I hate that I even had to do this

[kiwigtx]

Desperate folks do this stuff! I've used the old "Muffler Bandage" on a burned out header on a drive back from Lake Winnebago. Wet it, wrap it, idle it till dry. Worked great.
Got extra years out of a rusty resonator and muffler by wrapping them with aluminum and a few pop rivets.

All the MacGyver's list............
http://macgyver.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver

Classic stuff....I remember this one well;

• MacGyver attaches the torso and helmet of a suit of armour onto the top of a food trolley, and then attaches a makeshift motor with a battery pack, some rubber bands and an electric whisk. The whisk spins the rubber bands and they turn the wheel of the trolley. MacGyver sets the trolley off past a row of hedges to distract an automatic gun that follows movement.

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[Mr. Belvedere II]

Well.... My exhaust pipe came completely apart on the commute home. Driving with one wide open header for around 30 min. I dont know if any of you have driven with open headers before, but it's loud... Like, feel the compression in your body, loud. It's how I image a ww2 single engine fighter would sound taxiing on the runway. Accelerating off idle is the loudest. Cruising is still very loud but somehow more tolerable and less "compressiony". The cans and aluminum tape didn't really work for more than around an hour, I put more cans and tape for the morning ride but it didn't last either. It would probably have lasted a little longer if my problem wasn't as severe as it was. I would have used a soup can if the hole was on a straight instead of a bend. Aluminum cans these days are very very thin and don't really provide any strength if there is any movement or shaking. Trade off is that they are simple to cut up and easy to get your hands on in a "pinch". The hose clamps seemed to loosen easily as well. In fact, one completely undid itself and rolled off in my driveway just as I pulled in. It's a decent quicky desperado repair and can work in the "pinch" for sure and for smaller exhaust leaks. The pressures and temps the exhaust is putting out just below the collector (where my problem was) calls for way more than what I was able to help...cost of repairs at Midas, 140$. The obvious simplicity of the junk piece being cut out, a new piece measured to fit, bent, and then welded together the right way, only frustrated me more as I watched it being done, and strengthened my resolve to learn to weld and fix those kinds of things myself.

 

[BeeKool]

Good as new!

 

[mmissile]

Campbells soup cans and clamps[2 split cans, over-lapped]. Did it all thru my less prosperous days as a youth. Went thousands of miles.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Early band clamps. Soup cans and wire. Now we pay big time for a sheet of stainless and clamps.

 

[PlainfieldCharger]

Soup cans would have been better than the aluminum, Steel melting point is almost twice as much and the aluminum can is very thin.... patched many exhaust with cans back in the 80's....