So if you drive a cavalier, and dont like to call a tow truck, then I guarantee you have done some road side repair. My self the biggest thing ive done has been couplers, Ive been lucky. however Im sure there are some great stroies out there.
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when i had bags my zip tie in the front wheel well broke and my tie rod rubbed a hole through the air line. thank god i was near a cvs. pulled in got some duct tape, taped the @!#$ out of the line and drop another mile down there road to get home while adding air to the bag about every 100 yards. my car never actually broke down on the side of the road before
Someone has to find Gus' video... a bunch of us were on the way from Vancouver down to Seattle for the Hot Import Nights show a few years ago.... our buddy Kyle Legere had a crappy Viper alarm on his car, and set off the alarm then tried to disarm it... something went wrong, and the Passlock forgot the R-code.. so he could not get the car to start. We worked on that car for hours before we figured this out, however.... and when we finally got the Passlock to relearn successfully, I leaped into Kyle's arms screaming something about being 'the J-body god'... ha ha...
Not really that much "work" but before we all had Passlock figured out, it was a hell of a learning experience.
i can picture that....
1997 Cavalier Z24
Bomz Short Ram Intake
Vibrant Cat-Back
KYB GR2 Struts
Goldline 1.75" Springs
RK Sport Upper Insert
RK Sport Lower Dogbone
Custom Tune by Shane @
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15.647 @ 88.02 MPH
It wasnt the side of the road, but i did the water pump in my old 96' LN2 cavy in the parking lot at college, a few hours before i had to make a 6 hour round trip from Williamsport, PA to NY. My eyes hardly left the temp gauge. I ended up making it without any problems.
Nothing here really, except having to beat the hell out of the gas tank with a mallet / fist / random object when the car would just shut off. but hell, it would crank right up and run for another month before it did it again. I swear it was like a routine.....I knew when it was going to happen. Drove it like that for like 2 and a half years lol, til I finally had to get a new fuel pump.
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new belt (ALWAYS KEEP A BRAND NEW SPARE IN THE GlOVE BOX, IT FITS WELL.), heater hoses, and one time an ignition coil/module/crank/cam sensor combo... THAT was fun with the car's stock scissor jack. easiest i think was the head gasket. only tools i didnt have were the torque wrench, and that showed up 15 minutes later as did the gasket and bolts.
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My altenator is the only thing I have had problems out of so far. Damn! That thing sucks to change in 100 degree weather. Thank god I had one of my army buddies there to turn wrenches with me. It took us like 40 min.'s to change.
98z24, lowered 2", aem intake, cat-back striaght pipes!, cop lighs in the front and rear lights, 18" liquid metal's, primer black, tint, full audio and video.
not mine but I rebuilt the rear brakes on this old ladies S-dime blazer on the side of the interstate in the damn rain, couldn't let her sit there with the O2 tank and grandkids.
Drivers side wiper arm came off the transmission in the middle of a rain storm with no where to pull off. had ot try to get under the cowl to snap it back on.
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I also had a college buddy do a ring and pinion in his dakota in a parking lot.
I did a rear end yolk in my chevy truck as well as several starter and cable repairs, starter (under the intake mani) on my buddies caddy, fuel pump on an acura, several belts, hoses, etc.
I also assisted in a head gasket, but I wasnt putting my name on that work....
Some of those have some good/funny stroies behind them.
Changed battery, alternator, and starter in a walmart parking lot down in southern ohio at around 8pm since the autozone kicked me out of their parking lot...even though I purchased everything from them.
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I forgot about my autozone alternator fun while up in NY. I kept having to take it back out because something was either slightly wrong, or when I finally got the right alt, it didnt work.
that was a FUN trip. That was when I bought my 280zx, the 280zx was a 79 and had NO problems. my wifes 93 broke several times.
go figure.
My family was cruising down a 4-lane highway on moving day with my Dad's 1990 Chev Lumina. I was following in the moving van, and I got to see quite the show. Just as they got on the brakes to slow down for an exit ramp, the (newly installed) right-rear brake rotor decided to shatter for no good reason. The shards drove themselves through the wheel and locked up the tire. The car became nearly uncontrollable as my brother struggled to stay on the ramp.The car veered to the right in a plume of tire smoke, and it ended up resting on the shoulder just off the highway.
Only moments prior, they had slowed down to get behind a semi-truck and into the exit lane. Talk about a near miss.
The shards of rotor had destroyed the rim, blown the tire, and shredded the brake lines on the right side. There were also gashes that penetrated wheel well into the trunk. The ghetto fix to get the rest of the way home (about 100 miles) was to throw the spare on that side, and using C-clamps to pinch off the rear brake lines. My dad kept the pile of broken trash in the trunk for months to show everybody what he thought of GM.
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I've done a lot of work along roadsides, and pulled over at gas stations or parking lots from a part failure. I've changed a number of hoses, couple of alternators, had to go buy and bend about 10' worth of brake line when the 86 Silverado we were using to pull the trailer full of ATVS lost its brakes going 70mph down the highway..., we didn't try to get it anywhere else after we finally got the @!#$ to stop.
I've also done so much parking lot work it isn't funny between working in parts stores for a few years, and living in an apartment for a couple. Parts store stuff I've changed 100 batteries atleast in every kind of weather possible. 100* down to below 20* F and blowing snow like crazy. I put an alternator and 2 new belts on a mid 80s 460 ford 3/4 ton, first time I had ever worked on a ford like that.
In my apartment parking lot, 2.2 water pump, on a Beretta with a 3.1 we did a heater core, alternator, belt tensioner, rod bearings, water pump, and replaced all of the engine mounts, changed a couple of axles. On a Beretta with a 3400 we did a LIMG job in the parking lot. Converted my 2.4 to 2.2 coils and plug wires, installed and removed the HO intake stuff. I get handy with the steel in @!#$ty situations, and thankfully we have a garage spot now to wrench in.
well not really roadside but on my 2.2 ohv i changed my tranny pan twice (bad driving after lowering in nyc), 2 coolant hoses ( bad engine mounts), water pump, and the alternator....all this either in a parking lot or in front of my house.
With my eco that i have now all i had to do was change the radiator coolant return hose, thin hose, it got a leak while i was waiting for my GF went right to pepboys and changed it in the lot. Also when i installed my components i put my crossover in a spot where it wasnt letting my door lock with my key less...when i finally noticed (which was about a week or two after i installed them) i pulled right over and fixed it on the spot, i had people looking at me like i was crazy. Had all my tools out and my door panel off parked next to a bus stop with a line of about 25 people....that was cool LOL
i had the dummy pulley break on my 2200..started sounding like i had a supercharger then the bearing fell out and the pulley kicked sidewas shredding the belt. not a easy thing to fix in a walgreens parking lot. good thing i had a friend in the area to run me parts lol.
