when i got my first "old" car i was so excited, drove it home thinking it was the coolest thing ever...then i REALLY looked it over *and under. the rear frame was cracked and being held together by a zip tie along with the leaf springs ha, good thing i didn't drive it too far home
plastic milk jug as a rad overflow. my exhaust fell off one day right at the manifold, as luck would have it i had a #2 robertsen screwdriver, pulled a screw out of the wooden shed on the back of my truck, jamed it into the exhaust right below where it broke off, took some of the extra wire from my milk jug and wired it back up, back on the road in 20 min. i replaced the wire i remover from the milk jug when i got home, you never know.
i've since replaced the twine w/ a battery hold down from a parts car, but i ran it like that for awhile. probably not the greatest idea, but it worked for the time being.
haha, sounds like some MacGyver shit. Makes me think of my dad and how he fixes stuff. Thats awesome.
This isn't a poll! It's a chance for guys to show how inventive they are and have been... You ''nothing guys''.... Are you proud of that or something?? Ever put a radiator in with zip ties? Ever run dirt track? Half my sportsman was held together with zip ties and pop rivets Paul that is true classic!
grill shell got wired on at the deuce run 5 years ago! I guess I should mount it some day and finish filling the top . the bud light over flow was zip-tied too the wired on grill shell 3 years ago at the drag races . my how time fly`s
Is it some badge of honor to have a half-assed car? I can see using the stuff to limp a car home, but a permanent solution? HELL NO! go brag about zip ties and bailing wire somewhere else...
Nothing! Touchy subject with me. I got the nickname Gizmo Joe by being able to "MacGyver" 200 grand worth of a computer network together with 50 pieces of 2" long wire before MacGyver was even on the air. I'll wire up anything to get home or to a garage. BUT... NOTHING stays wired. Period. You help pull bits of steel out of someone who wired their equipment together and you quickly lose the desire to have unsafe, half-built "rat-traps". My rant of the day. Carry on. All is well. I'll take my meds now. Edit: Wait a minute Bluto. Not trying to cause a stink or be "proud". You say this isn't a poll? You asked the question!!! I just answered. Inventive? Ya.. the guy had to invent a new way of walking! Now.. where are those pills?
Once my Chevy broke thru the exhaust straps. Dragging the exhaust on the road wasn't going to help me, so I took the wire hanger off the magnet I had rigged up to pull the rest of a wheel bearing out of the diff with and crawled under the car *hot hot hot* and wired the exhaust back up. Come to think of it, I don't think I've changed it yet. Took a piece of welding rod, broke the coating off and used it to hold my alternator to the block, after the mounting bolts broke off in the block. At least I got home. THAT I did fix. Car ran a lil warmer then normal, but not too hot that I couldn't nurse her home. Dropped my radiator cap once, on the way to Vegas. Thing came apart and then wouldn't lock down right. So I took some bandages out of my first aid kit, put the cap back together piece by piece and then bound it all together to the neck of the radiator with the white guaze bandage. Ran like that to Vegas and home. Got a hole in my lower radiator hose on a trip. I always carry water, so that wasn't a problem.....but I sure as hell don't carry a radiator hose. I stopped at some shithole market, the kind that sells booze left over from prohibition..............bought a package of maxi pads and pulled out a roll of go fast race tape. Put the pad on upside down *sticky side to the hose* and wrapped the sucker with duct tape. I figured, the plastic coating/sticky would help hold it in place AND help stop it from sucking up the water. Never leaked water and I managed to get all the way back home. Anyways, not that you asked Bluto.....but wire gets SO boring ya know?
Chill out...! Hahaha... if you really knew Bluto you'd know that he is a class act... (Although he doesn't like to reveal it!!!)! For me I've had my front license plate tie-wrapped behind my 32 commercial grill... just so I can hear shitty comments from Street Rodders...!!
NASCAR radiators are ''Zip'd in'' FED's use wire, zips and duct tape to hold the weights....... so long ago that I remember when it changed from 'hundred mile-n-hour tape' to 'two-hundred mile-n-hour' tape
Yeah man... you need to read a little bit more before you start posting all negative. Bluto... is... uhhhh... well versed in how to do things right.
Street cars and purpose built vehicles are not the same topic, there's always things you'll do in the pits that you wouldn't do to your daily driver...I try to take pride in my work, whether anyone will ever see it or not, I know what's holding it together and I have to live with that...
Hell, lots of aircraft controls are worked by wires, and I'm sure that a lot of your throttles and automatic trannys have a wire working the control. Zip ties are stronger than a lot of the metal brackets they are attached to.
That's funny! Who says it's permanent? I'll change it sometime. My rag joint coupler broke on my four cylinder DB distributor several miles from home. It wasn't going to make me walk, so I "borrowed" a piece of binder twine from a landscape job and tied the joint back together.
Bluto will attest to the fact that I'm a JB Weld guy on my personal vehicles. All the G.P. Bugattis I worked on had the body bolts wired on, blower hoses wrapped in wire and if you think about it the brakes are activated with bicycle chain and wire. Isn't every aircraft engine wired.
Broke the rear coil spring perch off of the frame of my 66 Chevelle.....jacked it up and shoved a shovel on top between the spring and the trunk floor to get it home. Scrapped it shortly after.....
I agree with wirin' it up to get home. Done some strange stuff to get home over the years. Wiper motor died on my old Econoline. Unhooked the motor, ran a wire from each wiper in thru the passenger and drivers windows. Twisted them together and pulled the wires back and forth for 250 miles in a rainstorm. I carry a spool of wire in every car now. However, wired spring shackles? YIPE! And as far as posting negative... that would clear a lot of posts on the HAMB!
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