If you drive cars you will have a failure at some point. My 93 F150 5.8l threw a rod in the mountains of BC on a trip back to mooresville in the process of moving to Chicago. No cell service 10pm at night and no one around. Truck still ran, just lots of noise.
The hole in the block was big enough I could see the crank, grabbed my ratchet and took the cap off the rod through the hole in the block and knocked the rod into the pan. I walked to the truck stop about a mile and a half away, brake clean, 2 packs of jb weld, duct tape, and 6 quarts of oil.
I cleaned off the block.. made a patch with the duct tape, mixed up the jb weld and slapped it on. Put all 6 quarts of oil in it and was on the road at 2am. drove it almost 3 hours to mooresville.
She wouldn't do over 65 and it was a shaker, traded it in the next morning. I probably could have got a tow but it would have cost more than the truck was worth at that point. Seeing as it ran I just wanted to get home after driving from Chicago and being that close.
The guys at the dealership thought it ran pretty good...lol
