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[Speedtouch]

My first E30 had a stripped spark plug on No.6 cylinder, only discovered when I went to fit new plugs. I investigated numerous ways of holding the plug in, eventually settling on Chemical Metal with small lengths of MIG welding wire to jam it in to the head.

However, it failed the MOT once on emissions, so while the MOT tester wasn't looking, I disconnected the injector to that cylinder, and lo and behold, the emissions level dropped enough to pass the test. The MOT tester demanded to know what I'd done, but I kept schtum!

These shots of Toyota Prius woodies are amusing:

[gooseygander110]

Bloody hell !!! I can't believe that some of you guys admit to those bodges !!

[Speedtouch]

Well, yes, it was a bodge, bonding a spark plug in, but I'd never consider using Araldite to bond a trailing arm on!

[Speedtouch]

Mitsubishi Shogun, bolts on bell housing sheared so was seperating on bottom, used a wired up G clamp to hold it together successfully for 3 years, including a fair bit of off roading.

My brother's GF's Peugeot 206 recently developed an odd graunching noise that sounded rather terminal. I gingerly drove it to a garage, and they noticed that the lower bellhousing bolts had come out, and the gearbox was at an angle to the engine!

Several new bolts later, and it's been fine since, though the starter motor now squarks when starting off, as some teeth on the flywheel must have got chipped.

[Cypriotgeeza]

This one time I wrung the threads off a sparkplug on an e36 m3 on cylinder 1 so I beat a larger plug wrapped in PTFE in with a hammer. Sold it to some mug from Belfast. Bet he wasn't impressed when he went to change the plugs

^^this actually made me "lol" ^^

Where to start on bodges on the 3.5 i bought:

When it starts out life like this theres not much hope for the poor girl!


These guys had a cable tie fetish as anything they couldnt figure out how to secure was cable tied
exhaust
radiator
gearlinkage
even some parts of the gearbox!!!!
plus half of the gearbox bolts were missing

So many mismatched parts on this "build" hence why i named it "frankenstein!"

[andyp]

waits for pete to see this post ,

[TPS]

Bloke come round, one day to buy a prop., he had welded the old one after it apparantely 'just broke', possibly the worst safety related bodge, I'd seen:-



He drove the 2 miles to my house with prop. like that!

[Speedtouch]

Well, 2 miles isn't a vast distance is it? Probably quite safe, as long as he was taking it easy - it does appear to be reasonably well welded.

[adit]

Ian your the sort of guy that keep me in a job!

you're a Crown prosecutor?

[adit]

waits for pete to see this post ,

he's STILL downloading all his photographic evidence Andy

[DanThe]

Oil pickup I found on an S50 conversion

[bss325i]

Demlot needs to post some pics of an S54 conversion he had to rectify done by a well known zoner!

[TPS]

Oil pickup I found on an S50 conversion

Thats dreadful

[Speedtouch]

Why - as long as it worked, which it looks like it would?

OK, it's not the prettiest bit of welding in the world, but if it's sound enough to do the job, and is out of sight, out of mind...

[bss325i]

Why - as long as it worked, which it looks like it would?

OK, it's not the prettiest bit of welding in the world, but if it's sound enough to do the job, and is out of sight, out of mind...

The glaring the obvious omission of the strainer!

[Speedtouch]

Sure. I presumed, perhaps wrongly, that the strainer was fitted to the end of the pickup pipe in some way?

[DanThe]

Not just that but the strainer is designed to hold a quantity of oil, and is positioned very close to the bottom of the pan to prevent oil starvation, last time I had to buy an E34 pickup pipe it was about £12



It might have been acceptable on a 50's or 60's BL shitter that would only rev to 4k rpm, but not on an S50

[pacerpete]

Motorsport, innit

[TPS]

It might have been acceptable on a 50's or 60's BL shitter that would only rev to 4k rpm, but not on an S50

Always wanted an Austin Ambassador, have to see if that works on one of them

[pacerpete]

It might have been acceptable on a 50's or 60's BL shitter that would only rev to 4k rpm, but not on an S50

Always wanted an Austin Ambassador, have to see if that works on one of them

Ambassadors all had 'modern' OHC O series mills. The earlier Princess had the B series tractor engine*


* Thanks to Andyboy for this gripping BL trivia

[TPS]

Pmsl, you sure its not the sticky paged brochure, in the toilet?

[DanThe]

Motorsport, innit

360hp apparently!

[Andyboy]

It might have been acceptable on a 50's or 60's BL shitter that would only rev to 4k rpm, but not on an S50

Always wanted an Austin Ambassador, have to see if that works on one of them

Ambassadors all had 'modern' OHC O series mills. The earlier Princess had the B series tractor engine*


* Thanks to Andyboy for this gripping BL trivia

Not entirely correct. The Princess was fitted with the O Series from July 1978 as part of the much improved Princess 2 facelift. The O Series was manufactured on the B Series tooling as well. The Princess was available with the 2200 E6 motor that was not used in the Ambastardor.
The O Series formed the base of the T16 Rover mill as well as one of the best diesels ever made, the Perkins Prima.

[maxfield]

Not just that but the strainer is designed to hold a quantity of oil, and is positioned very close to the bottom of the pan to prevent oil starvation, last time I had to buy an E34 pickup pipe it was about £12



It might have been acceptable on a 50's or 60's BL shitter that would only rev to 4k rpm, but not on an S50

Don't suppose that was a conversion from Mansfield was it?

[pacerpete]

The Mansfield beasts would not have used a pick up at all

[milescook]

Funniest bodge I've seen years ago as a kiddywink in the mid 90's (so no pics, either of the bodge or me you paedos), a B reg Subaru Estate had a corroded exhaust. The box sections were bodged up with exhaust tape etc but the pipe section was rotten. The then stepdad replaced this with a metal vacuum cleaner pipe... cleverest thing he ever did!

Fookin loud afterwards mind....

[Speedtouch]

I did a similar thing on my Minor Traveller's exhaust, which needed a 4" extension putting in; a passing mate of my brother's suggested using a section from a nearby scrapped wheelbarrow handle, which I duly did, cutting out the section with an angle grinder then MIG-welding it in - it happened to be just the right diameter. It's still on there, several years later.

[steve_k]

The Mansfield beasts would not have used a pick up at all

Who's that then?? Come on do tell so I know who to steer clear of

Link??

[DanThe]

I think he means the ebay parts kings, cant think of the name, but the location shows as sheffield.
They did a nice job of a zoners S50 conversion IIRC, not seen any pics myself

[MattTheHat325]

My mate picked up a cheap mk4 golf pd130 which had been 'splashed by a lorry coming the opposite way and cut out'. It must have been hell of a splash as it had a bent rod, but our first insight into the loving pampered existence this beauty had been treated to, was this uprated VW motorsport sump plug.......

[DanThe]

Common upgrade on VW sumps

[Speedtouch]

Chemical Metal FTW! I had to do that (albeit on a smaller scale) with a 1987 Mercedes 190E I bought, that had been lowered too much at the front; the slightest speed hump would break the repair so it would have to be redone again.

In fact, I got stranded down in Horsham, Sussex with it one night after the sump leaked too badly to continue, and had to sleep in the car overnight, and go to work the next morning looking rather swarthy and unshaven.

I then had the deep joy of having to bodge it up again to get home.

[TPS]

Ha Ha

[bss325i]

Nice E61 tailgate wiring repair!



Rear top mount. ITS STRONG!



This wont short out. Will it?

[Speedtouch]

Hehe, quality!