we had loads of stories about the miles we ave driven how about the times we sat broken down thinking how the f’'k am i gonna get this thing goin again lol
roders:
we had loads of stories about the miles we ave driven how about the times we sat broken down thinking how the f’'k am i gonna get this thing goin again lol
depends what ur drivin Roders , a can of petrol an a box of swan vesta normally works 
Made a rotor arm from a cork and a pin, stopped a water leak in rad with porridge oats or crack an egg into rad, have’nt heard them in years 
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Made a rotor arm from a cork and a pin, stopped a water leak in rad with porridge oats or crack an egg into rad, have’nt heard them in years
Sorry just realised its a different generation of drivers, now they are all ex special forces or survivers of some transport related catastrophe
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Made a rotor arm from a cork and a pin, stopped a water leak in rad with porridge oats or crack an egg into rad, have’nt heard them in yearsSorry just realised its a different generation of drivers, now they are all ex special forces or survivers of some transport related catastrophe
never used recovery betveen 1984 and untill the electricmotors came,tape some tools and some crap in the toolbox get you home,my english is to bad to tell all stories thought ,cheers benkku
Cut a potatoe in half and rub it on your windscreen if your wipers fail. Water just runs off 
I worked with a bloke that had lived in Canada.He reckoned he had made a bearing out of a baked bean tin.
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Made a rotor arm from a cork and a pin, stopped a water leak in rad with porridge oats or crack an egg into rad, have’nt heard them in years
I know where you are coming from mate
I fixed a cracked fuel pipe with some grip fill 
Hope I did ok this is my first post
I managed to get back from London with the silencer fastened up with a pair of my braces, On a MK 5 AEC, Its a good job I wore a belt as well, Regards Larry.
During the 60s I went out to a breakdown on a Dodge D308 tipper with 6.354 perkins engine,driver reported he had no clutch and he was only about 3 mile from the depot,got there and removed the pan from beneath the bellhousing and clutch lining just fell out in bits,did no more than got a cardboard box from a nearby shop and pushed pieces of it in between pressure plate & flywheel driver got the motor back to the yard with just 3 gearchanges & eaton 2 speed.(I dont think you could do that nowadays
Hiya… i pulled onto Toddy one morning, my mate was their(a few years younger than me). he said
i,ve got diesel squirting from a pipe and its misting around the wheel and looks bad.
a quick look… the return pipe had a crack in it…no problem i,ll clean the pipe you go and buy
some super glue…WHY…get some glue. back he comes ,i,ve cleaned the pipe. did a few runs of
super glue along the pipe . had some toast and was gone in half and hour.
Iam no knocking any younger lads… one thing to remember we had no mobile phones…times was good
as someone would ALWAYS stop and help if they could but if you was on a quiet road you could have a
two mile walk to a phone. you didn’t have to be Rambo you soon got the hang of finding a way to fix
things usually with some string or wire of a farmers fence.
An old owner drive friend of mine now passed on. always had two push bike rear lights with him
if he had a tail light problem he would tape the bike lights on to the back of his lorry and be away
in a moment.good old days
John
broke down pickin tractor unit a few years back from exeter got as far as bristol on motorway and saw air gauge dropping and brakes coming on so stopped found that the pipe to the gauge on dash had got hot due to a heat sheild missing,now i have no tools and in casual clothes found a paper clip in cab burst the pipe bent plastic pipe over tied paper clip round it and it lastes all the way to glasgow
also picked up a truck from devon got as far as midlands and it started yo lose power thought fuel filter again no tools so stopped in at mway services got out filter right at back day cab unit managed to get it to turn by hand so what do i do !went to pump to buy a gallon can and fuel no cans would give any thing to put fuel so went to the burger king chapped back door and asked if they had any old cooking oil cans the guys says no problem hers one with gallon or so in it
back to truck unscrewed filter off poured crap out of filter into grass put cooking iol back in filter put it back on started it up and up the round to edinburgh
happy days
roders:
we had loads of stories about the miles we ave driven how about the times we sat broken down thinking how the f’'k am i gonna get this thing goin again lol
Before the motorways, there’s me, a young lad, Commer TS3 tipper, dark winters night, snowing like hell, top of the Brecon Beacons with a load of Phurnacite on. Engine drops onto tickover and loud pedal drops to the floor. The throttle linkage had fallen to pieces. Hell I was fed up that night. But I did it, bits of string and wire and it got me all the way back to Batley
i had a d-i-y ERF in corby. The u/j at the bottom of the gearstick came apart, middle lane M6 on the elevated, so i whipped one of the stock cards out of the steel tubes i was carrying , threw the card away and bent the wire around the u/j and tightened it up with pliers ,when i got back to corby the fitter welded it up. well that lasted about a week and it collapsed again . He wouldn’t buy a new u/j so was going to weld it again, i wasn’t having that,so it went for the next 3 years or so with the wire holding the u/j together, and got sold to LV transport still with the wire holding it together.
The exhaust brake plate used to come loose and fall into the manifold, which made for excellent exhaust braking, but not when you wanted it. quick fix that one , up with the cab, undo the 4 bolts on the housing , extract the plate, refix on spigot , put back together , and away.
Just one of the many breakdowns during my driving career.
Scania 111,just tipped Burayhda Saudi.On the Tapline homeward bound when she dropped a valve.
Not many English trucks down that way then,about 1980.(From the mid '70’s they were in convoys).
Good job I was travelling with my mate Cliff off Funstons.
Did I get her home? Of course.
The full story will be in my book!
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Made a rotor arm from a cork and a pin, stopped a water leak in rad with porridge oats or crack an egg into rad, have’nt heard them in years
yep I once had a really bad leak, cracked 6 in the RAD, next thing all I can smell was burnt scrambled egg
bestbooties:
Just one of the many breakdowns during my driving career.
Scania 111,just tipped Burayhda Saudi.On the Tapline homeward bound when she dropped a valve.
Not many English trucks down that way then,about 1980.(From the mid '70’s they were in convoys).
Good job I was travelling with my mate Cliff off Funstons.
Did I get her home? Of course.
The full story will be in my book!
…and the book BB is due out when?..?
David
+1 good one Ian - and whats the e.t.a. of your book- eagerly awaited cheers mate dave m
This was one of mine came through bulgy greek boarder late at nite heading 4 maria’s thinking i would ave the nite there & head off to ipsala the following morning but the truck had other ideas as i was passing through one of the villages & it came to a power lossing halt thinking its the diesel filter ive got cab over filter changed try to start but nothing as i blocking one side of the road a local farmer turns up & tries to help but nothing we do will start it so after a while we head to his farm his wife makes us food they offer me to stay the nite but i just want to get this motor started so i thank them but say no & go back & try again & she starts happy day not runnin well but started i let cab down & im off well i do about 100meters & she starts to die again but this time theres a bit of waste ground i mananged to get her on to but by this time ive given up i go to bed . i get up early start all over again. but noing its a diesel problem i spend all day bleedin it & seening it die again tryin to find the problem after anothe long day i go to bed then the next day im jackin the cab again & a greek tipper driver pulled up asked problem i say yes diesel proplem he says no problem then drives off so i sit there & sit there then about 5 hours later this little van pulls up its the tipper drivers fitter he cant speak any english but after half hour keeps pointin at the fuel pump im now thinkin choc dollar but he says come so i lock the truck & off we go in his van we arrive in this little yard he has 3 or 4 containers he opens the doors of one of them & it full of engines he shows me a brand naw FH one so after an easy talking money convo he tels me £200 fitted so happy day off we head back to my truck & that nite i was in maria’s but never made ipsala the next morning as i canceled the next day happy days lol
roders:
This was one of mine came through bulgy greek boarder late at nite heading 4 maria’s thinking i would ave the nite there & head off to ipsala the following morning but the truck had other ideas as i was passing through one of the villages & it came to a power lossing halt thinking its the diesel filter ive got cab over filter changed try to start but nothing as i blocking one side of the road a local farmer turns up & tries to help but nothing we do will start it so after a while we head to his farm his wife makes us food they offer me to stay the nite but i just want to get this motor started so i thank them but say no & go back & try again & she starts happy day not runnin well but started i let cab down & im off well i do about 100meters & she starts to die again but this time theres a bit of waste ground i mananged to get her on to but by this time ive given up i go to bed . i get up early start all over again. but noing its a diesel problem i spend all day bleedin it & seening it die again tryin to find the problem after anothe long day i go to bed then the next day im jackin the cab again & a greek tipper driver pulled up asked problem i say yes diesel proplem he says no problem then drives off so i sit there & sit there then about 5 hours later this little van pulls up its the tipper drivers fitter he cant speak any english but after half hour keeps pointin at the fuel pump im now thinkin choc dollar but he says come so i lock the truck & off we go in his van we arrive in this little yard he has 3 or 4 containers he opens the doors of one of them & it full of engines he shows me a brand naw FH one so after an easy talking money convo he tels me £200 fitted so happy day off we head back to my truck & that nite i was in maria’s but never made ipsala the next morning as i canceled the next day happy days lol
I like these little stories that end well,all down to “needs must”
David