I lost my gear shift off a Harley way up in nowhere Quebec. I discovered it was gone when I went to down shift when I hit a tiny town. Was able to pull right into a garage. No English spoken but finally got across, vise grips. The Frenchmen brought out an old pair and refused payment. I clamped it on and it worked like a charm. I finally found a Harley dealer and got a replacement.
Needs more of the bigger cable in contact with the post, and zip-tie should be on the widest part of the handles...........but give him/her credit for at least thinking of this
I used a Vice Grip [formerly made with high quality in DeWitt Nebraska and now made in crap quality in China] to temporarily hold closed an exhaust hanger. Found it a year later after it had endured a nasty winter and wet summer. Cleaned it up and still using it thirty or forty years later.
Sometimes you do what you have to to get out of the woods or get home. A guy gave me a small set of visegrips to hold my throttle cable together to get me home. Didn't even know him. Would not let me return them.
I used a piece of all thread when I snapped a clutch rod once. It was bent to fuck and probably wouldn't have lasted more than two more shifts, but it got me home.
Spending five bucks for a cheap pair of Chinese-made pliers when you could have spent three and a half on a proper fucking battery connection. This is why we will lose the war against the Chinese.
Retired mechanic and last 16 years on the job worked for a ready mix concrete plant keeping 48 mixer trucks and 6 heavy material trucks on the road. When you got a mixer broke down with 10 yards of concrete on, you do whatever to get it up and running...quick. I've scrounged around on the side of the highway for a piece of wire or a hunk of metal to get a truck running. Duct tape, wire, whatever. Vice grips were real handy for clamping off a brake hose when you had a blown brake chamber. Sometimes what ever you needed was never in the service truck. Yup...it ain't stupid if it works. Big proponent of PM...fix it in the shop..not on the road. Biggskye in Missouri.
Is that a metric zip tie? It's way too high up on the handle. Someone get that kid some duct tape!
ReplyDeleteI lost my gear shift off a Harley way up in nowhere Quebec. I discovered it was gone when I went to down shift when I hit a tiny town. Was able to pull right into a garage. No English spoken but finally got across, vise grips. The Frenchmen brought out an old pair and refused payment. I clamped it on and it worked like a charm. I finally found a Harley dealer and got a replacement.
ReplyDeleteNeeds more of the bigger cable in contact with the post, and zip-tie should be on the widest part of the handles...........but give him/her credit for at least thinking of this
ReplyDeleteI used a Vice Grip [formerly made with high quality in DeWitt Nebraska and now made in crap quality in China] to temporarily hold closed an exhaust hanger. Found it a year later after it had endured a nasty winter and wet summer. Cleaned it up and still using it thirty or forty years later.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but zip ties are a lot cheaper than vise grips.
ReplyDeleteShaking my head, this is not how that shit is supposed to be
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Sometimes you do what you have to to get out of the woods or get home. A guy gave me a small set of visegrips to hold my throttle cable together to get me home. Didn't even know him. Would not let me return them.
ReplyDeleteI used a piece of all thread when I snapped a clutch rod once. It was bent to fuck and probably wouldn't have lasted more than two more shifts, but it got me home.
DeleteIt's not dumb if it works.
ReplyDeleteSpending five bucks for a cheap pair of Chinese-made pliers when you could have spent three and a half on a proper fucking battery connection.
ReplyDeleteThis is why we will lose the war against the Chinese.
I keep a heavy duty battery connector in my box of spare shit I may need. It's paid off in the past year or so.
DeleteRetired mechanic and last 16 years on the job worked for a ready mix concrete plant keeping 48 mixer trucks and 6 heavy material trucks on the road. When you got a mixer broke down with 10 yards of concrete on, you do whatever to get it up and running...quick.
ReplyDeleteI've scrounged around on the side of the highway for a piece of wire or a hunk of metal to get a truck running. Duct tape, wire, whatever. Vice grips were real handy for clamping off a brake hose when you had a blown brake chamber. Sometimes what ever you needed was never in the service truck.
Yup...it ain't stupid if it works.
Big proponent of PM...fix it in the shop..not on the road.
Biggskye in Missouri.
Kenny, dude, a "vice grip" is the hold a hooker has on your dick when giving you a hand job. The tool is a vise grip.
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