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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
Not difficult, but innovative.
I was hitch hiking in Africa half a lifetime ago and I got a really good ride in a BMW. Suddenly the mounting bracket for the alternator broke so lose fan belt. I broke some wire off a farm fence and wrapped it around the alternator and broken bracket, then got a lump of wood and whacked that in with a rock to bring it up to the right tension LOL. That got us going again. The guy was very pleased as his car would have been stripped out if he had left it there. He had me to stay at his place and the next day carried on with the big drive south.
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That is brilliant, great story!
I've been working on my own cars for over 40 years and only taken a car to a shop for a repair twice, the first when I was 16, bought a 240Z with a bad rear wheel bearing, which they couldn't fix so I bought a Haynes manual and the rest is history. Second was bring my Cayenne 2 years ago for new flex pipes which proved exactly why I have never taken my cars to shops, they charged for stainless pipes but installed pre-rusted ones that completely rusted out in 1 year and when I brought it back, they said stainless will do that. God I have so many stories from friends for things exactly like that. Sorry for the rant.
My worst job was putting an engine & trans into a 240Z on a slight decline in the sand when I was probably 17. It was absolute hell with random pieces of plywood for the hoist and jacks.