Re: What's the craziest freebie repair you've ever done ???

Posted by paul on November 18, 2001 at 07:24:50 from (209.23.145.37):

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:

When I was little my sister got a rock in the
radiator 10 miles from home. Dad & I got
dropped off by the car with 5 gallons of water.
We filled the radiator, but it leaked out by the
time we got in the car.... What to do.... Dad
chewed gum at the time, & being a kid I didn't
know about radiator pressure so I suggested
that as a patch (dad left the cap loose). Well, it
got us 5 miles to the nearest garage - which
told us it would be 5 days to fix, as they ship
out radiators. Dad looked at the gum, hopped
in the car, & we drove 10 miles to the 'big' town
where they fixed it in an hour. Gum worked
good as long as we were moving fast, kept it
cool.

My old International grain truck had the electric
fuel pump die on the scale at the elevator.
When it cooled I got it running long enough to
drive to the other side of the building. Friday
afternoon of course, what to do? Barrowed an
outboard gas can from a guy & some rubber
gas line, strapped the tank on the hood of the
truck, and gravity-fed the carb on the way
home. Worked great, but wondered just how
much trouble I'd be in if the highway patrol
would see me go by....

A friend was in college when their car (full of
college kids) died at night on the interstate. Bit
of checking & they figured the fuel pump was
dead. Bit of head scratching, and they
siphoned some gas, filled the washer
resovoir with it, re-routed the tube to the carb,
and off it went - every time the float bowl went
empty & it started stalling, hit the washer
button for a couple seconds....

--->Paul

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