Then cut the lower strand of wire out of a fence and placed it across the positive terminals of our batteries.


Hodgo

Broke an accelerator cable in the 2a (holden motor) used fencing wire, run from carby, under rear edge of bonnet, through vent into cabin as hand throttle.

In the RRC, shorted the headlight switch & high beam section of the indicator stalk. Melting all the plastic internals and gluing the terminals & wiring in place. Scraped, sliced, cut, filed it apart and twisted the wires back together. Fixing the indicators however. wired it through the rear wiper switch, "on" for R, "wash" for L.

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Originally Posted by Narangga

This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is your tax dollar at work. ;)

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No, its not. thats my laziness at work...

a third class ride is easier than a first class walk.


Ive used a dolphin torch to provide enough volts to let me crank start a series petrol and then to jump the alternator so it would take over.

on the just to prove it can be done Ive used a shotgun cartridge to start a diesel that was never desiged to be cartridge start

Ive used broken motor bike spokes and pad retainers for disc brake calipers.

I've used nuts bolts and washers to hold a tire together enough to hold air to get it to the next camp (I stole that from the forum from the emergancy tire repair thread)

I've used a mig welder as a battery charger hanging off of a generator on the tray of the truck to get a truck home with a dead alternator

I've built voltage and current regulators out of lights and circuit breakers to allow 12V to be tapped from 24V to stand in as temporary fixes for broken 24-12vdc step down converters

star picket welded to a broken tie rod

oil containers, araldite and an lpg soldering iron to patch a holed plastic fuel tank

tightly wound strips of bike inner tube to replace suspension bushes.

shackle pins to replace shocky bolts

double ended ring spanners to replace linkages

boat fuel tanks with the primer bulb to replace carbie engine fuel systems up to the carb

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Originally Posted by hodgo

Lesson plans in the early 60s were a very hit and miss affair training standards as we know them to day came into the services during the Vietnam period and training was done more at a unit level a soldier could be cross trained with in a unit eg. a driver could become a clerk with just OJT course reports did not exist as we knew them later on what was taught was based on the instructors knowledge What I have in relation to my post on this subject is a prasie. showing the topic. When I come back from Nepal I will find it and post it for all.

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As discussed at Melrose,,, would love to see this :D

Hi,
I heard of VW beetle driver who got home by using the choke cable to move the throttle linkage when the throttle cable broke.
Cheers

Hi,
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Originally Posted by POD

The solution (which took a fair bit of convincing him would work) was to strap the generator onto the drawbar of his camper, run a pair of wires over the roof and connect to the battery cables to provide power to the engine electronics. Thus the twin-engined Holden Apollo last seen happily chugging westward toward Timber Creek.

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Pure Gold

She looks happy

Picture of the tractor missing the front wheel reminds me. Many years ago, I was working in Roma, and we were on good terms with the company that supplied explosives to crews working further west, and their drivers used to regularly drop in to say hello when returning empty to Brisbane. One day their truck (a tandem drive Inter) turned up at our yard in Roma - on five wheels. One stub axle on the forward rear axle housing had broken, so the bits that came off were in the back, and the end of the axle housing had been jacked up and chained into place using multiple turns of tie down chain.

It drove like this from near Quilpie to West End in Brisbane.

John