You shouldn't have but it worked

[BlacklandCamper]

Have two involving my Nissan.

Had a fuel delivery issue a few years back, and had tracked it down to a bad relay. While I am getting ready to call around and find one at a parts store, my dad goes and scrounges two pieces of wire, some spade connectors, and a test light. Jumped the connections, and boom. Still runs to this day. Had another issue with a clogged fuel filter, and an iffy pump, pulled the filter off, and pulled the bed. Before we pulled the pump, we decided to do things old school. Grabbed a hammer, and smacked the top of the fuel sending unit, boom, started right up, and still runs.
I did end up replacing the fuel filter several years later after I had two injectors stick on me.

Another one was one night a few of us decided to go off roading, and there was this ditch, just begging to be jumped.

Well, I forgot that the engine being in the front really throws off the weight distribution in a truck, especially with an empty bed. So the truck predictably nose dives into the bottom of this ditch. hits so hard it snaps the bumper mount bolts off the frame. No tools, so I cant take the bumper off, even if I could, it would have been a cops dream to pull me over that particular night. What I did have was a pack of zip ties, and about 10 feet of baling wire.

Tied that sucker up, and drove it for a few years.

It has a different bumper now though.