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

[Doggy]

My motor blew up in my old hilux only two weeks after it had been rebuilt by "professionals'(the story of these professionals will be told at the end) out 4wding in ormeau by myself. Luckily it blew up on the main ridge track just at the top exit to the tower of terror. I called up my cousin to help us out so what we ended up doing was towing me up the hills, then disconnecting the snatchy and letting me roll down the hills. This would have been all well and good if i'd had brakes (they were power assisted, so the motor need to be running to make them of any use) so i had it in low 4 and had to let the clutch in and out to lock up my wheels to slow my rapid decents . It wasnt cool at all. We managed to get down to the Shaws Pocket Road entrance which if you have seen it is quite a dooooozy of a hill with lots of wheel lifting in a dodgy 'lux. I dont really panic or get scared at all but I can quite happily say i was shitting my pants the whole way out with no brakes or anything. Ended up being snatchied home from where i got it towed to the blokes that rebuilt it and dumped it in front of their workshop.
Now to the dodgy mechanics. NEVER EVER..NEVER EVER go to A1 MACHINING AT JIMBOOMBA those dodgy pricks who suposably build race engines and such fucked my motor. The first time they rebuilt it the didnt replace the conrod bolts, leading to the above story...the SECOND time they rebuilt it they hadnt set the timing right or done up the fricking radiator hoses, leading me to crack the head on the motor and they left a bloody screwdriver and hammer in the engine bay, I took the hammer and screwdriver back and threw them at the guys heads..i missed. The THIRD time it needed rebuilding after cracking the head i figured i could do a better job those chromsoneally challanged retards and I can quite happily say a book and I did a much better job and it went quite happily until the rest of the 'lux crapped out.
This might lead to an offshot of what dodgy workshops do you want to name

[muppet_man67]

you should have made them pay for another mechanic to do the work.

[Big Red Toy]

I think we might see some "a friend of mine once......." on this thread

Well a friend of mine did a bodylift and needed to do it whist his parents were oversea's and couldn't wait for blocks so he went down to halls and got some old rubber bodymounts for a gq middle (about 35mm thick) and used 2 of em as body blocks per mount , lets just say it moved around a fair bit and this "friend" keep it like this for some time cos i couldn't be farked swapping over to the good ones.

please tell me you have replaced these

Yep now 3" nylon

[Big Red Toy]

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

MINE HAD THAT

[ISUZUROVER]

Just remembered another one:

About 200km from brisbane heading off for a long weekend trip, a rear brake hardline fractured on the IIA (single circuit brakes) and I lost the brakes completely - but fortunately managed to stop (wasn't going too fast). We crimped the remaining stub of the hardline (broke just outside the "t" on the diff), and stuffed a piece of foil muesli bar wrapper inside the brake line to make sure it sealed. Bled the brakes, no problems, and I drove for the next 3 days with brakes on 3 wheels. Didn't notice the difference.

[Rainbow Warrior]

Just remembered another one:

About 200km from brisbane heading off for a long weekend trip, a rear brake hardline fractured on the IIA (single circuit brakes) and I lost the brakes completely - but fortunately managed to stop (wasn't going too fast). We crimped the remaining stub of the hardline (broke just outside the "t" on the diff), and stuffed a piece of foil muesli bar wrapper inside the brake line to make sure it sealed. Bled the brakes, no problems, and I drove for the next 3 days with brakes on 3 wheels. Didn't notice the difference.

I tried to drive my 2A from LCMP back to Brisbane in Front WD with a Lockrite locker after braking the rear axle & diff. Gave up just after Kilcoy, the steering wheel kept wretching from my hands and taking me across the double yellow lines on corners at 60kph, got towed home.

Another time I broke a front hub/uni at Bribie and only had half left lock sometimes, I had few corners except had to cross the wrong side of the road and use the footpath to pull off Sandgate road into my street or do a 3 point turn.

[ISUZUROVER]

I tried to drive my 2A from LCMP back to Brisbane in Front WD with a Lockrite locker after braking the rear axle & diff. Gave up just after Kilcoy, the steering wheel kept wretching from my hands and taking me across the double yellow lines on corners at 60kph, got towed home.

I assume you had FWH? Why not just lock one hub and drive home with one-wheel drive?

[Rainbow Warrior]

I tried to drive my 2A from LCMP back to Brisbane in Front WD with a Lockrite locker after braking the rear axle & diff. Gave up just after Kilcoy, the steering wheel kept wretching from my hands and taking me across the double yellow lines on corners at 60kph, got towed home.

I assume you had FWH? Why not just lock one hub and drive home with one-wheel drive?

Tried that, it was worse, the lockrite unlocking & locking at nearly random, I had drive one minute none the next, pulling hard to the side locked in.

[Dozoor]

Not a 4b , but when we where about 14 myself and a few mates brought
a ts 250 suzuki trail bike , One day the throtle cable broke at the half way piont in the cable, so Being highly inteligent little devils we removed the outer cable and runit over the frame tube and down to the rear brake pedal, we then removed the rear brake Rod , Was heaps of fun belting around the backyard using our new Foot throttle , well as i was getting the tial out a bit to far exuberunce turned to a touch of panic and offcourse i went for the brakes , Ended up under the suker after demolishing the incinerater and nearly putting the lot thru the fence .

[BundyRumandCoke]

About 25 years ago, when I worked as a mechanics offsider at Cloncurry, a Landrover ute came in from a station for a complete refirbushment. It was going from station hack back onto the road. The four brake drums came off to reveal no brake linings, or steel shoe material. They had been worn completely away to the vertical part of the shoe, and these had worn neat grooves, about 5mm deep, in the centre of all four drums.

[quick60]

That's nothin guys.

I once screwed my bosses daughter in the tray of the Hilux,

Now that was dangerous !!

[markil]

Not a 4b , but when we where about 14 myself and a few mates brought
a ts 250 suzuki trail bike , One day the throtle cable broke at the half way piont in the cable, so Being highly inteligent little devils we removed the outer cable and runit over the frame tube and down to the rear brake pedal, we then removed the rear brake Rod , Was heaps of fun belting around the backyard using our new Foot throttle , well as i was getting the tial out a bit to far exuberunce turned to a touch of panic and offcourse i went for the brakes , Ended up under the suker after demolishing the incinerater and nearly putting the lot thru the fence .

hahahaa, now that's inventive. sounds like great fun

[markil]

That's nothin guys.

I once screwed my bosses daughter in the tray of the Hilux,

Now that was dangerous !!

And that is just plain dangerous

[muppet_man67]

Just remembered another one:

About 200km from brisbane heading off for a long weekend trip, a rear brake hardline fractured on the IIA (single circuit brakes) and I lost the brakes completely - but fortunately managed to stop (wasn't going too fast). We crimped the remaining stub of the hardline (broke just outside the "t" on the diff), and stuffed a piece of foil muesli bar wrapper inside the brake line to make sure it sealed. Bled the brakes, no problems, and I drove for the next 3 days with brakes on 3 wheels. Didn't notice the difference.

I had an uncle do the same thing once with a tent peg. evrey time he jumped hard on the brakes though it would come back out.

[muppet_man67]

This thread isnt about bodge arse or plain dangerous. Its about the great Aussie traditions of ingenuity and improvisation. Its stories like these that make me proud to be an Aussie.

[HeathGQ]

Feroza.... the return spring for butterfly mechanism where the throttle cable joins broke, so open throttle and cant get it back. Revving tits off, turned car off. I tried to bend the spring back into place, but it didnt work, so I did what ever else I could think off.........................



I put a rock in a sock and tied the open end to the throttle in such a way that the weight of the rock made sure the throttle would close. I drove from Robina to Tweed Heads (20k's in traffic), then home to Southport (30k's) like that.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[built4thrashing]

the weirdest but best bog repair i did was fill both rear pannels in my old escort p/van with expander foam. trim when dry then bog over the top. had a panel beater mate almost choke watching me. funniest thing is the spots he fixed rusted again about 4yrs later. mine still havent rusted after 11years

also had to chainthe front wheel forward cause i snapped the front suspension rallying. blew both front tyres on the trip home cause they were pointing in different directions.



Scariest thing was having a front tyre blowout in a corolla at 160km/h and not having any brakes to stop at the aproaching stop sign ended up in an empty dam in a farmers padock.

[stool]

A mate of mine did a body lift on a hilux and the jack was too short to reach door sills so a milk crate was used for extra lift and the rest was done with bottle jack beteen tyres and wheel arch

[high n mighty]

A mate of mine did a body lift on a hilux and the jack was too short to reach door sills so a milk crate was used for extra lift and the rest was done with bottle jack beteen tyres and wheel arch

that's not bodgey, thats initiative

[daddylonglegs]

About 25 years ago when I was living in Gladstone QLD which was a small town then and I was working 2 fulltime jobs, I drove my old series 1 Landy around for 6 months without a brake pedal or master cylinder in the car,just a hole in the floor where the pedal used to go.I was building up a new pedal box master cylinder assembly in my spare time. I had a good handbrake though. Even got pulled up by the police once and they didn't notice. Another time I broke a track rod on a tree stump. Bodged it by bashing the two broken halves into an old lawnmower spark plug spanner and slung a piece of fencing wire between the steering arms to hold it all together. Drove on that for 2 weeks before I could buy another trackrod from Rockhampton.

Bill.

[big red]

Not a 4b , but when we where about 14 myself and a few mates brought
a ts 250 suzuki trail bike , One day the throtle cable broke at the half way piont in the cable, so Being highly inteligent little devils we removed the outer cable and runit over the frame tube and down to the rear brake pedal, we then removed the rear brake Rod , Was heaps of fun belting around the backyard using our new Foot throttle , well as i was getting the tial out a bit to far exuberunce turned to a touch of panic and offcourse i went for the brakes , Ended up under the suker after demolishing the incinerater and nearly putting the lot thru the fence .

i did exactly the same thing to a mates husky 460...worked great until the first sharp corner on the way home when he hit the brakes
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straight over the bank

[built4thrashing]

ttt

[longlux]

saw some guys driving a car down great eastern highway the car had no tyres just the rims no windscreen and a smashed in roof

couldnt stop laughing as i overtook them

[A12]

Lets see, most bodge I ever did was on my Series 1 landrover, it had a holder 186 conversion (home made no engineer), home made engine mounts as the original one broke made out of big steel angle section, angle section welded between the chasis rails to stop twist (excessive twist) when accelerating, chains from the gearbox back to the chassis to stop the gearbox mounts from snapping when you stopped, through bolted gearbox mounts and engine mounts as they kept snapping, and old bed frame was cut up and welded in to (reinforce) the chasis where the brake master cylinder was (under the drivers side floor). The alternator did not have a built in regulator, and the external one was full of mud, so i disconeccted it and ran a big battery to run the lights, had to make sure I always parked where i could get a good run up to roll start as the battery would get flat after a few days and need a recharge by the weekend. The pitman arm had no splines left on it, nor did the shaft it connected to, and was help in place by brass shims and lot a spanner tightening, then after it came off while driving for nth time, I drilled a hole and out a bolt through the lot, not very precise steering and funny when you asked for wheel alignment. What else....oh the steering arms on the hubs would work loose after a few days requiring tightening with a socket....usually on the side of the road....broke the rear brake line and used vice grips to crimp the flex hose, the gaffa taped the lot to the chassis for a weekend away...used to machine a grove in the rear axles so they would snap near the outer hub, making it easier to get out, the exhaust always 'fell' off, so it was held in approximatly the correct position by coat hanger, didn;t actually connect to anything, but looked like it was there.....was really load and blew fire out the side of the engine bay on an overrunn down a hill....had a throttle return spring go once, so i replaced it with a bed spring (had one in the tool box)....gave a good weight to the throttle.....

that's about it.....and i wonder why the wife get worried when i start working on the xl7 :-)

[markil]

Lets see, most bodge I ever did was on my Series 1 landrover, it had a holder 186 conversion (home made no engineer), home made engine mounts as the original one broke made out of big steel angle section, angle section welded between the chasis rails to stop twist (excessive twist) when accelerating, chains from the gearbox back to the chassis to stop the gearbox mounts from snapping when you stopped, through bolted gearbox mounts and engine mounts as they kept snapping, and old bed frame was cut up and welded in to (reinforce) the chasis where the brake master cylinder was (under the drivers side floor). The alternator did not have a built in regulator, and the external one was full of mud, so i disconeccted it and ran a big battery to run the lights, had to make sure I always parked where i could get a good run up to roll start as the battery would get flat after a few days and need a recharge by the weekend. The pitman arm had no splines left on it, nor did the shaft it connected to, and was help in place by brass shims and lot a spanner tightening, then after it came off while driving for nth time, I drilled a hole and out a bolt through the lot, not very precise steering and funny when you asked for wheel alignment. What else....oh the steering arms on the hubs would work loose after a few days requiring tightening with a socket....usually on the side of the road....broke the rear brake line and used vice grips to crimp the flex hose, the gaffa taped the lot to the chassis for a weekend away...used to machine a grove in the rear axles so they would snap near the outer hub, making it easier to get out, the exhaust always 'fell' off, so it was held in approximatly the correct position by coat hanger, didn;t actually connect to anything, but looked like it was there.....was really load and blew fire out the side of the engine bay on an overrunn down a hill....had a throttle return spring go once, so i replaced it with a bed spring (had one in the tool box)....gave a good weight to the throttle.....

that's about it.....and i wonder why the wife get worried when i start working on the xl7 :-)

sounds like it was a real beast
so hows that xl7 holding up then?

[ShinyDiscoBalls]

"Someone I know" once took their xy falcon station wagon to get a pink slip... it failed due to the lack of sill panels... i think it was a rust issue.

Well the repair went according to plan.... 1 copy of the Sydney Morning Herald was stuffed into the gap, this was covered with cloth tape, a thick layer of spray putty and a couple of coats of Falcon Gold - total cost.... $7.50...

"They" sold the car 3 weeks later with the caption "sill panels recently replaced"....

[J Top]

Riding home numerous times with the throttle wrapped arround my glove on a TS185,made life interesting.
Broke clutch lever on TT500 so swopped the clutch cable to the front brake lever,upsets ones reflex's somewhat.
Mastercylinder failed on my HJ 400/400/9" Ute towing a tandem trailer and Stockcar complete with spares,rolling mass.5.65 tonnes and over 300kms from home.The handbrake travel increased dramatically on that trip.
J Top

[scotto]

This thread isnt about bodge arse or plain dangerous. Its about the great Aussie traditions of ingenuity and improvisation. Its stories like these that make me proud to be an Aussie.

[RockhamptonZOOK]

How bout doing real coil conversion- by welding the coils in place!!

[nicbeer]

saw some guys driving a car down great eastern highway the car had no tyres just the rims no windscreen and a smashed in roof

couldnt stop laughing as i overtook them

Wasn't around pipadinny was it. could have been us on the way back from rallying
LOL

cheers