Oddball repair jobs...list yours here
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aczlan
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arpt209
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Replaced a wiper blade with a glove in a snow storm to keep from scratching the windshield. Reattached the steering gear box on a Jeep by driving a stick through the bolt hole on the gear box & into the hole in the frame. Drove a truck (4 wheel drive) home loaded with firewood on the front wheels when a ujoint gave up on the rear drive shaft. Chopped a recalcitrant lawn mower in half with an axe when it wouldn't start, I don't think that qualifies as a fix but it made ME feel better.
markrahn
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ripped a long gash in the gas tank of the camaro one time. stuck 40 miles from home. pulled the vapor return hose from the charcoal cannister off, an put it between the fuel pump and a gas can in the front seat. hose out the window and under the hood. drove easily. dangerous, but it got me home
Iplayfarmer
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Just the other day my neighbor came over to ask if I'd help him move his 2-ton box truck. Rather than put the necessary 10 gallons of fuel in the tanks needed to get it to run (his realization, not mine) I re-routed the fuel line (which was disconnected anyway) to a gas tank bungee corded to the fender. We had to prime the carb repeatedly with gasoline from a pop bottle to get the air out of the re-routed fuel line. He had a deep cycle RV battery in the truck with jumper cables to a little toyota car to get enough amps to crank the beast.
At one point a backfire through the carb set fire to the excess gas that had spilled out of the pop bottle onto the top of the carb. After 6 fire extinguishers that he had stock piled next to the truck for just such an occasion all failed to work due to an assortment of stuck valves, depleted retardant, and corroded pins; he handed me a paper towel (Huh??!!) that I used to frantically pat out the fire.
Running the engine by priming the carb to get the air out of the fuel line was enough to get the air brakes up to pressure, and we were able to move the truck the 12 feet that he needed.
At one point a backfire through the carb set fire to the excess gas that had spilled out of the pop bottle onto the top of the carb. After 6 fire extinguishers that he had stock piled next to the truck for just such an occasion all failed to work due to an assortment of stuck valves, depleted retardant, and corroded pins; he handed me a paper towel (Huh??!!) that I used to frantically pat out the fire.
Running the engine by priming the carb to get the air out of the fuel line was enough to get the air brakes up to pressure, and we were able to move the truck the 12 feet that he needed.
arpt209
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Soaked gas off an intake manifold on my pickup with my T-shirt to extinguish a fire to keep from melting all the wiring when the rubber line from the fuel pump to the carb cracked.
Another time I put out a fire on some old foagies motorhome engine with a bottle of Pepsi that I shook & then punctured with a pocketknife.
Another time I put out a fire on some old foagies motorhome engine with a bottle of Pepsi that I shook & then punctured with a pocketknife.
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THose last few posts reminded me of an inciedt I worked nere. When I was 21 THe compay I worked for was clearing 120 acres of 40 year old pines. THey were big jokers and we couldnt get any loogerst otake them as they were being dug up first then laid over. I got an old man with a small company to take them We uprooted them and lifted them them up and he would saw the stumps and we would drag them to a landing for him to run through a limbing gate. He had a traiel truck but the prime select logs he wanted were going o a tandem 427 powered Chevy C65 to a local specialty mill. Well his old truck had to be primeed one day and he never put th breathe lid on when cranking. It back fired out of the carb and caught the half a bottle of gas in his bottle on fire. He paniced and chuked it blindly forgetting about the 4 day old CHMack he had on the site with a white hood. It had a big black toasted spot on it then.
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with mom going some place, she had to stop for a small job. went to start truck. it would not crank / turn over anything. lights were dim. looked at battery connections. and you could not see anything do to corrosion. had 2 litter of doctor peper in truck. poured over the connections while using paper towels to wipe things up so as not to short the - / + terminals. within 2 minutes all corrosion was gone. and truck started right up.
after getting back home. next day, got some pepsi poured a little more over clamps on battery so i could get wrenches on clamps. cleaned everything up even more. replaced both clamps going to battery. and then sprayed on some battery clamp corrosion prevention stuff.
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there be reason why i always stock a small role of wire, make it hot water for electrical fence, or 12g wire used in homes for electricity. on tractor at all times. if it breaks down, it is never close to the shed. it allows me to limp back home and to the shed to get things fixed up.
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wd-40 is a joke. now "PB blaster" oh ya! that can help loosen up them nuts / bolts that are rusted into place.
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always have ductape on hand. errr i mean 100mph tape
after getting back home. next day, got some pepsi poured a little more over clamps on battery so i could get wrenches on clamps. cleaned everything up even more. replaced both clamps going to battery. and then sprayed on some battery clamp corrosion prevention stuff.
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there be reason why i always stock a small role of wire, make it hot water for electrical fence, or 12g wire used in homes for electricity. on tractor at all times. if it breaks down, it is never close to the shed. it allows me to limp back home and to the shed to get things fixed up.
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wd-40 is a joke. now "PB blaster" oh ya! that can help loosen up them nuts / bolts that are rusted into place.
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always have ductape on hand. errr i mean 100mph tape
