This one springs too mind.......
A mate of mine, honest a mate not me, whilst building an autograss car used a steering rack off a car with rearward facing arms on a set of front
uprights with forward facing arms..........
Result.........
Turn wheel too left, car goes right........
any more ?
I've seen a similar thing done with reversed ailerons on a RC aeroplane - plane tilts left, so opposite stick - plane tilts more, so more
opposite stick - until plane meets earth...
DJ
quote:
Originally posted by Jon Ison
This one springs too mind.......
A mate of mine, honest a mate not me, whilst building an autograss car used a steering rack off a car with rearward facing arms on a set of front uprights with forward facing arms..........
Result.........
Turn wheel too left, car goes right........
any more ?
When they first build the mini did that not have 4 reverse gears and one forward gear.
Do not try this at home, or anywhere else for that matter.
I once swapped my feet on the pedals and drove. Then when I came to stop it went faster. Then I panicked and it went faster still. Almost crashed
into a privet hedge. It was only the last minute, pulling my feet off the pedals and putting them the right way round that saved me.
Fright of my life
quote:
Originally posted by VinceGledhill
Do not try this at home, or anywhere else for that matter.
I once swapped my feet on the pedals and drove. Then when I came to stop it went faster. Then I panicked and it went faster still. Almost crashed into a privet hedge. It was only the last minute, pulling my feet off the pedals and putting them the right way round that saved me.
Fright of my life
I still laugh about it today...
quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
Always remember when I was about 7 my Dad had a Ford Prefect. I asked my Dad what would happen if he switched off the ignition. "Nothing" he said whilst going down a short hill.... when we got almost to the bottom he switched on the ignition. Immediately there was an almighty bang and it blew the exhaust clean off!
quote:
Originally posted by Jon Ison
This one springs too mind.......
A mate of mine, honest a mate not me, whilst building an autograss car used a steering rack off a car with rearward facing arms on a set of front uprights with forward facing arms..........
Result.........
Turn wheel too left, car goes right........
any more ?
other freak-ups by/near me.......................
Losing a 20 tonne laden trailer off the back of a tractor at 30mph whilst "escorting" a combine harvester. Came within 2 feet of demolishing
a house with the runaway trailer, ripped 8 kerbstones clean out of the edge of the road, carved a huge groove into the earth banking and the drawbar
skewered 3m into a bank by the side of a house
Not me, but in a wagon with a chap I used to do jobs for, used to keep a brick in the cab for the accelerator (old rolls royce diesel powered 30 tonne
8 wheeler rigid). On the M1 and came up to stationary traffic, kicked the brick off the pedal and it blocked the jakebrake, kicked it off that and it
went straight under the main brake pedal (ended up with locked wheels, parkbrake and jakebrake on cruising down the hard shoulder!!!!! I never
went in a wagon with him again!
The brothers I used to work for at the local family farm, when I was about 12, were keen cricketers. We went to the pitch one year to roll it with the
farm's flat roll, but it was too soft to take the tractor on so we took the old (non mot'd for t least 10 years!) landy up there to pull the
roll. was told to crawl it forward, did that and the roll pulled the rear crossmember clean off and went nowhere!
[Edited on 15/9/05 by NS Dev]
quote:
Originally posted by dave1888
When they first build the mini did that not have 4 reverse gears and one forward gear.