A bush fix could get you home at times!
Submitted: Thursday, Oct 17, 2019 at 17:38
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Vehicles seem to have been more reliable in the last 15yrs or so, as theres very little mentioned about having to do a rugged repair to keep going.
fencing wire, tape of all sorts, a bag of mixed bolts and nuts, gunk for a holed radiator and pepper!!!, were only a few things that some carried lol.
A friend of
mine snapped a rear axle housing on his ute up in the gulf country (No it wasn't a Toyota) so ended up jacking it up and putting a log up from the diff and chaining it up to the chassis he got it to a place where a proper repair could be done. dirt roads where a god send at times.
There miust be a few stories out there in regard to a successful bush fix lol.
Cheers Axle.
Reply By: Bob Y. - Qld - Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 at 19:27
Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 at 19:27
Have done a few bush fixes over the years, Axle, mainly to make sure we didn’t miss out on the next meal!
A couple of us had gone out to a
bore, some kms south of Desmond’s Passage, on the Victoria H’way, in NT in a Landcruiser FJ45. At sometime during the return trip, we noticed an occasional noise of the engine fan hitting the radiator shroud. On inspection, an engine mount seemed to be u/s, a common occurrence on these old models.
Just as we “hit” the h’way, the fan suddenly interacted with the shroud in a big way. The other engine mount had lost all bolts, causing the engine to tip over enough to cause a drama. We had 2 crowbars in the back, and inserted these over the chassis, on each side & under the sump, and “Cobb ‘n Co’d” the outer ends onto the bull bar. Worked okay, and managed to get back to the station without any further dramas.
Bob
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Reply By: RobynR4 - Friday, Oct 25, 2019 at 21:01
Friday, Oct 25, 2019 at 21:01
We did a leaf spring on the trailer on the
Savannah Way and had to do the ol' log strapped underneath!
Hubby is a damn brilliant fitter and machinist whom I'm convinced can fix anything. He'd driven 'how many k's' telling me about how to do it, and then we needed to.
He then drove 'how many k's' telling me why he had steel rims in case we ever ran out of spares and had to drive on a flat tyre and the rim...and yep, we had to put that one into practise too.
He's only allowed to think those things now. I forbid him to jinx us by saying it out loud!!
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