Real MacGUYveriggin

mommucked

mommucked

Endeavoring to persevere
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Rural Apex n.c.
A somewhat new friend told me he got a flat on the rear of his 90 S-10 one day and the spare was shit. He was tired from working all day and wanted to get home,from west of Siler City to Butner. He thought hard and hatched his plan. His tires were near their end and he took his pocket knife and cut a slit in the sidewall on the top of the tire. He started scooping up the sandy dirt on the shoulder w his hands and pouring it into the slit in the tire........too slow, so he cut the top off a beer can and started using that, better. Poured it into the tire until it was full of dirt, shaking the tire a few times. Then he drove home 70 some miles about 45/50 mph. He said the tire did fine and it didn't ride too bad unless he went faster :driver:

.....Let's here about yer macguyveriggins
 
I ran a dress shoe string from the grocery store for several years as a throttle cable on my 350 powered commando. Hell it even made a 750 mile trip from wnc to Chicago. ISYN!
 
A buddy of mine rode motorcycles years ago. It got really cold one day up on the parkway near Asheville. Dude bought a couple pair of panty hose and slipped them on to keep warm. He said it worked great. That was before Under Armor existed.
 
Two of my Dad's:

1. Broken throttle linkage? Run kite string found in the back of the van from the carb, out the side of the hood, in through the vent window. Close the vent window on the string when necessary (or for cruise control).
2. Broken clutch linkage? Remove dog house. Attach vice grips to throwout bearing arm for extra leverage. One person drives, a second is on clutch duty.
 
The belt tensioner on my Cummings Waggoner broke while we were on Ocracoke island
Used a ratchet, gorilla tape , bungee cord ,and zip ties to tension belt for two days till parts came in
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My Dad loved VW Beetles.
We had a throttle cable break 50 miles from home when I was 13-14 yrs. old.
He decided to IDLE home on the backroads.
So after about 3o minutes, 3 miles, lotsa horn blowing, getting cussed and flipped off, I managed to talk him into stopping.

I then pulled the cable as far as it would go and tied a knot in it.
I idle at about 3 grand, but got us home.

Old Dodge cube van tow vehicle for a racecar.
The reverse gear pin lost a clip and fell into the transmission leaving a 3/4 hole .... it would empty the trans in 3 miles.

I whittle a tree branch down to fit, coated it with rtv sealant, drove it in the hole and wired it into place.
Got us home from North Wilkesboro Speedway!


Matt
 
Clutch linkage failed me on my CJ5 back in high school while out wheeling. Learned how to power shift real quick and even figured out how to down shift like that too. Turned the Jeep off at stop signs and lights and avoided slow traffic.

Got so comfortable with that style that I ended up driving like that for almost a month until I could find the time to fix.
 
Mid-1990s on some now-closed trail whose name I can't remember (probably never knew it) at UNF, I hit a rock square with my oil pan, AMC Jeep 258. It pulled the factory oil pan skid plate, along with all 6 plug welds right off the bottom of the oil pan. 6 columns of oil drained out fairly rapidly leaving me SOL.
The solution was to patch it with a flattened out/opened up beverage can and copious quantities of RTV. Sure it leaked, but got us home ~60 miles to Greensboro
 
Hydraulic clutch line blew on my 89 Yota one day on the east side of Shelby. Drove all the way home to the west side of Shelby with no clutch. That clutch start cancel button was a livesaver one day.


About a year later, an extended front brake line jumped off the spring that was keeping it from rubbing my tire. Well, the sidewall rubbed a hole in the brake line. Had to drive about 25 miles back home using the parking brake.
 
Friend of my dads cut me a good deal on a Isuzu Trooper with a manual trans. Only catches were that the pull type throwout bearing was broken, and the Trooper was on the other side of Knoxville, TN. Drove that puppy home clutchless, 250 miles. Only had to come to a complete stop twice, once to get gas, and again for some traffic at a stop sign about a mile from home!
 
Punched a hole in the side of a gremlins gas tank very low used a bar of soap whittled down and a can of spray bomb paint to make a patch. Worked like a charm.
 
Got to the flats with a buddy's Sami and he had lost the speedo sensor out of the tcase 3/4 inch Hole or so just poring fluid out found a bolt cut some hose off something under the hood and shoved it In there and tightened the lock screw on it that was 3 years ago it's still there lol

Lost the oil fill cap on my kdx way out I. The woods found a stick wrapped some tape around it and threaded it in rode all day lol

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...........shifting without a clutch is not macguyveriggin.


Cutting the end off a 50' garden hose, inserting a metal magic marker deep into the cut end because it fit snugly and restraining it w 6 or 10 zip ties to seal the end of the hose. Hooking up and pressurizing the hose to make sure the plug don't leak. Jamming the arse end of a fine sewing needle into a wine bottle cork to make a tiny hole punch used to carefully poke many, many tiny holes in the upside of the hose as it lay stretched out on the ground, just deep enough to make a cloud of fine mist erupt from the hose, not a long squirt gun. Screwing that hose into a 100' hose to reach the party. Zip tying the 50' holey hose to 2 50' dog run cables and hanging it 10/12' high between 2 trees. Placing a powerful 30" shop fan set on high speed on top of a 55 gal. drum pointed down the length of the overhead misting hose to provide outdoor air conditioning for a 4th of July party because it was 98* in the shade is macguyveriggin............ It was the cooooooolist 100* afternoon party/cookout EVER. Tables, chairs, kids, adults, and dogs soon ended up under the hose/in the cool breeze of the redneck outdoor air conditioner and all enjoyed beating the brutal heat that afternoon in the cool misty breeze :smokin:
 
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mommucked said:
...........shifting without a clutch is not macguyveriggin.
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Fair point. How's this:
I was at Uwharrie back in the mid-late 2000's, went over the upper part of Kodak rock, stopped, talked to my spotter, then he quit spottin. I proceeded to drive forward and break my trackbar off on a stump that someone had cut off about 2ft high. Drove the back to the parking lot, parked the jeep, and hightailed it to Lowes in Albemarle to get some stick rod before they closed early on Sunday. Used 2 batterys and 2 sets of jumper cables, and a couple pieceas of 7018 stick rod to weld it back together. Taped 2 pairs of sunglasses together for my face shield. Don't even think I had anything to clean/prep the weld with. It got me home!
 
At URE many years ago, and the steering box on a friends Blazer pile (used to be my pile, but I traded it to him for a mountain bike, LOL) came half ripped off the frame rail. Took a come-a-long and wrapped the cable/around the steering box and over across the other frame rail and tightened it down. Wheeled the rest of the weekend and drove it all the way home to Greensboro like that. He said it hadn't driven that well in a while, LOL.

At URE many years ago, and started up Daniel late on a Sunday afternoon after being down there since Friday night. I made it about 100-150 ft up the trail and all the sudden had no steering. The output shaft on my steering box had broken. Drove to Troy and bought a rebuild steering box. Put it on, but destroyed the high pressure hose trying to get it off the old box. It was dark by now and I was ready to get home. I cut the PS pump belt thinking fawk it, I will drive home with manual steering. A few minutes later I realized that belt also spun the water pump. DOH! Old school Ford 351 with like 3 or 4 different V-belts driving all the accessories. Back to Troy to get a belt, but it needed to stay on the PS pump too in order to work. I can't remember exactly how we did this, but we took the cap off the PS pump and stuck the hose in the top of it and bungeed a piece of rubber roofing material around the hose. Basically the pump was just circulating fluid to keep itself alive. Drove back to Greensboro like that with manual steering. Got home late that night.
 
R&Rn the trans. in the 4.3 S-10 I could not reach the lower cooler line @ the radiator to pull the clip off the connector w any tools I own. It's directly under the lower radiator hose and the frame shields it from the bottom. Got a large, wide gap worm hook from my tacklebox, clamped the hooks eye in the jaws of my long nose vise grips and bent the pointy end out till it was about 90* like this ?. W the length of the pliers and the long hook I got in there and popped that clip right out, it worked well on the tranny side too where there's not a lot of room to work either.
 
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Back in the day when bearings were poured lead, I've heard people using a section of leather belt to replace the poured lead until being able to have it rebuilt.
 
JB Welded a hole in the rear diff cover that was big enough to stack 3 quarters in after the wife backed the trail rig into a rock at URE.

Used the winch to hold down one side of the engine in my old YJ when I broke a motor mount at Callientee. Drove it home to Concord from Mtn City, TN like that.
 
Ripped the bolts out of my crossmember of my xj at the furthest spot at duramtown tellico from the parking lot. Used some rope to me a loop threw the crossmember holes, ran my winch threw the driver window and out the passenger window and down to the loop I made.
 
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