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6th June 2022, 18:22 | #11 |
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When the fuel pump on my old Mk ll Ford Consul failed, i acheived a 20 odd mile trip home by using the push button windsreen washer pump. It was not very efficient but with various aching fingers I got home. It ruined the washer pump so I upgraded to electric. I changed the valve radio to a transistorised unit at the same time (an impulse buy while buying the electric pump at Cliffords of Brighton).
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6th June 2022, 19:05 | #12 |
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1985 bought an Austin Allegro 1100 deluxe.
Red with beige interior. I can even remember the registration number OOL 236R. A 1976 car. Oil light would flicker a bit on tick over when hot. A worn engine but it ran ok. A "mate" suggested I put a can of STP in the oil to see if that helped. Me being young and stupid put in 4 cans. Light never came on again right up until the car was written off in a head on collision. Live crash testing in those days. No dummies.
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6th June 2022, 21:48 | #13 |
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I crashed into my bonnet going through the start / finish line at spa a couple of years back.
Having driven the car there and without breakdown cover the only option was to chisel the windscreen out and drive around the local towns looking for a b&q type place who stocked some Perspex sheet. Luckily I found somewhere so I hacksawed the rough shape out trackside and stuck it in with gaffer tape. Thankfully I put the back wipers on because it rained on the way home… You’ll also be happy to hear the car is still going with a new windscreen fitted and a donor roof ready to go on…
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7th June 2022, 07:45 | #14 |
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Farnborough Air Show many years ago. A stone punctured the radiator element in the Triumph Herald my brother in law was driving. Took the radiator cap off and filled hole with chewing gum. We got home 30 miles by careful driving with the heater full on and a little added water.
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7th June 2022, 08:15 | #15 |
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Ford 100e with N/S sill made from a 3" x 3" wooden fence post
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7th June 2022, 19:07 | #17 |
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For the story on that 25 see - https://the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/s...d.php?t=224545 and yes agreed Reece did come up with a clever solution.
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10th June 2022, 10:00 | #19 |
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My only bodge was on my Vauxhall shovit. On the way with my friend in his Allegro, Aahhh the memories, going to Rhyl for the day with the kids, and noticed when stopped at traffic lights, steam coming from under the bonnet. Stopped the other side of lights, lifted the bonnet, and found that the one core plug had deleloped a hole in it. Oh sugar. Don’t carry spare core plugs funnily enough. Walked down the road looking for a piece of metal big enough to cut a core plug from. Found a piece after about five minutes later. Cut a circle slightly larger than the core plug, and tried it in the cavity on top of the old one. I had got some epoxy resin in the boot from another job on a friend’s car, so used some on the back of patch, and then fitted and hammered the patch in, more in hope than certainty. That patch was still there when I scrapped the car around five years later.Never leaked. That is the only bodge I can ever remember doing.
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10th June 2022, 10:57 | #20 |
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I had a customer bring a 2CV in to me complaining of heavy steering and wandering cornering. it turned out that someone had rendered the underside of the rotten chassis with cement and sprayed it with shultz underseal ! When i lifted the bodyshell off the chassis a tape measure showed the axles were over an inch and quarter out of parallel ! ! It left my workshop with a shiny new galvanised chassis.
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