Snapped a whole rear leaf pack wheeling... jacked up frame a rammed a block of wood between the frame and axle to make it home.
Rope and tie wire to fix a tie rod end one time as well.
HuntingBC Champ
Snapped a whole rear leaf pack wheeling... jacked up frame a rammed a block of wood between the frame and axle to make it home.
Rope and tie wire to fix a tie rod end one time as well.
HuntingBC Champ
Classic move. One of my buddies drove out with a Douglas fir coilover on his buggy after a pretty spectacular roll.Originally Posted by wrenchhead
The only thing I like as much as trucks, is guns.
xxx
What other tools shoud a person carry for temp fixes when otherwise you would be screwed. Ive heard of hardcore guys putting a couple of batteries together in series and being able to weld with jumper cables and a rod. I dont know if there is any truth to it.
Hunting the promised land
member
Broke a radius arm and got a long thick stick and put it in the hollow radius arm tube and had a come along to hold it. IT was a very crappy road no tow truck would of got us out in that spot. Made it home.
Nothing is like climbing a mountain, and then feeling like you are at the top of the world.
Blowa da buga, boy!!!
Those compact lithium battery booster packs are handy. The little one I have fits in the glovebox and actually jump started my 5.9 Cummins (was still cranking over, just very slow). They will boost most gas engines easily.
Also a mini-compressor & tire plug kits, a scissor jack - can slip into narrow spots to straighten out bent parts (like tie-rods when someone doesn't see that stump at the edge of a cutblock). Heavy duty ratchet straps can work for that as well. JB Weld quick set, Radiator stop leak.
A couple small totes in your truck can hold a pretty decent spare parts & tool kit. Talk to any field service mechanic and you'll get some good ideas for emergency repair stuff.
HuntingBC Champ
I knew a guy who made up cables to weld off the alternator of his samurai.
Member
My father in law shot a deer mid november and in the process slammed the car into the side of the road left lights on and door open with key on, vehicle not running. Yes I said car it was his daughters ford escort, he rolls like that and let’s just say lots of guys would turn their 4x4 pickups around before going into places he was driving it in. Something about going backwards at a 45 degree angle and you’ll get through any deactivation. When he returned the battery was of course dead. He took every AA and AAA out of any flashlight, radio, gps etc he had held them all in his hands in series with the battery while buddy turned over the car, and two very pathetic rotation of the engine it caught and off they were with meat in the freezer
HuntingBC Champ
Yep that works. Stack up 5 or 6 pairs of sunglasses and they make you feel better about arc flashing yourself...you still get flash, but you feel less like you will.
Tools- I carry a viair compressor, patches, and plugs. And spare valve stems!! The correct size valves for your wheels would be good too.
I have an electrical box; random sizes and lengths of wires, shrink wrap, various connectors and fuses and relays. A test light, and a multimeter.
I have another ammo can with sockets and ratchets. I carry a mix of imperial and metric, because not having a tool kills me. If someone in a passenger vehicle is broken down, I probably have the tools to fix it...and I may even be able to fix it.
The other ammo can has wrenches (strung together on a carabiner), pliers, a tie rod puller, tie wire, screw drivers, and a file to square up bolts that have been mangled.
I also have a hilift, a winch, shackles and straps and a snatch block, some LONG jumper cables made out of welding cable.
I go shitty places alone, so I want to be able to extract myself from any situation.
The only thing I like as much as trucks, is guns.
HuntingBC Champ
Like most above I always carry tools.
Broke the rear shackle off my dodge a while back and chained the leaf up with my snow chains and drove it home.
Senior Member
Had a control arm go in creston last year. Grab a spool of tie wire n pliers. It last a few turns down the hill I was on then wood have to jack up tire fix align n fix n do it all over again til camp. 9 km took me 4 hours lol
majorguns
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote