Always used to work on me. Course I was younger then.
Would probably still work but you just don't see them these days.
Edited by Optimist on 14/09/2008 at 14:42
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It might have worked once - for someone !
You'd need a real leggy bird for some of the serpentine belts though. The Transit drive belt is about nine feet in circumference.
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So what makes you guys think I might have specialist knowledge of womens undergarments ???? May have been more au fait a few years back, but can claim little current experience of mid journey removal or indeed the practical mechanical benefits resultant thereof.
;-)
Yes I did come back across the Channel last night. Posted on the tunnel thread and the Alfa thread re this. No major problems in terms of delays although I did have to use a ferry instead.
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This question brought a wave of nostalgia.
Did it for me too, but it was more about the girlfriend taking her tight off rather than fixing the car.
However
Years ago just before Ross on Whe on the M50 when the belt broke with a large bang as it belted the undertray of my Datsun 260 Est. Fixed it with my wifes tights just to drive the water pump and as it was Sunday so no service places open I drove cautiously home to Malvern. Regards Peter
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Wouldn't it just slip anyway?
Nylon is a low-friction material and I thought that the whole point of tights was that they slipped around the leg without chafing.
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My cousin tried that a few years ago when his fanbelt broke while holidaying in Scotland and he tried to make a temporary repair with his wife's tights. I forget what car he had at the time, but the tights disintegrated and got tangled in the timing belt with disasterous consequences.
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In fact a car driven at moderate speed with few interruptions on the open road doesn't need a fan and never did. What it may need though is the water pump. I am casting my mind back and trying to remember whether all cars with engine-driven fans had a water pump driven by the same belt. I think not all.
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The nylons trick did work - but, as always - there are rules.
The knot had to be really neat and the "belt" had to be made slightly small so that it was a seriously tight fit between crank and water pump only. [Although I once did manage to get an XJ6 alternator to charge surprisingly well on August Bank Holiday '76.]
Nearly everything back then had a fixed fan and it was quite possible, on in-line engines, for the windmill effect to drive the waterpump once the speed got up a bit. I recall once driving a York 6-pot diesel all day without a belt. On that one it seemed to work right down to about 20.
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