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DSW
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4/08/2004
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Hey guys, what's the best,,, or worst quickie fix you had to make on one of your vehicles to get back to civilization?
I broke a radiator/fan belt on my (pardon me) V8 S-10, 10 miles south of the Hoover Dam, out in the middle of no man's land.
Of course I didn't have a spare and scrounged around the truck for something to make a fan belt. I found 30-12" long wire ties and proceeded to make a wire tie fan belt. The wire ties would last 1-2 miles as long as I didn't rev the motor too high. By the time I got to Hoover Dam I was out of wire ties and was lucky enough to find a Dam cop (LOL, only place you could call a cop a Dam cop). The guy couldn't beleive I made it 10 miles on a wire tie fan belt. He went to their station and gave me a hand full of wire ties to get me limping back down the road.
I burned through the ties by the time I got to the next town and to my luck it was Labor Day so every parts store in town was closed. I looked hard at the motor trying to figure a way out of my predicament and saw the Power steering belt, Ah Ha!. I took the P/S belt of the P/S pump and ran it water pump. It was a real tight fit, but I would rather trash the pump than be broke down on the road. I drove home 40 miles without the alternator charging, but it made it home. Luckily the water pump wasn't damaged and was on ther truck wen I sold it years later.
What's your best story?
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band camp
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4/08/2004
13:38:05
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This one time in band camp I stuck a flute up my.....and made it all the way home!
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DSW
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4/08/2004
13:46:26
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Flatulating Dualing Banjo's all the way home and he lived to talk about it............
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TJC
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4/08/2004
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Thermostat stuck closed. Ripped it out, but had no gasket. Made one out of a McDonald's french fry carddboard thing I got from the floor of my truck. went 100 miles. didn't leak (much!)
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00R/T CC
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4/08/2004
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TJC: had to do the same thing on a 2.2turbo, used a piece of BK Whopper carton.
Worst 'limp home' story would be when I blew a head gasket and burnt a piston at the track (same 2.2turbo, 16psi boost) and made it the 35 or so miles home, very slowly or it would push major white smoke (coolant) out the tail.
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KTinFV
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4/08/2004
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Sitting on the runway watching mechanics working on a jet engine. Wasn't to thrilled when one mech handed the other a roll of duct tape.
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uh
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4/09/2004
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DSW,,,,, no way to much load, a fan belt also runs the water pump, fan draws 2 hp at idle and water pump 1, wire ties (bread bag tires) would have trouble handleing .005 hp., now if you said nylon zip ties, if they were thick enough, maybe.
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WardenJ
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4/11/2004
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Wire ties ARE nylon zip ties. They are designed to TIE together bunches of WIRES (among other things). Bread bag ties (at least in my experience) are most commonly referred to as twist-ties, and I would be impressed if they ran the water pump, because I can barely get them to keep a bread bag shut :P
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Bowtie-ZL1
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4/11/2004
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Ok, ok, ok... heres one for ya...
I was 17 and I had a 1972 Old Cutlass Sumpreme with a 455 in it. I was about 30 miles from home at a chicks apartment. As I was leaving, there were somemore chickies hanging out so I gunned it.
The tires lit up and the girls were hollering and flashing t|tties. Little did I know that there was a big speed bump about 100 yards from me. After the smoke cleared and I got a few numbers, I left the complex pretty quick. That speed bump snuck up on me, I swear it did. I hit it square doing about 45mph.
The jar was so great that the fan blades cut into the radiator. Of course I did not stop right there, the chickies were still looking. So I turned the next corner and commenced to get upset at my own stupidity. The only tool I had was some pliers.
I removed the shroud and bent over the 6 core pipes that were cut. I walked to a grocery store (away from the apartments) and picked up three gallons of water and some black pepper.
I filled her up and drove it to the first gas station to refill the jugs. I had to stop about 10 miles from my house to refill the radiator but I MADE IT. The radiator tech guy, said that the pepper had stopped up the holes that were left open when I crimped the pipes.
Those silly girls never even knew that I screwed up so badly trying to show out in front of them.
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59 dak dude
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4/12/2004
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I did basically the same thing as bowtie, but mine wasn't in front of girls, it was in front of 2 cop cars with flashing lights, I hit train tracks at over 110 in my old 93 dak. The fan tore the top of the radiator just about off the truck. The fan was bent to hell, and still stuck in the radiator when I stopped. The one cop hit the tracks not too far behind me, and just about as fast, he stopped {I'm guessing to fix his car, or call a tow truck}, and the other one stopped before going over them. The $120 spent on the radiator and $35 on a used fan was way cheaper than the jail time, fines, and loss of license would have been. After pulling far into a grape vineyard to keep out of site, I cut apart a washer fluid jug to make a shield over the top tank of the radiator, and hold in some water. Then filled three more up in a creek (I'm one of those guys with a 6.5 foot garbage can directly out my back window) nursed it to the next creek about 5 miles away, then refilled the radiator, and jugs. drove down hill with engine off for a few miles (long steep hill) then drove about 3 more miles to my house. No tickets, no blown up truck, and all was good!
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