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I've got..
Stock jack, lug wrench, spare.
couple of pairs of vicegrips,
large and small adjustable wrench.
Large flat screwdriver.
Duct tape
couple of wire coathangers
spare serpentine belt.
spare fluids.
small tire air compressor.
jumper cables.
Spare plug wire.
Sometimes have whatever size wrench I think might be needed for anything I just adjusted or keeps coming loose. (10mm in Marvin for the wipers)
Don't think there's actually many occasions where I actually would have been able to do anything on the side of the road for things failing, no matter what tools I had... have CAA (AAA for Canadians) and have been towed for, siezed water pump (Timing belt driven), blown core plug, diff explosion with holed transmission, brake line failure (large and right off the master cylinder), ignition cylinder seizing, head gasket letting go, fuel pump failure...
All I can remember fixing on the road is...
changing tires.
tightening marvins wipers,
loosening off the parking brake cable one time after I'd freed up the adjusters on the back brakes, somehow it was fine when I checked it but tightened right up on a test drive, and dragged the brakes.
wiring a muffler back up.
Oh yeah, hammered a few starters.
Hmmm maybe I [i]could[/i} have got round the ignition cylinder failure in an hour or so with a steering wheel puller, a file, a couple of wrenches and screwdrivers and a jumper wire.... I guess I could have fixed the core plug if I had had an expanding rubber stopper, and 2 gallons of coolant (it shot the lot)
There was probably a McGyver method round any of those if I'd have been 200 miles from civilisation, but I wasn't.
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I remember The RoadWarrior..To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time..the world was powered by the black fuel & the desert sprouted great cities..Gone now, swept away..two mighty warrior tribes went to war & touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing..thundering machines sputtered & stopped..Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice
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