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Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:59 pm
by Racin'Jacin
Hold on!!!!!! I'm not THAT cheap!!!!!!

But wait! I AM welding brake lines!!!! hmnnn...

I needed a "T" fitting for the vacuum line - it was simply easier and faster than running up to the parts store. No really it was....I wasn't actually being CHEAP this time...really!

That's my story and I am sticking to it!!!!

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Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:47 pm
by Fred32v
I've seen alot, but I've never seen anything like that. :lol:

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:23 am
by Basement Paul
That's awesome!

-BP

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:59 pm
by GMJohnny
Jacin...

At the rental store we are masters of "make it work." We need a guy like you
around the shop! That vacuum t is the best I've seen!! I'm still laughing about
it. Nice job!

GM

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:31 pm
by Racin'Jacin
Thanks guys, it's my inner "MacGyver" coming out!!!

It's FUN making parts from whatever you have laying around.

Did I ever mention making a trans dipstick tube from an old (steel) LAWN chair? True story - still on my Rambler today and you'd never know to look at it. Thanks Grandma!

Or what about making brake fittings out of bolts? Those are still on my '47 Ford truck!

Bulkhead fittings made from bolts - still on my '34 Plymouth.

I bet we all have some neat parts "used ta be" stories.

Those are some of mine - what are yours???

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 5:17 pm
by TireSmoker
You need your own TV show.. :-)

-Dave

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:25 pm
by Basement Paul
Most of mine are just "specialty tools" made from misc crap laying around just to get the job done. PVC pipe and cap as a seal installation tool comes to mind, but I know I've done this multiple times in life. I'll have to pay more attention next time I'm in the garage.

-BP

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:29 pm
by Maverick
Basement Paul wrote:Most of mine are just "specialty tools" made from misc crap laying around just to get the job done. PVC pipe and cap as a seal installation tool comes to mind, but I know I've done this multiple times in life. I'll have to pay more attention next time I'm in the garage.

-BP
Me too. 4" PVC cap was just right to install the one-piece rear seal in the Windsor.

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:21 pm
by Racin'Jacin
OK guys time for an update to the car parts fixes! Today while working on a basement project I broek the packing nut for the utility tub. Argghhh! So I ended up cobbling a brass fitting for my junk drawer (had to change the threads) and then jammed a rear main seal from a 392 Hemi for the actual packing. So far so good, now back to the ACTUAL project I was supposed to be working on!!!

jacin

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:55 am
by Basement Paul
Make sure you mark the part number on the outside, you know, in case you ever have to replace it.... :)

-BP

Re: Cheap Bastage is at it again - welding brake lines!

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:24 pm
by Noisy Cricket
I made a PCV adaptor for a Subaru 2.5 turbo engine out of a piece of tubing I cut from the fender/cowl brace from a '67 Fairlane... it was a disturbingly perfect fit into the bizarre internal-diameter O-ring PCV valve that Subaru used on the STi.



"I cut out the middle of my subframe, then spliced in a piece of IBM server rack to get strength back."

"You know you voided the warranty on the server rack, right?"

"Yes, but it's much faster now!"