Redneck repairs

Yanked the ink cartridge out of a ball point pen once and used the shell to sleeve a trailer tandem hose the had dragged .

 

The bolts fell out that held my air wiper motor in place on my old CO4070A,back in the day in a hard rain,no wipers.Found a little block of wood along the highway,jammed the motor back in place,wipers worked great.Forgot about it,ran that way for months,worked fine.

 

I think the most ghetto thing I've seen is a oil pan leak "sealed" with a t-shirt and 10 tubes of silicone. Just fix the #### oil pan.

 

My stinkin' old AG200 suspension broke and let the rear axle swing back on one side. Used a chain and boomer to get it back in place so I could unload and get back to the shop. Not once but twice.

Upgraded to AG400 and cured all those problems.

 

This wasn't on a truck but....


I had an older Buick Century with a "newer" electric cooling fan. For some reason it stopped running. Some relay somewhere wouldn't kick it in so I was overheating. I was young and broke so a garage was out of the question. So I found a fuse in the box that was live all the time, no key needed. I ran wire to a toggle switch I mounted by cutting a hole in my dash and bolting it in, than to the fan. Worked great as long as I remembered to hit that toggle when I started the car and when I parked the car.


Ed

 

I have a photo album full of pics of redneck fixes on my project W9.

-Welded cast iron suspension hanger on the rubber block suspension.
-Piece of rebar welded to the rear cab mount bracket to reinforce a cracked area.
-Foil from a cigarette package to ground the back light of the pyro.
-Piece of tin siliconed over a hole in the firewall where the A/C evaporator was supposed to go.
-Wires tied up with many feet of electrical tape instead of proper clamps and zip ties.
-Gob weld on a cracked aluminum crossmember.
-Old frame rails had a couple holes blown through them with a torch to mount accessories instead of drilling.
-Tubes of silicone to seal roof lights, horns, etc.

These are just off the top of my head. I'm sure if I thought about it, I could add many more to the list.

 

No one ever bought new fuses in the old days.Most everyone smoked,and a piece of cigarette pack foil was wrapped around the fuse,then snapped back in place.

 

My first car the exhaust hanger broke, the only thing I had with me at the time was a large bag of 1/2" wide leather strips. It got me home where I could get the baling wire. Vehicle never leaves the driveway without baling wire now.