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One could almost consider jimmy rigging as a type of art. It takes some real imagination to cobble something together to fix something that was broken, or to make something you need. In this case I had a broken plastic plumbing part. Specifically the collar/nut that holds a little bar that raises and lowers the drain plug in my bathroom sink. ...It broke in to three pieces when I lifted the lever while cleaning the sink. I'm broke as fuck, so I thought I was fucked. And I couldn't think of any way to temporarily plug the hole with what I had. But then as I was looking at the pieces I got an idea. Maybe I can tie it together somehow. It should work like an arch, even with three pieces if I do it right. ...And so it did..with no glue! ...Then I found a ball bearing that was the same size as the ball part of the arm, wrapped it with Teflon tape, put it in the hole and screwed the thing together (a little too tightly as you can see from the gap in one of the pieces). I tested it by first running some water, then filling the sink with hot water and letting the whole thing drain. It didn't leak at all. In fact it turned out so well that I decided not to replace this little piece of jimmy rigging art when I have money. I think I'm just going to leave it. Many years from now some plumber is going to find it and have a real WTF moment. I only wish I could be there to see it.
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People say all types of "rigged" stuff. You can really put anything in front of it really, just something that's rigged up and however you want to describe it. Jimmy rigged, Jerry rigged, 'insert your mane here' rigged, brokeass rigged, junkie rigged, Jew rigged, nigger rigged, the list goes on (please don't be offended by the racial ones, I didn't make em up it's just something a lop of people say). There really is no specific one correct thing to say, it's a made up slang term that means some quickly thrown together cheap fix so it's all up to whatever you decide to say really.
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Yep, same here lol. What's a good one from your life?
One memorable one for me was when the throttle cable on my 79 Datsun pickup, snapped. I was on the way to a friends house that was about 30 miles from home. I was about 1/4 way up the pass, and about 5 or 6 miles away from his town when it snapped. Fortunately there was an off-ramp right there, and I had just enough momentum to get to it. So I was able to coast to a stop on level ground. When I opened the hood I found that the throttle cable snapped right at the carburetor. I tried to clamp the ends together with a pair of vice grips, but the end on the nub that hooks to the carburetor wasn't long enough. So I started thinking of ways to keep the throttle open a little bit. Nothing I had would work, until I looked at my Leatherman. It wedged perfectly between the throttle lever and a notch in the head cover. But it wedged the throttle wide open. I didn't have any choice so I decided to try it. I prepared myself for what was going to be an interesting ride, put the truck in gear, fired it up and side-stepped the clutch. It burned rubber through 3 gears and scratched 4th while going up the on-ramp. The rest of the ride up the winding pass was fast but otherwise uneventful. I shut the engine off when I came to the town so I could stop. Then repeated that way all the way to my friend's house.
Getting a new throttle cable would have taken a week. I couldn't wait that long. My friend had a friend that had a wrecked Datsun 510, so we went and took a look. The carburetor end of that cable was the same so we took it. It was the same length as mine too, but the end that hooked to the gas pedal was different. Mine had a ball, and that one had a flat piece of metal with a bolt hole in it. Easy enough fix. I just took the shoelace off my left shoe and tied the cable to the gas pedal. That worked perfectly to get me back home, and for the next week while I waited for a new cable.
Yep, same here lol. What's a good one from your life?
One memorable one for me was when the throttle cable on my 79 Datsun pickup, snapped. I was on the way to a friends house that was about 30 miles from home. I was about 1/4 way up the pass, and about 5 or 6 miles away from his town when it snapped. Fortunately there was an off-ramp right there, and I had just enough momentum to get to it. So I was able to coast to a stop on level ground. When I opened the hood I found that the throttle cable snapped right at the carburetor. I tried to clamp the ends together with a pair of vice grips, but the end on the nub that hooks to the carburetor wasn't long enough. So I started thinking of ways to keep the throttle open a little bit. Nothing I had would work, until I looked at my Leatherman. It wedged perfectly between the throttle lever and a notch in the head cover. But it wedged the throttle wide open. I didn't have any choice so I decided to try it. I prepared myself for what was going to be an interesting ride, put the truck in gear, fired it up and side-stepped the clutch. It burned rubber through 3 gears and scratched 4th while going up the on-ramp. The rest of the ride up the winding pass was fast but otherwise uneventful. I shut the engine off when I came to the town so I could stop. Then repeated that way all the way to my friend's house.
Getting a new throttle cable would have taken a week. I couldn't wait that long. My friend had a friend that had a wrecked Datsun 510, so we went and took a look. The carburetor end of that cable was the same so we took it. It was the same length as mine too, but the end that hooked to the gas pedal was different. Mine had a ball, and that one had a flat piece of metal with a bolt hole in it. Easy enough fix. I just took the shoelace off my left shoe and tied the cable to the gas pedal. That worked perfectly to get me back home, and for the next week while I waited for a new cable.
Oh man I've done everything from fixing a boost hose with a plastic dunkin donuts cup zip ties and duct tape, to the old soup can and coat hanger on an exhaust, but I'd have to say the most memorable one for me also involved a throttle linkage.
My buddy had a little Suzuki Samurai that we were out wheeling when all of a sudden the thing fell flat on its face. Now those things only have like 63hp to begin with, but it seriously no longer even had enough power to make it up hills that were normally not an issue at all- we were already out of the crazy stuff and were just driving back up the power line trail on our way back to the road so we could go home. Upon further investigation I found out that the secondary was no longer opening so we were only able to run maybe half throttle at most. On flat ground it wasn't an issue but we seriously just couldn't make it up this one hill no matter how much of a running start we got, it would just bog out and we'd have to roll down backwards and try again. With nothing else to use we ended up cutting a few feet of wire off of his trailer harness (don't ask why he had a tow hitch on such a truck lol) fished it through the firewall and hooked the other side up to the carb. Whenever the thing would start to bog down just pull on that handy little wire in your lap and just like that we were driving it back up those hills lol
My buddy had a little Suzuki Samurai that we were out wheeling when all of a sudden the thing fell flat on its face. Now those things only have like 63hp to begin with, but it seriously no longer even had enough power to make it up hills that were normally not an issue at all- we were already out of the crazy stuff and were just driving back up the power line trail on our way back to the road so we could go home. Upon further investigation I found out that the secondary was no longer opening so we were only able to run maybe half throttle at most. On flat ground it wasn't an issue but we seriously just couldn't make it up this one hill no matter how much of a running start we got, it would just bog out and we'd have to roll down backwards and try again. With nothing else to use we ended up cutting a few feet of wire off of his trailer harness (don't ask why he had a tow hitch on such a truck lol) fished it through the firewall and hooked the other side up to the carb. Whenever the thing would start to bog down just pull on that handy little wire in your lap and just like that we were driving it back up those hills lol
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