cruising the Great Victoria Desert
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And finally, day 7
a cold morning deserves a coffee before a 6 hour drive home:
7 days, 3000K's and christ knows how much diesel later, we are back in the big smoke. Whilst I hate the prospect of the ongoing maintenance, I'm sick of the city already. Give me desert sands between the toes of my black fella feet any day.
a cold morning deserves a coffee before a 6 hour drive home:
7 days, 3000K's and christ knows how much diesel later, we are back in the big smoke. Whilst I hate the prospect of the ongoing maintenance, I'm sick of the city already. Give me desert sands between the toes of my black fella feet any day.
Nice one mate, couple of questions.
I know your keeping an eye on weight, but would it be worth trying/carrying
a battery operated leaf blower to blow sh!t out of the coolers ?
There's a few guys starting to carry them here to blow air filters and cabs of
machinery out daily.
Was the vehicle in the accident towing something ?
Thanks for sharing.
I know your keeping an eye on weight, but would it be worth trying/carrying
a battery operated leaf blower to blow sh!t out of the coolers ?
There's a few guys starting to carry them here to blow air filters and cabs of
machinery out daily.
Was the vehicle in the accident towing something ?
Thanks for sharing.
G'day Dno. Nope a blower wouldn't have helped. That damn spinny gets well embedded in the radiators fins. I have a 4L air tank on board, just enough to allow an air gun with some pressure for short spurts to help get the crap out. Unfortunately its a one power ball job. Pulling each individual spine out of the fin by hand for most of it. There is still heaps buried in the fins with no spine on them to pull out. What cant be blown out has to stay there for good. The only way to really do it, is to remove the radiators - Tranny, A/C, Engine and intercooler. A big job that isn't going to happen. Best just to drive into a tree and have them replaced! I spent 6 hours on the job and got it as best I could.
Nope he wasn't towing. I don't know what happened, we were only minutes from it happening. You cant see it in the pic, but the sickening sight was a car baby seat face down on the road about 10m from the cruiser. Luckily, he was sitting on the road on the other side of the vehicle, a rag on the top of his head and a small amount of blood on his face, talking on the phone. So he would have been ok bar a few minor injuries.
Nope he wasn't towing. I don't know what happened, we were only minutes from it happening. You cant see it in the pic, but the sickening sight was a car baby seat face down on the road about 10m from the cruiser. Luckily, he was sitting on the road on the other side of the vehicle, a rag on the top of his head and a small amount of blood on his face, talking on the phone. So he would have been ok bar a few minor injuries.
7 millers is pretty cool. As my vids were getting way too long, I had to chop most my shots of that out. I will elaborate more on the shack when I do my blog write up. As for permits, the Spackman is free from those handcuffs, same as Breaden Bluff. However, permits are required for the Great Central Rd and Pt. Sunday Rd as they cross through Cosmo Aboriginal lands. No cost and easy to obtain, just a pain in the ar5e having to gin around beforehand sorting them out. I really hate rooting around arranging permits, especially no cost ones. They serve no purpose, tie up resources of both traveller and land council and provide no benefit to the communities concerned. If they want stats of the amount of people travelling, they could just put those rubber tube road counters in place. I think the only reason they do it is 1. because they like to tell us they are the custodians of the land and 2. they like to tell you where you are not allowed to go. Fair enough I guess, but there are other means of providing that information without having to root around with zero cost permits:
