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 alien8
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| posted on August 21st, 2009 at 10:07 AM |
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Ghetto engineering
So most of us have been guilty of half arsed or down right dangerous mechanical engineering at one point or another to our beloved vehicles.
What have you done, through lack of funds, naivety or just plain stupidity to keep your VW on the road in the past?
What would of made the VW engineers cringe?
Share your best and worst bush mechanic stories.
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Pauld
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| posted on August 21st, 2009 at 10:53 AM |
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used an old as the hills pair of circlip pliers with two pairs of vice grips locked on to it as a rear wheel bearing puller one day, hooked up the
coil lead direct from the battery out the passengers door after a short, just a couple that i can say iv done it worked so thats the main thing
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polak
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| posted on August 21st, 2009 at 07:21 PM |
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well dont know if non-vw vehicles apply but made a nappy for my dad's truck to pass rego (oil leak before we had time to fix it) out of 4 zip-ties
and an old sock filled with kitty litter. number 2 would be attaching mine and 3 other mates shoe laces together, to make a throttle cable in a 1200
datto with a turbo sr20 engine..... i drove it from the blue mountains to sydney with one hand on the steering wheel and the other out the window
pulling on the shoe-lace cable. lets just say it was an interesting trip and at no point did any of us even remotely feel like falling asleep. there was more but i cant remember at this stage.... lol
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| posted on August 21st, 2009 at 08:42 PM |
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An old mate of mine back in the day bought himself an LJ torrie and took me for a spin in it.
He was fanging it around the neighborhood giving it all it had. He then parked the car to show me the engine.
Upon opening the bonnet I was in disbelief at the fact that the motor was only held down with wire as it had broken engine mounts!!!  
Bloody idiot he was.....
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| posted on August 22nd, 2009 at 12:33 AM |
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Not me but a mate of mine - lowered the front of his 1303 by compressing the springs with spring compressors and then leaving them in place.
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polak
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| posted on August 22nd, 2009 at 09:41 AM |
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mike was telling me about a beetle he saw and to lower it they had thrown 4 bags of cement in the front of it
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| posted on August 22nd, 2009 at 01:17 PM |
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LOL when i was at summernats with some friends my mate went to Big W and bought some bags of pool salt and put them in his boot so it would look lower
then returned them the next day when we were leaving saying they were the wrong type
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| posted on August 24th, 2009 at 11:29 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by polak
mike was telling me about a beetle he saw and to lower it they had thrown 4 bags of cement in the front of it
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I once bought 6-8 bags of cement and loaded them into the front of my fastback. Not as a poor mans lowering job, but it sure did the trick. Was very
hard to turn the thing though.
I dont think I have ever done anything bodgy. As a bushmans fix to get me home maybe once or twice but never as a permanent fix. I fitted a clutch
and flywheel at spooks place with a cold chisel because we didnt have a flywheel lock to do up the flywheel bolts, and we didnt have the 8 point torx
bit for the clutch. Thats probably the worst of it. Or is removing the rocker gear from 1 cylinder at Kepsey and driving on to Valla worse?
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| posted on August 25th, 2009 at 12:04 AM |
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I remember when my daughter was an apprentice (carpenter), and we went to a friends place about 40km away (where her builder husband had gone to a
nursing home with alsymiers) as she was trying to get rid of all his tools that she had'nt been able to sell at a garage sale. We ended up with the
74L bug totally loaded with tools and boxes of screws, nails, and other fixiings - must have weighed well over half a ton - in the front, floors, back
seat, behind the back seat, and nursing some stuff. The bug sure was low, and was like trying to steer a truck. I'm glad we didn't have to stop in a
hurry.
I have also repaired throttle cables with wire when they have broken (probably 10 times or so over the years), ant the funniest was when my daugher
broke one at TAFE when she went to leave at lunch time. She rang me about a spare, and I described how to twitch it up with a bit of wire. She was
half way through when the rest of the class came out for lunch (all blokes), and she said she was OK despite their concerns. A few minutes later, she
had it fixed, but the tools away, started it and drove off to get lunch, much to thier amazement.
From your ole' mate Jeff
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| posted on August 25th, 2009 at 01:28 AM |
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When I wrote off my first 76 beetle the insurance company let me salvage some parts that weren't covered by the policy. So I dropped in some seats
that were held in place with a bolt, so they weren't going backwards or forwards. I also pulled out the custom gauge panels I made and replaced them
with black painted cardboard to cover the holes.
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