"nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul" (nfamouscj)
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"nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul" (nfamouscj)
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And figured Oppo surely has some amusing answers. (No, I just recently learned OT isn’t affiliated with OL)
So remember how I mentioned my *#&@!*(! Sway bar is on upside down? Yeah the endlinks jut out and just give the brake lines a little rub rub. So a few zip ties and a pipe strap keep them away. BUT I plan on flipping it soon enough.
facw
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:25 |
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I think the only thing I’ve used them for on my car is to reattach a dangling engine splash guard.
MonkeePuzzle
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:27 |
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bumper #driftstitches
Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:28 |
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Maybe I’m not a real Jaloppositenaut but, I’ve never had to do repairs on my cars with zipties. The day will come I’m sure.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:29 |
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Windshield wipers adapters.
Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:30 |
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I’ve zipped tied the heat shield on the Focus, as well as some plastic shims that keep a brake cable from rubbing on a metal bracket. Zip ties are crucial repair items.
vicali
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:30 |
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Mudflaps, light harness and most of my wiring mods.
Used them to hold the dizzy cap on my old 86 when the clips broke..
smobgirl
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:31 |
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I used them to hold the front plate on until I got a bracket that didn’t require holes in the bumper.
Urambo Tauro
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:35 |
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This isn’t really a fix, but...
The AC clutch hub collapsed against the pulley, resulting in an awful grinding noise. The AC doesn’t even work on my truck, so I
zip-tied
the hub away from the pulley in order to avoid buying a delete pulley or new AC parts. I don’t think I’ll be fixing the AC on this thing anyway.
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nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> Urambo Tauro
03/24/2018 at 22:37 |
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Im going to guess a ziptie is cheaper than a delete kit anyways. Well done.
Aremmes
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:41 |
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I’ve never used rat tails for car repairs beyond some basic wiring harness routing. I’ve used duct tape, though, specifically the sort that comes soaked in epoxy and intended for exhaust pipework. Which reminds me, I once used a coat hanger to hang a muffler.
My grandpa was well known in town for doing crazy car repairs. He once used cyanoacrylate as a radiator leak stop. He also once used roofing nails as brake caliper pins. The most egregious one was when he used a sauce pan to cover the blown-out back of his car’s muffler, drilling out holes to vent the gases out. None of these “repairs” worked, and in the case of the muffler “patch” made the car loud enough to be heard for miles. If not for his never driver faster than 25 mph he would’ve died much earlier than he did.
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> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:45 |
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Not by me but from the factory my Solstice had zip-ties to adjust the angle of the door lock cable. Also a lot of hand written marks on the inside of the panels.
I have since replaced that cable, since the rest of the plastic snapped...
XJDano
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:46 |
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Not my fix: Ferrari wing
My fix was probably headlight housing on the metro or something. Or some wires to keep up & out of the way on the Jeep.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 22:49 |
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On my buddy’s Town and county I made a few exhumation hangers out of zip ties because the exhaust was scraping the ground in the middle of the car.
WRXforScience
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 23:00 |
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I use two half inch wide zip ties to hold down my 2.2lb battery, they’ve securely held my batter for a year, 15 trackdays, and over 30 autox events.
Tekamul
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 23:16 |
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My engine splash guard is currently patched with a row of zip ties.
They use to suspend the chute cable on my snowblower, by I blew out the bottom end of that this year, so it’s gone.
MM54
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/24/2018 at 23:52 |
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When the shift linkage broke off the side of the transmission in my crown vic, a broken screwdriver and about a dozen zip ties replaced it well enough to get home. On the same car, most of the standoffs for the brake lines (which I have replaced) and fuel lines (nylon) have rotted out, so there is a mesh of zipties there as well keeping them in place.
I regularly loom spark plug wires with zip ties, and of course actual wire-management stuff.
wafflesnfalafel
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/25/2018 at 01:24 |
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busted throttle cable on a 1977 VW type 2 Kombi van
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/25/2018 at 06:45 |
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Fixed mom’s plastic splash guard on the front of her 2009 Accent sedan - she was driving to school one morning, got 3 mins down the road before she heard a horrible grinding/rubbing. I drove down to meet her, pulled some zip ties from my car, tied it up in 2 mins, and it’s been fine ever since!
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> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
03/25/2018 at 10:16 |
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The upper and lower cowl sheet metal to plastic trim in my ‘14 Forester engine bay is zip-tied. I was replacing a cloggedwasher nozzle and the hose fell down in the cowl. I had to pull a bunch of those one-way plastic fasteners and just zip tied it back together when I was done.