Strangest Place you ever had to work on a car.

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I was reading another thread here (to remain nameless) and read a post and it gave me an idea.

Whats the strangest place you ever had to fix a car?

Here goes.
I was leaving high school sick oneday, I got to an intersection and started to cross. I heard a terrible noise and lost all power. I coasted accross the street and into a big parking lot. I got out and realized I had broken a u-joint and it would not require having the car towed. I called my father to bring the proper tools and we went to get the parts. Upon return I realized there was a funeral at that funeral home that night. Here I am working on the car in the middle of the lot. Awkward.
 
Drove 5 1/2 hours to pick up a car. Fuel lines on the car were leaking like a sieve. Drove it to autozone, 2 hours later fixed fuel lines, then the tranny lines started blowig fluid everywhere. 2 hours later fixed that. No sleep for 30 hours at that point, then drove the thing back home. There was more that was done to the car during the time me and my friend were fixing the lines, but can't remmember the rest... Oh ya it was also 15 degrees outside the whole time.
 
Had an alternator go out on a Chevy truck (first and last, it learned me a lesson) managed to coast into gas station. This would not be bad, but this was winter 2006 in ND.

I was wrenching on this thing in temps 30 below zero, and that does not even take into account the wind chill, with winds gusting to about 25mph, and snowing. Some would call it a blizzard, I call it normal. :) Sold the truck within the next couple days. and got my F150. Never been happier. :)
 
Probably about 5 or 6 years ago I was dating a girl, and she blew the motor in her 91 tbird by running it out of oil. I got a used low-mileage engine and trans, and swapped them in for her, but the driveway was full, so there I was pulling an engine and trans in the street in a residential neighborhood.

Also, one friend of mine had his truck die on the side of Rt. 9, which is like a 55mph highway. On the side of the highway he figured out that the TFI module in the distributor was probably no good, and then he remembered that he had another distributor in the toolbox on his truck, so rather than calling a tow truck, he just changed the distributor on the side of the highway and was back up and running in 30mins. When he got to the shop later, we checked the timing, and he was only off by 2 degrees!
 
I had a VW van and was traveling the Al-Can highway when we developed an oil leak. One of the pushrod tubes caught a rock and created a small hole. Pulled over to to the side of the road in the middle of no where in the Canadian Northwest Territories. It was summer and late in the evening about 10:00 p.m. and the sky was dusky. Got under the car and patched the hole. There was no hint of any other cars around for miles. While I was doing this I could hear the howling of the wolf packs in the area. Very strange and surreal.
 
25 or so years ago, I had a '71 Dodge 1/2 ton 4x4 pick up with a 340 from an AAR 'Cuda. I was camping on the beach with family and some friends. We would cruise the beach in my truck. Some how, the upper input shaft bearings on the steering box came apart. The truck would only make left turns. If I tried to turn right, the worm gear would unscrew itself out of the steering box. I got the truck back to our campsite, removed the steering box and went into town and found an old garage that was open. I rummaged through this guys junk stuff and found what I needed to make it work. In place of the bearings, I put enough large washers to take the place of the bearings and keep the gear from coming out of the box. I brought the box back to the truck, put it in and drove the truck home. The scary part was that there was 3/4 of a turn play in the wheel. The drive home was 65 miles; 50 of them on the highway.
 
I hepled repair an oil line on a 7 ton in the al anbar province in Iraq. We were on our way from fallujah to al asad. Should have been a 4 hour trip tops but took us 17.
 
I had to replace the drive axles in my 89 cutlas supreme in a busy mall parking lot. people were everywhere and i had a two pound hammer beating the ball joints out. everyone was looking at me like i was nuts.
 
04lincolnls said:
I had to replace the drive axles in my 89 cutlas supreme in a busy mall parking lot. people were everywhere and i had a two pound hammer beating the ball joints out. everyone was looking at me like i was nuts.
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Did you have your dog with you helping :D
 
Chadly said:
I hepled repair an oil line on a 7 ton in the al anbar province in Iraq. We were on our way from fallujah to al asad. Should have been a 4 hour trip tops but took us 17.
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Gotta love military hardware reliability. We had a 2 hour round trip to BIAP turn into a full day affair when a wheel fell of a HMMWV. Ball joint sheared right off the bottom A-arm.
 
Alligator Alley-
alternator seized, serpentine broke.
Trying to get an odd-ball sized belt in the middle of nowhere to bypass the compressor. in the meantime, brush fires were burning on both sides of the highway.

Eventually it turned into torrential downfalls and some bastard stole two of my wheels while I was doing a trip back to the autoparts store.
 
1988 olds cutlass supreme classic, I was headed to the credit union when I hear the exhaust scraping pull in to the credit union jacked up the car, went across the street to a construction site asked one of the guys if I could use his hack saw. Couldn't get jack to lower so it happened to be one of the girls that worked with me was there so she pulled the jack out while I lifted the car by the bumper
 
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