Various useful tips for roadside automotive emergencies:
Borrow juice from another battery if yours is run down. If you cannot scrounge enough wire , use the best you can and wait until the generator boosts the weak battery. Run the engine of the “donor ” car to keep up its battery.
A temporary fan belt can be made from rope. Cut it a bit longer than recquired loop. unravel the strands at each end, splice the interbaraided the strands and wrap . Splice securely with tape.
If you run out of gas you will save the battery by priming system instead of waiting until the system draws gas from the replenished fuel tank.
If a headlamp goes out it can be corrosion on the contacts could be all that is wrong. Remove the lamp and clean the contacts with a wire brush as well as vinegar if the contacts are good old fashioned copper metal.
You can reduce wrench size. An open end wrench that is too big for the nut you have to turn can be used by placing a flat piece of metal between one jaw and its nut.
Lastly a fuel line that is leaking can often by plugged temporarily by softening a piece of soap and forcing it onto the spit.
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