Worst bodge you have seen
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It was a tight street with cars parked either side, I lost a third of my passenger mirror.
I bought a smaller glass for it from Halfrauds then built up the outer casing using a cornflakes packet.
There was some paint left over from an earlier wing bodge so that was used to help it blend in.
It was sold like this.
I also super glued some chip board onto a set of front pads as an experiment. Initially it worked (once) then went on fire.
One of my rear lights wouldn't work, it wasn't the bulb. So I took out the bulb and swapped it with the fog lamp, then drove around with the fog lamp on all the time. There was about a foot in height difference. I was stopped by the police for this.
My Golf had a pissy little exhaust (1100cc) but it looked like a GTI, there was an old rusty exhaust lying on the street, looked like it was from a van. When I wasn't looking my pal stuck it on the back of my exhaust. I didn't know he'd done it and was driving with four feet of pipe extra on my back bumper. I quite liked the idea of a big exhaust so hacksawed off the majority of the pipe and left a nice sleeve on the pissy 1100.
I bought a smaller glass for it from Halfrauds then built up the outer casing using a cornflakes packet.
There was some paint left over from an earlier wing bodge so that was used to help it blend in.
It was sold like this.
I also super glued some chip board onto a set of front pads as an experiment. Initially it worked (once) then went on fire.
One of my rear lights wouldn't work, it wasn't the bulb. So I took out the bulb and swapped it with the fog lamp, then drove around with the fog lamp on all the time. There was about a foot in height difference. I was stopped by the police for this.
My Golf had a pissy little exhaust (1100cc) but it looked like a GTI, there was an old rusty exhaust lying on the street, looked like it was from a van. When I wasn't looking my pal stuck it on the back of my exhaust. I didn't know he'd done it and was driving with four feet of pipe extra on my back bumper. I quite liked the idea of a big exhaust so hacksawed off the majority of the pipe and left a nice sleeve on the pissy 1100.
Vw LT van with 5 pot diesel, rear cylinder had snapped conrod which had smashed a large hole in the block. Remains of rod and bigend bearing cap removed and crank sealed with a strip of rubber and jubilee clip. Piston was pushed up into the cylinder and jammed into place with some broken off feeler gauges stuffed between cyl and piston skirt. Hole in the block repaired with fibreglass mat and injector pipe removed and pump blocked off.
Vw LT van with 5 pot diesel, rear cylinder had snapped conrod which had smashed a large hole in the block. Remains of rod and bigend bearing cap removed and crank sealed with a strip of rubber and jubilee clip. Piston was pushed up into the cylinder and jammed into place with some broken off feeler gauges stuffed between cyl and piston skirt. Hole in the block repaired with fibreglass mat and injector pipe removed and pump blocked off.
22Rgt said:
Vw LT van with 5 pot diesel, rear cylinder had snapped conrod which had smashed a large hole in the block. Remains of rod and bigend bearing cap removed and crank sealed with a strip of rubber and jubilee clip. Piston was pushed up into the cylinder and jammed into place with some broken off feeler gauges stuffed between cyl and piston skirt. Hole in the block repaired with fibreglass mat and injector pipe removed and pump blocked off.
Kinda get the feeling you're trolling but please tell me this ones true, because that would be amazing! *Fletch* said:
Kinda get the feeling you're trolling but please tell me this ones true, because that would be amazing!
Its possible I know of a chap who have a Toyota landcruiser with a 6cyl tdi.
IN the middle of the sahara about 500miles from civilisation he had terminal engine failure on cyl6, when it blew a hole in the block.
He pulled the piston, hammered in a block of wood to seal the bore, took out the valves, and sealed up port 6 no the mech injector using a brake fitting and a ball bearing.
It drove 1200 miles like this, and if it hadn't been down on power probably would have gone on forever.
*Fletch* said:
22Rgt said:
Vw LT van with 5 pot diesel, rear cylinder had snapped conrod which had smashed a large hole in the block. Remains of rod and bigend bearing cap removed and crank sealed with a strip of rubber and jubilee clip. Piston was pushed up into the cylinder and jammed into place with some broken off feeler gauges stuffed between cyl and piston skirt. Hole in the block repaired with fibreglass mat and injector pipe removed and pump blocked off.
Kinda get the feeling you're trolling but please tell me this ones true, because that would be amazing! Ex Special Air Service 22rgt B Squadron. Sniper instructor.
JDMDrifter said:
I once made an oil catch tank out of a milk carton...
Actually worked like a treat and solved the breather issues my mk2 golf had.
Same car, bonnet latch broke. So I cable tied it to the slam panel until I found a new one!
That's pretty standard! I've had a catch tank made from a brake fluid bottle, gearbox oil bottle, white spirit bottle (empty and rinsed I might add) and finally got around to buying a proper tank. Actually worked like a treat and solved the breather issues my mk2 golf had.
Same car, bonnet latch broke. So I cable tied it to the slam panel until I found a new one!
MK1 Ford Capri run on a shoestring budget many years ago whilst I was a student. Seatbelts weren't compulsory then, hardly anybody bothered wearing belts. One day the seat back ratchet broke turning the drivers seat into a permanent sun-lounger. So what was the easiest way to fix it? Yep - use the seat belt to keep the seat back up by placing the belt around the rear of the seat 
I spun the thing on a bend once and ended up doing a 360 over a grass verge. The o/s tyre got peeled away from the rim during the spin with chunks of grass getting stuck between the tyre bead and rim. Amazingly it didn't leak that much air, you only needed to top it up once or twice during the week, so it stayed that way for 6 months.
Happy days. How things have moved on
I spun the thing on a bend once and ended up doing a 360 over a grass verge. The o/s tyre got peeled away from the rim during the spin with chunks of grass getting stuck between the tyre bead and rim. Amazingly it didn't leak that much air, you only needed to top it up once or twice during the week, so it stayed that way for 6 months.
Happy days. How things have moved on
Pistom said:
Not proud???? You deserve a f
king trophy!!!
I'm loving this thread. Bodges make life far more interesting. My OCD in car maintenance means that other that get me home bodges which don't really count as bodges if they do get you home, the nearest I've got to a bodge is using pattern parts.
Keep em coming.
king trophy!!!I'm loving this thread. Bodges make life far more interesting. My OCD in car maintenance means that other that get me home bodges which don't really count as bodges if they do get you home, the nearest I've got to a bodge is using pattern parts.
Keep em coming.
That is a genius solution to the problem.
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PugwasHDJ80 said:
*Fletch* said:
Kinda get the feeling you're trolling but please tell me this ones true, because that would be amazing!
Its possible I know of a chap who have a Toyota landcruiser with a 6cyl tdi.
IN the middle of the sahara about 500miles from civilisation he had terminal engine failure on cyl6, when it blew a hole in the block.
He pulled the piston, hammered in a block of wood to seal the bore, took out the valves, and sealed up port 6 no the mech injector using a brake fitting and a ball bearing.
It drove 1200 miles like this, and if it hadn't been down on power probably would have gone on forever.
SS7
Dolomite Sprint a country lane so narrow only one car and on a hill, the throttle cable snapped just to add interest to the scene.
Wife, using a pair of pliers through the window operated the throttle while I did the rest, we got home safely even the gear changing was good, what a team.
Going home and blasting down a hill in my TR4 back a few years I braked hard to go round a bend and the rear brake hose burst! One pair of molegrips clamping the offending pipe together I drove carefully home.
Wife, using a pair of pliers through the window operated the throttle while I did the rest, we got home safely even the gear changing was good, what a team.
Going home and blasting down a hill in my TR4 back a few years I braked hard to go round a bend and the rear brake hose burst! One pair of molegrips clamping the offending pipe together I drove carefully home.
*Fletch* said:
22Rgt said:
Vw LT van with 5 pot diesel, rear cylinder had snapped conrod which had smashed a large hole in the block. Remains of rod and bigend bearing cap removed and crank sealed with a strip of rubber and jubilee clip. Piston was pushed up into the cylinder and jammed into place with some broken off feeler gauges stuffed between cyl and piston skirt. Hole in the block repaired with fibreglass mat and injector pipe removed and pump blocked off.
Kinda get the feeling you're trolling but please tell me this ones true, because that would be amazing! Power will be down a lot (25% on a 4 pot), so the more cylinders the better.
The first time I heard of something similar was on an American V8. The person who was telling me about it claimed they didn't feel much difference!
Dad bought an MG Midget some years ago that that been "partly restored", AKA butchered by a bunch of incompetent cretins. He stripped everything out to start rebuilding it properly, and discovered the lower seatbelt mounting was attached to the inner sill by a self tapping screw and a penny washer.
many years ago I had a 1.3 marina that had done a lot of miles and was burning oil... It was also noisy with a lot of piston slap. I took the pistons out to replace the rings but the piston skirts were badly worn, hence the noise...
So I popped them in the lathe and with the knurling tool carefully put an inch of knurl at the bottom of the skirt. ( the indentations caused by the knurling push the surrounding metal into peaks, thus increasing the diameter of what you knurl)
when it was assembled it ran like a dream, no more burning oil, quiet... I did a few thousand miles and it was still quiet!
So I popped them in the lathe and with the knurling tool carefully put an inch of knurl at the bottom of the skirt. ( the indentations caused by the knurling push the surrounding metal into peaks, thus increasing the diameter of what you knurl)
when it was assembled it ran like a dream, no more burning oil, quiet... I did a few thousand miles and it was still quiet!
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