Many moons ago my brother and I put the old charger into a table drain. Somewhere during the sidewise offroad excursion we bent the tailshaft. Limped up to a property where the owner had a look and said "That's an easy fix" we cut the bent section out of the shaft and the old cocky turned a peice of black wattle up in the lathe fitted it into the two halves and fixed it into place with a couple of 1/4 inch mild bolts. It vibrated a bit up around 80kph but settled down again around 90-95. That shaft was still in the car when my brother sold it 2 years later.

throttle cable broke so made a new one up out some 8pound fishing line... worked a treat....

about 6 months agoi was driving to work
get to work n see my exhaust is touching the ground this is like 120kms from my house luckily on the jobsite one of the concretors had wire they use to tie the steel mesh together so i wrppaedit around the exhaust n attatched it to the leaf springs
haha when i got home it was dragging on the ground again

Well, I wanted to flush out my radiator because it hadnt been running with any coolant. As i undo the hose clamp on the thermostat housing & try to slide the house off, I notice a big chunk of the aluminium is missing off the housing - it had coroded away. When i disturbed it, i destryoed the seal it had & couldnt get it back on - not enough meat for the hose to hold on to.

I managed to borrow a thermostat housing from a fellow member (thanks Immy!) while i sorted mine out. After running it for a few days, i noticed there was still a leak - the gasket wasnt sealing properly. I decided to take it off & cut a new gasket. The top bolt came off fine. The bottom bolt was quite tight & as i was trying to undo it, the head snapped off!

Had to take the grill & radiator out, get a drill in there & try to drill it out. An "easy-out" wouldnt budge the bolt so i decided to cut new threads with a tap. slowly going, i was almost done & the tap goes & breaks it the blasted hole! Cant drill that now! Sat there, staring at it for about an hour not knowing what to do!

So, i checked to see that there was enough meat for me to drill a small hole in to the head - slightly off centre to the bolt. Thought it was ok, drilled the hole, took a 6mm selftapping screw, slapped sum washers on it so it would hold the housing securely, screwed it in , bolted everything back up & packed away my tools just as the sun was going down.

That was about 2 months back. it was still working like that when i took it in to the panel beaters - now that the engines coming out, i can work on ti properly! (or just get an a14 head & save myself the hassle!)

I had a nasty rust hole in a muffler. So I stuffed the hole full of steel wool, and sealed it up with New Tech. (fancy bog. "as good as liquid steel")

Many many years ago, a mate broke a rear axle in his Austang A40 in his driveway.
Jacked up the rear & welded up the diff through the filler hole then drove it to the wreckers & left it there.

yep we go it on film my mate has it dont know if he still has it though

Was that the drivers door quarter window on a white 2 door 1200 sedan?

lol.. a few too many jackass videos eh? I would have loved to see the footage if you had filmed it... brrrrr . CRUNCH .. AH F%$%
keep them coming guys, this has shaped up to be a pretty entertaining thread. and now my 'bodge' isn't seeming much like one anymore :\

well my dodgy repair was with a holden gemini wagon well we decided to see what would happen if we were to drive it flat out into a wall of 20litre foam boxs filled with water end result was a completly trashed front end it pushed the radiator on top of the motor it sat there for for a few months until we decided to get it going again so we got the tractor and pushed it home the whole front end was pushed in so we got a couple of sledge hammers and done some panel beating now we didnt have any radiators that worked but we had a 20L drum....... after a few hours of brazing and beating etc it was fitted in and we ran it like that for a few months it was completly gutless but it worked