Yup! My last NASCAR ticket was in '88 I think so that's 20 years ago My last race was a pro/am enduro with Rufas P. Jones as my co-driver I think I'm one of three people to beat the car up so bad that he didn't drive the second half............ Sold the car to a CHP buddy and he set the flip record at the last race at Ascot
Choke wired open with paperclip for 2 years. Pinhole leaks at top of Buick radiator stopped with JB weld, been 3 years. You know how much those radiators cost? Zip ties as safety to keep battery cable and fuel lines away from fan. Not proud or embarassed. I agree with the resourcefulsness idea, people that like to actually drive their cars keep this stuff in the trunk.
for the first time in a long time ........... not a damn thing !!! i got a couple of zippies holding some wiring back against the frame rail , but nothing holding anything on the truck. wanna try and keep it that way to ! getting ready to do a tranny swap on the flatty and the aforementioned zips will be gone and some real clips put on . the only reason they are on there is the wiring was a little too close to the header .
Maybe Bluto should rename the thread "what emergency fixes have you done with zip ties and/or wire." Nothing I can think of off the top of my head currently. I have been known to use both in an emergency though.
My buddy's '60 did the same thing, even with new mounts if he jumped on it. Like the earlier Chevy mounts, there's no interlock. A good fix for this is a cable mounted from the engine to frame to limit the movement. And what is a cable but a braided wire?
I always joke that my car runs off of zip ties and hope... 1) Radiator is zip tied on. no joke. Ran it like that from Texas to Vegas and back, twice. plastic zips not metal ones. yikes. 2) Wiper blades are zip tied together so they dont flap at 50+mph (wiper motor removed)
True! Had the rear plate on my bug wired on (who hasn't?). Oh yeah, the rearend in my F-100 was squeez-clamped to the frame for it's trip down to ElPolacko's shop. I just typed that out loud didn't I?!
my radiator was held with on with ty raps and wire but that stuff failed and the radiatior hit the fan.
My friend bought a '56 chevy from an old lady. She had economically fixed the floppy ends of the wiper blades with little wraps of bare wire that scratched nice arcs permanently into the windshield. My cousin got bounced from tech for a trans leak. He tried to get back through with half a coke can wired underneath the leak like an on board bucket.
Two 4.5" dual cone speakers up under the dash grille of my 53 Chevy..and the Two Parking brake cables are Zip tied to the frame..
I had the cap of my heater hose outlet blow on my 60 Chevy the other day. I fixed it by putting some electrical tape around a Sharpie pen cap and shoving it in the hose and clamping it on. It got me home. Bluto's misunderstood, like all mad scientists.
Was in a small town in 37 coupe and the thing wouldn't shift--I figured the govenor gear(plastic) was shot--talked a gas station guy into puttin it up on his rack.Pop the cap on the gov--and gear is ok--SHIT! I turn the whole thing over and the gear falls off! Seems the roll-pin came apart--ask about a roll-pin--"whats that?" So I bought a Allen wrench from the guy for a buck and ground it down to fit. That thing worked good for 20 years--till I rebuilt the trans.
A friend of mine has a '37 that the steering coupling came apart on the highway. 70 mph and the steering wheel weren't connected to da rubber wheels . He found a nail on the side of the road and used that in place of the roll pin that went MIA. That was 14 years ago and the nail is still there.
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