Bush Mechanics

[millsi]

Fucked fuel pump in an old Rambler Rebel, had no pics on one of the front fenders with a 1lt garden sprayer full of fuel spraying directly into the carb. Worked well till it backfired through the carb and i jokingly blamed her for poor fuel atomisation. Wasnt popular for a little while. Didnt have to move the car far though.

[Chase Rockwell]

Similar thing to the throttle cable/shoelaces, but used fishing line to operate the windscreen wipers. Rigged it all up and then had mate in the passenger seat pulling on the lines through the windows to make the wipers go.

[perthdrivers.txt]

Forget which wrc rally it was, but armin schwarz did the same thing.
Accelerator cable breaks, and he was an ex mechanic, realized right away what it was. Screams at his co driver to take off his shoe laces, who doesn't know what is happening at this stage. Armin gets out, rigs up an extended throttle cable, and continues the rally with downtime of about 60 seconds.
Pretty crazy

heh i rememebr that, i think it was the Safari Rally. Schwarz also has a tidy collection of rally cars like Kankkunen as i recall!

Also seem to remember Bruno Thiry doing something equally as clever, forget what it was though

[I'm DJ!]

Fahrken auto gear selector bolt played invisible last night on the way home so last 5km in first gear, then out came the bush mechanics. Couldn't get the zip ties on so 1.5hrs with nopics whingeing about bloody cars and the coat hangar wire got me to a hoist this morning. See pic.

[vet 180]

have a mate who did it with an occy strap from lorne to melb (great ocean road )

Forget which wrc rally it was, but armin schwarz did the same thing.
Accelerator cable breaks, and he was an ex mechanic, realized right away what it was. Screams at his co driver to take off his shoe laces, who doesn't know what is happening at this stage. Armin gets out, rigs up an extended throttle cable, and continues the rally with downtime of about 60 seconds.
Pretty crazy

Another one I forgot about. the bolts came out of an r33 half shaft to diff. God know how. Had some cable ties in the glovebox. Obviously thick strong ones. Didnt drive too long but got it to a mates pit to fix it

[Sketchy]

More bike than car related but on a recent trip to Indonesia with 2JZR31 I snapped the drivebelt on my scooter about 250 odd kms from where we were staying at 3pm in the arvo. Fashioned a tow rig out of a discarded fishing net and a palm frond which got us about 15-20km till I nearly pulled my arm out of its socket holding the frond through some of the more mountainous sections of road. Found a section of packing tape shortly after and did another 20-30km with that until it snapped about 500m from a local mechanic right on sunset who then sorted us with a brand new in the package drivebelt for the scoot. Fucking funny afternoon that was.

[Mister Black]

When my uncle was working in PNG (in the 50s or 60s) they used to have to spend a lot of time driving Land Rovers up and down goat tracks in the mountains and apparently it was not uncommon to come to a spot the Land Rover could not drive past so they pulled it to bits, carried it through one bit at a time and put it back together on the other side of the obstacle.

[rollin7]

fuel pump blew, put 2L coke bottle on top of windscreen and ran rubber hose from it down into engine bay

gavity feed baby, got us home

[JMick]

Driving the then nopic's car, way back in the 80s, an Austin A30?, started missing and lost power. Pulled off the dizzy cap and discovered big pitted arc tracks. Cleaned it out with her nail polish remover and sealed it with her nail polish, let it dry for a few minutes and it all ran fine when put back together.

Stopped for some young blokes driving between Townsville and Cairns, on their way to an AC/DC concert, their patrol had stopped. Fashioned a test light out of a bulb and holder I removed from their bullbar and worked out that there was no power getting to the points. I robbed a length of wire off a speaker and ran it from the battery to the points, telling them to make sure they disconnected it after they stopped the car. Told them they might have to stall it to stop it too. They slung me a six pack of bourbon and coke.

Not quite a "bush mechanic" tale, but: Female friend called me because her car had no clutch. She had contacted a mutual mechanic mate and booked it in, but needed to get the car there, about 30kms away and down a steep mountain range road. So muggins here drove it there without a clutch (stopping at lights was a pain). When I got to the mechanic's he popped the bonnet, pulled out the mangled circlip which held the clutch cable outer in place through the firewall, straightened it up, adjusted the cable and popped the clip back on. :doh! Took less than five minutes. In my defence I had stopped playing with cars and never looked under the bonnet of my own cars at the time.

Mick

[Glenno]

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[13bvw]

Noisy power steering on the hilux, pump held on with a radiator house clamp because the mounts were broken

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[XAlent]

Drove my coop from Adelaide to Echuca last year for the Hardtop Anniversary. Gave it a fair bit of stick at the gymkhana track, the alternator didn't take too kindly to to the 8k rpm


Managed to get hold of another from Autobarn, modified it to fit. Voltage regulator fucked out in it about an hour and a half into the return trip.
Had to put the broken one on again. Made some loops out of hoseclamps joined together to pull the crack closed and give it some strength. Vibrated like a bastard because of unaligned Gilmer drive. Would get about 3/4 hour before a hose clamp would snap. Kept rebuidling them until we ran, even scavenged some from off the car.
Eventually ran out of them, so gave the ratchet strap a go, it was all we had left



Got us the rest of the way home which was about 450km, decent electrical load in the car, lights on etc. When I took the strap off the next day....

[BigJonWB]

That is making the fan turn the wrong way.

[BigJonWB]

I had to jury rig some wire scavenged from my driving lights to the fuse box when the starter solenoid failed on my P76 (don't laugh). All the power went from the battery to the solenoid then to the fuse box, brilliant idea.

I have also had to use electrical tape to rewrap both sets of points in a twin point distributor when the insulation failed causing no spark.

[dnegative]

Fucked fuel pump in an old Rambler Rebel, had no pics on one of the front fenders with a 1lt garden sprayer full of fuel spraying directly into the carb. Worked well till it backfired through the carb and i jokingly blamed her for poor fuel atomisation. Wasnt popular for a little while. Didnt have to move the car far though.

Done that with a mate with a can of aerostart, good times