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Lashout_UK

Lashout_UK

Lashout_UK

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Read this on another forum - brief but sweet:

"two yanks used a .22 cartridge as a fuse when the truck lights went out while driving home one night. Five mins later said cartridge went off, taking the drivers left testicle with it, lost control and crashed into a bridge."

Anyone else got any top bodges? Will add some of my own soon if I recall any after breakfast...
 
I had rust on Ol Krusty(The L series) SO i took a hammer to the rusted part of the guard and knocked it all out then got some fiber glas putty and put it on as smooth as i could with a paint scrapper and printer paper and then i went and got the nearest coulour house paint i could find that we had laying around and painted over it:D


I also bodged up a pipe fitting at work that ended up failing last weekend costing the boss $10,000:o
 
ouch!

my mate had an old bedford van, the footwells had all rusted through, so he punched some holes through the roof and used rope & wood hanging from there so you could gingerly rest your feet on it

needless to say, it failed the next MOT, pretty badly

no reported testicle damage though
 
I heard on a volvo forum somewhere (i think) about a chap who had a leaky rad, and was on a long journey. He got fed up of stopping every 10 mins to fill it up, so took off his window washer tubes, and directed them into the expansion tank. Whenever the level seemed to be getting low, he fired the window sprayers and topped up the expansion tanks. Meant he didnt have to stop quite so much :p


I also once fixed the actuator on my volvo 480 turbo with a spring from a toothpaste dispensor, and a bit of eletrical wire. It worked better, and held more boost than it did with a working actuator!
 
Lashout_UK said:
Read this on another forum - brief but sweet:

"two yanks used a .22 cartridge as a fuse when the truck lights went out while driving home one night. Five mins later said cartridge went off, taking the drivers left testicle with it, lost control and crashed into a bridge."

Anyone else got any top bodges? Will add some of my own soon if I recall any after breakfast...
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One word.

Mythbusters!

They did this very myth!
 
Lashout_UK said:
Read this on another forum - brief but sweet:

"two yanks used a .22 cartridge as a fuse when the truck lights went out while driving home one night. Five mins later said cartridge went off, taking the drivers left testicle with it, lost control and crashed into a bridge."

Anyone else got any top bodges? Will add some of my own soon if I recall any after breakfast...
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Firestar_3x said:
One word.

Mythbusters!

They did this very myth!
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what he said, old and i think they decided it was busted cos it couldnt penatrate skin, cant remember fully.
 
I heard on a volvo forum somewhere (i think) about a chap who had a leaky rad, and was on a long journey. He got fed up of stopping every 10 mins to fill it up, so took off his window washer tubes, and directed them into the expansion tank. Whenever the level seemed to be getting low, he fired the window sprayers and topped up the expansion tanks. Meant he didnt have to stop quite so much
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That's genious! I'll have to remember that one.



Nowt that can't be fixed with zip ties and duct tape.
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
I heard on a volvo forum somewhere (i think) about a chap who had a leaky rad, and was on a long journey. He got fed up of stopping every 10 mins to fill it up, so took off his window washer tubes, and directed them into the expansion tank. Whenever the level seemed to be getting low, he fired the window sprayers and topped up the expansion tanks. Meant he didnt have to stop quite so much :p
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we did something like this on a banger rally with a volvo.... the auto box was hemorrhaging oil and coating everyone driving behind the car with gunk. At the overnight stop they'd filled up with more oil during the day than petrol and stopped about 100 time so we re-routed their washer pump to spray into the auto box oil fill and replaced the screen wash with oil....

lasted half a day and ~500 miles before the engine caught fire :(
 
My older Brother used a Bathroom Sponge as an Air filter on his old 70s Corrola( could have been a Corrona) that cost him $50 with 200,000kms on the clock.

He went on to use it for his daily driver/padock basher and got an extra 150,000kms out of it and in that time he folded the front wheels/stuts under the car while jumping it out a of a salt dam in a padock so he knocked the wheels and struts back up and weilded a beam across to hold them upright:p
 
Siliconslave said:
we did something like this on a banger rally with a volvo.... the auto box was hemorrhaging oil and coating everyone driving behind the car with gunk. At the overnight stop they'd filled up with more oil during the day than petrol and stopped about 100 time so we re-routed their washer pump to spray into the auto box oil fill and replaced the screen wash with oil....

lasted half a day and ~500 miles before the engine caught fire :(
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Hmmm must have been a good pump, years agp a friend and I tried to make a smokescreen device using different oils and different electric water pumps from the breakers yard(screen washer ones etc) and we couldn't find a pump up to the job, and it needs hardly any oil at all in the carb to create smoke.
 
My car is just one whole bodge.

Was having trouble raising the coilovers so I made a new tool.

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I guess my best bodges involve quicksteel.

I had this bolt shear off on me. I had a go at removing what was left over with an easyout, only for the engine casing to crack open.

Hole1.jpg


I tried a few things, all of which leaked, until I came across quicksteel. As that is my main oil line, I added a metal tube into it to keep it clear and hold the pressure, then I filled the whole area ith quicksteel.

HoleFixed.jpg


Its held fine for quite a while, including the off roading at VW action. Great stuff.
 
I posted in the wrong thread...

My throttle cable on one of my minis snapped one day. I repaired it with a bit of shoe lace which got me home, although it's weird using your hand to accelerate.

When I got home, I had a look at it, and ended up fixing it for good with a bit of electrical wire and a block connector
 
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