I just went out to a field by my house to test some things out. Well I ended up cutting a hole in my hi-presure power steering hose. So some duck tape, and a quart of power steering fuild and I got myself home. It was only like 2 miles so I really didn't want to tow it. What have you guys fabbed??

I crammed strips of duct tape into a tire to make a plug...worked great.

Bailing wire. I can't count how many times I have drive home with 1, 2 if not several pieces held on by the stuff. :D:D:D

Originally posted by GloNDark
Bailing wire. I can't count how many times I have drive home with 1, 2 if not several pieces held on by the stuff. :D:D:D

Bailing wire is the greatest trail fix known to man.......other then duct tape:flipoff2:

ripped the motor mounts and tranny mounts out at rocker knocker in pritchett canyon. use a samurai jack and a put the motor back in place. then took a comealong ran the cable up over the left mount and down to the frame. then hooked the other end to the tranny cross memeber. just had to remember to not to nail it in reverse. drove the rest of the day then did golden spike the next day with it like that.

On the way home from Upper Control Arm Trail.... (where I snapped my left front upper control arm in 2) I was driving along approached a red light and hit the brakes.

Thats when I heard the BANG SNAP ... "Oh that wasn't good."

Yep the right side upper control arm snapped and ripped the driveshaft out of the pinion and rotated the front end forward. Skidded to a stop. So I got out a wratchet strap and "pulled" the front end back where it belonged. Drove home with the front driveshaft hangin down spinin as I drove.

I made it home... :D

Hell man.....a true RED NECK ride is held together with tie wire, duct tape and hose clamps when headed for the trail and brought back out of the woods on Budweiser and homegrown smoke.:smokin:

2 Broken motor mounts and busted exhaust manifold courtesy of goin' up big sluice. See the manifold broke when the engine slid sideways and hit the frame. Thank god I had no fan shroud or it might have destroyed the aluminum radiator as well. 3 hours, a lot of bailing wire, come-a-longs, a couple feet of chain and 5 or 6 hose clamps later I made it to Buck Island for the night and tightened it all up and added more wire. Made it to spider, went around little sluice and out to loon lake, and drove it home at highway speed and no exhaust. Lincoln PD pulled me over and was going to give me a fix-it ticket for the exhaust but my daughter cried and got us out of it. Lots-o-fun:flipoff2:

A couple of years ago, I went 'wheelin with my friend in his F-150. He broke the driver's side motor mount that day and used a length of chain that he always kept behind the seat as a fix. He Premeir Power Welded one end of the chain to the frame and bolted the other end to the cylinder head on the driver's side. Its been that way ever since.

My favorite is when I made contacts for my distributor rotor out of a feeler guage. I was about 20 miles up in BFE(alone) at the time, and drove about 50 miles home.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mattsara/bb/distributorfix.jpg

The latest member to join the ranks of ductape and bailing wire is the mighty zip-tie, you can find these all over my rig. My best red neck fix would have to be sticking rocks inbetween my frame and broken rear springs and ductaping them in to get me home. 3rd gear+4 foot drop=2 broken rear leaf springs

A real Redneck fix would be to Duct Tape a Jerrycan full of gas upside down to the windshield and run a tube from the cap to the carb when the fuel pump dies in the middle of nowhere.

Originally posted by K5KID
He Premeir Power Welded one end of the chain to the frame and bolted the other end to the cylinder head . Its been that way ever since.

That is true redneck for you right there. just leaving it

Originally posted by TRD


That is true redneck for you right there. just leaving it

The reason why is because he thought that setup works a lot better than the factory driver's side motor mount ever would. Thank god that truck is no longer his daily driver.

Originally posted by K5KID
A real Redneck fix would be to Duct Tape a Jerrycan full of gas upside down to the windshield and run a tube from the cap to the carb when the fuel pump dies in the middle of nowhere.
Hey I did this one. It was a smaller can about 2 gal and it was right side up. Gravity fed the carb. Tie wired the thing on and drove home. Who needs a fuel guage when you can see the level right in front of your face? Got some really wierd looks at stop lights.:D

Originally posted by Scoutaholic

Hey I did this one. It was a smaller can about 2 gal and it was right side up. Gravity fed the carb. Tie wired the thing on and drove home. Who needs a fuel guage when you can see the level right in front of your face? Got some really wierd looks at stop lights.:D

You mean David Freiburger isn't the only guy in America to do this?

I have Bondo-ed over a hole in the radiator............used engine oil for brake fluid............used Large bolts for broken ball joints........ Oh ya this is 4x4 chat not Demo-derby chat


Hey it all worked great for the situation.

Has anyone ever tried the egg-white and pepper trick to fix a pinhole leak in their radiator? If you havent, I can tell you from personal experience that it works.

How about pulling the third member from a 9" and filling the carrier with wheel wheights that we melted over a fire. My cousin and I did this after he blew the spider gears out on his open diffed axle. Got him out, but he's installing a detroit now;)

I broke my power steering pump bracket at Dixie Run. The pump wedged itsself between the harmonic balancer and the frame rail. After I got it loose I use smoe large tie-wraps to hold it in place while I secured it with bailling wire. Made it all the way home like that and even had a little bit of help from the pump.

I bought and removed a radiator from another vehicle to replace the one I trashed on the trail. Got in some deep water and the fan ate it up.

*note: The inbred I bought the rad. from has a small radiator shop. He said he couldn't fix mine that day but he did have an '86 4Runner I could buy the rad. out of. It turned out to be an '85! It was for sale and he was supposed to sell it to me but he dicked me. Guy I know bought it. It had my fawked up (and now repaired) rad. in it! Along with mis-matched seats and the wrong trans. I still hate that fawker.:mad3:

I cut a peice of angle iron out of my trailer to fix my frame where the shacle tore off a piece.

Chris Collard broke a leaf spring in the 'bowl' on the Rubicon.
We used 2 vise-grips to hold the spring-pack together.
Drove back thru the 'gatekeeper' that way, back to camp,
where he installed his spare spring pack.

wheeling in an old land rover this past september, i came down on a rock with my rusty frame HARD, then the gearshift slips out of my hand... downward. put on the E brake, crawl underneath, yup theres my trans crossmember resting on a stump. hmmmmm, how do i fix this? if you know old rovers the center front seat is directly over the transfer case and there is about a 9x12" access panel to the top of the TC under the seat. my eyes fall on the spinner wrench (you know the X shaped lug wrench) and i place it like a brace over the access hole. i put a ratchet strap under the trans case and loop it over the center section of the X, and lift the trans back into place. tighten up the strap, put the center seat down, good as new. drove it for a month like that before welding on the crossmember again. i think i have some pics somewhere but i dunno.

Originally posted by K5KID
A real Redneck fix would be to Duct Tape a Jerrycan full of gas upside down to the windshield and run a tube from the cap to the carb when the fuel pump dies in the middle of nowhere.



A .44 mag makes a good hole punch so you can run fuel line through the hood :D

I was out with wheeling my Isuzu Trooper one night and ran it into a water filled ditch. Could not get the motor to start with it 1/2 under water. The relay to turn the fuel pump was not turnng on. I ran a jumper wire from the fuel pump to the parking lights, the parking lights were the only power source I could get to with the front end under water. Removed the air intake hose (it was under water) turned on the lights and started it up. Then tied a rope around the back tire and used it like a winch to extract the rig out backwards.

One time I was out wheeling my sand rail in Hungry Valley and put a hole into the side wall. I ended up patching it with silicon glue covered rag. It got me home. For this trip the sand rail was flat towed.

On another trip with my sand rail its trailer broke it's frame behind the axle. I used a come-along to hold the rail to the trailer. I used this come-along to lift the trailer up in the air with a tree. I then relocated the axle forward on the frame. I used a drill I had with me to relocate the Ubolts holes forward (trailer did not use leaf springs). I then put the rail on the trailer backwards with the engine forward. I removed the front wheel from the rail and tied the broken part of the trailer upto the cage of the rail. So the sand rail became a frame to hold the trailer together.

i broke the welds on my front spring hanger, so we used about 30 zipties on it to drive it off the trail...........kinda

The lead lincoln locker is the best.

Have to remember that one :)

Ron

Two Optima's and some jumper cables, 7018 and doubled-up sunglasses, welded the balljoints in when the inner knuckle broke

-J

I broke a main leaf on a front spring pack, used a couple of batterys, a set of jumper cables and a welding rod to weld the main leaf to the leaf below it....

I've also used muddy water to fill the radiator after bending the tubes shut that got trashed when the fan hit it after an unexpected scuba diving mission. Had to drink a few:beer: 's to have something to put the muddy water in to get it to the Jeep.

Used a girlfriends panty hose as a fanbelt to get out of the desert in a Baja Bug (Ah, the teenage years :D:D:D:D:D).

Not mine , but a cool trail fix

Originally posted by Old Scout
Not mine , but a cool trail fix

:D :D :D SWEET....

Gotta love them D35's.

I broke all the studs that hold on the stearing arm on my toy's front end and had to weld the arm to the nuckle, inthe middle of fourdice. That not to redneck thow.....:rolleyes:

One time at camp, i rolled my truck and my cooler fell out and got all smashed up. I was deathly concerned that all of my ice and water would leak out and i'd have to drink warm beer. So i used empty cut open beer cans, a whole roll of bailing wire and 4 rolls of duct to repair my busted open cooler.

:flipoff2: :flipoff2: :flipoff2:

naw i just kiddin, i agree the real rednecks have more duct tape, bailin wire and zipties on their rig than in the tool box :flipoff2:

We were out on the trail, and a Samuri broke it's main leaf in the back. So we cut up a old log and raped straps around it and the axle so it would keep it's original hieght, took a chain fall and hooked to the axle then hooked that to I think the 3rd member, so the axle could not move. He ended up driving this set up down the high way about 75 MILES!:eek: :eek: :eek: Made it home though...

Having spent so much time wheeling in the remote outback of Venezuela, jury-rigging became a part of life. We once used bailing wire (lots of it) to set a P/S pump against the frame after the mounting bracket cracked in the middle of nowhere. ..another time we had to filter 130 liters of stale gasoline, one liter at a time, through three coffee filters; we set up an assembly line and scooped it out of the 55 gallon drum into liter cans, filtering at each stage...not fun, and the truck ran like crap back to civilization...
Probably our most dangerous one was flat-towing an FJ60 Land Cruiser, which in turn had a 1/4 ton trailer behind it, with another FJ60 Land Cruiser that had a 14' aluminum boat on top of it. It wasn't so much the flat-towing, but the fact that we were going fairly fast on a dirt road!

AFAIK, duct tape, bailing wire, zip ties, JB Weld and a Leatherman make up the *ultimate* 4x4 survival kit.

I once snapped my clutch pedal's pivot clean in half many miles from home. I just said fawk it and slammed gears all the way back off the trail, down the freeway, and trough town to get home. I only ended up grinding it once or twice.

About two months ago my buddy blew a hole in his tire that was leaking too fast to drive out on. I got an old allen wrench and pounded it in the hole. Then I just globbed RTV all over it and sort of moved it around a bit whenever the air would blow through. Once that sealed up a bit I globbed on more. He ended up driving on that for a while actually. Ironically the exact same spot where I snapped the clutch pedal.

Drowned an S10 blazer (just being stupid at the river one night...isn't that when all the bad crap happens?) up to the dash in a river. We towed it home using a length of chain which left some bitchin' trails of sparks when it hit the pavement on the many miles home. We all stayed up through the night and pulled the motor apart, cleaned out the water, put it back together, and then fired it up the next morning. Runs better than ever :D

take a spare rim without a tire. mount it on your axle. hook your strap to it and a tree and you have a hillbilly winch that won't be underpowerd :D

I cant believe no one has said anything about using a t-post to fix a bent tie rod!! Wrap that up with barbwire and it'll last quite a while..Course there prolly aint that many fences in the desert..

ummm.............. i guess mine would be when i had the main spark wire from the coil go bad, i had to cut the end , strip it back , then stuff it in to the coil. by using sylicone i was able to hold it in place
worked for a little while.
made it home that was all that mattered.

broke front drive shaft

lost cups in rear u joint wired it up
and a slong as I kept constant preshure
on it it stayed together.

welded on trail useing 2 optimas jumper cables
6013 rod
and beer bottle to see thrue.

ps fealer gage as roter was a real good idea.

Well, I don't know if this is Hick enough......

But, on a trail ride last fall, I was comming out of a stream bed and my radiator fell into my fan. One buddy had a propane tip, I had a small propane bottle from my camp stove, and another buddy had some sodder. Yep, we soddered the bottom of the radiator back together. Used some JB weld to close up a small leak and I'm still running that radiator today!
http://archiegallup.homestead.com/files/EWMF2/RadFix01.JPG
Just glad it didn't tear into the fins.....

Nothing like care package from Grandma with a nice bar of Irish Spring to fix a leaking gas tank. "Ah Irish Spring, its more then a Soap to clean with it can leave your gas tank smelling nice too"

:D :flipoff2:

Our best had to be a broken axle on Fordyce. Jeep Cherokee broke an 8 1/4 rear axle with detroit. Didn't have a spare with him. Pulled it apart and ground bevels on axle pieces and welded with batterys and jumper cables. Lasted for about a mile on the trail up to the bottom of winch hill 4. This time it trashed the axle housing end. Called a buddy and had him bring an extra 8 1/4 axle that another friend had. Lifted up rear of cherokee by running a snatch block into a tree and back down to other vehicle(read scary). Changed out entire rear axle on the trail. Ratios didn't match had to disconnect front drive shaft and drove it out the rest of the way home. Had to be towed over the rough stuff but it made it.

Well let's see, Broke the eye bushings on a couple of Tera 1st gen lower control arms (on seperate trips).

For the rear one, I hammered the ripped metal back over the bushing, added hose clamps, and used a couple of ratchet Straps from the axle to tcase skid to hold it inplace and drive from Tellico to Huntsville.

For the front one, I was close to the end of the trail and only had a 20 mile drive home. There wasn't anything left of the eye other than a couple of strips of metal, so I simply used hose clamps and wire ties to hold the arm up aginst the bushing an took it real slow home.

Popped a bead and ripped the valve stem threaded section on a trip once. There was just enough thread to pop the bead back on, but not enough to air the tire back up. Had a buddy say he could insert a new valve stem from the outside, so we kicked back while he played with grease, 2 small screwdrivers and the new valve stem for about 15 minutes, but he did manage to get it in.

Had a buddy's CJ loose the retaining clips on a front spring pack and it started seperating on trail 5 at Tellico, a couple of big wire ties and lots of duct tape (once we got the springs back in place) and he was good to go (kept it that way for a year).

Robert

This reminds me of those disabled dogs with the wheels inthe back.

Steering box tore off a ZJ at Pain Hill, "secured" it on with about 40 zip ties.

Dana 30 knuckle tore off (ball joint failed) during winching at the Junkyard Trail. Hooked about 4 winches to the knuckle pulling sort of back together (as in popping the ball joint back into itself), all the winchers hid behind their rigs, after about 8 tries it worked.

Dana 35 axle snapped both shafts at Junkyard Trail. Its called that becuase of the abandoned burned out cars there. Made a sled out of a hood of a large truck. Worked to about 200 yards from the pavement, past that we put the wheels (with the shafts on and all) back in the tubes and had the guy drive out in front wheel drive with three guys on each side of the rear end kicking the wheels back in like some mad Russian dance.

broke a hard brake line, hammered it flat so it wouldn't leak, then drove like that for about 5 weeks. broke a oil breather hose, duct taped it back to the engine. ran with 2 lug nuts on a wheel for a few days, on accident (friend put the wheel back on, lug nuts fell off).

had the t-case almost completely fall off on Hell's Revenge, it was hanging on the shaft by about .25", lost all the bolts. A couple of ratchet straps got us back to city market for that one. Have had to use crushed up cheez its to fix a rad. leak once and crushed up fritos to do the same thing another time. had a heim joint rip out of my lca, ended up welding the joint to the arm, ended up finishing rd. 21 that way and kept it in their for over a year til I converted to 3 link.

Easy

The original front axle on the LJ used one big nut to hold the brake drum/wheel on (kinda like the rear on a VW bug.)
My bro. and I were bombing along a logging road about 30 miles from anywhere when the front end got all 'wiggy'
turns out the big nut had stripped and was allowing the wheel to move out and back an inch or so
we scouted around in the ditches to find an empty beercan....not tool hard around here
then we walked until we found a mile marker sign ( signs the logging trucks use to call out to the dispatchers)
we 'borrowed' the nail from the sign and put the big nut back on using a strip of beercan to fill in the threads
then we used the nail as a cotter pin
drove it really slow for the 30 miles of gravel and then the one hour of highway back home.

there of couse have been others.........like cracking a T90 3/4 the way around then ratchet strapping the crack closed and driving with the shifter loosened so you could pour 10/30 oil down there as you drove...........

Not sure if this counts but...

Way back when I was in Highschool (early 80's) I had a VW bug. A friend and I were in the back woods drinking Mickeys Wide mouths and having fun. When I fired up the bug the gas pedal flopped limp. The damn cable broke off at the pedal!

Well, in the state we were in I managed to convince my friend to perch on the rear bumper and operate the throttle from the engine compartment while I drove. I'd yell Shift! and he would back off the throttle till I got it in gear.

We made it home but the look on his face when we stopped was priceless. He didn't let me forget that for some time.

Originally posted by Johann
Not sure if this counts but...

Way back when I was in Highschool (early 80's) I had a VW bug. A friend and I were in the back woods drinking Mickeys Wide mouths and having fun. When I fired up the bug the gas pedal flopped limp. The damn cable broke off at the pedal!

Well, in the state we were in I managed to convince my friend to perch on the rear bumper and operate the throttle from the engine compartment while I drove. I'd yell Shift! and he would back off the throttle till I got it in gear.

We made it home but the look on his face when we stopped was priceless. He didn't let me forget that for some time.

Hey I did the same thing once. I had a '69 Dart that I had just swapped a built 440 4 speed into, :smokin: We took it out for a quick beat run before I had the hood on. :) Of course about 2 miles from home the accelerater cable broke. My buddy climbed onto the cowl and worked the gas while I drove and shifted. He used it like an on/off switch. :D It was a blast, left tons of rubber and spent more time slidin sideways :eek: than going straight. My nieghbors thought we were nuts... :flipoff2:

i got a similar story, when i was a kid i worked at a water ski school in the orange groves outside Orlando and we had an old scout that we used to get to/from the different lakes. the throttle cable snapped one day and since a scout hood pops up from the windshield i just left the hood up a bit and ran a piece of ski rope with handle to the throttle and hung it on the side mirror. worked great, got tired of pulling on it though after driving a ways. got a new throttle cable a few weeks later ...

- jack

That tree under the axel....

My 40 looked almost exactly like that after grenading a right rear axel. My tree was bigger:flipoff2: and no tow strap....
Drove it 3-4 miles out of the woods in 3rd gear:D

The tree was starting to catch on fire from the friction;)

Cory

Originally posted by K5KID
A real Redneck fix would be to Duct Tape a Jerrycan full of gas upside down to the windshield and run a tube from the cap to the carb when the fuel pump dies in the middle of nowhere.

If you don't have a Jerrycan or similar object you can just fill up your windshield wiper reservoir with gas and hook the hose up to the carb. Hit the squirt button for fuel. That qualifies as fuel injection, right?:D

Had a post style shock that she-aught out it's bushings. Took a bunch of duct tape and made a duct tape ball that replaced the bushing.

One time needed a fawkin metric wrench and all I had was SAE. The pull tab from a can of beer wedged in place made up the difference.

Beer tabs also work great for fuse replacements. Trim and bend them down to size with pliers and jam 'em in.

Duct tape and beer kinda go hand in hand... The more beer consumed, the more duct tape needed. :D

Originally posted by PJCTPW


If you don't have a Jerrycan or similar object you can just fill up your windshield wiper reservoir with gas and hook the hose up to the carb. Hit the squirt button for fuel. That qualifies as fuel injection, right?:D



:eek: WOW that's a DAMN GOOD idea.

OK, this isn't 4wheeling but still fits. I was with my wife and baby son in Santa Fe New mexico in my 64 dodge van. Well the accelerator cable snapped. I was near a junkyard and it was close to 5 oclock. I found a replacement in the junkyard but the yard was closing. Almost got into a fistfight with the Junk guy, but finally had to leave empty handed. The engine was between the seats so I lifted the hood, and using my hand on the carb drove away into town. Since no parts stores carried the cable I went to a bike store and bought a bike deraileur cable and cable stop and installed it. worked pefect and after a year or so when it broke, I just used another one!

I was thumbing through one of my old issues of Petersen's 4 Wheel and Off Road magazine when I saw a picture of a Jeep YJ with the transfer case held together by a come-a-long. The caption said that the owner hit a curb going 40mph and the impact broke the NP231 in two.

those are really good!:flipoff2:

i went skiing one year before the mountian was open. we snowshoed up and then had lunch and then skied down.

i left my fog lights on on my car. battery wasn't strong enough to start it up. and it was an auto. so we just started to roll down the hill. i kept trying to get up to 35 so it would start. never did. :eek: i could never get up to 35 because there were too many turns i had to slow down for. i made it 5 miles without the engine to push me.:D
finally stopped next to the town and someone gave me a boost! :nuke: :flipoff2:

i was luck i didn't die or freeze to death!

OK, i have another one also about my 64 dodge van....
I drove to the top parking lot at mount shasta one january with a girl and my dog. we slept in the van and woke up with TWO tires flat from some slow leaks. I had a refillable propane tank with a quick release valve, so.....(don't try this at home kids). I filled the tires with propane and it got me the 18 or so miles to town and the service station...

Just glad it didn't tear into the fins.....

when it does tear into the fins use bondo....clean off the radiator......dry it mix the bondo hot and force into the damaged area...I have done this several times and has never failed!....I now wheel with a quart of bondo in the Jeep

I buddy of mine found an "iceberg" rock (little piece sticking up with a very large rock attached to in underground) - He was going about 40 on a dirt road, the rock caught the front edge of his gas tank, crumpled up the lead edge pretty good. He ended up with a leak that was kind of trickling out. We rubbed a bar of soap on the leak until it stopped. That was day 2 of a 6 day trip, didn't leak at all the rest of the trip.

I know, what is a redneck doing with a bar of soap?

Steve G

Twisted a driveshaft on my old CJ5. We happend to find an old chain link fence and stole one of the main posts. Did a little cutting and welding and had the only galvanized driveshaft in the area. Drove it home 90+ miles with no vibration.

We were on Clawhammer one year and a buddy of ours was running BFGs. He already had a ton of plugs on 4 tires he finaly cut about a 4" gash on the 5th. Luckly he had wire so we use it to stich it up. It would hold air for about 5 minutes so we had to keep inflating it. Got us off the trail.:)

Along with some of the ones mentioned by others I can think of a few...
Welded frame rails with 2 batterys and 3 pairs of sunglasses using the hooks from tarp straps for electrodes...
Chained logs to the frame rails to keep them together...
Put a piece of a stick inside a quadratrac to hold it in 4wd (still working after 3 years).
Made a tap from a bolt so we could bolt a battery cable to what was left of the pos post after a meltdown.
Wrapped duct tape around the distributer cam so some worn-out points would open (lasted 3 weeks).
Ran without a sparkplug because the blown headgasket was filling the cylinder so fast it wouldn't turn over.
Pull'd the wheels off one jeep and chained the ft bumper to the rear bumper of another jeep (CJ14) because he destroyed the rh knuckle.
Pulled the carrier bolts out of the ring gear so the welded carrier would turn after busting the pinion off.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the better ones, but I'm getting old.

Originally posted by dirtrod
Along with some of the ones mentioned by others I can think of a few...
Welded frame rails with 2 batterys and 3 pairs of sunglasses using the hooks from tarp straps for electrodes...
Chained logs to the frame rails to keep them together...
Put a piece of a stick inside a quadratrac to hold it in 4wd (still working after 3 years).
Made a tap from a bolt so we could bolt a battery cable to what was left of the pos post after a meltdown.
Wrapped duct tape around the distributer cam so some worn-out points would open (lasted 3 weeks).
Ran without a sparkplug because the blown headgasket was filling the cylinder so fast it wouldn't turn over.
Pull'd the wheels off one jeep and chained the ft bumper to the rear bumper of another jeep (CJ14) because he destroyed the rh knuckle.
Pulled the carrier bolts out of the ring gear so the welded carrier would turn after busting the pinion off.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the better ones, but I'm getting old.


hey, you remember welding my friends pitman arm, at the cove, iside by the fireplace... ba hahahhaha ya gotta love that place.... :D

Yup! Bailing wire, Duct tape, chewing gum, JB weld, puddy epoxy, and...drum roll please.....disposable Ear plugs! yup they worked on a radiator hose blowout i had. stuffed the cut with ear plugs and away we go!

http://www.towerofyouth.org/upload/DSC_026.JPG
http://www.towerofyouth.org/upload/SCANIMAGE05.JPG http://www.towerofyouth.org/upload/6.JPG :flipoff2:

Helped a guy out in the bowl last year that broke his front left main leaf. After several people used tie downs, vise grips and everything else you could think of, I used the high lift to raise the rig and wedged a huge ass stump inside of the frame and the front axle and then strapped it all together with couple tie downs. It made for a stiff ride it made it out.

i saw a pic of a semi that used a 2x4 to replace his broken springs. it was hilarious.