Dad - the car is making a funny noise

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
The time it takes these days for the uninitiated/inept to change a wheel, they could be on their phone and get Green Flag/AA whatever there and doing it for them. After all, they pay enough for breakdown cover which they don't otherwise use.

haha

years ago now, I was driving a busted àrse old Ford Falcon sedan to Sydney to see a girl friend. The bearing in the idler pulley on the fan belt collapsed, destroying the belt in the process. It was not an uncommon experience on these apparently, as the previous owner had left a second hand pulley, belt & a few other bits & pieces in the boot when I bought it.
Anyway, it was a weekend & although I was on a major road & only a few km from a small town, I was quite a way from a big centre. Rang NRMA ( not a member ), there was a service van based where I was, but he was called out to bûggery somewhere & would be at least 3 or more hours away 😮 That would seriously eat into drinkin & rootin time, which was the reason for the trip . . .
Anyway, walked back into Murrurundi & the 24 hr servo had a pack of very cheap spanners in the shop that I bought. Walked back to the car, changed the pulley & belt & continued on my way. Still in a much quicker time frame than waiting for someone else to bail me out of trouble
 

Nearly

Member
Location
North of York
PS - in regards to the above post, I also always carried spare engine mounts, as I tore a few out & had to replace them by the side of the road at times.
I'm equally cautious and well prepared.
discovery 2 trailer red pair (2).jpg
 

sjt01

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
In the days when I was a student at Reading, in the final year Ag Engineering option was a girl who lived in Devon and drove an Austin A30. On the way back to Reading, she lost oil pressure.
Action:
1. Buy a bar of chocolate
2. Drop the sump
3. take off the big ends
4. Pack the big end shells with the foil from the chocolate bar
5. Back together and on the road
 

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
In the days when I was a student at Reading, in the final year Ag Engineering option was a girl who lived in Devon and drove an Austin A30. On the way back to Reading, she lost oil pressure.
Action:
1. Buy a bar of chocolate
2. Drop the sump
3. take off the big ends
4. Pack the big end shells with the foil from the chocolate bar
5. Back together and on the road

love it
Self reliance - that’s the spirit 👍
 

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
In the days when I was a student at Reading, in the final year Ag Engineering option was a girl who lived in Devon and drove an Austin A30. On the way back to Reading, she lost oil pressure.
Action:
1. Buy a bar of chocolate
2. Drop the sump
3. take off the big ends
4. Pack the big end shells with the foil from the chocolate bar
5. Back together and on the road

I broke part of the subframe on a dirt bike. Had a pack of liquid steel / JB Weld ( mainly for patching a holed sump or similar ) with me. Found some old aluminium beer cans & cut them into strips, then laminated them with the liquid steel in layers to hold everything together. Got me out of trouble as a temporary repair 😎😁
 

caveman

Member
Location
East Sussex.
Once got a phone call from my brothers girlfriend after she had finished work, about 10pm, saying all the lights on her car had stopped working.

Went round to where she worked, about 2 miles away. She was panicking. Got in turned the lights on, and they all came on. Turned out she was turning the wrong stalk and putting the rear wiper on. God knows how you can forget where the lights are when she had owned the car for 2 years and finishs work in the dark every night.

About 6 months later got a phone call off her saying the key wont turn, told her to wiggle the steering wheel as the steering lock will be on, "no it still not turning". Went down to their house, gave the wheel a wiggle and it turned straight away.

Shes definitely not the brightest
I'm thinking she's wanting more than her car serviced!
 
In the days when I was a student at Reading, in the final year Ag Engineering option was a girl who lived in Devon and drove an Austin A30. On the way back to Reading, she lost oil pressure.
Action:
1. Buy a bar of chocolate
2. Drop the sump
3. take off the big ends
4. Pack the big end shells with the foil from the chocolate bar
5. Back together and on the road
Bet you couldn’t do that with a modern engine
 

caveman

Member
Location
East Sussex.
Changed a piston and liner in my F10 on the hard shoulder of the M11 about 1990.
Coppers came along just about as I'd finished.
They'd been watching me from afar all day.
Batteries were not the best and after all the time with the sidelights and hazards on, didn't have enough oomph to turn over a tighter engine.
Cost me £80 for recovery to come out with jump leads.
Load delivered to Bishop Stortford(?) a day late.
 

Dry Rot

Member
Livestock Farmer
true story heard of a car on some magic tires. got a flat tire had to get a transporter to take car in to service center to have tire replaced
why not just take the tire off im not sure but hey im just a hick

Because it would mean a double journey?

Can't remember where I heard it, but an expedition set out on a Sahara expedition with a whole compliment of spare tyres and tubes, along with an Arab guide. Eventually, all the spares were used up and it seemed they were stuck. The Arab removed one of his flip-flops and sat down to melt the sole over a small fire. Using the now melted latex sole as adhesive, he mended one of the damaged tubes with a patch cut from another and they continued on their way.
 

JD-Kid

Member
Because it would mean a double journey?

Can't remember where I heard it, but an expedition set out on a Sahara expedition with a whole compliment of spare tyres and tubes, along with an Arab guide. Eventually, all the spares were used up and it seemed they were stuck. The Arab removed one of his flip-flops and sat down to melt the sole over a small fire. Using the now melted latex sole as adhesive, he mended one of the damaged tubes with a patch cut from another and they continued on their way.
heard of a mate that used to drive to the top deck tours years ago dropped a piston out of the motor and sealed off the injector to keep the bus going
the blowen out tires left on side of road the locals made flip-flops out of them be the only locals with a ply rated steel belted set of thongs
 

Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
heard of a mate that used to drive to the top deck tours years ago dropped a piston out of the motor and sealed off the injector to keep the bus going
the blowen out tires left on side of road the locals made flip-flops out of them be the only locals with a ply rated steel belted set of thongs
A thong here means something slightly different , perhaps @ Baldrick can find a suitable picture :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
A thong here means something slightly different , perhaps @ Baldrick can find a suitable picture :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Don’t think he heard you call...........@baldrick where for art thou baldrick

No doubt he will be along shortly with a suitable image, 👍


Bugger, my tagging ain’t working either, has anybody seen him? He was following me around at one time but nowhere to be seen when needed. 😂😂😂

@Baldrick


Ahh............that might work
 

Sausage

Member
On the way to work up M5 once, liftshare driving, car started coughing and spluttering, luckily by services. Pulled in, earth strap failed, he an electrical engineer on the phone to the RAC, me went in to the petrol station, bought jump leads and on our merry way. Simples
Stopped in there a week later as hadn’t had time to fill up at usual place. No longer sell anything useful, just parties and crisps, which I took to be a sad reflection of how many people just phone the RAC
 

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