Re: Your best Jury Rig?
I crunched
the fuel tank on my Bubba home (an older 50 seat army 4x4 personell carrier done up) in the middle of Sasquatch Territory in BC.
That tank was dryer then a fart in a wind storm by the time I got to it, and I just finished refilling it from the spare 15 gallons in cans.
Good ol' Murph had kids!
I used the 40 lb propane tank from the fridge, jabbed a hole through the dog house and fed the hose with the end cut off it trough, and into the throat of the carburetor to provide combustible gas to run the engine, and duct tape (90 mile an hour tape in plane terms) held it all in position.
As there was no heating available for the carb setup, I could'nt go any faster than 20-25 MPH, or the moisture in the propane would freeze and stop the bus.
This was in the middle of nowhere about 50 miles from the nearest living human bean.
The other was re-ringing a Harley cylinder by the side of the road in Nowhere, Nebraska.
Again, duct tape was used to hold the nuts and bolts together, and to make a cardboard table surface out of scraps from the side of the road, to lay the parts and pieces on.
Finally, In an old old fishing boat, I reseated a valve by hand with grinding compound made from sand, grease and rubbing compound, and got it working well enough to get it home off the Pacific.
I used the duct tape to hold the nuts and bolts from spilling into the bilge and I used it doubled up together between the old pan gasket and the head.
I wasn't stuck out there, but running that engine on one cylinder could potentially have killed the fun for good and I wasn't too keen on spending another cold night out on the ocean without an engine.
Why anyone would want to carry a kicker motor was beyond my understanding at the time and none of the other fishing boats there did either, it just never came up in any conversations.
The weather didn't look promising so I decided "do or die" and got it done
The engine was a two cylinder Easthope, and lent itself well to abuse like that. The weather held.
Everywhere I go, I take 2 rolls of tape, a roll of mechanics wire, some tools, a few candles, waxed matches and two long lighters (double length butanes) and a Synthetic/Cotton subzero bag, put in a "kit" like plastic water tight box that barely floats but does, it is a good thing to have with you.
I have done it that way that for years and it has saved my miserable arse a few times. I got to add a small 16 inch stainless hammer axe with gizmos on it a while back.
The whole thing weighs about 10 pounds and is no bigger then a medium sized suit case, but is well worth dragging around.
Oh...and I call it "Jimmy rigged" Its a latitude thing.
PH.
