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Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER
Talking of "get you home repairs" what sort of "bodge ups" have any of the 10ths brigade had to do over the years.
I used a log of wood to jam up the suspension of my old van years ago when one of the springs broke, another time I drove the same van back from the west country with a non releasing clutch when the clutch release fork snapped in half.
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Clutchless gear changes on a company Sierra that kept "eating clutches" every 20k miles or so. After about 80k miles and diagnosis of "recon gearbox required" it became clear that the 'box was not the problem when the car, returned by the garage fixing it, was worse that before they took it away. Much worse. Almost undriveable since getting it into any gear was extremely challenging
At that point it was realised that in all the clutch changes only the friction plate had been renewed. Changing the entire clutch assembly totally solved the problem - though I had come to enjoy clutchless changes so much I continued to employ them.
Duct Tape to fix a couple of dodgy old hoses on a well used Transit back in the 70s.
In fact Duct tape for a lot of things over the years.
A couple of blocks of something like 3x3 or 4x4 hardwood bolted through the floor pan of an Escort GT to mount an AVO Rally seat on the driver's side.
DFVs were always transported with a L shaped angled metal bar bolted to the front. And Escort van with a 1/2 inch Ply floor and a couple of holes drilled through both the the ply and the floor pan at the appropriate points could fit 2 DFVs in tandem and even just dropping a couple of bolts through the holes was enough to keep them more or less in place despite some spirited driving.
On first use the holes tended to widen a little but after the initial enlargement the hole size seemed to stabilise and the engines never rotated more than 2 or 3 inches. Getting the engines to shift was an interesting way to counter understeer, though usually a bit sudden in its effect.
I'm not sure what would have happened in a serious accident situation ...