what to use soggy disco underlay for !!

[johnny curt 1]

ive just found myself with a badly deteriorated rocker cover gasket on me tratter and needed a replacement rappid style :screaming_bug_eye_face:

so i peeled the foam backing off the rubber stuff on a discovery boot floor matting ( we all know the one ) that soggy thing that helps rot ten bells out of the floor pans

anyway ive just cut a new gasket fer me rocker cover tightened it down and its worked an absolute treat

at the moment its a desperate temporary fix but lets just see how long it lasts

 

[dellboy1959]

:hysterically_laughi:hysterically_laughi I do love a bodge that works,Chances are it's better than the original

 

[johnny curt 1]

im just wondering if anyone else has done something desperate and completely off the bat like this

 

[dellboy1959]

Not landy related but mid 70's the big ends on a Commer flatbed went tits up on the M6 so we dropped the sump on the hard shoulder and used our silver foil that was wrapping our sandwiches to line the big ends.
believe it or not,we made the 70 mile journey back to the yard :crazy_driver::hysterically_laughi

 

[johnny curt 1]

jesus thats almost as bad as that mini me mate had it ran slightly rough all the time he had it till the head gasket went and lowe and behold it had an oak piston in pot 3

 

[dellboy1959]

jesus thats almost as bad as that mini me mate had it ran slightly rough all the time he had it till the head gasket went and lowe and behold it had an oak piston in pot 3

Now come on,mine was genuine but that is just taking the ****:jaw:

 

[easye1]

jesus thats almost as bad as that mini me mate had it ran slightly rough all the time he had it till the head gasket went and lowe and behold it had an oak piston in pot 3

can believe yer too?

why?

well, I`m 64,
me old dad was a true engineer (best bodger)
and when I was about 3 years old,
me dad had an ariel square 4 motor bike,
(worth a few bob now-but)
but being back in those post war times found it hard to get spares for his motorbike.
that too had an oak piston he made in a lathe at work, as he could not blag any ally for one.
he assured me it ran quite well - when he sold it!....


back in my times in about mid 70`s, I had an old corsair 1500 that was only car I had on the road, that doubled up as tow car weekends for a mini-rod i raced.
dam corsair blew a piston midweek, and i needed it for a weekend meeting, so with head off, sump off, took out fooked piston and raided a big box of spares a mate had from cortinas/anglias and stuff.
found a piston that was same dia (std) same length conrod (different number!) and a box of used big end shells, done a mix an match to "just get it going for now"
ran like that till I got rid of it months later, and done many miles towing with it.

even more strange was the tale of two Intrepid explorers in a 2CV of all things, who broke a hole in there gearbox well ofroad in the jungle.
so filled it with bannanas to get them to civilisation!