16th September 2025, 05:03 PM
After 18 months and lots of battles with workcover I finally had my back operation today, now recovering with some great happy drugs.
14th September 2025, 10:35 PM
The old girl has taken us to every state in this country in the 11 years of ownership. Next will be to try and get to every capital city. Not to bad for a 28 year old petrol donk..
As she sits...
13th September 2025, 06:54 PM
Took some time out to recce the entrance to the dunes and the camp grounds. There is no water flooding the dune entrance and the camping grounds are firm and dry. We are running out of time to...
13th September 2025, 09:52 AM
Overnight stop in Esperence.
Wow the coastline lucky enough to see some dolphins...
12th September 2025, 10:53 AM
Handed the keys over to the Mrs for the last leg of the Nullarbor into Norseman. Not much to see so I worked on getting the fridge lighter...
11th September 2025, 11:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t3hh9RZL5a0
10th September 2025, 10:15 PM
Well that didn't last long.
570ks today and lost the dash once for about 10ks very late in the day. Convinced that it's got nothing to do with the cruise.
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10th September 2025, 07:50 PM
500-600ks a day.
Just got over the wa border into mundrabilla Roadhouse. Norseman tomorrow about 650ks.
Tell ya tho everyone has to do this drive.
Pics to come
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10th September 2025, 10:44 AM
Bit more here.
Water shots are our view from our accommodation last night...
9th September 2025, 09:54 PM
What's Cruise Control? :)
9th September 2025, 05:56 PM
Nah, purchased it a few months back as we are doing some basic camping on this trip and we're not getting any younger [emoji20]
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8th September 2025, 10:53 PM
Drove from Robe to port Augusta with a stop in gawler and the dash stopped once for a shorter time and that was early in the day. I did take out the cruise control switch that's on the dash, the one...
8th September 2025, 12:35 PM
Hmm.
Something maybe be not right with ye'old TD42. I changed the oil before i did a 4500k run up north and back. water temps as mentioned were fine, only because i wasn't towing and the ambient...
8th September 2025, 11:28 AM
Too late as your probably on the road but i do recall something about a particular solder joint on the Dash panel pcb can come lose. This can be corrected by resoldering the joint. If its an earth...
7th September 2025, 10:10 PM
Just thinking about this and if a fuse was blown it wouldn't have come back good. Earth maybe, but have no idea where to start.
Think I'll pull out the switch 1st..
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