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Re: What's the craziest freebie repair you've ever done ???
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Posted by john d on November 17, 2001 at 18:18:46 from (205.188.198.23):
In Reply to: What's the craziest freebie repair you've ever done ??? posted by Alberta Mike on November 17, 2001 at 14:31:01:
Two come to mind, I did only one of them. Over 20 years ago I took my then pre-teen son to a movie he'd been wanting to see. About 20 miles from home and in the edge of the city, I turned into a space in the parking lot only to realize I couldn't steer the car! I managed to back the old '70 Chrysler into another space and got underneath to find the left tie rod hanging loose where it had pulled out of the adjusting sleeve. It was about 9:00 on a Saturday night, but a drug store about a block away was open and on the rack I found a spray can of WD-40 and a cheap import version of a vise-grip. We walked back to the car, I laid underneath, braced the wheel with my knee, and with the engine running, guided the rod back into the sleeve while Rick turned the steering wheel very slowly. I then clamped it tight with the "visegrip" and we drove home at 15 mph! The best "free-fix" I know of was by a guy who was making hay and left his Farmall H in the field all night. He came back the next day to rake the hay and found someone had stolen all 4 of the sparkplug wires. He cut and bent pieces of BALING WIRE to the right length, bent one end back on each to press-fit into the distributor cap, and twisted the other end tight around the top of the sparkplugs with pliers. It started, and he raked the hay!
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