Looked more like Vice Grips.
I used to drive a 66 Dodge van when I was a teenager, and it was so rusted the gas pedal broke through the floor when I stepped on it. Being the stupid 17 year old I was, I clamped a pair of vise grips on the post to keep the base from going through the floor...:)
LOL, my dad sure didn’t know, because I am sure he would have said: “What are you going to do if the pedal breaks through and gets stuck in full open throttle?”
From the story, it sounded like he was using an ordinary wrench which would have been unsafe. From the picture, he’s using a vicegrip, which is the standard instrument for this task.
Appears to be perfectly safe.
Is there anything a good set of vice grips can't do?
Hehe, I once drove an MG Midget that had no seats in it, and I sat on a milk crate...I was restoring it, and had stripped it out of everything inside except the dashboard, and drove it to and from the place that was doing the painting for me!
They gots rednecks in China!.......who Knew??!?!?!?....................
I saw a tractor pull in Chapel Hill, Tennessee where the steering wheel came off the tractor almost as soon as the guy took off from the starting line. Poor fellow had to stop pulling at that moment for obvious safety reason. He was one of the top contenders too.
I’ve spent time in China and have spoken to Chinese cabbies. I understand their need to economize...
Nearly all are decent guys, just wanting to make a living. I once accidentally left my camera in a Chinese cab in Shanghai, and remembering where he dropped the foreigner, the guy brought it back to me the next day.
They usually operate in tandem, because the rental fees on the taxi and licenses mean it needs to be driven 24 hours a day to make it pay. So often they drive 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. I swear some guys live in their taxis (it smells like it too....) They have to wait at airports and train stations for up to 4 hours to get a fare. Then they have to deal with corrupt traffic cops....
The King of Tools baby. Never go anywhere without one. I even have the needle nose Vise Grip.
A lot of Chinese have been winning my “Honorary Redneck Award” lately....
The “Honorary Redneck Award” is two steps below a “Darwin Award” in that you are still alive and uninjured...
If your injured seriously but not killed you’re Honorary Redneck get a “Hold My Beer” cluster
Definite approved fix using vice grips..is there nothing this tool can’t do?
This tool was used by the Robbie Gordon teammate who finished the race with a pair of vise grips in the Dakar race this year. lol
It has been done before.
Not bad. I had something similar, actually a lot worse happen a couple of years ago in my ‘98 Durango. It needed a front end alignment and not having a lot of time I took it to a chain shop a few blocks away.
Before they told me they couldn’t do it somebody put it on the rack and started undoing things including a bolt in a shaft that connects the steering column to the steering box under the hood.
Then they called me and said they wanted to do more work and couldn’t continue unless I gave to OK. Since I had just done the work they claimed needed to be done I said forget it and picked it up.
That night I drove to work and left at 5 the next morning. It was a miserable, cold rain/sleet/snow Pittsburgh January day. Pulling out of the work lot and onto an industrial park road I heard a “PING”, the steering wheel started spinning freely and the truck started weaving.
I “steered” as best I could with the throttle and brake to get to the side of the road. When I opened the door I heard another noise, the bolt I mentioned hadn’t been tightened properly, had come loose and now I kicked it out the door into the slush and in the dark.
I walked back to work, went to my locker and found a steel fork I had on hand for when I took lunch. Snapped the head off, stuck it through where the bolt had been, bent it and made it home.
Should have sued the garage chain but I was just glad to make it home and out a proper bolt in before mrs p6 needed the truck.
Later I had a trusted ship check everything to make sure it was all OK.