fatharris Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 So, a cursory glance didn't show anything like this, any "interesting" repair methods or exceptionally stupid questions asked on Facebook or in real life? Here's an example: Sloth in a bowl, strangeangel, Sigmund Fraud and 22 others 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Now that's awesome repairing !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I've seen that done with a Hunter saloon door on an estate, except they didn't bother filling in the gap. Lacquer Peel and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat_the_cat Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Oops. Job done! More quality repairs in the link below... mercrocker, Aston Martin, Stevebrookman and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Asimo, brickwall, mouseflakes and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 ^ Errrrm... brickwall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I must confess to having bodged one or two threads in my time. Banger Kenny and rrsix 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 2016-03-28 11.37.50.jpgand they allow thee people to roam the streets alone and unaccompanied? the mind boggles.... brickwall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I bought a Sierra as a donor for a kit car years back, the sills and bulkhead had been repaired using plastic milk bottles and filler. One bit still had the label on with the date, it looked like it had made it through three mots like that. robinmasters, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer, mouseflakes and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamboocarman Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Fitted a 2CV indicator unit into a Dyane with bathroom sealant; a good bodge, lasted a few years. Aston Martin, Banger Kenny, mouseflakes and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I've seen that done with a Hunter saloon door on an estate, except they didn't bother filling in the gap.They learned a trick on the Vlovo 240 Est, then TS Tamworthbay, Lacquer Peel and chaseracer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srad34 Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 2016-03-28 11.37.50.jpg VERDICT: Mongtard of the highest order..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doobietoo Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 As OMGKATIESTORMCHAOS has passed I took the opportunity to start stripping the PT spares car... I found this headlight cunningly fixed in place with cable ties.... looked ok from the outside and passed the MOT like this at a guess.... Bamboocarman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike60 Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I may have been involved in Saab 99 rear suspension alignment with pull lifts and a strop around the gear box, see also Volvo 145 rear suspension height adjustment using wooden block shims, both just before auction. Both sold to notorious noted local trader. I'm sure I've forgotten plenty more. Bamboocarman and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 2016-03-28 11.37.50.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burraston2006 Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Now, I think that I can see the problem with that. He's used parcel tape where as any self respecting professional knows that you must use duct-tape! If he used silver tape the repair would have been invisible! xtriple, brickwall, Bamboocarman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Fucking bodges? I am the KING of bodgers! Lost the nut that went on the end of an engine mounting bolt (about 12-18 inches long) for the front of a Kawasaki Z1000 and was due to go for a thrash to Cadwell the next day.... hose clamp round the end stopped that dropping out. On the way there that is, dropped off somewhere on the way back so I just had to keep pushing it back in with my foot as I was riding along. Handled very oddly. Converted a Renault Fuego 2.0 engine to fit in a Citroen CX... few bits of casting in the way? Angle grinder, no worries! Made a MK2 Granada into a convertible one Sunday morning with an angle grinder and half an hour with a mig - left the drivers door alone so you could get in and out without bother.... Body repairs using a 'Datsun jig' and a length of chain. Clutch repairs with a bottle of Coke and some flour (self raising I think). Several times. Repaired door locks by taking 90% of the pins out of the lock barrel so any key will open them. Exhaust made out of scaffold tube. My proudest moment was with a Yugo 45 that had been in an accident and there was damage to the suspension/drive shaft. I repaired it with an angle grinder and a welder - even the joint on the end of the driveshaft with three spinny round things on it. Once welded two track rod ends together (one was the correct fitting but too short the other was longer and fitted the rack but the ball joint was fucked) to make one good one... actually made two good ones and they lasted ages before my mate could get the proper ones (classic Rover P5B). Once upon a time, there was a couple of Z650 frames one of which was not entirely legal but had rear disc so the two frames got 'joined' to make a legal one with all the good bits... had a gearbox where a cog had got the hump and spat itself out of the case, new cog (God, the expense!) but the case got a pop riveted plate on covered in Araldite both sides. Patches on sills/floors made out of silver foil and and underseal (my StepDad taught me that one!). All of the above before I was 20. Then I got really creative.... HillmanImp, Tamworthbay, fred and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Clutch repairs with a bottle of Coke and some flour (self raising I think). Several times. Tell me more ! Not heard of this before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Fucking bodges? I am the KING of bodgers! Lost the nut that went on the end of an engine mounting bolt (about 12-18 inches long) for the front of a Kawasaki Z1000 and was due to go for a thrash to Cadwell the next day.... hose clamp round the end stopped that dropping out. On the way there that is, dropped off somewhere on the way back so I just had to keep pushing it back in with my foot as I was riding along. Handled very oddly. Converted a Renault Fuego 2.0 engine to fit in a Citroen CX... few bits of casting in the way? Angle grinder, no worries! Made a MK2 Granada into a convertible one Sunday morning with an angle grinder and half an hour with a mig - left the drivers door alone so you could get in and out without bother.... Body repairs using a 'Datsun jig' and a length of chain. Clutch repairs with a bottle of Coke and some flour (self raising I think). Several times. Repaired door locks by taking 90% of the pins out of the lock barrel so any key will open them. Exhaust made out of scaffold tube. My proudest moment was with a Yugo 45 that had been in an accident and there was damage to the suspension/drive shaft. I repaired it with an angle grinder and a welder - even the joint on the end of the driveshaft with three spinny round things on it. Once welded two track rod ends together (one was the correct fitting but too short the other was longer and fitted the rack but the ball joint was fucked) to make one good one... actually made two good ones and they lasted ages before my mate could get the proper ones (classic Rover P5B). Once upon a time, there was a couple of Z650 frames one of which was not entirely legal but had rear disc so the two frames got 'joined' to make a legal one with all the good bits... had a gearbox where a cog had got the hump and spat itself out of the case, new cog (God, the expense!) but the case got a pop riveted plate on covered in Araldite both sides. Patches on sills/floors made out of silver foil and and underseal (my StepDad taught me that one!). All of the above before I was 20. Then I got really creative.... added to the list of members not to buy a car off........... fred, LightBulbFun, Slartibartfast and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 added to the list of members not to buy a car off...........Or indeed a motorbike xtriple and Tamworthbay 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Coke and flour into the bellhousing will keep a car with next to zero clutch left going for at least one more race - 3 series BMWs a speciality! Seriously it does work. Just Coke at a push will do but better with flour. Obviously has to be homepride... I think it's all the little blokes holding hands or something! Incidentally, I have changed my ways considerably over the years. I don't do bodges at all any more and haven't for years... at least 16. But, ask me again when I get the next big bill from the dollop and I am officially skint and the Mazda needs something... I once re-cut the tread on the back tyre of a 900 Honda with a soldering iron. The amount of time it took, I could have gone to work and earned enough for a NEW tyre, but where's the fun in that? Eddie Honda, andrew e, richardthestag and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatharris Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 So, a remap increases your engine size....Jesus wept. HillmanImp, vulgalour, Faker and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xkjagnz Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Was driving from Gosport to Bristol to visit my mum in a Wolseley 16/60, and at Fareham (ie about 6 miles into it) the throttle cable snapped. I had a replacement back at home but instead got a bit of wire and lead it into the engine bay via the quarterlight and the bonnet gap onto the throttle. Wrapped the end round a spanner and drove it like that.Then drove it back after the weekend and carried on like that for a couple of weeks Also on the bike front, had an exhaust head bolt shear on my CB750, tried an easyout to no avail so ended up drilling a hole, grinding a taper on a bolt and aralditing it in. Worked (for a while) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bangerfan101 Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I had an engine mount snap on me on a 6n polo after bouncing it over one too many speed bumps enroute to work and back in Normanton West Yorkshire. I lifted it back up with the twirly jack out of the boot so it wasn't hitting the chassis. Then used the belt from round my waist to hold the 2 halves of Mount together and drive it back home down m62 m1 back to Barnsley. Job jobbed andrew e, Ohdearme and catsinthewelder 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJay Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 So, a remap increases your engine size....Jesus wept. It does if you remap the head... To bypass the brain. fatharris and rml2345 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I put this in the grin thread,but it needs to go here aswell vulgalour, Magnificent Rustbucket, rml2345 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 vectra estate door more likely to be a closer fit ? as the signum and the vectra estate are closer relatives than the hatch / saloon vaectra Don't go spoiling it with logic and reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatharris Posted March 29, 2016 Author Share Posted March 29, 2016 Someone has had a fancy stereo install... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I bought a Sierra as a donor for a kit car years back, the sills and bulkhead had been repaired using plastic milk bottles and filler. One bit still had the label on with the date, it looked like it had made it through three mots like that. It was probably stronger... Tamworthbay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I certainly didn't craft an inner arch for a Mk1 MR2 by making an A4 sheet of masking tape with an inch of filler laid on it and introducing it to the car. Twas almost a work of art ! D Spares & Tyres, Christine and Slartibartfast 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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