Thelma

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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".

[mudduck]

looks like a whole heap of fun mate, nice truck too!!

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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.

[Oversize]

looks like a whole heap of fun mate, nice truck too!!

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.

[Clunk]

I best not listen then!!!!!! Lol
Loving the pics, keep em coming

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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.

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.

[mudduck]

Same week is a bit unusual, but close together not that strange, but parkers too? Look closely.

[nissannewby]

That third pic looks like a 785 or 789 cat truck?

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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 etc

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Same week is a bit unusual, but close together not that strange, but parkers too? Look closely.

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!