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- Paul Scherek
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I love vehicles, and I hate to see them abused and ruined. However, in my youth passing through Albury my Austin A40 threw a rod through the side of the block. I had tools, so I removed the sump and hacksawed off the remains of the rod so that the big end would still hold oil pressure, but the rod would not bang against the crankcase. I put it all back together, begged a lot of used sump oil from a servo and drove it back to Melbourne on three cylinders.
It vibrated so badly that it cracked the chassis, and the poor thing ended up in the tip. Shame really, those A40's were not bad cars, very comfortable, leather seats and a sun roof, all in a very inexpensive car.
Next please........
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I've occasionally thought of this problem and in my dreams, I put a hose clip around the bearing shells to keep the oil pressure up.
Also in the 60's the fan belt broke on my Vauxhaul Cresta, and I can confirm that pyjama cords and ladies hosiery DO NOT work.
More recently (70's), I demonstrated that pieces of shredded rubber from disintegrated truck tyres CAN BE successfully Araldited on to worn areas of 4WD tyres where the cords show through, and work for 10,000km.
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dandjcr wrote:
I've occasionally thought of this problem and in my dreams, I put a hose clip around the bearing shells to keep the oil pressure up.
Now I really AM ashamed! I didn't think of the hose clip, I was just near a servo and it took a LONG time to chop that rod. In future I will always carry a big-end sized hose clip!
Your tyre patch fix is a ripper - there have been lean financial times when I would like to have thought of that.
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My brother and I were some 40 k from the homestead in the Austin Champ and the spokes in the steering wheel broke so we had no steering. We used two 24 inch stillsons on the steering shaft to steer, some times it was a two man job and it was a bit scary when one stillsons would fall off. Not far from the homestead a mob of sheep ran in front of us and it was too hard to swerve, sadly the Champ tore one apart.
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IF YOU ARE GOING TO TRY THIS, DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK
So I got a can of butane the ones that are disposable for use on stoves, pinched the nozzle off the WD40, fitted it to the butane and gave a good squirt into the tyre. Lit a match and dropped it in there. Reseats the bead all right, and with a lot of noise.
Next time I lit some paper and tossed it in there, saves the eyebrows.
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I have used 'Start ya bastard'.
Sometimes harder to get ignition that you would expect.
There are video clips around of it.
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A combination works sometimes.Ewart and Vivian Halford wrote: Joe, I tried the ratchet strap once but it did not work on that occasion.
Put the rim and loose tyre back on the vehicle.
Put the strap in place and tighten.
Use liberal 'tyre slip' (the stuff the tyre fitters use really works better than the alternatives).
Spin the tyre back and forward 20 degrees on the rim as the air is applied.
Carry a tube.
I once fixed a tyre for a 'tourist' on the side of the road and had trouble inflating it.
Used a full tube of silicone between the rim and beads.
That fixed it.
Left the owner to fix the mess.
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- Paul Scherek
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It worked! After a couple of goes, they were actually oval enough to be quite a good fit on the thrust faces in the bores. I got quite a few more thousand miles out of them.
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I have to admit to using the butane system but I carry 3 cartridges of grease these days and would have no hesitation in using one to inflate a tyre.
Bit cheaper than silicone Peter and reusable and not that messy only the hands.
Cheers Dave
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Well now you don’t need to do it to see what would happen as I’m ashamed to say I have already done it for you.
It was on my Ford Fairmont a few years ago. I was having battery problems so I swapped the soft battery for one from my ride on mower. It looked the same and fitted fine, but as soon as I connected the last terminal I sensed that all was not well.
A continuous loud beeping noise came from somewhere under the dashboard, the windscreen wipers started up and wouldn’t stop, and nothing else seemed to be working.
It took only milliseconds to realise I had done something wrong. The replacement battery had the same terminals in the same positions but with all the grime on the top I didn’t notice that the + and - markings were reversed.
I quickly (but not quick enough) removed the terminals and put them the right way round but almost everything was dead, only the lights were working.
What to do, apart from swear and curse? First check the fuses, they are designed to protect electrical circuits right? Wrong, they only protect wiring from fires from the power source. They can’t react quick enough to protect electronic circuits.
Anyway, the main 100A and 60A fuse links and a few other smaller fuses were blown and I hoped, in vain as it happened, that just replacing them would be enough. Still nothing worked.
Back to the internet to seek expert guidance and wiring diagrams from the Ford Forums. Fortunately most well designed electronic systems like the sound system, a/c and the EMS have built in protection from reverse polarity, but the Smartlock and security systems weren’t so smart and the door locks, indicators, instruments, wiper controls, windows, keyless entry, de-immobiliser and power management for the EMS, A/C and sound system were all broken.
IOWs, it was stuffed.
Then I discovered there was a large electronic circuit board under the dashboard, hidden from view, called the BEM (Body Electronics Module) which controls most of those things, so I unplugged and removed it and found several burnt out wiring tracks and some blown up transistors.
I bypassed the burnt tracks, replaced the blown transistors and held my breath.
Surprisingly it bounced back into life and pretty much everything was now working. A little bit of electronics knowledge and a lot of luck saved the day.
The Smartlock light on the dashboard still does funny things, and occasionally the radio aerial goes up and down all by itself but overall I fixed it and it’s still going after 3 years but I’m very careful about battery polarisation now.
On an Oka you *might* be lucky as there's not so much electronics in them (except all the expensive CBs, iPads, LED lights etc that you installed), but I still wouldn't risk it. The merest touch on the wrong terminal would be sufficient to destroy sensitive electronics.
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Paul Scherek wrote: After a couple of goes, they were actually oval enough to be quite a good fit.
Paul, I wonder if the next owner went to the BMW spares department and asked for a pair of oval pistons?
Honda have done it, they must have heard of your exploits.
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Do you know if the idea ever hit production?
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