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Post Your Strange Trail fixes That Work!
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Kain
3/4 ton status
there are three different ones that are popular over there
Mudslutk51984
Registered Member
I was probably 14 or so when me and my family broke down in our suburban in winter.. the battery post stripped out and was no good.. so I found a 3 prong piece of wire and cut a length off used a pair of vice grips and ductape and cut a waterbed bottle to cover the vise grips so it would contact anything( it was the positive side).. it started and got home... it worked for about 2 months til we could afford a nee battery.. will NEVER buy another side post battery again..
I had an '85 Burban when I was maybe 17. The v drive belt broke for the alternator so I tied a couple shoe laces together and again it worked for about 2 weeks...
Our windshield wiper motor went out so I disconnected the motor and tied some p cord through front windows and made it manual also one storm the wiper blade flew off had a sock and an oil bottle. Didn't work well but in a snow storm anything to keep it clear...most of my teens years consisted of rigging automobiles and I got pretty good at it.. now I never take my trucks to the shop. Ever
I had an '85 Burban when I was maybe 17. The v drive belt broke for the alternator so I tied a couple shoe laces together and again it worked for about 2 weeks...
Our windshield wiper motor went out so I disconnected the motor and tied some p cord through front windows and made it manual also one storm the wiper blade flew off had a sock and an oil bottle. Didn't work well but in a snow storm anything to keep it clear...most of my teens years consisted of rigging automobiles and I got pretty good at it.. now I never take my trucks to the shop. Ever
Goat_eye
Newbie
Always carry some paperclips, I've fixed multiple ground straps with them, on everything from squares to tractor trailers. Just try to keep it off anything that might burn, they do get hot. You can use them to jump terminals on sensors as well.
Not sure if I posted this "fix" before since this thread is so old,but I'll repeat it anyways because it worked !...
Twice I was riding in friends vehicles on dirt roads in a state forest when a rubber fuel line hose ruptured and sprayed gas all over the engine--luckily it stalled before it caught on fire..now we were stranded miles from any houses and it was going to be a long walk back to any place to get help or parts..
One car was a '66 Impala with a 283...its steel fuel line running from the fuel pump to carb had been cut off at the pump and carb,and someone used rubber hose to splice it back together..the middle of the run of hose had swelled up like a balloon and popped...
We frantically looked around inside the car & trunk for anything we could use to splice the hose back together--found squat,all we had for tools was pliers,an adjustible wrench and a plain & phillips screwdriver too...
We sat in the car fuming for awhile,wondering if we should start walking (and risk having vandals find the car and strip it),or stay put and hope someone came along who could go for help..
No one came after we sat there an hour,and soon it'd be dark--your not supposed to be in the forest after dark--they close the gates at each end of the dirt road..most likely a forest ranger would come sooner or later,but we wanted to get the bleep out before they came,since we had beer in the trunk!..
While sitting there with my mind racing trying to think of something that would work,my friend turns on the radio...I told him "shut that off--you want a dead battery too?"...then it hit me..
The radio antenna !...
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I got out and told my friend the antenna would get us home,but I'd have to break it off --he said DO IT!---I'll get a new one!..
So I bent it back and forth till it busted off,and I pulled off the thickest portion and had to straighten the end out with the pliers,and I jammed it into the fuel line..we had no clamps,but I found some copper wire in the trunk from old speakers in the rear deck,that I twisted tight around the fuel hose--the engine started up,and we drove back to my friends house,and fixed the hose right once we got there..
His dad was pretty impressed at our ingenuity !..
About a year later we were once again out in the state forest ,we went to ride other friends dirt bikes ,he said to meet him there..
The van we were in had the same thing happen,the rubber fuel hose rubbed thru against the valve cover,whoever cobbed it on there didn't zip tie it and now we were stranded again..
This time a search of the van provided a Bic ball point pen...we pulled the little cap off the other end of the pen ,then pulled the guts out with the ink,and used the outer shell of the pen to splice the fuel hose back together...we were lucky we were stopped near a chain link fence that had some aluminum wire we used as hose clamps...and we had a pretty good selection of tools in the van this time..
Twice I was riding in friends vehicles on dirt roads in a state forest when a rubber fuel line hose ruptured and sprayed gas all over the engine--luckily it stalled before it caught on fire..now we were stranded miles from any houses and it was going to be a long walk back to any place to get help or parts..
One car was a '66 Impala with a 283...its steel fuel line running from the fuel pump to carb had been cut off at the pump and carb,and someone used rubber hose to splice it back together..the middle of the run of hose had swelled up like a balloon and popped...
We frantically looked around inside the car & trunk for anything we could use to splice the hose back together--found squat,all we had for tools was pliers,an adjustible wrench and a plain & phillips screwdriver too...
We sat in the car fuming for awhile,wondering if we should start walking (and risk having vandals find the car and strip it),or stay put and hope someone came along who could go for help..
No one came after we sat there an hour,and soon it'd be dark--your not supposed to be in the forest after dark--they close the gates at each end of the dirt road..most likely a forest ranger would come sooner or later,but we wanted to get the bleep out before they came,since we had beer in the trunk!..
While sitting there with my mind racing trying to think of something that would work,my friend turns on the radio...I told him "shut that off--you want a dead battery too?"...then it hit me..
The radio antenna !...
....I got out and told my friend the antenna would get us home,but I'd have to break it off --he said DO IT!---I'll get a new one!..
So I bent it back and forth till it busted off,and I pulled off the thickest portion and had to straighten the end out with the pliers,and I jammed it into the fuel line..we had no clamps,but I found some copper wire in the trunk from old speakers in the rear deck,that I twisted tight around the fuel hose--the engine started up,and we drove back to my friends house,and fixed the hose right once we got there..
His dad was pretty impressed at our ingenuity !..
About a year later we were once again out in the state forest ,we went to ride other friends dirt bikes ,he said to meet him there..
The van we were in had the same thing happen,the rubber fuel hose rubbed thru against the valve cover,whoever cobbed it on there didn't zip tie it and now we were stranded again..
This time a search of the van provided a Bic ball point pen...we pulled the little cap off the other end of the pen ,then pulled the guts out with the ink,and used the outer shell of the pen to splice the fuel hose back together...we were lucky we were stopped near a chain link fence that had some aluminum wire we used as hose clamps...and we had a pretty good selection of tools in the van this time..
