I love these stories!  Years ago I was with friends in a fibreglass body vw
dunebuggy tearing around Saddleback "mountain" in Southern California.  The
clutch cable snapped so we poked a hole in the body behind the driver's
seat, threaded the frayed cable through the hole, wrapped it around a stout
stick and one guy pulled the cable (not an easy thing to do) when the
driver needed to shift.  Another time, in a '70 VW bus my dad had converted
into a class B motorhome (whole 'nother story) the accelerator cable broke
somewhere around Denali in Alaska.  We patched it with baling wire and duct
tape and drove another couple of thousand miles.

Jonathan

bluehighwayvanagon.blogspot.com

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> ---- ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > Someone mentioned during the "fell out" thread about wanting to hear
> about
> > improbable fixes- so here goes.
> > I once had a fuel filter split on the way home during rush hour.  I used
> > the barrel from my clickable federal pen, shaved down the ends  to fit
> the
> > line, tied up tight to the line with the pen spring at both ends.
> > ed-91 DoKa- the VanPool motto was, "Many are cold, but few are frozen"
>
> Pretty ingenious.  Many a broken belt has been temporarily replaced by a
> personal clothing accessory, such as a belt or a tie.  My sister-in-law
> once used her head scarf.
>
> --
> David McNeely
>