Outer Limits 4x4 Board

most recent trip to the bush... with only one vehicle, and no passengers, and 5 bucks left in the bank

gas converter relay melted in the middle of nowhere, with about 2 litres of fuel in the petrol tank to run a thirsty 2F.

wired it up to the drive light relay (needed the drive lights too!)

then all my lighting fuses went for some reason, blew them everytime i replaced them... again miles from anywhere and dark as hell... hardwire those lights in (smell the burning wires?)

then the bearing cap flew out of the driveshaft uni at 120k's an hour... christ this wasn't my best day ever... so rear shaft off, in FWD, in the rain and hail. i tell you god never intended 4.2litre engines to drive the front wheels in the wet...

so on my return jurney (20 minutes later because i checked what i had to and started heading back) found the bearing cap in the middle of the road, minus the C clip... so thinking i prefer RWD (and 4x4 for the track out), "borrowed" a bit of a farmers nearby fence (it was fallen down anyway before anyone flames me) used the barbed wire to hold the uni back together... covered 600 k's on these repairs, back home (tell you it was a stressful drive home) and then proceeded to run the car all week on them. fixed most of it today.

Had a yamaha RD250 in my younger days and lost the baffles from the muffler. Thought I would do a "cheap" fixit job and replaced the missing baffles with steel wool. Worked for a little while but then wondered what all the fuss was be hind me. A quick check behind showed little round fire balls shooting out of the muffler. Six, seven, how many steel wool balls did I shove up there???

not 4wd but still my car.. had just spent big dollars on my 250 crossflow engine in my cortina and was heading to the coast with a full bottle of nitrous on board primed for some racing.. on the way gave it its first hard run and bent a push rod.. armed with only a shifter and wheel brace in the dark between canungra and beaudesert managed to take it out and straighten it by hitting it with the wheel brace..pretty dodgy but the dodgiest thing is that the pushrod is still in the motor 4 years and another rebuild later..