Perhaps a new thread? This is submission number one;
The HE V12 XJS Gearbox mount.


Somehow I do not think the person who did this was relying upon this Forum for advice! And where did the car come from? No names, no pack drill! But suffice it to say I shall never drink my Tropicana again without a shudder!

 

Maybe not the greatest or most unusual bodge in the world,
but my mother is quite proud of the fact that she had the
presence of mind to use chewing gum to patch a sudden
radiator leak.

 

It is not expensive and available from classic
+ Centre bush
CAC3227 £7.40

 

I can't wait for the next episode where he uses the remainder of the Tropicana can for new main bearing shells.

Graham

 

Greg, great bodge thread! Seeing that our cars all are "rather expensive" to repair (time consuming), people will commonly cut corners as they can, where they can, how they can.

I have a few I can post , two will have to wait though (oil cooler hose been clamped on using a few jubilee clips and the PAS high pressure hose with a simple jubilee clamp as well). What I can post is a clamped on clamped plastic hose to the fuel return line to the fuel cooler...

 

My XJS had the rear mufflers taken out and little scraps of pipe put in place. 6 pieces in the space of about 2 feet! Beautiful, isn't it?

 

Is that a bean can or coke can with a clamp on it? I guess covering a hole!?

 

That's a pipe joint that wasn't welded. Sanpellegrino can cut open and wrapped around the pipe and secured with hose clamps.

 

Classy!

 

When I was just a kid, my family was driving across the desert when a radiator hose burst. My dad seemed unfazed and started walking along the shoulder of the road, he went about a 1/4 of mile and then turned around started walking back.

"Got it" and holds up an empty beer can (which were still tin back then). He uses a can opener on the ends, then he pulls some Jubilee clips out his tool box. He smiles and says 'we'll back on the road as soon as things cool down enough to patch it up.'

We were traveling with another family, and all the adults were skeptical that it would work. Never doubt the beer can! Perfect fit, and held all the way home.

 

1. Beer cans clamped on leaking exhaust pipes dates way back. I claim the 5th....


2. Jubilleee clamping hoses also not an unknown. If doubled and not in a critical area, sorta. USA guys call 'em hose clamps!!! So very useful in oh, so many places....


3. There was a time that muffler shops were few or non existant that had tubing benders. Just racks of prebent pies for the most popular cars. Usually rail pipes rusted or just burnt out.


4. So, many DIY guys with a bit of equipment, custom built "twin pipes" . Got the pipes of the racks for the bends. Cut, and welded to provide the "other" side's pipe.
Some very nicely done, others not so much. I'll take the 5th again....


5. The cobbled pipes in lieu of resonators are not all that bad, except for the beer can patch. That part is.....


Carl
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Hmmm ... I had an exhaust system on my first "drivable" vehicle
that was pop can, followed by ... another popcan, and another pop can
and so forth plus copious amounts of epoxy.

Buying two hose clamps at a time seemed to make sense because
I never added up the cost of all those hose clamps. Any more and
it could probably have been claimed to be a stainless exhaust

 

If you poke around in the plumbing section you can find stainless steel flexible couplings. These are the Borla of beer cans.

Just remove the inner rubber gasket.

 

You know, this got me to reminisce some. Beer in steel cans sans a "pop top". Used "church key" to make two openings. Still have a couple!!!


And, oh great, other food are still in steel cans. Opened a can of soup for supper last night. Good source of light steel for fixing stuff.


I've a couple of small funnels in the "greasy box" on one side of my bench. Cut the bottom off a brake fluid can. Snip and fold back the sharp edge to form a smooth rim. Perfect small funnel....


Carl

 

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