We would love to see some pictures of these bodges if you have some

Spark plug used as replacement for the transmission drain plug after I lost it (and all the oil) around 100km earlier on the Birdsville track last year.

More recently (3 months back), a couple of cable ties used to hold the front subframe and fairing (20kg) on after the metal mounting tabs snapped off on the old telegraph trail(Cape York).

I always find corrugations are great for discovering the weak point on any bike.

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Picked up a 2 1/2" deck screw in a rear tire. Blew the tube and broke the rim strip into several pieces. Didn't have enough tape to go around the rim. So I cut a new strip out of the blown tube. Inserted a new tube and rode on.

daryl

I used bungees to resecure my top box after one of its retaining parts snapped in a tumble. It has worked so well I have just left them in place. The hooked ends of the bungee loop into the top box and so when you close the lid and lock it they cannot be removed.

- Used the trunk of a small tree and fencing wire to shore up a trailer leaf spring with three (out of six) leaves broken. That got me 300km until I found a similar spring in a wreckers that was good enough to get me home.

- Wired an electric fuel pump to the tail light for a friend when the pump circult failed somewhere in the loom in the middle of nowhere. (No, it wasnt just a fuse!)

- Wrapped cardboard around a chafed wiring loom that was intermittently shorting on the frame.

- Used a rubber band and a paperclip to replace a broken throttle return spring.

- Replaced a welsh plug (freeze plug) in a block with a section of tree branch whittled down to size and jammed in the hole. The wood expanded and it remained leak-free for weeks!

Cheers,

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Here's a radiator cap I made to the same design. It is actually perfectly round where it seats in the rad. The cable-ties are just to stop it popping like a champagne cork. It worked fine with no loss of coolant; just a few bubbles out of the end-grain.

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What a great thread. I have always wanted to share this true story.

Many years ago circa 1972 while touring Mexico in a 1966 Volvo station wagon
with a 122 S 4 cylinder Volvo engine carrying SU carbs - same engine used in marine applications, a support brace for "add on" air conditioner broke and somehow snapped off the fuel pump.

My young GF was from Trinidad and quite beautiful and I was very concerned, for her and indeed for myself, as it was coming dusk and all caution had been, not to be on this particular road after dark, due to "revolutionary activity," in the province. There had been several murders of tourists.

I had an extra fuel pump and was all about trying to remove the broken one and install the spare when a volkswagan pulled up close behind. A very large nordic/Swedish looking man stepped out, looked at me and stated "Dats a Volvo"
I agreed, trying to figure his reason for stopping.

My concern was soon answered when he explained that he worked for the Volvo factory in Sweden and had some tools with him. Lynette and I stood amazed as he brought out a large wax cloth roll containing professional looking tools.

We were more amazed when his expert hands moved smoothly over the 122 S and quickly replaced the fuel pump. By the time he completed his work, which included a quick carb adjustment, it was dark so he offered to follow us to Cuernavaca, where I promised him and a good meal.

Once safely in town and after downing a few, I finally asked him...

"You work for Volvo right?" "Ja" he replied....."Then what the hell took you so long, we broke down an hour before you arrived?" We all had a good laugh and this is a true story.

xfiltrate

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Hi,

My bottom steering bearing broke, after riding sand in Sudan



so i replaced it with the one from the top. For the top i bought a normal bearing that fitted more or less. While taking this foto i got arrested by the police. To take fotos in Sudan is illegal:

Transafrika - Motorbike travel tour through africa part 1

Tobi