Just get me home!

Fuel pump went out in one of my old trucks once, up in the mountains where I had no hope of getting my Towtruck or my Rollback...

Filled the Windshield Washer Reservoir with gas, routed the hose into the throat of the carb, and used the foot pedal pump washer to pump the fuel to drive the truck down out of the mountains. :D


Out in the middle of nowhere once, in my Dodge D50, I pulled over to make a phone call (exhaust was too loud to hold a conversation while driving). When I went to start the truck again all I heard was Riiiiinnngg....Riiiiiiiinnng. The sound of a starter spinning full tilt. Great...either the solenoid went bad, or the flywheel is missing teeth and the starter is just free spinning.

I popped the hood, hoping I could smack the solenoid to get the starter to engage. I look down... "Where is my starter?!" It wasn't there.

I crawled under the truck, there's my starter laying on top of the front axle, and most of the bolts in the bellhousing were missing. Fortunately I always kept tools, bolts, nuts, etc in the truck. Bolted it all back together and went about my business.