I saw a 1915 rust bucket Model T last weekend running fine. One of the spark plug "wires" was an actual peice of barbed wire. I'll be he could have used a spoon or just about anything else metal.
I bet we see this as the newest trend for the ol skool rat rodderz. Hey, if it worked in a pinch... why not?
Those big T coils would electrify a fence so no boubt they would send current through a strand of barbed wire. You can almost arc weld with those things.
Last year looked at a 63 Chevy pickup with a 6 cyl that was for sale in town. The guy was using a toilet seat lid for the top of the air cleaner housing.
The only picture I had of the mail box air cleaner. belongs to a freind of mine and taken at my place last weekend.
For a temporary measure I stole an olive oil tin from the kitchen for the scoop, and used a bent hacksaw blade to keep the mesh in place. Not as good as barbed wire tho!
They say necessity breeds invention ... but some of that stuff is downright DUMB. To each their own I guess.
Is that a 3.8L Buick Engine??? That pack of coils looks eerily familiar? details anywhere? Or as we say in the states... a 4.0166 Quart'er?
The worst I've seen that I can remember right now, is a drag link made from angle iron. I think they cut out the part with power assist, and welded in the angle in its place. The hokiest repairs will get you home in a pinch. I've heard alot of old timers telling of putting a piece of leather belt in place of a bad rod bearing in a banger motor. Or guys cutting off the bottom of a knocking rod, and leaving it out..
I am ashamed to say this but here it goes.....I purchased a truck without really looking at it good over the net and when I got home with it I tore it down to see that the guy actually used GREAT STUFF and made a firewall out of it. Its a damn good thing i didnt drive it like that......but then again if i fell off a bridge and landed in water I would have floated
Yep, sure is a 3.8l buick engine. Cheap n common motor over here but this one does ok. Beat a blown bb chev in another coupe over the 1/8th mile last year.
I once peered under the hood of a '57 Caddy that someone had put a factory 2x4 on. Apparently they didn't get the linkage with it - part of it was made from half of a door hinge - the same one you use to hang the doors in your house. I once in a pinch used coathangers to wrap broken engine mounts, reinstalled the mounts, and drove on my way. My truck ran a while with bailing wire holding the gas tank on. Then I got fancy and used some Wal-mart plant-hanger or picture-hanger cable rated for 300 lbs - ran it back and forth until I ran out - don't think that sucker's coming off anytime soon. And I just scrapped a chunk of floor out of a '50 Chevy that had a piece of angle iron welded to it that seemed to support or reinforce the shock mounts. The iron was heavier stock than the frame of the car was.
After squeezing a SB 350 in a 72 Vega, I needed an overflow for the radiator. My Dad had just finished a huge can of Miller Lite....it stayed strapped to the fender wall for the next 3yrs. I know I'm not the first to do that, but at the time I was 17 (22yrs ago) and just always got a kick out of it when I raised the hood.
Some guy stopped by work one day, noticed a 3/4" drive universal joint in his steering shaft. Apparently Borgeson or Flaming River charge too much for their joints and he couldn't be bothered going to the auto wrecker. We bought a wrecked T-bucket from the insurance lot once. Had hairpins made from black iron pipe, they flexed when you bounced the car. Shawn
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