JB Weld is COOL! Had fishermen fix a cracked block with that stuff out on the open ocean! Got them safe to the wharf. Great temporary fix.
Wire is for emergency repairs only,( if you give a s*** you should be ashamed of running wired on parts) but Idid pick up a roll earlier today for my tool kit. I once ran a 50 Chev pickup that had a broken exhaust stud, replaced it with a small "C" clamp and drove it for years.
everything possible was wired on my race bike... oh wait does safety wire count? It sure is pretty when done right... I try not to use temporary fixes as anything more than temporary. But there are instances where you have to go a bit farther than planned. I've wired exhausts up, bungie corded a battery...
I used wire for an exhaust hangar on my beater truck. It appears there never was a hangar between the muffler and the rear frame hangar. So when I kind of jury-rigged the glasspack that was on the S10 I got a trans out of for my '50 Chevy, onto the beater, I used the wire that guy had used to hang the back of it on that truck, to make sure it wouldn't fall off my truck. As the pipe going into it has rotted, that muffler's fallen off three times. But the wire saved me a long walk to try to find it, every time. The last time I fixed it with a short piece of pipe and another clamp, right in the Advanced Auto parking lot, 150 miles from home. Which I did mostly because it gets better milage with the muffler on than it does with it off. Now I'm eyeballing the parts truck I picked up and thinking about robbing some of the new-looking exhaust off that to fix it right. My '60 Pontiac I ran for a while with the broken motor mounts wrapped up in coathangar wire as many times as it would go around them. I only ran it that way while I was waiting for Kanter to send me new ones, but it did work pretty well. That car the mounts were a piece of rubber with metal on each side, so when they broke, they broke right apart and the motor would lift up a good 6-8 inches - and jam the throttle linkage in the process. Fun. I guess you could say that for a while, the whole motor was held in the car by wire! Can anyone beat that? lol -
GOOD GOD man, that rules. I held some linkage on my carburetor with some copper wire. Worked great and i thought it looked neat. At least I didn't see it as a hack job anyway. I'll take a pic later.
im kinda proud! at the moment i can honestly say nothing is bailing wired together , but i have a roll of that and duct tape and im not afraid to use it..
Top bolt stripped out and this was my fix. Only ever needed one choke on a dual setup and I didn't see myself ever taking the time to helicoil it, so you could say I thought of it as a permanent fix. Feel free to sneak off and talk about my rat rod now.
The clutch linkage on my Torino Cobra has been held together for 28 years with my first steady girlfriend's bobby pin...used like a cotter pin. Don't tell my wife.
On the contrary... that looks pretty neat. When Bluto posted this question... all I could think of was bailing wire. Not Zip ties... not safety wire... Sam.
Currently only wires are held on with Zip ties but I keep extra wire and zip ties in the tool box for emergencies. When me and some buddies took a 1600 motorcycle ride to northern colorado and back one if them had the ball socket on the shifter on his harley pop off and I zip tied it for him. I think it's still like that!
Here's another - wire and zip ties - though I hate the zip ties. Put that piece of split fuel line over the brake line because I was paraniod about it getting scuffed on the steering mount. Even though there was room to spare for the fuel line covering and it was securely clamped at each end - hardly flexing at all. The zip ties and wiring look horrible. You'll notice the proper use of a cotter pin on my pitman arm/drag link connection though. (as brought to my attention by something av8 posted here once upon a time) Guess I pick my battles and wiring lost that day.
Wire and zip ties holding this alternator on... This was our roadside fix on Dan Warner's roadster...the lower bolts on the bracket sheared off in the block. It proved to be reliable on the rest of the run... Neal
Not wire, but something better............. One night, we were out causing crap with fireworks in my '50 Plymouth I had. Other guys chased us in their truck, we got away, only after opening the oil pan of the 218 six on a ditch or something. (It was dark). Drove up to a parking lot, got out the Bondo and a shop towel from the trunk, mixed it up and glued that rag to the gaping hole in the pan. Put in both quarts of oil that I had and went home. left it like that for quite some time until I finally replaced that pan!
All the volts and amps are held in my car by wires. Did I detect some humorless guys responding to this thread? In addition to all his achievements, Mr. Bluto has the ability to not take himself too seriously. A good lesson for all of us. (My friend Barry told me so, and he would know, right Mr. Bluto?).
Who keeps bondo in their trunk?? Last year at day of the drags ('06) on my first pass, one of my exhaust hangars broke halfway down the track. Drug the pipe all the way to the pits and tied it back up with some wire I had in the trunk. Finished racing, drove home, stopped at dads (didn't have a welder yet) and fixed it on the way. The spring in my turn signal mechanism is flat worn out...the weight of the handle tries to pull it down, making it signal left all the time. A rubber band wrapped from the handle to the old shifter boss on the column keeps it working right. On my late model truck, a previous owner had used a coat hangar to keep an O2 sensor in the exhaust where they had stripped the threads. I guess the wire fatigued cause the sensor got loose and the check engine light came on. So I took off the coat hangar and JB welded the sensor in. Good as new I don't usually like to rig stuff up, only if I have to. If it's important, I'll fix it right asap. Otherwise...who cares.
I've got Safety wired header bolts, plus the wires that carry ectrons to things called Lamps. and solonoids and swithces. That bailing wire if for running a Model T through Mexico where there are no parts stores avaiable, or for unclaimed chickens when yor hungry.
It takes 9/10 of a mile of wire to hold a Stanley Steamer boiler together.http://www.stanleymotorcarriage.com/Parts/Boiler.htm
just fuel lines, plug wires, tranny lines and electrical wires, all bundled and pulled "out of the way", with zip ties.
lost a clip off my four speed linkage at about 2:30 in the morning about 50 miles from home with no cell phone! Ended up using a paper clip off my registration and rigged it up(not easy on a 65 chevy truck that had been droped 5" with no jack or flash light).
I have raced and driven stuff all over the world. I always carry tape, wire and ties in my kit with a few tools. I can't tell you how many times I've stopped and helped get some guy's stuff home. It might be the difference between Hot Rodders and Street Rodders... Hot rodders will do whatever it takes to get home. Even when we are far from the AAA I bet the ''no wire'' guys take their Christmas lights down too
That's old school man, get with 2007. Nowadays we glue em in with spray foam insulation. Rips free when the framerail decides to make a left turn but holds em fast otherwise. Talk about fugly looking!
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