Let's hear your "get you home bodges" ......

[carlos fandango]

yep,i like that .......but ive got to ask ? .....wine stopper ? .....now, i have seen a few people drinking wine at rallies , but .................taking a wine stopper with you ?? thats a bit posh isnt it ? lol

[Eden]

well you wouldn't want to spill any when you fall over would you

[Jim Rose]

[list=]An 80's one again, the threaded rod in the coil snapped and the HT lead fell out. I stuffed the foil from a fag packet in the hole and wedged the lead in with match sticks. Lated years.
A bungee to replace a snapped tank strap.
A bungee to replace lost stand spring.
A rear hub extractor with garden wire wrapped around it to hold a lock washer on rear hub.
Nuts and bolts on front a rear hubs.
Wire in card needle.
Front brake cable re routed to become a clutch.
Torch as a headlight and the brake light fixed on when light switch failed going to Avignon.
Mixed alcohol spirits to top up petrol tank to get home from a party (80's)
A self tapping screw in the top of a piston with a small hole.
A pair of boxer shorts as exhaust baffles (last see on the M4 as a flaming missile)
Jubilee clips to hold an end can on.Super glue on a spark plug with a dodgey threaded head.
Glue on a barrel stud where the trhead had gone on the block.
Cut Inner tube as a gasket for a float bowl.
A sliver of metal wedged down the side of a woodruff key where the crank slot was worn
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[Eden]

Ive currently got Zip ties holding my fuel tank in due to broken straps

A bodge I did on one of my engines just the other week was to seal an air leak in the crankcase, the leak became apparent when I did an air test after building it back up with a new crank after the old crank big end had let go, I did look around the crankcase to see if the conrod and smashed it anywhere but didn't see any cracks or holes yet the air test revealed a crack. I count be arsed to strip it all back down and get it welded so I just mixed up some chemical metal and spread it over the crack. seems to have held so far lol

[Jim Rose]

Chemical metal is a fine material, I'm carrying some in my toolbox now after my exhaust problem on the way to Austria

[Mag]

Barrel stud pulled most of the thread out of the casing. Applied araldite in the hole with a matchstick and wound in an 8mm bolt coated in grease. when set I took out the bolt(hence the grease) and reassembled the top end and off home.

[Toddy]

Ive currently got Zip ties holding my fuel tank in due to broken straps

A bodge I did on one of my engines just the other week was to seal an air leak in the crankcase, the leak became apparent when I did an air test after building it back up with a new crank after the old crank big end had let go, I did look around the crankcase to see if the conrod and smashed it anywhere but didn't see any cracks or holes yet the air test revealed a crack. I count be arsed to strip it all back down and get it welded so I just mixed up some chemical metal and spread it over the crack. seems to have held so far lol

I witnessed that the other night

[berniek]

A few years ago on the way to a rally. One of the girls was riding in front of me on the motorway and I noted fluid pissing out of her bike. Thought petrol tank had gone, rode past her and waved her over. Chaincase drain plug had gone and gear oil was lost. No worries we thought, we will have one in our toolboxes, but none available. Thought about using the filler plug, but couldn't block the breather properly to stop oil leaking.

We ended up wrapping electrical tape around the thread of a spark plug to make up the difference between 14 mm and 16 mm thread. Wound it in, filled up with oil, happy days.

[spanner rash]

Rear wheel nearly fell off yesterday- managed to wobble to a standstill to find a sheared hub stud, another with stripped thread and the remaining two nuts loose and barely hanging on! Luckily had 3 cable ties in tool box which I just managed to thread over the edge of the rim and round the lugs on the hub...
7 mile (very slow!) ride home

[Fast n Furious]

I cringe at the thought of it now as to some of the bodges I carried out as a youth. One of the downsides to being a bit handy is you get the job of getting the rest of your club members home from a rally.
The most common one I remember was the situation where the spark plug thread had stripped and would no longer hold the plug.
Solution:- Hold the plug against the kerb with a pair of pliers and hit the pliers with a brick until the plug ovalates sufficiently to grip whats left of the head threads. No pliers available? No worries...... Just use the brick.
This one got a few lads home. What really annoyed me, with some, was that this bodge would still be in operation up to a month later!