You ask what is the most redneck thing you've done.

PeteTheRookie · Dec 24, 2012

Well how is this?

super99 · Dec 24, 2012

I thought they came from the factory like that. Chris

Mashbox · Dec 24, 2012

Years ago my brother-in-law had a Datsun pickup with a small hole in the oil pan. He kept a coffee can in the bed that he would place under the truck when he parked, and pour the oil back in before starting the truck next time he drove it.

It was his daily driver.

He never fixed it, kept using the coffee can.

He drove it like this for several years.

His job? He was a welder in the Air Force.

Greg K · Dec 24, 2012

I seem to remember trying to pull start a motorcycle with a pickup using an extension cord being held by 1 guy in the back of the pickup for safety. In case the guy laid the bike over he could let go of the cord and not drag him to death. It was working fine when the town cop showed up and checked it out. He never actually told us to stop but recommended it. For once we listened.

DownSouth · Dec 24, 2012

That is indeed acceptable, but only if the duct tape you tried first failed.

Bob Bancroft · Dec 24, 2012

If that can is really big enough, then that's not really a serious leak!!

PeteTheRookie · Dec 24, 2012

The thing is, it works remarkably well at keeping the hydro fluid off the ground as long as I remember to sway it out when needed.
Been running it thru a mr coffee micro mesh metal filter and using it on the POS Craftsman as Bar oil.
Pete
P.S.
We got my 1st bike home via towing it behind a pick up. Tied rope to bumper of my cousins B2000 pickup.
I held the other end untied on the handle bar so I could let go if need be. Let it go twice in about the 5 miles to get it home.
It was a 76 Yamaha xs 650
Looked great, but had alot of mechanical issues.
Not my bike, but it was this model/year

Fawteen · Dec 24, 2012

An excellent choice, Pete!

I bought a '74 new, kept it for 8 years, kicked myself in the butt for selling it.

Finally found a '79 last year and spent last Winter overhauling it. Put about 1500 miles on it this Summer, can't wait for Spring!

Walt Davies · Dec 24, 2012

Once many years ago my friend and I skipped school and went hunting in my 37 Plymouth Coupe when we're way out in the boonies I broke the flexible fueline took a good breath and then got one crazy idea. I had a tube of gasket maker I took that and an old rag wrapped the line with it and let it dry. Drove old car for quite while like that
Walt

Jim in MN · Dec 24, 2012

I used washing machine hoses to temporarily relocate our electric water heater when pouring a cement floor in the basement. I put the heater in the back porch and used garden hose tees to tap into the water lines thru the washing machine faucet. It was right next to the back door so everyone saw it and more than a few gave me a hard tme about it.

Mike (WA) · Dec 24, 2012

Went to help haul hay for an old guy when I was a kid- he had a '38 Ford cabover truck. No shielding over the old flathead motor- you sat right beside it. Must have been 120 degrees in there. Had a can with a wire hook like that, that hung under the leaking fuel line to the carb. He told me to empty it by throwing it out the window every so often- "Don't let it run over, it might catch fire". Gee- ya think?

Transmission linkage was so loose that you just kind of stirred the stick around until you found another gear that you liked.

He kept calling me later to work some more, but I was quick on my feet and thought up good excuses every time.

Rick Kr · Dec 24, 2012

My buddy does the same thing on his IH966, he uses a full size coffee can. His is under the trans/TA. I asked him what was leaking, he said "I don't know, but that is where it is leaking so I put the can under it". Good answer I guess.

Rick

Berth 29 opinions · Dec 24, 2012

Drove a Plymouth for a few days to work using the windsheild washer jug as the gas tank.

Had a Subaru I had to drive 100 miles one night - it had caught fire and the lights did not work.

Wired up a headlamp and the taillights using old brown extension cords.

Karl in MD · Dec 24, 2012

Shoot, I had two 5-gallon drywall mud buckets hanging under the loader on my old Oliver years ago. Dad used the drippings to oil chains on corn picker.

huntingreen2day · Dec 25, 2012

Helped a buddy put an inboard outboard motor in an outboard boat one time. Took it to the river to test it on a cold day sitting on a milk crate steering it and the steering was backwards. tried to fly a para sail behind a Honda 360 motorcycle.

Two Dogs · Dec 25, 2012

I helped a friend repair a Maule airplane and he was so anxious to fly it he sat on a lawn chair an I knelt where the right seat should have been and held on to the windshield strut. Our only gauge was oil pressure. It was a short flight. TDF

Bill(Wis) · Dec 25, 2012

My favorite brand and I love those windshield struts. Good handholds for mounting/dismounting and something solid to hang onto thru squall lines. (;>))

Two Dogs · Dec 25, 2012

They're built here in Moultrie, Ga. I worked several years there migging and heliarcing. Love to fly them. TDF

PeteTheRookie · Dec 25, 2012

SWEET!

Yes, over the years I have sold many "toys" that now in my 50's I wish I stored away for today.

Pete

Royse · Dec 25, 2012

About 20 years ago I snow plowed a few lots for extra money.
Truck was old and rusty, but ran good. Until the gas line rusted in two.
There was no place open to get parts, so I ran a rubber gas hose from
the fuel pump out from under the hood, in the triangle vent glass and stuck
it in a 5 gallon gas can to plow my route before I went to work.
Picked up a new line on my way home from work that day, but didn't get it
put in until the weekend.

Dalet · Dec 25, 2012

(quoted from post at 07:55:05 12/25/12) I helped a friend repair a Maule airplane and he was so anxious to fly it he sat on a lawn chair an I knelt where the right seat should have been and held on to the windshield strut. Our only gauge was oil pressure. It was a short flight. TDF

I am probably a prude, but I wouldn't even think of flying in a seat that isn't attached to the floor! Maybe to escape someone that would kill me, but that my friend is scary! A little turbulence near the ground and it would mess a day up.

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