Oddball repair jobs...list yours here

[JDgreen227]

Seeing the thread about the muffler repair reminded me of the time I tried to fix a cracked and leaking plastic snowblower gas tank with an aluminum patch, pop rivets, and JB Weld. It was in the middle of the snow season and I would have had to wait a week or more to order and get a replacement tank. What made the repair even more weird was that it was cracked at the very end where the fuel outlet was, so I also made a new outlet using 1/4 inch copper pipe. Yes, it worked. :laughing:

 

[Ken]

JD Green guess no one wants to admit there miss minded repairs.
I recent have aquired a Allis Chalmers WD45 and some one in the past installed a hydraulic control for rear raise lower functiuon. The control handle is to close to front of the seat. One bump and the family jewels will be indangered. Not been able to show pictures but will follow JJ instructions so giving it a try.
ken

 

[crash325]

JD No 1 is going to fess up to failure. :thumbsup:

Here is a genuine Red Neck success. :thumbsup:

Found a bunch of old culvert out in the desert. And wanted a drain out the north gate. Pictures tell the tale. At the head of the pipe there is a sump, Not dug or poured when pictures taken. There is another pipe that runs into the sump.

 

[nightnurse]

I went to a farm equipment auction, looking for a blade for my tractor (They sold WAY too high!) While there, I saw something covered with a tarp in the corner of the storage shed. When I asked the owner, he said it was an old 3 point hitch snowblower, but it didn't work. I asked if he would drag it out so I could look at it, and he did. He said the PTO turned, but the blower didn't blow. I offered him $100. for it "as is", and he took it. I loaded it up, took it home, put 2 35cent shear pins in it, and have now used it for about 15 years.

 

[scgargoyle]

When I was a teenager I worked at a marina. We had a crane with a Hercules gas engine. It threw a rod, so we tore it down and put in another used rod. The crankcase and oil pan had a hole in them from the broken rod. We patched the oil pan with a fiberglass patch, inside and out, and we made a metal patch for the crankcase. We put fiberglass under the metal patch, which was attached with screws into holes we drilled and tapped into the block. It worked fine, and was still working several years later.

 

[V1Rotate]

Many years ago while off-roading in an old International Scout, we broke the exhaust hanger that supports the tailpipe. We needed something to hold up the tailpipe, the only thing we had was one of those plastic things with six holes in it that holds a six pack of beer together. (Don't ask why we had one of those in the vehicle), anyway, that plastic six pack thingy worked perfect, it didn't melt and it got us home

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Many years ago the carburetor of my 1974 Chev PU caught on fire. I had an extinguisher and put it out, but it burned the rubber off the outside of the throttle cable and the trottle wouldn't work. I was about 300 miles from home, so I strung fishing line from the trottle lever through the driver's side window, and ran the throttle with the fishing line all the way home.

 

[SPIKER]

while driving with kids and me in the car the womans car (93 t-bird) broke the plastic shift/kick down cable pin/post. and the throttle went wide open. (was somewhat common problem and would lock the trans in between 1st & revers usually resulting in a blown trans. I shifted into neutral and pulled to the side of the road as the engine was screaming WOT on the rev limiter.

I fixed it well enough to get back to town & get the part using a plastic plant wire, we had removed (faded plants) from her mom & dads cemetery plot this was her dads car prior to his passing so it was fitting to use some of his faded flowers to fix his former car & would fit right in with his many mechanical fixes ...

Mark

 

[chopped]

The fishing line throttle reminded me of my dads windshield wiper fix.. I think you know where Im going with this..LOL Yes he ran rope throught the wing windows and my mom was the 'motor' for the wipers in a snowstorm for a 3 hour drive...
One other time as we went around a sharp corner, the pasenger side one flew off. The arm continued to scrap the window. Finally he stopped and took the arm off.And for a good year we never had a wiper on the passenger side. ,(the snowstorms were interesting then)
Sort of off topic but back then as a kid there werent seatbelts, and after a week of him driving a truck we finally went to camp. He stopped and we got soft serve ice cream. and as we left the ice cream store he put int he ''clutch'' but this was a car with an automatic.. Back them power breaks were just that.I ended up against the dash with ice cream all over rmy face..

 

[WVBill]

Sort of off topic but back then as a kid there werent seatbelts, and after a week of him driving a truck we finally went to camp. He stopped and we got soft serve ice cream. and as we left the ice cream store he put int he ''clutch'' but this was a car with an automatic.. Back them power breaks were just that.I ended up against the dash with ice cream all over rmy face..

In high school, I normally drove my dad's stick-shift (3 speed on the column). I had a job delivering doughnuts from the doughnut shop to the "roach coaches" at 4:00 AM. My boss had me use his car. It was an automatic on the column. One time, accelerating through 15 MPH or so, I up-shifted to second (or not...) - fortunately there was no transmission damage from slamming it into park (at least none immediately apparent)