Had a brake chamber go bad one time in Georgia and had something to get home to. Pulled the hose off the chamber, found a piece of plastic broken off the trim on the floor around the seat base, whittled it down to just fit into the fitting on the chamber, screwed the hose back on, caged the spring, and home I went. They had to pull the air line off the truck to run something through it to get that little plastic disk out.
Driving for Schneider, office called, driver's broke down 15 miles from you, clutch problem, can you grab his trailer and go to Chicago. "I'll go see what we can do". Pulled into that empty lot at rte 6 and 13 and dropped my trailer, he got his ready to unhook, low gear cranked it up, swapped trucks, and I drove his back to the yard with no clutch. Actually hit every light on rte 3 (IN) green, only time in 2 1/2 years that happened.
I keep a piece of wire under the hood of my Cummins. I've used it to hotwire my headlights and truck. Burnt a fusible link, entire electical system dead, ran the wire from battery to fuel shutoff solenoid, crossed the terminals on the starter, and off I went.
I've run screws into tires to get by before. Put tire glue on the one and ran the truck another 2 weeks like that.
Had an idler pulley bearing go bad on a 3406E, got parked and ran jumper cables from the reefer to the truck batteries for the night, in the AM found an IH dealer and got a new pulley, changed it in the truck stop parking lot. And put the cables away.
Stopped for gas at the TA west of Columbus, OH, the year I made it to the MOPAR Nationals. Helped a couple guys on their way to the nats change a timing chain in the parking lot there.
Crimped off many a brake line growing up. Seemed like every other winter we had to put new brake lines on half the trucks on the place.
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