What was your best DIY road side repair?
Here is mine. While traveling at night my alternator belt blew. I was able to get off the highway and into a parking lot. I don't have a toad and there was nothing around me that I could walk to....
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While driving the MH my lights would flash and the gauges would all spike, then it would go back to normal. Also engine power would cut out when it happened. Just as I was taking an exit ramp off one highway onto another it happened again but this time it was a total blackout and nothing came back on. It was nighttime, I had now power, no motor and no lights. Oh and I was going up hill.
Somehow and I don't know how, we made it to the top of the hill, took an exit, coasted down the off ramp, into a traffic circle that had not a single car in it, through to the other side and safely into a parking lot. If you could see where this happened you would never believe we made it to where we did.
When I opened the motor access panel in the front of the RV I found the problem....rather quickly. My battery box had decided it no longer wanted to go on vacations with us so it left us. The battery was just swinging by the cables. When the positive touched any metal it arced out and that was what was causing our problems. So with the limited tools I had with me and some ratchet straps I made a new battery box and secured it to the frame.
the positive cable end had melted off so I had no good way to connect the battery to it. Thank God for Visegrips!! I used a pair like they were terminal connectors. Started the RV up and made it to our destination. Then 2 days later I drove it home the same way. I fixed it the right way later that week.
Somehow and I don't know how, we made it to the top of the hill, took an exit, coasted down the off ramp, into a traffic circle that had not a single car in it, through to the other side and safely into a parking lot. If you could see where this happened you would never believe we made it to where we did.
When I opened the motor access panel in the front of the RV I found the problem....rather quickly. My battery box had decided it no longer wanted to go on vacations with us so it left us. The battery was just swinging by the cables. When the positive touched any metal it arced out and that was what was causing our problems. So with the limited tools I had with me and some ratchet straps I made a new battery box and secured it to the frame.
the positive cable end had melted off so I had no good way to connect the battery to it. Thank God for Visegrips!! I used a pair like they were terminal connectors. Started the RV up and made it to our destination. Then 2 days later I drove it home the same way. I fixed it the right way later that week.
