The Jury Rigged thread, lets see it and hear your story, pics please

[BENCH]

What is the other word? 

One that's gonna get you tossed off the board (maybe).  But to all who had parents/grandparents born before 1960, you heard a million times.

 

[Chingon619]

Whooaaaaaaaa!!!! ^^^^^^^^ 

Edit to specify the north county yamaha pen as fuel line

 

[John@Outfront]

Whooaaaaaaaa!!!! ^^^^^^^^ 

Edit to specify the north county yamaha pen as fuel line

is that e85 compatible? 

 

[John@Outfront]

update,  i still have not fixed my trailer but the leaf spring will cost "less" then the retail price of those three crescent wrenches

at least something is cheap in this world right not

 

[Lord of the Dunes]

One that's gonna get you tossed off the board (maybe).  But to all who had parents/grandparents born before 1960, you heard a million times.

No, someone used it just recently and all of the SJWs never batted an eye. Just don't ever use Popeye's Chicken, that apparently trips all of their alarm bells.

 

[Sausage450r]

Just got this in last week. The silicone holding the crack in the 4130 failed. 

 

[BENCH]

No, someone used it just recently and all of the SJWs never batted an eye. Just don't ever use Popeye's Chicken, that apparently trips all of their alarm bells.

Interesting.... I would have sat there eating a bag of Brazil nuts, waiting for their heads to explode.

 

[chevy1925]

We were headed to Silverton Co 2 years ago with my buddy and his family when his cummins started running into issues. He made it to flag from tucson and it was starving for fuel. figured the fuel filter was plugged. replaced it and made it to Gallop NM before he had issues again. couldnt get over 3/4 throttle before it would just drop rail pressure. He figured it was the fuel pressure regulator on it so we limped it into Silverton and he ordered a new one to the trailer park and we replaced it 2 days before we left. As we headed home, had no issues till just outside Kyenta AZ. 2 miles out, truck dies. he gets it fired back up and limps it into the local napa where it dies and coasts in. 

Pulled fuel filter and found it half full. Seems the lift pump in the tank died. napa store didnt have chit for parts inside, not even a typical E2000 inline pump for us to rig up. We wound up taking the spare intank fuel pump i had for my tracker, putting hose on it and connecting wiring to it, dropping it into his aux inbed tank, zip tied it 1/2" off the bottom of the tank, ran wiring and a switch into the cab, split the stock steel line for the fuel supply and plumbed the hose from the tracker pump into the supply side and started it up. Worked perfect. Only issue was the returning fuel would be going back to the stock tank, not the inbed tank. he ahd a 1/2 tank in the stock tank so he said he would just watch the gauge till it hit full. Its been 2 hours in the parking lot at this point with my 2 and his 2 kids, the wives and dogs. 

We topped off tanks and headed out. made it to Flagstaff where his stock tank was now full. we used the transfer pump on the inbed tank, wired it in reverse and stuck a hose down the fill neck. it would only get about half the fuel out of it but worked! (couldnt use the transfer pump to the cummins motor as it couldnt supply the pressure needed under prolonged use). hed only switch the pump on for hills where it would barely supply enough fuel (pressure was there but volume wasnt), then turn back off and the stock cp3 would actually draw fuel through the fuel pump. Went 400 miles home this way all the way to tucson. Neither of the wives could believe we got it back running.

Snap chat videos i put together while it all happened. a trip ill never forget and a hell of a "jury rigged" way to get our families home and safe. 

 

[Rockwood]

update,  i still have not fixed my trailer but the leaf spring will cost "less" then the retail price of those three crescent wrenches

at least something is cheap in this world right not

They're cheap, but they're currently just hanging out...

 

[MWB]

13 minutes ago, chevy1925 said:

We were headed to Silverton Co 2 years ago with my buddy and his family when his cummins started running into issues. He made it to flag from tucson and it was starving for fuel. figured the fuel filter was plugged. replaced it and made it to Gallop NM before he had issues again. couldnt get over 3/4 throttle before it would just drop rail pressure. He figured it was the fuel pressure regulator on it so we limped it into Silverton and he ordered a new one to the trailer park and we replaced it 2 days before we left. As we headed home, had no issues till just outside Kyenta AZ. 2 miles out, truck dies. he gets it fired back up and limps it into the local napa where it dies and coasts in. 

Pulled fuel filter and found it half full. Seems the lift pump in the tank died. napa store didnt have chit for parts inside, not even a typical E2000 inline pump for us to rig up. We wound up taking the spare intank fuel pump i had for my tracker, putting hose on it and connecting wiring to it, dropping it into his aux inbed tank, zip tied it 1/2" off the bottom of the tank, ran wiring and a switch into the cab, split the stock steel line for the fuel supply and plumbed the hose from the tracker pump into the supply side and started it up. Worked perfect. Only issue was the returning fuel would be going back to the stock tank, not the inbed tank. he ahd a 1/2 tank in the stock tank so he said he would just watch the gauge till it hit full. Its been 2 hours in the parking lot at this point with my 2 and his 2 kids, the wives and dogs. 

We topped off tanks and headed out. made it to Flagstaff where his stock tank was now full. we used the transfer pump on the inbed tank, wired it in reverse and stuck a hose down the fill neck. it would only get about half the fuel out of it but worked! (couldnt use the transfer pump to the cummins motor as it couldnt supply the pressure needed under prolonged use). hed only switch the pump on for hills where it would barely supply enough fuel (pressure was there but volume wasnt), then turn back off and the stock cp3 would actually draw fuel through the fuel pump. Went 400 miles home this way all the way to tucson. Neither of the wives could believe we got it back running.

Snap chat videos i put together while it all happened. a trip ill never forget and a hell of a "jury rigged" way to get our families home and safe. 

You got lucky, My lift pump on my 01 went bad slowly and all it did was lean out the injector pump to a point where it burnt up as well.  I didn't even know there was an issue until it was an issue. All I remember was one was a cheap part with a lot of labor,the other was a high dollar part with very little labor. 

 

[chevy1925]

You got lucky, My lift pump on my 01 went bad slowly and all it did was lean out the injector pump to a point where it burnt up as well.  I didn't even know there was an issue until it was an issue. All I remember was one was a cheap part with a lot of labor,the other was a high dollar part with very little labor. 

Cp3’s are hard to kill on common rails. They eventually wear out and return too much fuel and drop rail pressure but GM had a brilliant idea to run a vac style lift pump that was gear based off the back of the cp3 (I say this with extreme sarcasm). It was easy for them to have cavitation in the pump but still have the pump last 250k miles. Aftermarket lift pumps are a major plus on all 01-16 dmax’s. The plus point to that design is cummins never removed that gear based pump off the back of their cp3’s (you can actually switch the pumps between gm and ram with 2 changes) but still used an electric style lift pump to keep 50-60psi to the cp3. So when his pump started failing, he still had some way of getting fuel to the cp3 but under heavy demand, it couldn’t keep up due to lack of pressure and restriction from the intank pump. 

 

[Dunelover]

One of the guys in our group successfully found a witches eye.  Ripped the bolt (and threads) right out of one side and the other side was pretty sketchy.

This is how I got him to the point where he could drive it back. 

Oh.. and BTW that's a post for a tow rope . Although... 

 

[Lord of the Dunes]

One trip, Mr Dune's front shock towers broke on his sand rail and we noticed it while taking a break at Olds. He was pretty concerned, but I told him to relax, enjoy your ICDB. When everyone was ready to go, I whipped out my roll of duct tape and put about 10 layers of tape on each shock tower. Tom looked at me like I lost my marbles and said it wouldn't hold. I bet him a beer back at camp that it would hold, just drive nice and mellow and he'll be fine. He drove mellow and the tape was still holding on when we got there. He was flabbergasted, so I had to explain, your torsion bars are supporting the car, the shocks and towers were just to dampen the torsion bars. We could have unbolted the shocks and he could have driven back, albeit a little bouncier. He got a good laugh while paying me my beer!    :lol:

Another time a couple of us were duning near Osborne when we came across a quad trying to tow another quad with a ratchet strap. We stopped and I offered to tow him back, since they were struggling and the tow quad rider didn't understand the concept of following the terrain. They were concerned the quad might flip while I was towing it, but I assured them it would never flip over. I pulled out another ratchet strap and we strapped both sides of his front suspension up onto the back of my rail, so it was doing a wheelie at about a 40* angle. The quad rider hopped into my rail and we took him back to camp on Gecko with his quad following great, like a two wheeled trailer. I like quick, easy fixes!

 

[Lord of the Dunes]

There were two trips where the same guy was duning by himself out past China wall and he called for help on the radio and I heard his calls from the compound. The first time he broke a long bolt holding the top of his shocks on, the second time he broke a heim joint on his upper a-arm. Both times, we had his GPS coordinates and we brought new parts, cordless impacts, full tool bags, wood blocks, a floor jack and beer. We jacked it up enough to relieve tension on the suspension and zipped the new parts on in minutes and he drove back to camp in time to BBQ before dark. No jerry rigging involved, but it was satisfying.

A couple of guys from a race team that raced a class 5 -1600 told me a story about the VW engine coming loose and the 2 bolts were gone and the 2 nuts were very loose. They tightened up the nuts and jammed a couple of 3/8 ratchet extensions in the missing bolt holes. Then they used silicone to keep the extensions in and just as a joke, they put a stripe of silicone on the nuts. They finished the race and were shocked to see that the extensions were still in there and the nuts were still tight, even though they didn't allow anything to dry before hitting the trail again. After that, they said they used a stripe of silicone on every nut and bolt instead of a paint stripe. They said even if the nut was never tightened to begin with, it would just vibrate in place and never unscrew. They said they never had another incident of any fastener loosening in a race, and it was a lot easier to remove the nuts and bolts than if they had used Loctite.

Back in the sub days, we carried a roll of sheet rubber, sheet aluminum and baling wire, in addition to mallets, duct tape, wooden plugs, vice grips with a chain on it, pipe clamps, band it kits, etc. I think the rubber and baling wire might come in handy for multiple fixes, like supporting a broken radiator mount, patching a leaking hose or pipe, replacing a hose clamp, etc.

 

[Flattman]

Not sure if it qualifies as a jury-rig, it's kind of a known fix.  But years ago had an F-250 with the 6.0 Powerstroke.  The EGR cooler went out in Flagstaff, AZ and it sat at the dealer for four days ruining our vacation to get fixed.  We got it back and headed down the road home to Phoenix.  Pulling the first big hill I hear this "pop" sound then a big whoosh and I lose all power.  The hose had blown off the intercooler.  My buddy says just wipe it off and put it back on - they probably hadn't tightened it at the dealership.  Went down the road about a mile and bam, same thing happens.  Now it was time to do it my way - I had heard to take fingernail polish remover and clean the rubber hose where it attaches to the intercooler and then spray hairspray in the hose there, put it back on and tighten the clamp.  I did that and never had another problem with the hose again until I got rid of the truck.  BTW, wife had all that stuff in her travel bag, it wasn't mine LOL. 

 

[Bobalos]

Hairspray also works when trying to seat stubborn tires that wont pop over the bead. 

 

[Dunerking]

You got lucky, My lift pump on my 01 went bad slowly and all it did was lean out the injector pump to a point where it burnt up as well.  I didn't even know there was an issue until it was an issue. All I remember was one was a cheap part with a lot of labor,the other was a high dollar part with very little labor. 

Same happened on my 01 CTD..the dreaded VP44…death by in tank lift pump. Lucky/but unlucky that mine failed leaving Pismo. $2,000 later and I was back on the road. I ended up adding a low FP warning light between the lift pump and IP. 

 

[Bobalos]

all trucks with VP44 pumps need to have a fuel pressure gauge for the lift pump (on the outlet of the filter). 

 

[onanysunday]

Hairspray also works when trying to seat stubborn tires that wont pop over the bead. 

Hairspray is also a well-known fix to hold grips on motorcycles.

 

[zilla68]

back in about 89 we were on a couple three wheelers riding the river. one broke down, and no way to get it back. thought of anything we could use to tow it.

well off comes my jeans, tied a leg to back grab bar and I held the other end. low and slow we made it back lol. put my pants back on and loaded up and drove home.