VRROOOOOOOM - CLUUNK - TINKLE-TINKLE-TINKLE-TINKLE-TINKLE . . "Ah Crap"

Roadkill · February 21, 2008, 03:11:43 AM

Yup, that was the sound of the Eldo's rear exhaust hanger snapping and the tailpipe dropping onto the road at 65mph along the A421 last night.

As If I needed another job last night - what with all the sorting out to do before the LAN.

Anyway. I was (typically) overtaking a artic-lorry at the time which prevented me from pulling into one of the turn-ins to bletchley.

So I put my foot down, hoping what was hanging off wouldn't fall off into the path of the tw@t tail-gating me at this point . . . .

I get past the lorry (he starts flashing me - yeah, thanks, mate, I had noticed) then pulls into a bus-stop a couple hundred yards up the road.

Get out inspect damage - as I thought. The last three plus feet are hanging off . . . . And I have no tools in the car.

But. I do have some speaker cable I picked up for Shify.

Nothing to cut it with though.

Oh, well, I tied up the exhaust to the bumper and trapped the excess in the trunk lid.

It got me home.

I later added an additional piece of twin-and-earth to further support it around the rear bumper mount and tidied up the speaker cable.

It behaved fine this morning but it sounds like a F*cking tank !

Must get it sorted ASAP before the entire section breaks clean off ! - It's riddled with 10 pence sized holes !

I took pictures - but can't get them off of my camera at the mo . . . .

55starchief · February 21, 2008, 03:34:38 AM

Have the welder at mine mate and i can pick up a section of mild steel tube if you want to make something. Also have that rear box at the barn we could use

Motorama · February 21, 2008, 04:01:33 AM

scaffold tube for teh win!

Big Mouse · February 21, 2008, 04:04:01 AM

you really would fit right at home in the deep south

Roadkill · February 21, 2008, 04:30:44 AM

Quoting: 55starchief

Have the welder at mine mate and i can pick up a section of mild steel tube if you want to make something. Also have that rear box at the barn we could use

I don't seriously think there's enough good metal there to weld to.

Seriously. You'll see by the pics when I get them up - it's grim under there.

Quoting: Motorama

scaffold tube for teh win!

I've used industrial handrail tube before. (That's basically the same stuff)

Quoting: Big Mouse

you really would fit right at home in the deep south

Yup, Just getting by.

art b · February 21, 2008, 06:14:35 AM

nowt wrong with emergancy repairs,

so much better than the nobs that are stuck at the side of the road for hours because they cant change a wheell,or tie up an exhaust box....

F Body · February 21, 2008, 07:36:20 AM

Quoting: Big Mouse

you really would fit right at home in the deep south

I real redneck would have used part of the bus shelter to make a permanent repair

art b · February 21, 2008, 09:01:10 AM

Motorama · February 21, 2008, 12:09:00 PM

Quoting: Big Mouse

you really would fit right at home in the deep south

What, Linslade?

Roadkill · February 21, 2008, 01:00:55 PM

Quoting: Motorama

Linslade?

Roadkill · February 22, 2008, 11:07:31 AM

Awwwwww, yeah. It sounds soooo good with it's new tank-like warble.

There's no back-pressure, though.

Roadkill · February 25, 2008, 03:12:50 PM

Pictures, better late then never, as promised.

The cable has been tidied since.

F Body · February 25, 2008, 03:30:43 PM

Swiss cheese indeed, makes you wonder how it passed an MOT

art b · February 25, 2008, 03:49:33 PM

get some bandage around it ........

Incursus · February 25, 2008, 03:52:50 PM

Quoting: art b

get some ~~bandage~~ bean cans and fibreglass around it ........

Roadkill · February 25, 2008, 04:11:26 PM

Quoting: art b

get some bandage around it ........

The thought had crossed my mind . . .

Roadkill · April 08, 2008, 07:01:35 AM

JEEZE !

Well, over a month and a half driving it about with speaker cable holding it in place and I spent an hour or so making and fitting a new mount.

It's Stainless steel, baby !

EDIT - Still gotta patch those holes, though.

ianjpage · April 08, 2008, 07:05:45 AM

looks so shiny and wrong against the rest of the exhaust lol!!

i guess u not working today then!!

Roadkill · April 08, 2008, 07:23:21 AM

Quoting: ianjpage

i guess u not working today then!!

No.

It's odd. I feel absolutely sh!t up until about 2-3pm when I feel almost O.K . . . then by about 8pm I start to feel crap again.

I get about 5-6 hours a day feeling O.K, in other words.

ianjpage · April 08, 2008, 07:38:52 AM

hmm not great then .... lets hope it improves soon

Cunning Plan · April 08, 2008, 09:33:27 AM

Quoting: Roadkill

driving it about with speaker cable holding it in place

How didnt the cable melt?

Roadkill · April 08, 2008, 11:03:18 AM

Quoting: Cunning Plan

How didnt the cable melt?

It's obviously not THAT hot right at the end of the pipe . . . .

Originally I was checking it before each journey to make sure it wasn't melting but in the end didn't bother as it was holding up fine.

Jo · April 08, 2008, 03:20:24 PM

oooh shiny, that should def hold it

Roadkill · May 12, 2008, 05:11:51 PM

THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR ONE MORE BODGE, BABY !!!

After rattling around on its new S/S hanger the exhaust sheared in two about a week ago . . . holding together by merely a thread of wire from a previous bodge.

Today, it finally snapped and separated entirely - hours before the new buyer was due to pick it up !

No matter. No man can bodge exhausts quite like me !

So. After giving her a quick clean before her new owner arrives out came the Jubilee clips, bean tin, grinder (to trim 2" off the pipe) and exhaust putty.

The result - A perfect, leak free fix.

Roadkill · May 12, 2008, 05:13:34 PM

I'd like to add at this point that the new owner DID know that the exhaust was $hit.

This was kind of a good will gesture.