[steak_knife]

atari4x4 wrote:

steak_knife wrote:

Buttercup

this thread is done.

[bohuler]

I bent my spank new rear bar, and then smashed the tail lights doing a dodgy u turn.


Lucky I had a spare stock rear bar, fixed with duct tape

[2stroker]

I broke an accelerator cable on a 1982 1 Litre Sierra over at Straddie in the 80's so I disconnected it and connected the choke cable to the throttle linkage position on the carbie. I drove around for 2 days pulling the choke instead of pushing the pedal.

I also rolled that same car on Straddie a year later, the front guard was bent down so bad onto the big tyre that I did a guard chop with a tomahawk to get back to camp. Unfortunately the holiday was cut short because I had to go back to the mainland to have my hand xrayed and stitched up, the windscreen frame had crushed my hand into the steering wheel.

Same car was driven back from Fraser in H4 with rear tail shaft out after destroying a uni.

Oh what fun I had when I was young and silly......

[suzukikid]

Built4thrashing wrote:

suzukikid wrote:

Drove from neerim to home with a broken rear drive shaft(so in front wheel drive) and a transfer case held in with built4thrashins ratchin strap!

Made a long trip even longer!

dont think i ever got it back either all good. ratchet straps are a long lost cousin of duct tape.....and cable ties

Should see the thing.....its in the shed!hahaits covered in mud and grease....its fucked!haha

[TZAR]

Used an oxy-acetylene torch just with acetylene on to paint things black and hide rust we just bogged up using newspaper and bread inside the sills

Silicone weld ( thats were you do a bead of silicone so it looks like arc welding ) floors in, then paint and no one knows ( unless they touch it)

boken engine mounts in a corolla bush basher so we just got a bit of chain and put it on an exhaust stud and gaurd bolt

Same corolla had a teaspoon for a fuse so when you hit something hard and you slid forward your knee would knock the spoon out shutting down the engine.

V8 in a sierra ( rough)

the list is huge

[shneva]

drove back from camping one weekend with a snaped camshaft in my old mitsubishi, took forever could only do about 50km

[zooker]

An old one I posted a while ago

zooker wrote:

So my snorkel on my sierra has been held on for the last 2 years by a ziptie around the aerial after the mount broke

Today my girlfriend was on her way to pick me up from work in my zook and I received a frantic call from her. The ziptie had broke and the snorkel was flailing around. I ask her to look for a spare ziptie but she cant find one. Then she says "dont worry, I've found something to tie it up with". I think nothing of it, thinking she found some string or something.

So she finally rocks up to pick me up and I discover this...



She had decided to tie the snorkel back on with her mp3 player's USB cord

I've taught her well

I am another who found that ratchet straps also double as a transfer mount

[missmyljdaze]

Zookers girlfriend wins!!!

I just love how she secured the loose ends of the cable

congrats mate- she is well trained, with a bit more mentoring she should make a good zooki owner

[alien]

not me, but 2 separate other sierra drivers:

1) snapped the tie-rod and with some battery welding, attached spanners to it - he drove the rest of the day and home, and around for a few days with it like this.

2) broke a rear main leaf at the U-bolt... using his belt, cable ties, then a spare t-shirt wrapped tight around the broken main and 2nd leaf, and more cable ties, drove out of the track and home.

[ball]

buzbox wrote:

bloody hell. I'm shocked that Shep hasn't piped up.

My only dodgy repair has been a flat tyre. I didn't have a spare, I took it out for increased fuel economy

Drove it to a servo, bought super glue, stuck the nozzle into the hole, filled the nozzle with glue, let it set, trim the nozzle and filled it with air.

He is very slow to type things out. He started 2 days ago and I think he still has 4 or 5 days to go before he gets this weeks dodgys listed

[alexvitara]

TZAR wrote:

Silicone weld ( thats were you do a bead of silicone so it looks like arc welding ) floors in, then paint and no one knows ( unless they touch it)

did you use to own teracis's blue sierra?

[607CHA]

Replaced a head on a rates charade only to find he didn't clean the intake manifold properly. so it had a huge vacuum leak. So i covered half the carby with hundred mile an hour tape. purred like a kitten

[BlueSuzy]

ball wrote:

buzbox wrote:

bloody hell. I'm shocked that Shep hasn't piped up.

My only dodgy repair has been a flat tyre. I didn't have a spare, I took it out for increased fuel economy

Drove it to a servo, bought super glue, stuck the nozzle into the hole, filled the nozzle with glue, let it set, trim the nozzle and filled it with air.

He is very slow to type things out. He started 2 days ago and I think he still has 4 or 5 days to go before he gets this weeks dodgys listed

is that all?

[BlueSuzy]

ball wrote:

buzbox wrote:

bloody hell. I'm shocked that Shep hasn't piped up.

My only dodgy repair has been a flat tyre. I didn't have a spare, I took it out for increased fuel economy

Drove it to a servo, bought super glue, stuck the nozzle into the hole, filled the nozzle with glue, let it set, trim the nozzle and filled it with air.

He is very slow to type things out. He started 2 days ago and I think he still has 4 or 5 days to go before he gets this weeks dodgys listed

is that all?