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RE: best jerryrigged fix - 6/7/2005 12:36:29 PM

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I like the fact that you can make a right hand turn on a red light. Here you can even make a left turn on red if you are on a oneway turning to another one. My guess as to why they don't let you do that on twoway streets, is that most accidents with cars going diffrent ways are from felled left hand turns.
I spoon my Ranger in the snow, tore-up the frontend. I replaced the headlight, side marks, and turnsignals with parts from the junk yard. I then hammered the metal fender, hood, and bumper close to back in shape. A few hole drilled and screws later I was back on the road. Even passed inspection in Virginia, and they're pretty tuff.

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RE: best jerryrigged fix - 6/7/2005 4:42:26 PM

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my college roommate had hosue speakers, but small ones in his tracker...

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RE: best jerryrigged fix - 6/7/2005 11:33:16 PM

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After I went through a fence in my SAAB, the bumper was all torn up on the side that hit. the edge of the plastic had a two inch tear in it. I drilled holes on either side of the rip and stiched it with tie wire, then I took plastic epoxy and spread it over the rips. after that dried, I cut the wire and pulled it out. side by side with another SAAB, it is barrely noticable. now more than a year later, it is still holding up.

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RE: best jerryrigged fix - 6/9/2005 7:52:40 PM

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thats a pretty good one

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RE: best jerryrigged fix - 8/26/2005 8:35:20 PM

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In the Army while overseas, it has damn difficult to get some parts. The oil safety switch on
M -151 Jeeps gave out often. We'd pull the rubber connection plug and shove in the ends of a heavy paper clip in two of the three terminals to get back.

Not great I know, but it worked time and time again.

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RE: best jerryrigged fix - 9/1/2005 12:00:04 PM

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Everyone I'm sure has either done or seen the good ol' clothes hanger wire holding up the tailpipe when the brackets finally rusted through...uh...clear plastic windows when yours have been broken...oh, and i had an old aerostar where the latches for the back hatch broke, and since i was up at the cottage and wasn't paying them to fix it, i just closed the hatch and duct taped it shut...the van was grey too so it didn't even show...I now call Duct tape 60 mph tape cause it held really well...i'm talking rain and wind and a cop even passed me and didn't pull me over for an unsafe load...which i've been told would be the charge as it's rather illegal to use tape to fix something like that...hehehe

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RE: best jerryrigged fix - 9/1/2005 12:11:55 PM

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My experiences are more on dirtbikes. When you are out in the middle of nowhere, you make sure you take wire, so if something falls off, you just use the wire to strap it back on. Also a buddy had his number plate rip in half, and instead of buying a new one he used zip ties to hold in on. To this day it is still that way.

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