Ghetto Fab?

[CJ]

I know that we all don't make or create the perfect part for our CJ's. Or we have taken a short cut or two when we had two.

So, fess up, post pics of stuff that works but might get that weird look from someone else. I have a few of them also, I'll post up when I can find pics.


Here is an example. I don't have a pic, but - I used a C-Clamp for a while to hold my body down to the frame on the drivers side by the fire wall. The body mount was so rusted out that the body moved up when I pressed the clutch pedal instead of the clutch arm moving in. One C-Clamp later, a repaired body mount!

Let's see those ghetto pics!

 

[mylittlecj5]

another no pic, but during a tough trial ride at the bottom of a large rocky hill, the throttle cable broke at the pedal.
15 minutes, 4 zip ties, and a small pair of vice-grips fixed it for about 6 months until I replaced the cable!

 

[BrockGrimes]

Here's a picture of my "Manual windshield wiper" since I didn't have a wiper motor at the time. I used it at all the red lights, LOL.
See if you can pick it out.

 

[Old Dog]

Ok I'll play. The first pic was my temperary overflow bottle, the second one is my getto fab.
I was going to mock it up and take it off to paint and finish, but it still looks like this now.

 

[BajaEdition]

ok, was out one time and blew a rear break cylinder, so, no brakes right, nope I pulled the line from the drum and circled it back around, taking off the other side, and put it in the splitter fitting causeing a loop. Like no rear brakes but I had front brakes. So I get home, and did not think of it for about 2 weeks then I freaked, seems I had did several days of driving around town doing chores like that, LOL you got to love it.

 

[CJ]

Had a spark plug blow out once (the ceramic part), used a bungee cord to hold it in until we got home. She drove around for a month like that! hmm, hmm, pff, hmm It was a four cylinder...

 

[Kane]

On the radiator were the side bracket is braids the the main body, mine seperated itself. I used two stock shackle side plates and threaded rod to make a wrap around clamp. It held the radiator together for about five years until I came across another one. I actually put the clamp on both sides to prevent the same thing from happening. Broken rad mounts and a moving fan are not a good mix.

 

[coldwater]

I had an old farm rig 3-A that dropped the cross member when the frame rotted through and let go on one side. I went in through the top of the hump, wrapped a bunch of bailing wire around the Transmission , Transfer Case and shoved a digging bar across the door openings and through the wire sticking up through the floor. It clunked,, a LOT, but worked for a couple years of further torture till the little engine laid down.

 

[Petescj]

Well heres a two fer. My radiator overflow tank for one. Sorry Old Dog mines bigger than yours. And # 2 how about those dual carb return springs?

 

[LongHorn]

Well heres a two fer. My radiator overflow tank for one. Sorry Old Dog mines bigger than yours. And # 2 how about those dual carb return springs?

Hell I've so many CJ's like that, I thought it they came like that stock!

 

[Cheepjeep85]

looks alot like the return springs on mine. its works with no problems

 

[dalefan88]

my turn. here is my troddle linkage and return springs when i put my motorcraft carb on.

 

[kickitandholdit]

this is by far the funniest thread iv ever seen

but yal are getting serious about rigging some stuff haha what happened to the good ole duct tape?