Hillbilly engineering...

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Friend had an older industrial tractor,develop a hairline engine block crack .He did a small root v channel with a grinder, slap JB Weld in the root channel.Worked like a charm.
 
inkjunkie said:
I have never done this...but I have used ratchet straps. See,s like every time I need to use the handtruck, or the pressure washer it has a flat. Wrap the tie down around it and crank it down.

Seeing Jacks madman jump start with the jack reminded me of when I saw a guy on the side of the road with a scooter, dead battery. Pulled up in front of him with the truck. He went to hook up the cables with my diesel still running. Can't help but wonder how bad it would have smoked that little battery if he hooked it up to my truck with the 130 amp alternator charging...
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Wouldn't have hurt it...I once jumped a little motorcycle off a truck with a 200A alternator. Yes, it fired right up. :)
 
Jarlaxle said:
lowbudget said:
Using starting fluid and a match to seat the bead on a tire. I've only done this on motorcycle tires but it would also work on a car tire.
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Some idiot doing that on a car damn near killed my old boss!
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There's two things that have to been done for this to be remotely safe (it ain't safe, but it can be done w/o risking life and limb).

First is PULL the valve stem core before ignition!

Second is, after squirting some fluid into the tire keep squirting and lay a trail of fluid on the ground to about 20 feet away. Light from the end of that trail, not at the tire!
 
A long time ago a buddy and myself were crusing around one night in the rai and the wipers quit.
I took my shoe laces out and tied one to each wiper and ran them into each side wing window. (one for me, and one for him)
Kind of a seasaw type action all the way home on the freeway for 15 miles. :)
 
TrailBeast said:
A long time ago a buddy and myself were crusing around one night in the rai and the wipers quit.
I took my shoe laces out and tied one to each wiper and ran them into each side wing window. (one for me, and one for him)
Kind of a seasaw type action all the way home on the freeway for 15 miles. :)
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Now that would be funny to see.... Any video??? LOL! :D
 
Coyote Jack said:
If you are in need of a boost or know somebody that needs a boost and there are no booster cables around. Touch your chrome bumpers together and use the bumper Jack from one positive battery post to the positive post in the other car and start the car.

Jack
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I've done it, it does work but with modern cars it would be no help

The throttle cable broke on my 67 barracuda on the way home from school

Took the shoe string out of my boot and fished it thru the firewall tied to the carb and away I went
 
TrailBeast said:
A long time ago a buddy and myself were crusing around one night in the rai and the wipers quit.
I took my shoe laces out and tied one to each wiper and ran them into each side wing window. (one for me, and one for him)
Kind of a seasaw type action all the way home on the freeway for 15 miles. :)
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Dad had a 72 Datsoon pickemup. At first the wipers only needed help while traveling up so he had no trouble in the rain.....other than needing a string.....but when the wiper motor burnt out every time it rained it meant I was not going to school that day. Looked for the better part of a year for a new wiper motor and never did find one. Dad was not going to go to the dealer for it. This particular truck was a replacement for the one that got torched while at the dealership for a repair. An irate customer hoped the fence, emptied the contents of 3 5 gallon cans and set it a blaze. My dad was convinced the dealer was jinxed. The truck that got torched had been there for 3 weeks waiting for a new alternator to get rowed over from Japan. The morning that the dealer called to tell about the fire just so happened to be the same morning the row boat form Japan showed up...
 
ntsqd said:
There's two things that have to been done for this to be remotely safe (it ain't safe, but it can be done w/o risking life and limb).

First is PULL the valve stem core before ignition!

Second is, after squirting some fluid into the tire keep squirting and lay a trail of fluid on the ground to about 20 feet away. Light from the end of that trail, not at the tire!
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No...when he went to DISMOUNT the tire later, the machine sparked on the rim, the tire became a fuel-air explosive and BLEW him 50'!
 
Jarlaxle said:
Wouldn't have hurt it...I once jumped a little motorcycle off a truck with a 200A alternator. Yes, it fired right up. :)
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and more than likely smoked the bike battery in the process......no way it withstood that kind of current going into it...
 
TrailBeast said:
A long time ago a buddy and myself were crusing around one night in the rai and the wipers quit.
I took my shoe laces out and tied one to each wiper and ran them into each side wing window. (one for me, and one for him)
Kind of a seasaw type action all the way home on the freeway for 15 miles. :)
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I've done that one.

One day I was leaving the shop and my brother was following me in his car. I'm driving along and the Wiper Motor starts to whine about a mile from town (it's done that for years, randomly will whine a little and then the whining stops for a couple weeks)

As soon as the whining stopped, so did the wipers. I could still hear the wiper motor turning though, I pulled off the road in a hurry. My brother pulls in behind me, just as I'm searching the truck for rope.

"What are you doing man?"

"Trying to find some rope or something, the wipers broke."

"Will that even work?"

I managed to find half of an ancient ratchet strap, and a cellphone charger for a Nokia phone from the early 90's. I tied the strap to one wiper arm, and the phone charger to the other wiper arm and ran them through the wing windows. For the next mile or so I manually controlled the wipers.

My brother had never seen someone do that before, I explained to him that it works, as long as both wipers are still connected to the linkage (or in a worst case scenario, one wiper only with both ropes controlling it alone)
 
We did the broken throttle cable fix on my buddys 66 F100. But we were high tech we ran a bungee cord thru the firewall and then strapped it to the mirror. It really worked better with two people..since it was a 3 on the tree or a person with at least 3 arms. He ran it that way for quite awhile. He would replace the bungee when it would finally cut in too.
 
Does anyone else hear, "Hey, y'all watch this", just before some of these "ideas" are tried, banjo music, perhaps?
 
If stuck in snow or wet grass the floor mats will work to get you going. I carry extra in my jeep.
 
myself and two buddy's were ice fishing one time for about 6 hours and when we got back to the truck it wouldn't start. So we all pissed in the battery (mostly all over it) and it started. That was some funny stuff watching them trying to kneel on the truck and pee at the same time.
 
when i was 15 or 16 I changed a trailer *tire* on the side of the interstate 39 with a lug wrench, a manual tire pump, and a length of rope. just south of janesville WI on a Sunday. ugh and it was HOT. took me about an 90min of being absolutely frustrated and then about 10min after i found the rope.

WTF we had a SPARE tire rather than a SPARE TIRE/WHEEL, i'll never know. and a foot pump? REALLY? as if this blow out was expected! Damnit dad, 20yrs later I'm actually mad thinking about it.
 
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