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What Car Problems Have/did You Put Up With.
...............Either because you could'nt afford to fix them or other reasons?
I remember a time when the car I owned had no lights, I could'nt afford to take it to a garage so always had to be home by dark, good job it was summer ha ha..
I remember a time when the car I owned had no lights, I could'nt afford to take it to a garage so always had to be home by dark, good job it was summer ha ha..
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I once a had a car (Capri I think) that would select first and reverse at the same time and was a nightmare to get out of gear again, it done this on and off for about a year before it died.
I had the fuel pump die on a Ford Zodiak about fifty miles from home, I repaired it by making a new diaphram from a crisp packet, it got me home with a few more replacements.
I also had a Ford Anglia with a dead fuel pump, to get home I tied a fuel can full of petrol with a fuel line attached to the roof and gravity fed the carb all the way home, about 30 miles.
You could do this type of "get you home" repair with modern cars, far too complicated these days.
In those days motoring was about knowing how your car worked, not just putting it in a garage at every little sniffle and splutter.
I also drove a Morris Minor 70 miles with absolutely no foot brakes at all, I braked purely by handbrake and going down long hills by rolling down forwards with reverse gear selected and foot on the clutch, to slow down I just lifted the clutch a little and used reverse gear as a break, I done it that way so I didnt burn the brakes out on long down hill runs.
Stupid I know, I wouldn't dream of it now, so dangerous!! young and foolish!!
I had the fuel pump die on a Ford Zodiak about fifty miles from home, I repaired it by making a new diaphram from a crisp packet, it got me home with a few more replacements.
I also had a Ford Anglia with a dead fuel pump, to get home I tied a fuel can full of petrol with a fuel line attached to the roof and gravity fed the carb all the way home, about 30 miles.
You could do this type of "get you home" repair with modern cars, far too complicated these days.
In those days motoring was about knowing how your car worked, not just putting it in a garage at every little sniffle and splutter.
I also drove a Morris Minor 70 miles with absolutely no foot brakes at all, I braked purely by handbrake and going down long hills by rolling down forwards with reverse gear selected and foot on the clutch, to slow down I just lifted the clutch a little and used reverse gear as a break, I done it that way so I didnt burn the brakes out on long down hill runs.
Stupid I know, I wouldn't dream of it now, so dangerous!! young and foolish!!
That was the Bendix, Prudie, I think. You had to free the starter motor by turning the central rod of the starter assembly with a spanner or by engaging a gear and rocking the car. Quite forgotten doing that. Modern cars are a complete pain for the amateur mechanic; my old father was a mechanic all his life but had to give up in despair when he found that the simplest repair could not be done because of the dreaded sealed unit which required either special tools to open it or couldn't be opened at all.But for that, the fault would be cured in ten minutes And what does the garage do? Often they send the whole unit away and replace it with a reconditioned one. I had a Fiat 500 that went through three starters like that. No good being the kind of old mechanic who could detect and diagnose 10 faults in a car by driving it a couple of miles when that's the only answer.
Fred, wasnt it satisfying to strip down your dynamo or starting motor, give it a good clean up, polish the armature and see it all working again. I used to love doing the job, and then the task of growing new skin on all your knuckles ofter skinning them trying to put said devices back on the car. Those were the days :-)
Made good reading these tales did. I too remember having to rock a car to free the starter motor before it would start.
I did a mechanics course for women (they spoke slow lol) but I still knew where every phone box was as I still rang family for help.
I once left a conked out car with a sleeping baby with two men in white van while I went to a nearby pub to ring my Dad. While on the phone it dawned on me what I'd done, I raced back to find they'd never took their eyes of him and they told me to Shush incase I woke him.
I now have a computer for a dashboard that says "don't even think about getting the socket set out" ha ha..
I did a mechanics course for women (they spoke slow lol) but I still knew where every phone box was as I still rang family for help.
I once left a conked out car with a sleeping baby with two men in white van while I went to a nearby pub to ring my Dad. While on the phone it dawned on me what I'd done, I raced back to find they'd never took their eyes of him and they told me to Shush incase I woke him.
I now have a computer for a dashboard that says "don't even think about getting the socket set out" ha ha..