What is the most disrepaired state you have had to drive your Diesel in?
 

All of us have had that experience, you know. The weekend brake job or master cylinder change out or radio install that just doesnt get done Sunday night by 8 PM and you have to jury rig the car to make it be able to get you to work Monday at 5 am through rush hour traffic the next day..


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I think things really hit rock bottom once when I decided to rip out every piece of rust in my car and weld in new panels. Boy little chunks of rust in the floorboards turned out to be the size of Manhattan land plots.

The worst thing was, I had to drive the car because the engine and transmission both came from a donor car with 112K on it and the car was mechanically stout. Driving car on the Interstate at 60 mph with the highway beckoning right up at you is kind of a Transmeditative experience. I guess that why they don't put windows on the floorboards...

No, but I once rode in my cousin's car which was missing a good bit of the floor. I thin it was a 1950's vintage Chevy. That IS rather unsettling to see the ground going by that fast under your feet!

Wow, and I thought driving my '84 SD 110 miles with a totally dead battery was something. No speedo, no lights, no power windows, etc.

I'd have to say driving it home after hitting the white oak last winter (not this winter but the year before)

Second favorite driving-disassembled moment, driving it with half the dash pulled out while we changed a/c vacuum pods.

mine was getting it home when the clutch master decided to take a shiz. that was alot of double clutching and "opps" grinding.... i rather not talk about it:D

Michigan.

I've drive home with a broken alternator on a couple of occasions, once for about 1000 miles.

Big fuel leaks mostly. Couple times I got 13 mpg :)

Gee, where do I start? :o

Well before I changed the engine in Jurgen ('82 300sd) we must have driven several thousand miles with a faulty vacuum pump that required me to pop the hood to shut'er down. The wife found this embarassing??:confused:

Shortly after the engine install I discovered a torn boot on the RH axle, so with a piece of thick flexible plastic from one of the kids' popped lake toys, some hay-wire, and most of a roll of duct tape I've got over 5000 mile on it and it's still going. er, would still go if the rad didn't have the fan embedded in it. Oh that reminds me... The night the fan shaft broke and toasted the rad, I tried to repair it with that auto-goop stuff to no avail, so I had to get the car to a safe place (3am with wife and 6 yr-old) so that they could sleep in the car and I hich-hiked (walked 12 miles out of 40) home for the truck. Anyways, with not a stitch of coolant I needed to go about 5 miles. I would get about 3/4 of a mile and the temp would hit 100deg. and I'd shut down for 20-30 min then do it again, there was a hill that got me two miles alone. :D

I’ve driven home 10 miles with a frozen alternator on my 300d using a shoe string to turn the water pump after I cut off the belts :eek:.


I learned this trick in desperation when I threw a water pump/alternator belt on Volkswagen in the middle of nowhere during my cross country move in the 1990’s.

I just happened to have shoe laces in my glove compartment at time. It is now a must for my emergency kit.:D

Wow, that is truly badass.


The worst ive ever driven, I drove my 84 300d the day after it got t boned at 45mph. We bungie corded the doors shut and drove around the block for one final time. Amazing car, still drove straight

I had the driver door panel and door handle off.

The worst drive was the morning the 300 was vandalized to my body shop. I had to drive it 2 miles across downtown Rochester covered in epoxy, ground beef, and every 4 letter word and sexual innuendo ever conceived written across every panel.

I just remembered, I once drove home from KS with a failed flex line on one of my rear brakes. I did a panic stop on I-70 in KS and one of the lines blew (no rear brakes), so I stopped a little sideways. The front brakes were good, so I (carefully) drove the 6-700 miles home.

Actually you had one rear brake working. The brake system is set up in an "X" so if this happens you still have one front and one rear brakes working.

Thanks!