Get me home fixes???

[Pauldw500]

Or...... just fixes that tie you over till part arrives...

I cracked the rubber on a Ford Ranger engine mount...

This held for over a week...



And recently I cracked the mount on the plate that gear stick connects to...




This is still in place.

I currently have a faulty oil cooler (oil getting into coolant mix) and have bypassed the cooler...




Still in place too...

Any other takers?

[jaydee]

Time to trade her in.
I once saw a HD Holden with half a house brick for an engine mount and all tied up with nylon rope.

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by jaydee

Time to trade her in.
I once saw a HD Holden with half a house brick for an engine mount and all tied up with nylon rope.

blocks of timber used to do the job as well bolted right through.
Oh for the practical minds back in the day
Saving the buck hasn't changed but how haha

[Pauldw500]

Originally Posted by jaydee

Time to trade her in.
I once saw a HD Holden with half a house brick for an engine mount and all tied up with nylon rope.

Yeah for sure... once funds permit... 😊

[Citroënbender]

WW2 in the UK apparently saw more than a few wooden pistons fitted.

[Electrolyte Burns]

Fixed my busted accelerator cable with cable ties on my old Hi-Lux one time. Still there seven years later.

[.:4:.]

I once fixed the accelerator cable that had perrished in my brothers car with a peice of metal bar i cut out of a fence and cable ties. The mechanic wondered why my brother wanted it replaced. Also sorted a boost leak in my old ranger with gaff tape and probably 200 cable ties. It worked, also got a good laugh when passed around at the mechanics.

[falconhell74]

Had my accelerator cable bust on my XCGS 302 about 70 km from home so I used a piece of electrical cable to the carb under the bonnet and through the drivers window for a hand held throttle ...... it was fun driving through town in a 4 speed manual

[Tonz]

do a youtube search 'bush mechanics' our local boys know how to keep things running...

[Chapter Four]

Wrapped cigarette packet foil around a burnt out ballast resistor coil in a VJ Valiant to get it started.

[roKWiz]

Had a few of beauties driving the motorhome, best ones are driving down from Coffs to Wangaratta and got within 3km from base, snapped alternator bracket, loosing water pump, belt in the process causing a overheat. Pulled the bracket, screwed brick wall ties to either end, reinstalled with nylon rope I had as a temp fan / alternator belt for the long 3km drive home.

Blew a front steer tyre on the Buckets Way, breaker bar wasn't getting the wheel nut loose and could not get the jack under the front axle to lift anyway. Tyre was holed and toasted so picked heaps of wet grass on the side of the road and stuffed it into the hole, managed to drive to Nabiac (at about 10km/h)) for a new tyre. Tyre guy said I saved the split ring wheel by doing so and was impressed.

The wet grass tyre trick I had used while out mountain biking and pinch flatting several tubes.

Down at Koroit I managed to jam the gearbox up, no gears, entering an overnight stop at the CP, next morning with wire got one gear working (3rd) and was heading for a truck mechanic in Warnambool, spotted one of his worker in a ute so communicated with him (hand gestures) that I was heading there in only one gear which meant I couldn't stop so he escorted me in avoiding traffic straight to the yard.

[marty351]

Aluminum foil gasket from power steering hose to steering box.

[lance]

Used the peak of a baseball bat cut to shape, for a thermostat gasket on the Ford D series engine in my parents’ boat. It was in there nearly a year.

[Lugh]

Ratchet strapped the front axle of a Landcruiser to the leaf spring after the u bolts snapped. It located fine on the centre bolt and drove like nothing ever happened.

[Jastel]

Did similar but snapped the whole diff banjo in half, tied up with boat anchor chain, drove 200kms on dirt back to civilization very slowly...

[Burnout]

Met a bloke on the Nullabor in'72, who had a wooden piston in his Norton. He had made it earlier in the year out of Gidgee up in SW QLD.
May still be going, considering how hard that timber is, having hit it with an axe one time.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Burnout

Met a bloke on the Nullabor in'72, who had a wooden piston in his Norton. He had made it earlier in the year out of Gidgee up in SW QLD.
May still be going, considering how hard that timber is, having hit it with an axe one time.

Sound like Sth American Purple Heart, beautiful hard boat building timber of old. Polishes up like stainless steel, very rare now days. I have a small sample at home.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by lance

Used the peak of a baseball bat cut to shape, for a thermostat gasket on the Ford D series engine in my parents’ boat. It was in there nearly a year.

Hi Lance, was that a D series marine conversion or a Ford "Lees". Beaut diesels and very reliable the Lees.

[Citroënbender]

They built boats of Purple Heart? Dear as poison now - check it out.

[roKWiz]

If you can find it, dear as poison alright.
Mainly ribs and deadwood keels, some below the water planking to keep worm at bay, rubbing strakes and spars. A bit heavy for standing spars but idea for bowsprits, bumpkins and davits.

[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

If you can find it, dear as poison alright.
Mainly ribs and deadwood keels, some below the water planking to keep worm at bay, rubbing strakes and spars. A bit heavy for standing spars but idea for bowsprits, bumpkins and davits.

Nazareno or corazón Purpura it’s called here... Native to Costa Rica and central america..
Ticos use ir for everything from plates, bowls, ornaments... to bigger stuff like table tops and bed heads... Beautiful when highly polished
Though I’ve never seen a boat made out of it?.. Maybe too dense?

[Rambunctious]

Originally Posted by FTE217

blocks of timber used to do the job as well bolted right through.
Oh for the practical minds back in the day
Saving the buck hasn't changed but how haha

Waiting to collect a truck tailshaft at the driveline outlet at Brendale years ago, and the mechanic had a nice Holden HZ V8 Sedan on the hoist looking around under it.
Turned out the owner had done a run around Lakeside race track after getting the tailshaft balanced and bought the car back because of a vibration, which the mechanic was at a loss to fix, until I pointed to the rear gearbox mount being a block of timber.

[roKWiz]

Yeah being a boatbuilding timber and building a compete boat out of it would be two different things.

My old boat had ironbark scantlings with NZ Kauri planking (carvel). In a trawler of 34 foot it would be too heavy for its own good if it was all built completely of ironbark.