whats the most bodge arse or plain dangerous thing you......

[Gwagensteve]

Chicken wire is well known. Crunched up newspaper works well for closed box sections like chassis.

I saw a crane being reconditioned once at a sandblasting/painting place for a well known equipment sales company.

The Roll Over Protection System was rusted through around the floor area. Instructions from the client was to "just bog it up." would have taken maybe an hour and about $10 worth of steel to fix... the welder was right there next to the crane to do the job....

[Area54]

bought RUFF's old hilux.


'nuff said.


Also have filmed a competition zook with pine stud offcuts for body lift blocks.

Filmed a member of this board trying to 'massage' an inner axle seal back to the factory round shape, with his hammer, after busting a CV.

[1MadEngineer]

seen heaps of dodgy hilux diff conversions in sierra wide tracks just use the std spring mounts on both diff and chassis even though they are nearly 40mm different C-C and these are ones done by "professionals".

[sierrajim]

we had one of those mobile dog wash companies come around not long ago, whilst looking at her trailer set up i noticed that she had elastic bands (Australia Post issue) holding the saftey chains from the trailer to the car.

I advised her that she may want to get some shackles, her response was simply that the elastic bands were easier to use!

[Rainbow Warrior]

saw a rust repair, using chicken wire to fillt he hole, and bog over the top!

So you brought my old Valiant, did you notice I used newspaper on the other side

Most interesting thing I did was snap both rear axles of my Rangie and rip the back brake line out on Hilux hill, dropped the rear prop shaft and popped out the rear axles, locked the centre diff and drove FWD with only front brakes til next payday

Then again driving out of the city with a dead clutch master cylinder & half shagged startermotor that only fired on the 10th click was interesting.

[Davidh]

Old XB Falcon had a busted engine mount for a good 6 months. One night after a meal at the pub the engine tilted under acceleration and the fan blade took out the top radiator hose. Pulled into a servo, got a roll of gaffa tape from the boot, taped it up and it lasted another 6 months before I changed the hose!

[Rainbow Warrior]

saw a rust repair, using chicken wire to fillt he hole, and bog over the top!

So you brought my old Valiant, did you notice I used newspaper on the other side

Most interesting thing I did was snap both rear axles of my Rangie and rip the back brake line out on Hilux hill, dropped the rear prop shaft and popped out the rear axles, locked the centre diff and drove FWD with only front brakes til next payday

Then again driving out of the city with a dead master cylinder & half shagged startermotor that only fired on the 10th click was interesting.

[ISUZUROVER]

Not 4x4 related but I once saw an Alfa GTV at a brisbane car yard. The steering has 3/4 of a turn before the wheels started to move!!! And it was being sold with rego and RWC!!!

I drove all the way home from Rover Park to Brisbane with no clutch after the slave cylinder died completely (brake fluid would pour out as fast as I could pour it in) and I didn't have a spare. It was "fun" to say the least. For some reason the changes were easiest on the non-synchro gears (1,2) than the others???

[Rainbow Warrior]

Not 4x4 related but I once saw an Alfa GTV at a brisbane car yard. The steering has 3/4 of a turn before the wheels started to move!!! And it was being sold with rego and RWC!!!

I drove all the way home from Rover Park to Brisbane with no clutch after the slave cylinder died completely (brake fluid would pour out as fast as I could pour it in) and I didn't have a spare. It was "fun" to say the least. For some reason the changes were easiest on the non-synchro gears (1,2) than the others???

I drove for 3 months with a broken layshaft in my 4cyl Ex-army Landog, jammed in 4th using low and high range with the hubs unlocked, it was a bitch not having reverse.

[high n mighty]

I bought a WB panno off a bloke and was fitting my stereo the next day. Was in the drivers footwell running some wires and leant on the brake pedal. The bloody pedal went to the floor, was held in by a straight nail

So I fixed it like anyone would have.


I put the nail back in an bent it

[CRUSHU]

Chicken wire is well known. Crunched up newspaper works well for closed box sections like chassis.

i told a guy at work about this topic, and he tells me of finding a loaf of white bread filling the hole

[-Scott-]

I bought a pair of inertia reel seat belts from a wrecker. When I asked how much, the response was "We can't sell you those, they're $25 for the pair."

I was wearing the belt MANY years later when I was run off the freeway, up a bank, hit a tree and rolled. It worked.

Scott

[RUFF]

Chicken wire is well known. Crunched up newspaper works well for closed box sections like chassis.

i told a guy at work about this topic, and he tells me of finding a loaf of white bread filling the hole

Your joking. Ask him if it was a 2 Tone VB/VC Commodore from Brisbane?

I read your first reply about the Chicken wire and it reminded me of how we fixed the rust in a mates commo over 10 years ago. We used a loaf of bread as it fitted in the hole in the sill real well.

I have also seen huge rust holes cut out of sills and then 2" wide masking tape placed over the holes and then painted over with sound deadener

[RUFF]

bought RUFF's old hilux.


'nuff said.

Come on it wasnt that bad Have you found the huge hole in the roof thats been bogged up where the sunroof used to be? Now that took some talent to get the cardboard to support the bog long enough for it to dry

[CRUSHU]

i will ask him on monday!!! was it sunblest white sandwich?

[RUFF]

i will ask him on monday!!! was it sunblest white sandwich?

Cant remember that much. I cant even remember what color the car was apart from it was 2tone like a VH SLE but not. From memory it was the RH Sill just in front of the rear wheel.

[85lux]

"a friend" rolled an fj45 ute at woods point a few years back, kicked windscreen out, doors wouldn't close so i tied a rope between 2 door frames behind my head to hold them closed. water in clutch to replace lost fluid. rope across bonnet holding it down. tubes in radiator cut and rolled up to repair the hole a log left. all made for an interesting 3 hr drive home to melbourne, got some interesting looks at traffic lights.

[Rainbow Warrior]

bought RUFF's old hilux.


'nuff said.

Come on it wasnt that bad Have you found the huge hole in the roof thats been bogged up where the sunroof used to be? Now that took some talent to get the cardboard to support the bog long enough for it to dry

Best I've seen is a guy who bogged all the sills on his Hiace van roof at 45 degrees top and bottom, took a bit of looking to work out what was strange about it.

[paul1a]

An old mate of mine had a little garage in Rocky, a rough & ready second hand/junk dealer he knew came in one day in this old datsun 180b [something like that] he drove everywhere complaining about a bit of a noise in the front end. When my mate put the car up on the hoist he found that the front brake pads had worn away years ago and the callipers had machined the discs right off & they were rattling around the axles:!:

[MQ080]

Woman came in for a pink slip about 12 months ago and after driving her vehicle into the workshop I asked her who repaired the seatbelt with the snazzy cross stitch pattern and why? She replied "I did, it's just far easier to mend that up these days when the dog chews through the belt than going and getting another one"

Come to think of it that's not so bad when I remember Dad used to take me for runs in his vintage cars as they were coming through the build up process. One Saturday morning he said hop in his 1928 Hudson (which had no doors, seats, come to think of it anything inside) and we'll go for a spin. This trip was unusually worrying because there was only one chlorine bucket to use as a seat, so he got that and I had to sit cross legged on the floor holding onto the A & B pillars as to not fall out in between.

[Maggot4x4]

I can remember a mate of mine driving back from a 4WD Jamboree at Mount Seaview (near Port Macquarie) all the way to Sydney in his petrol hilux that had a flat battery and an alt full of mud.

The solution

Fire up the gennie in the tray and run jumper leads over the roof to the engine bay to provide the power to get home.

It worked.

[bad_religion_au]

accell cable in the 45 broke, miles from home... solution was to duct tape the throttle half open, and get home using the gears to govern speed... every fawker thought i was going to drag them at the lights.

and because i had no money and less fuel, i switched it off for downhill stints and at the lights.

[MQ080]

I'm convinced just about anything can be overcome. I've got so many good ideas from this thread

[Tojo]

Many years ago, when I lived in Melbourne, my mate and me went for a sunday surf down at Bells, an hour and a half drive in my old 68 VW Kombi.

On the way back, just short of Torquay, the accelerater cable broke.

Solution? Whip the leg rope off the surf board, and tie it to the carby.
My mate was in the very back of the Kombi with the back window open, manning the throtle.

It was pretty dificult at first, but after staling a few times we found the co ordination for the gear changes etc. I had to yell out the speed on the freeway, "more........more.......that's it, 100ks! hold it there!"

wow!! fastest Kombi i've ever heard of!!!

[big red]

driving a HR holden on a dirt road flat out and hit a rock that had rolled off the bank which bent the crossmember back and pulled the motor backwards thenjammed the throttle linkage between the motor and firewall, i couldnt switch it off as we were sideways around several corners and i was too busy trying to keep it on the road.
Poor old thing punched a rod out through the block and it started missing so we drove it back from sheepyard flats to mansfield using the key to slow up....had a huge line up of traffic coming back from the snow stuck in a big cloud of blue smoke and steam as no one could see past me to pass

it even started the next week when we drove it onto a trailer even though it had smashed a piston in another bore and the gudgeon had worn 4 long slits in the bore.[/list]

[ludacris]

New somone who drove around for a couple off weeks with bits of bearing from both front wheels falling out.The only thing holding the wheels on were the brake callipers and disc's.

[Squik]

Grew up in the country....learnt heaps of bad habits
Bought a Beetle when I was 17 - doors hinges were rooted so we just welded up the doors, throttle cable was stuffed, so we ran fishing line from the carby and in through the rear firewall. Basically had no exhaust system and the king pins were gone, so I drove it around with 4 bags of cement in the front boot to keep the front wheels on the road........damn I loved that car
Heard a story quite a few times from different people about a Zook with wooden body lift blocks that left a trail as they dropped out

[Squik]

I can remember a mate of mine driving back from a 4WD Jamboree at Mount Seaview (near Port Macquarie) all the way to Sydney in his petrol hilux that had a flat battery and an alt full of mud.

The solution

Fire up the gennie in the tray and run jumper leads over the roof to the engine bay to provide the power to get home.

It worked.

That's a classic

[BundyRumandCoke]

Bloody hell, where do I start.
All this happened in my old Sierra.

Drove from Emerald to Rocky in Qld (300km) with no brakes. Full of mud, didnt have time to clean them out.

Broke a fan belt about 50km from home, Used rubber bands over engine pulley and water pump. Drove home at night using flashers for lighting.

Up the Cape about halfway between Portland Roads and Archer River, broke both sides of the chassis at the rear where the towbar mounts, (we were towing a trailer) I chained the towbar to the rear axle on both sides, and used fencing wire around the towbar tongue up to the spare wheel carrier on the rear door.

Same Cape trip saw the regulator give up, had to keep disconnecting battery till we got to Weipa to stop it overcharging.

Same trip again, transfer case lever kept jamming between L4 and H4, used to have to climb under to free it up.

Once ran in a 4wd competition in open class with home made adapters made so I could run dual wheels on the rear.

I cut the rear half off my old LJ50 with a jigsaw, did a bodge weld up to put the rear back on, less the length of the rear side windows. Built a rear tray to make up the length. Cops never asked any questions.

My current vehicle, I aint saying nutthin.

[planb]

[quote="CRUSHU"]i saw a left to right conversion using a bicycle sprosket on the end of the colomn, and another on the end of the shaft from the box, under the dash, with a bike chain!! it had heaps of slop!!
quote]

that is scary

what are these people thinking ???