Bodge JobsIf you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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I don't know if this is a repeat or not.If not, then good. If it is, so what.
I used to have a 1976 VW Golf 3 door. I loved that car. not physically, that would be weird, but if she had a vagina......
Anyway, I digress (mental note to think of the Golf when needing some wanking inspiration later)...
I knew that car intimately (damn, there I go again....), and once drove 5km flat changing gears after the clutch cable broke, and didn't grind or clash gears once.
I was driving down the steep side Roseville Bridge when the return spring on the carburettor broke, and my foot slammed to the floor, the Golf took off like a scalded cat. And I was already travelling at 90. For the rest of the trip, I had to pull the accelerator ledal up with the toes of my shoes (fortunately I was wearing my very funky Cuban-heeled suede winklepickers).
When I got to my destination, considerably sooner than I had anticipated, I checked out the problem. As it turned out, I had a couple of 'wriststraps' from the old Kodak disposable cameras with me. They were basically heavy duty elastic bands. I looped one of those about the carby arms where the spring once was, and hey, presto! Perfect. In fact, the 'lacky band worked better than the spring it replaces, and the one I put on the carby once I got round to it, eight months later.
Length? No...Fuck YOU.
(, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 9:22, 3 replies)
I had a Polo of similar vintageI drove a lot further than 5km without a clutch cable :(
[edit] through Leicester, land of a million bastard traffic lights
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 10:22,
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I've had several Golfs over the yearsbut I don't think I'll be parting with my 130bhp TDI any time soon.
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M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 14:40,
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Ahhh, the Roseville Bridge.I can remember before that was build - the two lane road wound down to a low level bridge over middle harbour. That was when the Blinking Light was still at the Wakehurst Parkway / Warringah Road intersection.
In the late 1990's I had a clapped out Suzuki Sierra, that would actually reach 80 kmph heading down to the bridge (from Frenchs Forest)
(, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 19:10, closed)
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