ON THE ROAD REPAIR TIPS (VARIOUS)

[Powolotti]

fixed a split carb rubber with a condom, lasted 350 miles

just cut the top off, pull over the carb rubber, loose end through the rubber, again over the rubber. Problem, in my age you rarely have condoms in your pocket, LOL

[rog60]

Temporary repair to loose plug cap.

Grovel around at the side of the road for a bit of nylon type string, tie the string round the plug cap/lead and the clutch/gearchange cables.

Held my plug cap on from Southampton to Swindon on a Sunday........90 miles

[Diablo]

Gas soldering irons can save an AA trip or untold headaches if your abroad. I always carry spare gas as well( the small cans birds use for gas curling tongs).
Obviously useful for soldering wires on stators but very useful for plastic welding plastic float bowls on Vespas!
A plastic toggle as found on rucksacks etc shoved down the spark plug hole locks the motor to get the flywheel (or clutch on a Vespa) off if needed. Especially good for Vespas with PK or HP4 flywheels. Obviously have the toggle on cord so you can get it back out again.
You can buy wallet sized circuit testers off ebay for about a fiver. Saves hours at the roadside looking for electrical faults.

[cezeta]

1997 on our way back from Milan i had an engine mount disintegrate but i was lucky i had Cezeta with me or as he was back then mild mannered nick .
He got me to straighten up the engine and he packed twigs and sticks found at the side of the road around the engine bar then filled it in with gasket seal,
it got me home two's up

those mounts did about 800 mile like that, we used the same sealant to repair the cracked petrol tank building it up bit by bit.

cylicone was used again this year in france, a stainless pipe broke, we could only find a farmer with an arch welder so we used that but it leaked so kitchen sealant did the trick bound with gaffer tape.

my wheel barrow tyre kept getting punctures, its solid now full of expanding foam......im not sure thats a great idea but if needs must

[rakki]

I know it's in on wrong section but method can also applied to Lammys.

This is what we done to Vespa fourth gear when it had couple of teeth snapped. Gearbox lasted several hundred kilometers without any problems.

[coaster]

Rode home all the way from the Orkney Islands( after visiting Doofa, Coasters aforementioned friend) like that once.

That must have been a while ago if we are talking about the same guy (Brian?) I haven't seen (or heard) from him for a couple of years now, he comes and goes with the wind Seen to remember him being up in Shetland/Orkney in the mid 80's. A very entertaining chap, have to love him, I could write a book

[coaster]

Temporary repair to loose plug cap.

Grovel around at the side of the road for a bit of nylon type string, tie the string round the plug cap/lead and the clutch/gearchange cables.

Held my plug cap on from Southampton to Swindon on a Sunday........90 miles

I had that problem a few weeks ago onmy T5 coming back from Hemel Hemstead on the M1. The cap wouldn't stay on as the thread was worn on the plug and I didn't have a plug spanner with me After the 3rd stop on the hard shoulder to put it back on (hairy as it camme off at a point where a slip road was running parallel and I had to get across 2 lanes of traffic, Christ know what I'd have done without the mirrors (cheers Dazza).

Anyway, I ended up holding it on with a bungee cord........................you've just reminded me it's still on there, I must have done 200 miles or so since then

[dirtyhandslopez]

Rode home all the way from the Orkney Islands( after visiting Doofa, Coasters aforementioned friend) like that once.

That must have been a while ago if we are talking about the same guy (Brian?) I haven't seen (or heard) from him for a couple of years now, he comes and goes with the wind Seen to remember him being up in Shetland/Orkney in the mid 80's. A very entertaining chap, have to love him, I could write a book

Yep, same man. Used to be married to Gene from the Coasters. He's still riding with the Coasters. Look 'em up, they've got a website. When I got to the Orkneys, he still had a Lammy with him, a 205 Kegra jobbie called "if it feels good, do it". Helluva ride up there and back by my lonesome. Blew a drive side seal just before getting on the ferry for the way back. Twas a tad smokey

[GP Kevo]

Exhaust snapped in two near the end can, so I stopped at a hardware store and bought an automotive exhaust leak repair kit, the kind with tape you wet down to make sticky, a length of metal tape, and a wire to tie round it. It worked and still have it on until Monday when I meet with a local welder.

[mark]

i used a stainlees steel lockring on my rear hub but stupidly used a mild steel nut . doin a good 75mph down the motor way in holland when my rear hub came loose ,pulled into a lorrypark and all looked well until i took said lockring of. the nut was perfectley round where the lockring sat ,must have slowly over time been moving against the lock ring .to get me home we packed out one side of lock ring with an old fag packet found in lorry park.
that is prob my worst/best bodge to get me home
i never mix ss with mild now either