Unorthodox methods?

[Kendog 170]

I was thinking of my Dad the other day. Rip. He was a mechanic throughout the fifties and sixties before teaching mechanics in a High School in the seventies.
He never taught anything unorthodox as teacher but at home I always remembering him boiling Carburetors in a pot of water for hours before rebuilding them. He said it won't hurt any o-rings and cleans out the passages good. Not sure if this was the norm back then.
It kind of gave me an idea of other people's unorthodox methods.
Watcha got?

 

[Kendog 170]

No Bites?
Example I use a BMX gooseneck with longer bolts to clamp on my torsion bar for removal.

 

[Swingn’71]

Depending on the goose neck it may be worth WAY more money than the actual torsion bar tool..!! Great idea none the less…..Swingn’

 

[HankRearden]

Mt kid says I don't do anything the "normal way" but I'm so used to it nothing sticks out as unorthodox to me.

The one that freaked him out the most was when I told him I used pieces of my erector set to make kickdown linkage for my super six swap as a teenager.

 

[HankRearden]

When I worked in an exhaust shop pipe was free. I built more seel/bearing drivers than I could shake a stick at.
Inner tie rod sockets and 4wd wheel bearing sockets as well.

I built an engine support to hold up the engine in front drive cars so I could remove trannies and cross members. I built a prybar from a Ford ranger tie rod that turned to be a phenomenal pry bar.

Of all of it all I have left is an outer tie rod socket made of exhaust pipe,a socket and a metric ton of mig wire.

I always took pride in what I could build versus what I bought.

We once rebuilt every aspect of a 73 Ford Ford pickup with no 73 Ford parts. Just whatever was laying in the shop.

 

[RAT ROD AL]

I can remember my dad using us kids swing set to pull the engine in the family station wagon !

 

[gunbunny]

I can remember my dad using us kids swing set to pull the engine in the family station wagon !

My grandpa had a block and tackle up in the limb of a massive oak tree.
It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized that probably wasn't the best idea.

 

[Kendog 170]

Must have been like my swing set as a kid. My dad made it with black iron pipe.

 

[barbee6043]

My grandpa had a block and tackle up in the limb of a massive oak tree.
It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized that probably wasn't the best idea.

Why not!!???????

 

[Icetech]

No Bites?
Example I use a BMX gooseneck with longer bolts to clamp on my torsion bar for removal.

Damn that's a good trick... i hope it's a nice Hutch gooseneck

 

[Kendog 170]

HaroComp

 

[gunbunny]

Why not!!???????

Seen to many limbs break.

 

[barbee6043]

I stepped up and hooked my 1000 lb engine hoist to my rafter, two 2 x 6 nailed together! for many decades!!!

 

[Kendog 170]

How about this?

 

[like_A_pike]

I reinforced this oak limb with a doubled up tow strap back to the trunk. Like the previous post, I think it just a matter of researching tensile strength vs force and doing a little math...right? I actually had to stand on the 340 and crank my come-along up into the tree BTW. wife made me get an engine hoist/crane...But the madness continues...