Funny Stories !!, about how you got going again after a bush mechanix fix !

Axle

you sure she's not part of this mob????

Axle

Carburettors and fuel pumps were put on this Earth when Hughie was going through a difficult stage in his life. He was also the first bloke to invent valves.
God bless him!

The old girl was the original mother to hang out the door holding a jerry can on the roof back in the fifties. The old man use to say, 'what are you bloody carrying on about women.... we're almost home' LOL

Regard

Kim

You can always tow a 3 wheeled CJ5 Jeep home backwards!



Geoff

Bush Mechanics

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Came across these guys just after the wet up at Cape York - they had spent the night beside the track "heating up the battery in fire, to make it work again".

Battery was singed and melted and really flat. Had to laugh but they really thought it through, reminded us so much of the Bush Mechanics. Needed to run 4 Jumper leads to get the thing cranking fast enough.
But turns out they had a fuel line leak which I finally managed to discover after I helped them start the old Patrol by getting them to blow air into the fuel tank to get some fuel to the pump as it wasn't drawing from the tank.

It only ran for 300m before it lost prime again, ended up giving one a lift to Lockhart but some family must have got worried and came out looking for them, met us along the way - they had been on a booze run but I don't think there was much left by the time they got picked up.

I had an old FB station wagon. On the way back to Sydney we were in some fire in the Bulladella Mts. The cop said not to stop.Well the heater warning light came on and at the top "Bang".

Coasted down to a village and left the car there for a week at the servo. Came back next weekend. Took the head off and yep - cracked. No dealer or heads in town. But the old guy in the servo said a mate out of town had an old rusty wreck in the paddock. Okey got the wreck's head off with a heap of Penetrene and heaving at the bolts. Broke a couple too. Rusty and as filthy as hell. Cleaned it up as best I could and put it on with both head gaskets and some kind of muck the servo bloke said would help. Used a bit of pipe as a torsion wrench and got back to Sydney. No smoke and the rocker cover hid all the muck.

Try doing that now. No way. The old grey motors were a top bit of kit in their day.

Sold it two weeks later and bought a 1968 Kingswood HK sedan. Red also. - = fast. Boy didn't the cops pull me over. Seems a red car with a surfboard on the top was a real thing for them. Never got booked though. Had it for 20 years.

G'Day Axle

That reminds me of the time (~1972-3) MMA company mechanic and I took the "new" bus from Perth to Tom Price to run the airline bus service (MMA had taken the twin otter out of service to Paraburdoo). First we had to put up with cyclone Vanessa at Carnarvon then, heading inland, all we could see was two little mounds of dirt at the edges of the road. The rest of the place was covered with water. We drove in the middle of the road - not much traffic. ;-)

Then we broke down - same thing fuel pump. Hooked up a four gallon round drum with syphon hose out the top down to the carby. I was left balancing the drum on the handrail whilst the mechanic drove. TP airport manager drove out to meet us along the road. Silly bugger pulled straight across in front of us like heading for a "head on". Driver slammed his foot on the brakes and drum of petrol and me hit the windscreen sending petrol everywhere. Bloody lucky the whole thing didn't go up in flames. I flew out of that bus and gave that DH a real dressing down he'll never forget. His comment, "Do you know who your talking to? I'm the manager of MMA in Tom Price". I won't tell you my response. He didn't last there much longer. (I was on leave from the army doing a feasability study on Ward's Air Cargo running this bus service for MMA).

Memories ....

Malcolm

Did a front diff at Yawal on Dusties a few years ago. Not remote but a problem to get out of the area. Removed the front drive shaft and drove home in 2WD. Made a racket for 100KM until the teeth ground off the crwn wheel.

Another time I did a CV, brake line and holed a radiator on a 4WD track in the bush at West Wallsend (again not remote but caused a few hassles at the time). Fencing wire to hold the axle central to the CV to stop it flapping about, Vice grips on the broken brake line (Lucky I was driving uphill when I realised I had no brakes :oops). Poured water into the radiator until I got to the blacktop for a flatbed home.

Another incident in a mates car he holed a radiator in Litchfield NP. Silver solder didn't work but 5 minute araldite lasted the rest of the trip.