Previous owners bodges

flat said:

I once used a squashed coke can and some twine to fix a snapped clutch cable on my old golf. It had broken on a hill doing a hill start.

I once got a moped home about 4 miles by stuffing the punctured tyre with grass, leaves sticks and stuff.

I used my belt to hold the battery down on the same golf after the battery tray rotted out. I had tried a bungee cord but it was tight enough so I used the bungee cord as a belt

Lots of others when at home to make tools do things they shouldn’t lol

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I once filled a truck tyre with snow at the side of a motorway to seal it on the bead

Had a request for a bodge today repair an air intake for a Manitou...…………

Or rather rebuild it out of fibreglass haha

Keeping half an eye on this thread hoping not to see a long ago sold 88" RRC hybrid

mikegsxr said:

Keeping half an eye on this thread hoping not to see a long ago sold 88" RRC hybrid

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Come on spill. What did someone do?

this bit of galvi plate siliconed into the ns rear cill impressed the frack out of me.
Have a go Joe needs to have his welder privileges revoked.

Back when I was 15 years old, the ink on my learners permit as wet as the back of my ears.
I believe the saying is, "young, Dumb, and Full of Cum" I am sure a few of you can remember back
that far. wanting to is another story .
I wandered into a junkyard and fell in love with a Bright yellow '74 Porsche Targa.
Obviously there was a reason it was in a junkyard. But you can't tell a 15 year old kid anything
so they happily took six months of my savings. I fixed the tires good enough to roll and dragged
it 4 miles back to my house with my friends '73 monte carlo and in the barn it went.
While it wasn't all that bad looking from the top, it had little frame left to speak of, it didn't start out with a whole lot to begin with. it didn't have much floor either.
But in a few weeks I got it running and did a pretty pathetic job compared to my current standards welding a floor made from another cars hood (bonnet) and several bed frames into it
with my grandfather's old Lincoln arc welder. I didn't even know what a mig was then,
Talk about some dodgy welding I drove the **** out of that car for the next three months
on dirt back roads that were very abundant in the area of southwest New York I was living in at the time. Til it broke in half one fateful night. and back to the scrapyard it went. he even gave me half my money back.
The first in a long career of bodges, That was in fact the beginning the the path that led me here to this fine forum.

ironie said:

Back when I was 15 years old, the ink on my learners permit as wet as the back of my ears.

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You had a learners permit at 15?? what for??

Are you a Seppo?


Cheers

neilly said:

You had a learners permit at 15?? what for??

Are you a Seppo?


Cheers

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Yes. I don't know what a "Seppo" is. Chances are I probably don't want to, but go for it

ironie said:

Yes. I don't know what a "Seppo" is. Chances are I probably don't want to, but go for it

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A Thomas, Septic, .................................tank ....yank.

Get it. Are you of trumpland birth?

Cheers

@neilly That is what it says on my intro

ironie said:

@neilly That is what it says on my intro

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OK, do not make a point of reading everyones intro, but makes sense now.

Cheers

@neilly well you did give me my very first fake internet point in it. Forgive me for assuming you actually bother reading the posts
Off to the Chippy.
Cheers

The PO did a bit of welding to the rear chassis spring mount area........plate tacked on, silicone sealant in the gaps and a covering of underseal:

Stripped down and built up from this:

to this:

and this is the cut out 'repair':

But the PO did drop the price by a over grand without blinking

capo said:

The PO did a bit of welding to the rear chassis spring mount area........plate tacked on, silicone sealant in the gaps and a covering of underseal:
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Stripped down and built up from this:
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to this:
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and this is the cut out 'repair':
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But the PO did drop the price by a over grand without blinking

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That is some mighty impressive work mate. well done on you for finding it before money changed hands.
I wish I had been so clever.
looks like a pretty decent repair job done afterwards

Thanks @ironie , the welder knows his stuff.
Seeing your comments on the welding thread I thought you might have thought pigeon poo welds, bit imho he's done an ace job probably stronger than the original.

@capo The pictures are small and my eyes are ****ty, but it looks like reasonably well executed work