Questionable repairs that you have done, which have lasted a long time..

[econti]

Have any of you ever used a bungee cord to use as a throttle cable ? I had my cable break and i popped the hood to open but of course did not open it all the way up. Connected the bungee cord to the throttle linkage and put my hand/arm out the window and pulled on the cable to throttle the car home about 6 miles or so. 1 time temp use of course.

It wasn't a fix, but once I was driving a car with a carb and the throttle cable went ping.
Drove the damn thing home using the choke. Fixed the cable properly (the horror) then thrashed the shit out of it for a half hour to clean the carbon out lol

[2002tiiguy]

i dont know whether it scares me or makes me feel proud that i cant think of any questionable repairs i have done lol

[nando]

You have. You've just forgotten. :-P

[2002tiiguy]

oh, well aware that i have done so but the fact i cant remember bothers me a little. there is the nos bottle bazooka tube ratchet strapped to my jack thats hooked up to a sony amp which is piggybacked to my alpine amp for both power and audio, i guess thats kinda questionable.

[15Michaeljoseph]

Just performed another one! One of my muffler hangers disappeared... So right now I'm running a 3 inch hose clamp.

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[Exodus_2pt0]

Big as rock put a crack in one of the pot metal wheels of the Miata. Used a trick I've learned on the railroad and fixed it with a ball peen hammer. Got it to hold air 100% with just some patience and about 1,000 moderate taps.

Then I slathered some sealant on there. Been monitoring it daily, hasn't leaked a bit in the last week.