Lets see you jimmy rigs, quick fixes, and all around funny mods!!!

[cadillacart]

One of my facebook friends just posted this.

[Critter]

Originally Posted by Constructor1

Unfortunantly I do not have a pic of it, but when I got my truck, the PO had installed a solinoid on the right inner fender and ran to the solinoid on the starter. The positive battery cable ran thru it and the ignition wire ran thru it and then both went to the starter. At first I thought the solinoid on the starter must be bad, but it worked just fine. I removed the one on the inner fender and have not had any problems. Any one have a guess as to why this may have been installed?

It could have been installed as a type of kill switch. I've seen people do that. They put a hidden toggle somewhere in the cab/under the dash etc that turns the solenoid "on". When it is off the starter and everything else is dead. It would keep someone from being able to hotwire the truck under the dash.

[Palf70Step]

A lot more fun getting them off my date, than fixing the car. I have done this more than one in my life. Once it got us from Virginia to Mississippi.
Leggs sure were durable, probably strong enough to be a modern day Chasity belt.

[swamp rat]

Originally Posted by Constructor1

Unfortunantly I do not have a pic of it, but when I got my truck, the PO had installed a solinoid on the right inner fender and ran to the solinoid on the starter. The positive battery cable ran thru it and the ignition wire ran thru it and then both went to the starter. At first I thought the solinoid on the starter must be bad, but it worked just fine. I removed the one on the inner fender and have not had any problems. Any one have a guess as to why this may have been installed?

I also installed a ford <shudder> type silonoide on my truck, my starter would get hot from my headders being too close to it, i even wrapped the starter in heat wrap to no avail, so i talked to a guy at a local auto electric place and per his reccomendations i have no more starter issues.

[treveiger]

Palf70Step, did that actually work or are you just messing with us ? Howd you get it tight enough to make it work. I might have to throw a set in my truck sometime, would love to have to explain that to my girlfriend.

[Palf70Step]

Originally Posted by treveiger

Palf70Step, did that actually work or are you just messing with us ? Howd you get it tight enough to make it work. I might have to throw a set in my truck sometime, would love to have to explain that to my girlfriend.

On more than one occasion, yes it does work on the old v-belts

[smallwin67]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

A lot more fun getting them off my date, than fixing the car. I have done this more than one in my life. Once it got us from Virginia to Mississippi.
Leggs sure were durable, probably strong enough to be a modern day Chasity belt.

Ha! dig that man.That's what you call "Southern Ingenuity"

[Palf70Step]

Originally Posted by smallwin67

Ha! dig that man.That's what you call "Southern Ingenuity"

Close.....Southern by the USAF, Yankee by the grace of God

[Ironangel]

"Pics"

[JasonBird]

that is the camper special for sure!! LMAO!

[60ratrod]

"special" is right!

anyway i think just about the entirety of my 60, or abomination as i call it, fits. lets see here:

-universal 18 circuit wiring harness(this one was just $5 more than the 12 circuit, shoulda gone with the 12) that i will never use the rest of, and don't get me started on some of the connections
-seats from unknown vehicle. seatbelt female ends just welded to the floor. so i got some parts house lap belts and ended up tieing the ends of the belts to the loops they supply cause they never stay tight
-upper radiator brackets are made out of aluminum angle
-entire truck is sitting on 76 c10 blazer frame
-ignition switch is the universal tractor type
-no working wipers
-step side is off a dodge cut 6.5" to fit on frame with rear supports just welded to frame, front mounts made from front step brackets, floor is a pallet i got from a junkyard safety wired to the frame for the trip from WA to my dad's house in CO
-tail lights are the universal round parts house trailor lights also safety wired to the frame/bed
-at one point i made a brake light switch bracket from an old throttle cable bracket, until i figured out how the switch worked
-the filler neck on the old tank was just a hole so my buddy and i made a bracket for an old sbc water neck to bolt to
-throttle linkage is small rod/threaded rod welded together

on my 72 my heater is ran from a toggle switch, and i have a toggle switch running my hei since my ignition wire has a short to ground somewhere, and before i welded the rocker back to the cab i had to jam a 2x4 between the cab and the bed to get the driver's door to open and close.

on my wife's 4 door malibu the headlights are ran off an on/off switch, ran new wire that i had a spool of, just didn't wanna dismantle the dash to replace the switch

[Critter]

Originally Posted by 60ratrod

"special" is right!

anyway i think just about the entirety of my 60, or abomination as i call it, fits. lets see here:

-universal 18 circuit wiring harness(this one was just $5 more than the 12 circuit, shoulda gone with the 12) that i will never use the rest of, and don't get me started on some of the connections
-seats from unknown vehicle. seatbelt female ends just welded to the floor. so i got some parts house lap belts and ended up tieing the ends of the belts to the loops they supply cause they never stay tight
-upper radiator brackets are made out of aluminum angle
-entire truck is sitting on 76 c10 blazer frame
-ignition switch is the universal tractor type
-no working wipers
-step side is off a dodge cut 6.5" to fit on frame with rear supports just welded to frame, front mounts made from front step brackets, floor is a pallet i got from a junkyard safety wired to the frame for the trip from WA to my dad's house in CO
-tail lights are the universal round parts house trailor lights also safety wired to the frame/bed
-at one point i made a brake light switch bracket from an old throttle cable bracket, until i figured out how the switch worked
-the filler neck on the old tank was just a hole so my buddy and i made a bracket for an old sbc water neck to bolt to
-throttle linkage is small rod/threaded rod welded together

on my 72 my heater is ran from a toggle switch, and i have a toggle switch running my hei since my ignition wire has a short to ground somewhere, and before i welded the rocker back to the cab i had to jam a 2x4 between the cab and the bed to get the driver's door to open and close.

on my wife's 4 door malibu the headlights are ran off an on/off switch, ran new wire that i had a spool of, just didn't wanna dismantle the dash to replace the switch

So YOU'RE the guy that's owned all of my vehicles before me!

[60ratrod]

Not all of that was my doing. But i either didn't have the money or the store was closed so i made do. Me and my buddy came up with a saying when working on that truck, if you need it and don't have it or can't get it, make it or modify it
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[JHT67]

I had a 98' z71 with a 3" body lift, and the passenger rear cab mount rusted through, so I took a piece of 1/4 in. plate I had laying around, drilled a hole through the middle and to keep things level I had to take the lift block to the grinding wheel for a 1/4 in. shave, put it all back and it was good as new....sorta

[Scott Webster]

Wiring harness with butt splices, household wiring nuts, duct tape, bandaid, and bread bag twistie ties. Admittingly, the band aid was mine and I used what I had on the road. Have zero reasons why the bread ties were in there, but the tape over them looked a bit warm. A push button start and toggle switch for the electric pump. Overflow with 2 types of tubing going into Dawn dish detergent bottle. 5" adjustable elbow, reducer, and 4" dryer vent hose for cold air intake, welded beam clamp as alternater bracket, transmission cooler with 12 volt fans behind it for heater. I think that's it.
If I had a camera, I'd show pictures of the truck and my home-made 2 post lift.

[motornut]

well i can add to this lol
start with a jimmyed Jimmy lol
seems somone tore out the gas tank.......so they moved it
every battery of course needs to be tied down

[motornut]

done the panty hose repair a few times works well
my most popular mod started as a midnite repair and has work out for me with many GMs
camping back in about 86-87 with friends a friends truck headlights quit
i pulled out the switch and he started touching wires to get them to work
i was able to get the headlights to work by putting the headlight wire where the parking lights went in the switch.....got us home ...it was the switch
when we went to fix it we left it rigged 1st click headlights,2nd added the parking lights
this is reverse of the norm
since then i've done this to all my cars /trucks ......
I feel its safer with headlights on and tails off during the day

[motornut]

another headlight mod is
with the four headlights move the low beams to the low spot
and the high beams to the high spot
might look good on the lowered trucks!

[motornut]

and my fav radio mod is to use a small switch and it will power the radio without the key or with it

[treveiger]

Bump for more awesomeness

[darush01]

This thread was made for me, but to keep it short my current truck has mirrors off a 70 something dodge held on with self tapping screws one of my bolts broke off on my akternator braket so its held tight with some thin wire, my heater runs off a piece of wire ran from tbe fuse box to the plug that goes to the controls, my cigarette lighter is one you get at the autoparts store that clamps to a battery hooked to a hot wire and grounded on the dash and i have a license plate patching the floor, oh and the headlight on the drivers side was held in with a bungee cord for a while
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[Scott>72-GMC]

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[Eddie H.]

Growing up in the country, Every farmer and rancher that I knew used hay bailing wire to fix everything. It makes excellent throttle linkage, hose clamps, muffler hangers, battery hold downs , wiring loom ties, etc. That was back before they discovered duct tape.

[Palf70Step]

Originally Posted by Eddie H.

Growing up in the country, Every farmer and rancher that I knew used hay bailing wire to fix everything. It makes excellent throttle linkage, hose clamps, muffler hangers, battery hold downs , wiring loom ties, etc. That was back before they discovered duct tape.

Heck yeah...nothin like bail'n wire to hold a rusted out PA hunk together.

[GOPAPA]

Originally Posted by Eddie H.

Growing up in the country, Every farmer and rancher that I knew used hay bailing wire to fix everything. It makes excellent throttle linkage, hose clamps, muffler hangers, battery hold downs , wiring loom ties, etc. That was back before they discovered duct tape.

I was 18 when I seen with my own eyes what the gas station guy could do with chunk of "bail'n wire"..

You see, I was trying out a 50 Ford from his lot,,,and I got on it up the road a piece and broke the drive line close to the U-joint,, he towed it back to his garage,,put it on the lift and used a torch and
"bail'n wire" and welded it back togeather..