Best bodge

[Pistons_and_processors]

Not sure if there’s been a similar thread before but might be worth a laugh otherwise we’re cry!
As no doubt our cars have gone through a few hands by now what’s the best bodge job you’ve came across?!
As a starter I went to change my headlight bulbs today for the new Osram night breaker 200’s (bulb type irrelevant but thought I’d mention it!) and found the OSF Bulb held in by blutac! The metal clip was missing.




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[coab]

Many moons ago I used to buy and sell lots of Rover 200s and 400s about J reg to W reg and the majority of them had failing window mechanisms. You would put the window down and it would fall off the runner of come out of the frame on the way up. A decent piece of wood to wedge the window up and inner case back on with the switch disconnected was what I always found when "investigating" the fault! No good if you use drive throughs tho!

[roverbarmy]

Back in the 60's I bought a car at auction which only braked on three wheels! The brake pipe to the fourth wheel had rusted through and burst, so the previous owner had cut the pipe, bent it back over itself in a neat fold and nipped it up with a pair of mole grips to get him home! I got in touch after getting the name from the (green) log book. He then told me that the braking system had been topped up with tonic water as they didn't have any brake fluid!!! He had scrapped the car and was unaware that it had been sent to auction! I cut the car up myself after that! I did get a good engine, gearbox and a set of tyres out of it.

[trikey]

Two bits of foam held in by an elastic band to replace a non existent front arm bush.

I will not mention the members name but the bodge did stop the clonking while he drove to me for a replacement to be fitted 🤣

[macafee2]

Not car related.
Many years ago I worked in a telephone exchange. An engineer came to me to say the wires on some tags were the wrong wire and could I help him trace the wire from the other end. The reason for this was at one end was a pink and grey wire and the other end was blue and yellow. We traced the wires to find the pink and grey had been connected to the blue and yellow. When I asked the engineer that carried out the work why, his reply was "I ran out of pink and grey"

If we had not replaced with the correct wire every time the circuit was checked at one end, the end that was blue and yellow people would have traced the wire from the far end. The colours meant something.

I seem to recall my dad telling me that a leather belt had been used instead of a big end shell or bearing but my mind could be playing tricks on me

macafee2

[bl52krz]

Originally Posted by macafee2

Not car related.
Many years ago I worked in a telephone exchange. An engineer came to me to say the wires on some tags were the wrong wire and could I help him trace the wire from the other end. The reason for this was at one end was a pink and grey wire and the other end was blue and yellow. We traced the wires to find the pink and grey had been connected to the blue and yellow. When I asked the engineer that carried out the work why, his reply was "I ran out of pink and grey"

If we had not replaced with the correct wire every time the circuit was checked at one end, the end that was blue and yellow people would have traced the wire from the far end. The colours meant something.

I seem to recall my dad telling me that a leather belt had been used instead of a big end shell or bearing but my mind could be playing tricks on me

macafee2

Yes. A piece of leather to replace a big end shell is well known in dessert racing. Also, if you have a puncture when out and about in miles and miles of grass land ,you can stuff the tyre with loads of grass to get you onwards.Aahh the good old days.

[polinsteve]

Originally Posted by macafee2

Not car related.
Many years ago I worked in a telephone exchange. An engineer came to me to say the wires on some tags were the wrong wire and could I help him trace the wire from the other end. The reason for this was at one end was a pink and grey wire and the other end was blue and yellow. We traced the wires to find the pink and grey had been connected to the blue and yellow. When I asked the engineer that carried out the work why, his reply was "I ran out of pink and grey"

If we had not replaced with the correct wire every time the circuit was checked at one end, the end that was blue and yellow people would have traced the wire from the far end. The colours meant something.

I seem to recall my dad telling me that a leather belt had been used instead of a big end shell or bearing but my mind could be playing tricks on me

macafee2

This brings back many memories. Back in the early 70's I installed the old Strowger telephone exchanges. Your post brought back memories of the noise of the selectors and the unmistakeable smell of warm electrics. Also the less pleasant memories of adjusting thousands of sets of wipers. It was also the time of the stopgap crossbar which I worked on and the early electronic (TXE2?) which I didn't have the opportunity to experience.

[Number 6]

When I was on the tools many many years ago. We had an A35 come in with a bad knock from the engine, Upon removing the sump we found that the crank had broken. The Bodge was the owner had drilled the webs on the crank and tried to put screws in to hold it together. The worse part was he had used WOOD Screws

[COLVERT]

A dodge rather than a bodge.

Many many years ago when oil was like glue in the winter the father of a friend used to light a small fire under the sump of his engine so the oil was runny enough to spin the engine over.--( By hand and starting handle.----)

[MSS]

Originally Posted by trikey

Two bits of foam held in by an elastic band to replace a non existent front arm bush.

I will not mention the members name but the bodge did stop the clonking while he drove to me for a replacement to be fitted 🤣

I was hoping you hadn't spotted my carefully designed 'upgrade' Andy!