Haven’t got the right tools for the job?

Bodge it!

Show me your best bodges 😀

Any bodges- they don’t have to be bike related…..

Many, but notably the end of the long jacking shaft on my big trolley jack is now the tool for removing the internal castellated bolt on my kawasaki enduro bike.

I pulled a headset in with the forks & SFN.. it was a faff… The others I just hit with me mallet.

One of our party lost his rear brake pads in spooky woods this weekend, so we race lightened his rear braking setup for him…

m5 nut zip-tied into the front of a horizontal dropout to stop the wheel pulling forward under power. Still there 4 years later.

lerk – Member
One of our party lost his rear brake pads

read that quick as “ear” whilst looking at the pic that nearly confirmed it – rule number 12 should be no bodges involving body parts!

The little rubber band that hold an inner tube together was used to lash a helmet strap in such a fashion that it didn’t keelp wobbling about after the retention system died (pic later)

Can’t show it as she’s long gone but my old old old fiesta failed its Mot because it had rotten around the filler cap and you could actually wobble the neck of the tank, 1 tube of clear silicone later = pass!

I replaced the valve guide oil seals on a sierra without taking the head off using a lenth of nylon rope

did a similar thing on a cvh escort. terrible terrible cars.

I had an old transit van when I was a student. Something wasn’t right with the carburettor and it was sucking in air from somewhere where it shouldn’t be. Prodding it in a certain direction seemed to cure it, so as a get-me-home bodge I jammed a wooden wedge into the engine bay to keep it prodded. That got me home. And got me out and home a few more times. One day the bit of wood rattled out, so I cut half a dozen wedges and kept them and a hammer on the dash.

Occationally at traffic lights I’d have to pop the bonnet, jump out and hammer a wooden stake into the engine bay like Van Helsing.

now that is brilliant bodging

Drove a triumph Toledo with a rusted through petrol tank to the scrapy using a fairy liquid bottle full of petrol jammed in the carb

The carb rubbers on my motorbike perished, so the carbs kept vibrating loose- which causes instant terrible running and a small risk of explosion. Solution- stick a lump of wood under the tank, which pushed down on the airbox, which pushed down on the carbs. I fitted that lump of wood in 2005, it’s still there. But sadly I’ve never had to hammer it in so it’s not as cool.

My grandad’s cortina was basically made of isopon, he sold it to a ford enthusiast who restored it eventually, he said when he was done removing all the filler all that was left was an engine and 4 wheels, sat in a pile of fibreglass dust a foot deep.

Had to get about 100 odd rolls of turf up to the 10th floor of a condemned tower block. Lift shut off and got bored pretty quickly with hand-balling them up the stairs so improvised a hoist out of 13amp extension cable, tied that to a timber batten and threaded that through the sleeves of my overalls with the cable running out of the neck hole, tied knots in the ankles then filled the overalls with the turf and hoisted them up the outside of the building. From neighbouring flats it looked like a very long and brutal lynching.

Where are all the wooden shock pics then?

No pictures, but a long time ago my fox forks were too short for my mt vision headtube… so i hacksawed off a cm top and bottom and bodged a headset to a very low stack height by leaving bits out. worked very well for a couple of years, then i swapped the front triangle for a smaller one.

Why would you take turf up a condemned tower block?

Singulator spring broke. Fashioned a new tensioner from a suitable stick. Was perfect!

rule number 12 should be no bodges involving body parts!

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Some very impressive bodging everyone, particularly the wooden stake jobbies!

I chain drilled & bashed out a hole in the bulkhead of a Capri, so I could take the camshaft out through the radio aperture in the dash. Good old Pinto engine.

In my first house. An old downstairs loo that had a high level cistern & a long pipe feeding the pan…
I needed to install a waste pipe for the washing machine. So, installed a swept tee into said pipe. The sensation of steam wafting up on cold morning thrones was simply divine.

Actually drove a car home with a shoe lace as an accelerator after snapping the cable, worked like a charm.

Yup, drove a MKII Escort home with string through th window accelerator after the link broke. Not the smoothest of rides id have to admit……..

Also remember the passenger seat of the very same cra being the “in charge of wiper” seat should it rain on the basis that the wipers needed to be manualed at least 50% of the time if it rained!!!