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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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!!!
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?"
