It's hard to tell what you'll find useful. In one case, a friend tells me...
A woman was taking her two children home from school, when her
VW Beetle is hit in the front fender. Unfortunately, then fender is
smashed into the wheel, so she can't steer it; other than that the
vehicle seems to be driveable.
She look in the trunk to see what she can find; she finds two items:
A basketball
A pump
What does she do? She lets the air out of the basketball, puts in
between the tire and the fender, uses the pump to inflate the ball
(pushing the fender away from tire), and drives off.
Pretty clever, huh?
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From: Russ Wilson[SMTP:russ@scubed.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 1995 2:18 PM
To: Ramm, Andy
Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: What's In YOUR Toolbox?
My toolbox includes several paper clips, chewing gum and tape as a result
of the following experiences:
In the middle of nowhere in Northern California I once resuscitated my B's
fuel pump by replacing the broken pivot pin for the contact points with a
paper clip. It got me back to the Univ of Oregon, 250 miles away.
Way up an unpaved logging road in Oregon, gum, wadded around a stick and
jambed into a pencil-sized hole in the gas tank - just created by that rock
I *thought* I could straddle - got me about 50 miles back to town. (Moral:
don't go 4-wheeling in an early B)
Two hours spent on the side of Tioga Pass in Yosemite with a car that
wouldn't restart ended when it was discovered that the wire had come off
the ignition capacitor. Taping it down did the trick.
Russ Wilson
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