Craziest Install
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10-19-2011, 08:40 PM
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Craziest Install
So I was outside tonight in a hotel parking lot at 7pm installing a new TB and PC valve in rain with 60mph gusting wind and started thinking to myself. I wonder what the craziest install/replacement/repair is that people have done. Whether it be be snow storm, hurricane, Plenum repair on the side of the road.
Lets here em!
Lets here em!
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10-19-2011, 08:43 PM
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10-19-2011, 08:58 PM
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10-19-2011, 09:54 PM
changed a clutch master cylinder and slave cylinder on a honda accord in a dorm parking lot lat one night in 30* temps. i dragged the car out of a parking spot and up onto a curb under a street light so i could see.
replaced a starter on a toyota 4-runner at a different school, different city, different kid. the weather was nice that day.
here's my favorite... years ago before there were cell phones, two buddies didn't return from a mountain hell-raising expedition when they were supposed to. 2 other buddies set off on a rescue mission to find them. they stood around the shop and threw together a few tools, plenty of beer and food, and a bottle of rescue liquor. bill picked up an old coil of copper tubing and said - this might come in handy and tossed it in the back of the truck. so they went up in the north georgia mountains to the general area they hung out, and rode up and down every passable dirt road. at the end of one pig trail they found fresh hell-raising truck tracks and followed them up a creek bed where nobody in their right mind would go - and there sat the 2 lost buddies, broken down with a dead battery, and drunk as skunks. neither had jumper cables. so they pulled the trucks together and touched bumpers for a ground, and used the copper tubing to connect battery positives and jump off the bronco.... they got it started, finished off the rescue liquor and drove home.
replaced a starter on a toyota 4-runner at a different school, different city, different kid. the weather was nice that day.
here's my favorite... years ago before there were cell phones, two buddies didn't return from a mountain hell-raising expedition when they were supposed to. 2 other buddies set off on a rescue mission to find them. they stood around the shop and threw together a few tools, plenty of beer and food, and a bottle of rescue liquor. bill picked up an old coil of copper tubing and said - this might come in handy and tossed it in the back of the truck. so they went up in the north georgia mountains to the general area they hung out, and rode up and down every passable dirt road. at the end of one pig trail they found fresh hell-raising truck tracks and followed them up a creek bed where nobody in their right mind would go - and there sat the 2 lost buddies, broken down with a dead battery, and drunk as skunks. neither had jumper cables. so they pulled the trucks together and touched bumpers for a ground, and used the copper tubing to connect battery positives and jump off the bronco.... they got it started, finished off the rescue liquor and drove home.
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10-19-2011, 10:23 PM
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My idler arm went out on my truck the day of a tropical storm knowing I still had another job to go to and a couple hours I went and got the part and pulled the truck into the driveway.
Took about 20 minutes and I was soaked to the bone.
I would have just drove it to work the way it was but, my mom might have needed to drive the truck to check for damage at her work, and I wasnt going to let her drive it with part of the steering being bad
also me and some buddies chopped up a stock bronco, and cut out the wheel wells just enough to stuff some 40's under it, had to do some welding on the brake lines(yeah i know not a good idea at all, fire extinguishers on deck and used both of them up), cut off the top and made it all open so we could fit more people in it.
We did this all during tropical storm nicole, and was able to pull the front of it in the garage for the welding, the next day after the last of the outer bands came through we took it out with 10 people in it and had a blast ended up burning the clutch out right before putting it on the trailer.
Took about 20 minutes and I was soaked to the bone.
I would have just drove it to work the way it was but, my mom might have needed to drive the truck to check for damage at her work, and I wasnt going to let her drive it with part of the steering being bad
also me and some buddies chopped up a stock bronco, and cut out the wheel wells just enough to stuff some 40's under it, had to do some welding on the brake lines(yeah i know not a good idea at all, fire extinguishers on deck and used both of them up), cut off the top and made it all open so we could fit more people in it.
We did this all during tropical storm nicole, and was able to pull the front of it in the garage for the welding, the next day after the last of the outer bands came through we took it out with 10 people in it and had a blast ended up burning the clutch out right before putting it on the trailer.
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10-20-2011, 03:12 AM
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I was going to Nashville from Clarksville (45 minute ride) to enjoy the city through some beer goggles and I started smelling gas but dismissed it because we were riding behind an old Chevy. Not even a minute later a guy pulled up beside us and yelled out, "you're leaking gas." That wasn't good.
We pulled over and I started poking around trying to find the leak and of course we were in my sisters Chrysler Cirrus so no tools. A couple minutes later some guy pulled up in a F450 utility truck and offered some assistance. He told us that we were in a bad part of town and wanted to help get us on our way. Nice folks out there in Tennessee. I blindly tracked the leak to a broken push on type fuel line clip on the fuel pump. Luckily the broken piece was identical to the low pressure return line right on top of the engine so I stole that one for the fuel pump but then I had the issue of not having one on that low pressure line. The guy offered to take me to his shop that was right around the corner to see if he had something that would work and I agreed knowing that I could hold my own if his intentions weren't good ones and my brother in law and my best friend could watch out for my sister if something were to go down while we were gone. The guy reached under his seat and handed my sister his .45 to hold on to until we got back, so that made me feel better about the situation (like I said, nice folks out there in Tennessee). We got to the shop and found some rubber hose and a couple hose clamps that would work and headed back and slapped them on. We called it fixed since it wasn't leaking and offered the guy some money for his trouble but he said not to worry and to call his boss and tell him that not all those Tennessee folks were a**holes.
I learned a few things that night:
-On a 2000 Chrysler Cirrus the plastic push clip things that hold the fuel line onto the fuel pump and the plastic push clip things on the fuel return line in the engine are identical.
-Not all Tennessee folks are a**holes (I never thought that to begin with, I'm pretty fond of that state from my experiences visiting it)
-If you're already about a fifth of Southern Comfort deep and get offered a shot of tequila, don't take it.
-If that shot of tequila is in the form of a body shot on the hottest bartender in Coyote Ugly, take it and deal with the ill effects later after you leave the bar.
-Jager-bombs taste like bubble gum
-Karaoke in a music town is actually pretty dang good to sit and listen too.
-The girls in the bars in Nashville are not afraid to let you know that they want something from you and they tend to get a little grabby (not a bad thing if you know what I mean). Not the best thing if your woman sees the grabbing though. My friend was coming down a flight of stairs with a drink in each hand and got stopped cold by some chick that was going up and decided to check how it was hanging. Man I love Nashville.
-I don't like those back windows that only roll half way down, they're kinda hard to puke out of if you can't fit your head out of them (stupid tequila).
-A couple weeks later I learned that puke will eat a clear coat up if it doesn't get washed off right away.
We pulled over and I started poking around trying to find the leak and of course we were in my sisters Chrysler Cirrus so no tools. A couple minutes later some guy pulled up in a F450 utility truck and offered some assistance. He told us that we were in a bad part of town and wanted to help get us on our way. Nice folks out there in Tennessee. I blindly tracked the leak to a broken push on type fuel line clip on the fuel pump. Luckily the broken piece was identical to the low pressure return line right on top of the engine so I stole that one for the fuel pump but then I had the issue of not having one on that low pressure line. The guy offered to take me to his shop that was right around the corner to see if he had something that would work and I agreed knowing that I could hold my own if his intentions weren't good ones and my brother in law and my best friend could watch out for my sister if something were to go down while we were gone. The guy reached under his seat and handed my sister his .45 to hold on to until we got back, so that made me feel better about the situation (like I said, nice folks out there in Tennessee). We got to the shop and found some rubber hose and a couple hose clamps that would work and headed back and slapped them on. We called it fixed since it wasn't leaking and offered the guy some money for his trouble but he said not to worry and to call his boss and tell him that not all those Tennessee folks were a**holes.
I learned a few things that night:
-On a 2000 Chrysler Cirrus the plastic push clip things that hold the fuel line onto the fuel pump and the plastic push clip things on the fuel return line in the engine are identical.
-Not all Tennessee folks are a**holes (I never thought that to begin with, I'm pretty fond of that state from my experiences visiting it)
-If you're already about a fifth of Southern Comfort deep and get offered a shot of tequila, don't take it.
-If that shot of tequila is in the form of a body shot on the hottest bartender in Coyote Ugly, take it and deal with the ill effects later after you leave the bar.
-Jager-bombs taste like bubble gum
-Karaoke in a music town is actually pretty dang good to sit and listen too.
-The girls in the bars in Nashville are not afraid to let you know that they want something from you and they tend to get a little grabby (not a bad thing if you know what I mean). Not the best thing if your woman sees the grabbing though. My friend was coming down a flight of stairs with a drink in each hand and got stopped cold by some chick that was going up and decided to check how it was hanging. Man I love Nashville.
-I don't like those back windows that only roll half way down, they're kinda hard to puke out of if you can't fit your head out of them (stupid tequila).
-A couple weeks later I learned that puke will eat a clear coat up if it doesn't get washed off right away.
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10-20-2011, 05:19 PM
Replaced Broken ball joints on my brothers S-10 4x4 in a Walgreens parking lot.... Was a nice day.
Replaced the starter on my challenger at the bottom of my driveway. Three foot snow drifts, 25mph wind, must have been all of 10* out, if that.
A clutch in my Sirocco on the side of the road, on the way home from work one day......
Rebuilt a couple carbs in gas station parking lots... (only one of which was mine....)
Timing belt on an old ford escort on a freeway off-ramp.....
More assorted other roadside repairs than I really care to think about.
Replaced the starter on my challenger at the bottom of my driveway. Three foot snow drifts, 25mph wind, must have been all of 10* out, if that.
A clutch in my Sirocco on the side of the road, on the way home from work one day......
Rebuilt a couple carbs in gas station parking lots... (only one of which was mine....)
Timing belt on an old ford escort on a freeway off-ramp.....
More assorted other roadside repairs than I really care to think about.