I was reflecting on all the times i have been stranded on a Sunday,late at night or out in the middle of nowhere, with either no tools,not the right tools,etc... and managed to get myself out of a major bind. The goal each time was to get the car back up and running,just enough to get me somewhere where i could do the proper repair,back home or manage to permanently fix it,etc..... Here's an example of being stuck and my makeshift mechanic work saved the day Got a call from my cousin that his car was broke down (although he could have paid for a mechanic to look at it, he was cheap, i mean early 20's at the time )Now he was 5 hours away in good weather, this was a bad blizzard of a night and about -40 C outside,snow being dumped big time on the ground. So me and the wife and a friend decide to go on a road trip at about 10pm in my at the time 83' Dodge Aries K car Started driving and got out of our city limits, by this time it was like 12:30 am then the car broke down on the highway, just died out.Well we had the tools and did a few quick checks and decided it was ignition related.Turns out the metal "bump" underneath where the sparkplug wire for the coil to cap goes on the distributor cap was totally gone! Where the heck are we gonna find a cap at this time of night!To make a long story longer,i found a bolt in the car that i shoved through the hole and was able to plug the wire on it and voila,the car fired up! Lucky as we would have been temporarily screwed and not good in that type of weather.So in the end we keep on driving up, defrost his cars engine (it was so cold it froze)and installed a block heater for it.I picked up a new distributor cap in the morning when we arrived and never installed it for the rest of the life i owned the car.The bolt held up and i figured it would never burn out.I have quite a few more but lets see what you all have. We'll now any of you have any (and i know you do)stranded/stuck stories that we can read that may just help one of us here if we were ever in that same situation?
David
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)Now he was 5 hours away in good weather, this was a bad blizzard of a night and about -40 C outside,snow being dumped big time on the ground. So me and the wife and a friend decide to go on a road trip at about 10pm in my at the time 83' Dodge Aries K car 
