Other Stuff > Misc / Open
The Covid Thread
flatfour:
I have just asked my wife to read the script on the master cylinder cap (she is Japanese). She says it reads "specialized for disc brake fluid please use".
SteveD CB500K0:
--- Quote from: MrDavo on March 26, 2020, 04:49:54 PM ---
What’s the most off the wall improvised roadside repair you ever did or saw?
--- End quote ---
A couple spring to mind:
Camping in Cornwall with my mate and his Mk1 Cortina. Cooling system blew a leak at the thermostat housing. Tightening the bolts only managed to strip the thread...
So we took the thermostat out to reduce the internal pressure and tied the thermostat housing together with a wire coat hanger and a steel rod (like a tourniquet)
Riding my first 500/4 home to Brighton from Derby and engine started rattling. It was dark so pulled onto the forecourt of a car dealer and started taking bits off.
Removing the top cover of the engine showed that the recent rebuild had neglected to sufficiently torque the bolts holding the camshaft sprocket onto the cam. Indeed, one of them was missing (presumably in the sump!)
Called the RAC and the patrolman spent a while marvelling at how small the parts of the engine were - presumably he was used to Morris Marinas and the like.
Long story short - he scavenged a bunch of different bolts from the cars on the forecourt until he found one that fitted... No CCTV in those days.
Those of you with particularly nice anoraks will know that the bolts in question are special having a smaller head than the norm. That may be so - but it worked!
matthewmosse:
Improvised repairs, me and some mates decided to pushbike to Snowdon aged 14, one of my mates bikes had a bad inner tube, past patching, so to get us to the next town, we stuffed the tyres with grass. My cb550k3 dropped a valve, resultant carnage holed a piston and the valve head punched though the crankcase under the starter motor, I swapped the head for a slightly less battered example, replaced the barrels and pistons with some less disreputable used examples and used mastic to seal under the starter motor - as a temporary fix it was amazingly effective and the bike did many more years commuting - it was intended to last a week or 2 as a mate wanted to buy the bike and had a decent engine at his end. My wifes Vauxhall cavalier ended its days rolling over 3 times in a corner - gearbox selected 2 gears at the same time and locked up mid corner. Current count of vehicles now driving around with bits of that car incorporated into repairs is now past 20, only 1 Vauxhall. I used the brake lines to repair petter engines oil lines on a dumper truck, the anti intrusion bars inside the doors were spot on right for frame repairs on one or 2 motorbikes, sleeping inside to re enforce butt welded repairs. The mate who was going to buy my ratty cb550/4, had a cb550/4 chop that took pride in being improvised from scrap, those gray steel plug outlets seen in industrial setups as airbox, Massey furguson tractor exhaust and a gaffa taped sponge and scrap steel sheet seat were a few examples. We had a manky collection of bikes but still had fun on them.
Andrew-S:
--- Quote from: SteveD CB500K0 on March 26, 2020, 02:00:21 PM ---Ah the days when you could just put on a bin bag and go to a party
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
--- End quote ---
Talking of fashion, this was my party gear (left off the Belstaff Trialmaster though) and riding gear in the late-70's, note the sewn turn-ups and Dunlop Green Flash.......
MrDavo:
I just remembered the Triumph T110 I filled with Hypoid 80 gearbox oil to quieten it down while I sold it. In the end I sold it cheap to a mate who rebuilt it, but when I’d advertised it in MCN a Manchester patch club turned up on my doorstep to buy it. I wasn’t too keen on the consequences of selling them a lemon, so I was quite relieved that the bike refused point blank to start, and they left empty handed.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version