I was looking under the bronco today & noticed a small set of vice grips clipped to the back of my starter.

I popped them off thinking I must have dropped them & they somehow got caught.

The truck would no longer start.

I put them back on & tada! truckus startus


Not sure exactly what connection they are making, but hey - if it works!

Tell me some of your cool redneck fixes!

I'll get a picture posed later once I get back under there.

 

This one took place in Fallen NV in the winter of 1995. My buddy and I were tooling around in his truck when it just stopped. The fuel line had been torn somewhere along the way and it worked it's way off of the inline filter before the carb. Luckily we had some electrical tape (happened to be in my coverall's pocket which was in his bed ) to fix the fuel line long enough to get back to the base.

From that day on he always carried some extra hose, assorted hose clamps, and electrical tape

 

I'm hoping the truck bed .

 

ROFL yes the truck bed

 

Perhaps its acting as a ground? very strange to say the least.

 

Some cool redneck fixes. Bailing wire on the starter power to hold the dam bolt tight as it always comes loose. Bailing wire on the spare tire carrier in place of the little C-Clip that holds the bolt going through. Bailing wire holding my upper radiator hose away from the serp belt because it likes to rub holes in it. Washers in place of a weld that broke behind my door handle. Drilled another hole in on of my ttb arms to put a bolt through to hold it tight and prevent death wobble. I know there are more just cant think of them at the moment.

 

There are very few things that can't be fixed with bailing wire! Great job!

I once helped a guy tie his steering arm back on so he could limp to the dealer on a chevy truck he JUST BOUGHT!

Duct tape is the other - I've graduated to Gorilla tape- that ***** will not come off!

I once used a sewing needle to get my Pontiac going when the wire on the pickup coil inside the distributor broke off. It was just good enough to start it & get up to about 2k RPM's - so I could drive it home. (don't ask why I had a sewing needle)

 

I've had to get creative out on the trail a number of times, mostly when I had my Jeep.

Broke both motor mounts, which in turn broke the tranny mount on my old trail rig YJ. Used two ratchet straps to hold the engine and transmission onto the crossmembers and wheeled the rest of the weekend like that.

Same YJ broke the fork that engages the collar in the D30 that links the inner and outer axle shafts together when 4wd is engaged. Used a couple hose claps to hold the collar in the engaged position till I could get off the trail and weld it into a one piece shaft.

 

I duct taped the caps on a rear u-joint on a 79 f-150 I had. It actually drove pretty well and got me about 30 miles to the house. On the same truck I stripped the slip yoke/stub shaft and just happened to have a couple of self drilling tek 8 screws. Drove them through the slip yoke and into the stub shaft and made it home with the ol girl.

 

Forgot about this one. I had a 72 f100 2wd with a 429. Was raisin hell with it once and caught tranny on fire. Had to use about a 12 pack of Bud to put out the fire.(Bout broke my heart). Drove her to the house afterwards. Just 1 more reason I love Fords

 

My wife made it home ( 70 miles ) with a blown hose with the help of Duct tape . I was at home at the time with 6 kids at midnight ! She got it home , no damage to engine . I love that Woman ! Not too many women are capable of that , that I know , She also put a tranny in her Camaro by herself years ago .

 

Couldn't you pee on it instead of waste good beer?

I have to agree it's hard to stop an old cast iron ford truck

 

I think I saw that in a movie ... Red Dawn maybe ?

 

Hmm, I know I've had a few but they seem to be slipping my mind. I know of at least 2 at the moment, one was when my rusted flexpipe for an exhaust fell off. It happen to slip off the manifold right as I passed a cop so I pulled into a parking lot and ziptied it to my radius arm. Drove it like that till I had time to roll under and fix it.

I was also when offroad with a friend of mine and when we went down a hill we hit it fast and hard not knowing about a big bump in the center of it. That bump bounced my battery up and over the guard and on top of the alternator carving a groove in the battery case. The batter is a Gel Cell so there was no leakage but afterwards I found some fishing line and tied it down with that then continued on my way. Not the best but it'll do.

 

Back when I had my '80 F-100 I was in the boonies of New Hampshire when my radiator popped a leak and dumped most of my antifreeze. Nobody around to help and before I had a cell phone I found an apple tree, cut an apple in half shoved into both halves inti each side of the radiator, found a large puddle and refilled the radiator, left the radiator cap loose, I drove it that way for a week before my mechanic could get time to work on it.