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Message started by Dave on 09/16/13 at 05:00:11

Title: Dead Alternator.....I can fix it!
Post by Dave on 09/16/13 at 05:00:11

A friend of mine just bought a used motorcycle in North Carolina and got a ride down onthe back of a friends motorcycle to pick it up. On the way home the alternator died......and there was no way to fix it on the road.

His clever solution was to buy a car battery and attach it to his luggage rack, buy some cheap jumper cables and wire the new battery to the electrical leads on the wiring harness, unplug the headlight......and ride home across 4 states! His wife was waiting at home with his trailer hooked up, but he made it home fine.

I thought is was a clever solution and am posting it here....just in case you ever get into a situation like this it might help.

Title: Re: Dead Alternator.....I can fix it!
Post by engineer on 09/16/13 at 08:06:43

Cool. I like to hear about clever and creative fixes.

Title: Re: Dead Alternator.....I can fix it!
Post by Serowbot on 09/16/13 at 10:21:27

Somebody just told me this the other day... but he was riding with a buddy cross country and his stator died...
So they both disconnected their headlights,... and they just swapped batteries every 100 miles or so...
One charged while the other drained...

Another buddy tells the story of when he and his Pop were coming back from a fishing trip, towing a boat, and the car's fuel pump quit...
Pop took the gas can out of the boat and put it in the passenger seat, then ran a squeezeball type siphon pump tube to the carb,... and drove the rest of the way home squeezing that ball every couple of seconds to refill the floatbowl...
:-?...

Title: Re: Dead Alternator.....I can fix it!
Post by gizzo on 09/16/13 at 20:14:20

A friend had an old 45 series landcruiser. The fuel pump died so he strapped a jerrycan to the bonnet, ran a siphon hose to the carb fuel inlet and let gravity do it's thing for 4 years (!)

When I was doing my LPG installation course, the lecturer told the class about some linesmen who were working out in the bush 100's of miles from anywhere. The fuel pump in their vehicle died so they ran a hose from a gas cylinder sitting on the front seat, into the inlet manifold and adjusted the mixture with the valve on the cylinder. Got them back.

Title: Re: Dead Alternator.....I can fix it!
Post by arteacher on 09/17/13 at 04:21:57

Some native kids made up an old jalopy. They didn't have a radiator for it, so they strapped a 40 gal barrel on the back and pumped the water through the engine onto the ground. They would get low on water and fill up the barrel with lake water, and off they'd go.