Not yet. Am home 1 or 2 days a fortnight. Pilotin keeps me busy, but I will find her before I head west :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stropp
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Not yet. Am home 1 or 2 days a fortnight. Pilotin keeps me busy, but I will find her before I head west :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stropp
yes i suppose you are on the road quite a bit, how is the troll performing??
Thelma is wonderful, can't fault her performance. Just the usual minor hiccups... put a new pinion seal in the rear axle (had a bit of a leak), rewelded the strut on the rear tortion bar and added a brace, seems to have held this time. Fuel economy is about 9.5L:100km and my bunk is cosy even in the frosty mornings. Life on the road is awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stropp
I sat on the beach at Byron Bay waiting for the sun to rise thismorning. Bastard stayed behind the clouds didn't it! Came out about lunch time while I was on the beach at Cabarita. Stopped for a road side breakfast (bacon and eggs and cuppa) at one of the really nice new truck and caravan pull off points. They seem to have put alot of effort into the site and haven't been back to mow the grass... Portaloos were average. But you get that.
Hows life is the great out west?
Yeh all good over here, bit cool at the moment but that is good fora business, I just fitted a set of rock sliders yesterday and a dual wheel carrier during the week, empty pockets is what I should call my wagon, next is to get under her with a wire brush and give it a good rub and a coat of hammerite paint supposed to be good for 5 years of keeping the rust away.
Yep Yep, tell me more about this hammerite paint...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stropp
Yankee made, can paint straight onto the rust and supposedly guaranteed for 5 yrs, mine has unfortunately seen a lot of beach work and has the start of a lot of rust so I am going to wire brush it and paint it with this hammerite. Will get some before and after pics.
Sounds good, Thelma has seen a lot of coal dust. Cant wire brush in a lot of places that sh!t can get into, what would you recommend. Don't really want to seal the rust in either...
About the only thing you can do is wire brush and paint with rust converter or hammerite and then spray lanolin everywhere you can't get to, that's what I am going to do anyway, not much else you can do except take the body off and get the chassis sandblasted and painted but that would cost a fortune if you had to pay for that.
Yep. Been working my way around under her skirts with rust converter and mat black. I agree, she needs an oil rust suppressor to penetrate the impossible niches. She is working full time now and I don't have time for the sandblast job. Thanks for your help.
No problem, good luck,
Hi folks, just some more pics.
The dumpy (5.3 meters wide) with the pile of dirt - we were supposed to pick up two of these from a mine near Lightning Ridge. They saved us the trip. Someone in town needed 60 ton of dirt and rock so they loaded them up and just drove them into town. Gotta love the outback!
The last dumpy had to be broken down into 'naked body' and tray and the big wheels were removed so we could take it from Goondiwini to Ginko mine south of Broken Hill.
Love playing with the big toys. Thelma managed to get a classic leak in the radiator so I limped her home from the Emerald trip, arriving lunchtime tuesday. Ordered new radiator. Someone forgot to put it on the overnight truck... It arrived 5pm wednesday. I had the f&*ked one out and the new one in and was back on the road (showered and packed) by 8pm to pick up the 'naked body' in Gundy the next morning.
Now I have the 'LH head light blown' and today's project is to determine if its the globe or the loom... thanks to the forum "I have the knowledge".
looks like a whole heap of fun mate, nice truck too!!
T'was just a globe, good thing I have small hands... Now Thelma has misplaced her front parking lights. Me thinks sShe is starting to develop a sense of humour.
Sure is, and they are both nice trucks!! Will save the stories for Neerum Creek bedtime - after the kiddies are tucked in... trucky stories are way too colourful for little peoples ears.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudduck
I best not listen then!!!!!! Lol
Loving the pics, keep em coming
Now the other globe has gone... Does anyone know if it is normal for both to go in the same week, cause I got a feelin' my fuse box has issues. Parkers went too. Lifting Thelmas skirts today to see whats going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechlou
Same week is a bit unusual, but close together not that strange, but parkers too? Look closely.
That third pic looks like a 785 or 789 cat truck?
I shall have to pay more attention to what I am moving around. I just know it was naked (striped of its tray and wheels) to enable us to get it on the road, and it was freakin' huge. Scraped the power lines going through Broken Hill, had to be seriously careful cause to bring down the lines means a whole lot of paperwork... etc etc etcQuote:
Originally Posted by nissannewby
Yep, got the coke bottles out. The loom and the connections are the problem. The high beam wire had come away from the plug completely. Resoldered for now but when I get the new fuse box fixed I will consult with my auto electric guru about a new loom. Problem is - so many things were added to her when she was a mine supervisors wagon, then removed when sold, that she has a harness that was cut and pasted together and modified and unmodified. Me thinks a whole new loom will be the logical solution. Would have been a whole lot easier when I had the donk out... hinesight is a pain in the arss!Quote:
Originally Posted by mudduck
They get a lot bigger as well we had an undercarriage for a Hitachi EX3600 Excavator and just this part alone was 8 metres wide and 140 tonne. Needless to say the trailer had a small bow in itQuote:
Originally Posted by Mechlou
Nice trade you got There mate
yep yep. we have had to find room at the bottom of Isla Gorge for our 5 meter tank to pass a 9 meter tray. This pic shows two nine meter dumpys side by side. It was in a yard in Mackay where we delivered tyres for them. The tyres alone are 4 meters high.Quote:
Originally Posted by nissannewby
If any Trollers are interested in our travels we have a cough cough splutter, facebook page - Australia Somewhere.
FB actually shut our first page down, we think it was something to do with the business name 'Truckies Escorts'. Hey, I'm a pilot and I don't fly; I'm an escort and I don't mix business and pleasure (I just drink a f^&king lot of piss); and I move naked trucks around. They just shut it down without so much as a 'hows your mother' !!! And I had to answer 20 questions to prove I am me, then I was banned from fb for two weeks. Needless to say, I had so many protests from friends that they couldn't find the page after it was shut down that I had to start it again. So truckies escorts is up again but only as a link to Australia Somewhere. I'd be more than happy to shut the fb page down and move our digital diary to nissanpatrol.com.au if AB and the sponsors agree it is appropriate.
Edit note:
Facebook has completely shut me out. I received a message in a foreign language announcing I had breached the code with my 'VIP Escort Page'.
The faceless morons have shut me down so no more digital diary!!!
Not winning! The new radiator is a lemon and has to be replaced - under warranty fortunately...
Done. Getting good at this...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechlou
Camped on the Caloundra foreshore last week (pic shows the view from my bunk), awesome drifting off to the gentle rythm of the waves crashing on the rocks. Breakfast on the park bench, watching the sun rise. Picked up the compactor and took it out to Dalby and home that night.
Lifted Thelma's skirts, looken good and all clean for Neerum. Thelma is always packed so no work to do there. Just bought a bigger fridge for the lemonade though
Thelma is about to receive a 'catch can'. Thanks to Scotty and Tim for taking a look under her bonnet and confirming the source of the oil behind the intercooler. Doing my research on nissanpatrol.com.au and found lots of info so am thinking I should be able to do this myself.. but I will call a member or three and make a day of it... any takers???
Always happy to help - never actually done one though, so one of the 'members or three' should probably have some experience! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Mechlou
I'm in depending when, who else is up for it? Seriously - I'll stuff it it up!! lol
Im sure we could easily lend a hand. So when and where is the next workshop day :) and we can get this sorted. Nice to meet you to by the way by reading what you have written on here I really didnt know what I was in for, gotta love the dinner chat lol. Cheers
mate if you stuff that up well ,anyway itll take you 10minutes to hook upQuote:
Originally Posted by bigrig
top hose to rockercover bottom hose to pvc pipe just after the m.a.f
Thanks mate, can't give it all away online can we. I sure as hell had lots of fun before during and after dinner. And if you guys can cope, I'd welcome your help at the next workshop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigrig
Well I took the intercooler off and cleaned it with a 50/50 mix of diesel and petrol on a paint brush and blew it dry with the compressor. Inside is spic but the source of the oil appears to be coming from around the injectors so am doing more homework. Cleaned up the top of the block while it was exposed and will keep you posted with what I learn. Open to suggestions too...
Have ordered the ProVent 200 catch can and if we leave the job to the next workshop I shall invest in the valves and gauges and make the project worth our effort.
And Roofy, me thinks that object under the bonnet of your new rig that we couldn't identify at Neurum Creek - may be the catch can... what say you?
Thanks heaps guys.
Attachment 22183no that wasnt it the one with blue hoses isQuote:
Originally Posted by mechlou
So let me know when you do know what it is cause I am still curious. Thanks for the pic too, I can work with that. Cheers Roofy.
Taslucas, this is what the sticker looked like before the new windscreen went in.
Ok no worries, ill see what i can do:)
What object are you guys speaking of?
the one thats in front of the provent and next to the pressure bottle with 2 black lines coming out the topQuote:
Originally Posted by nissannewby
see pic above post 74
Its a vacuum tank. It holds the vacuum so you can apply the brakes many times and it is still easy. Its kinda like an accumulator but for vacuum.