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Was putting my gearbox back together today and back in the vehicle (after doing the same last weekend before realising I left a bearing out!) when I found I needed some grease to hold the rollers in a bearing and also some bronze thrust washers in place. However I had none at home and the shops were shut...

What was I to do? BUTTER! lol. My gearbox will now be part butter lubricated

I have also used extra virgin olive oil to lubricate some bearings in a high speed centrifugal pump that I made... worked a treat!

Anyone else bodged like this before?

Worst bodge that I have done was on an Austin A60 that had worn kingpins. I packed them out with strips of copper taken from an old head gasket. Got the car through several MOT's like that. Not really dangerous because the kingpins were massive and very unlikely to break.

The worst bodge that I have seen was on my old 924. The rear brake adjusters had seized and rather that free them up or replace them, a previous owner had wedged slivers of metal between the brake shoe and the adjuster to get the brakes to bite. If the metal slivers had fallen out, the results could have been catastrophic.

Apart from this, I have been (in my yoof) guilty of the usual bodges such as patching bodywork with chicken wire and filler and exhausts with bits of tin can and jubilee clips

Me and my dad repaired a broken down Standard vanguard, by replacing a big end bearing with a piece of leather from his belt, by the roadside to get home, I once made a compressor from a suffolk punch lawnmower engine, halfway through spraying my mini the con rod broke, I stuck it with araldite and also glued two strips of ally to the sides of the rod, held together long enough to finish the mini

Jesus I think we have a new king of the bodgers! lol. I ran my engine with out a core plug for a couple of weeks once with no problems, used mud to hold in a bearing pin and stuff like that... in fact here is a video of my old race team building the race engine in a field the night before a competition at 3am. I am the bloke doing the filming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLe9JsxuSAY



I used newspaper and filler to do my bulkhead Still holding (JUST) after 4 years.