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[rocco16 at sbcglobal.net (Larry Fry)]

Well done, Honnold.
I've fixed my Yamaha with bits and pieces found along the highway before. 
Gives one a great sense of accomplishment, doesn't it.

Larry
sandiego16v

> On a trip back from Pt Reyes Ntl. Seashore to Sacramento years ago we
> snapped the clutch cable going into a sharp left hand downhill turn. 
> After
> a screeching halt I realized that the pinging clanking clunking sound from
> under the car in the curve was ALL of the lower half of the cable 
> attachment
> hardware.
>
> Now, it's 90 degrees and we are off on the side of a barely two lane 
> country
> road about 20 miles from the nearest phone/town/non-cow type animal and we
> are screwed.  So all the backpacking gear comes out of the hatch and we 
> dig
> like madmen through the emergency parts crate and toolbox.  Sure enough, I
> had left a rabbit clutch cable in the box.  In true MacGiver style we
> scoured the roadside for a piece of steel to make a clamp out of.  Found
> one.....perfect.......2 inches that might once have been a nail.
>
> We put the rabbit cable in with the adjuster backed out to the last thread
> and managed to bend that nail around the cable to hold the little ball 
> part
> onto the clutch lever.  It was ugly and the clutch was tight so off we 
> went.
>
>
> Got to the next town to tighten things up a bit and realized that the fix
> would have to do for the next 100+ miles so off we went.
>
> I drove with that rigged setup for nearly a month before finally putting 
> in
> the correct cable.
>
> To this day my non-mechanical backpacking buddy tells that story around 
> the
> campfire.
>
> Brian H
> Still in Folsom
> Still a 78 Ragtop shell in the driveway
>
>
>
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