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| OUR BIG TRIP MARY & OLI GOING AROUND AUSTRALIA |
MELBOURNE TO BROKEN HILL - Page 4
21 June 2007, Thursday
Not doing much, just scanning documents and sending some stuff home because we packed too much. Quite an easy day
and it rained also the first time - but just drizzle.
22 June 2007, Friday
Today I tried to add a water pump to our campertrailer, but for some reason it did not work out well. So maybe later again.
Besides that, our car was finally fixed - the upper control arm does not make any noises anymore - Great thanks to USA4x4
for sending the parts and Silver City 4WD for exchanging the joints. When in Broken Hill and you have a problem with a 4WD,
only one way to go - Silver City 4WD. Dennis and Johnny will help you out. A quote from them: "The impossible can be done
in a couple of hours, a miracle might take a day." That is a very healthy business attitude. Great guys. They are the 4WD
garage for the Outback Challenge, they normally work 6 days, 20 hours a day during the event. At the end of the day we went
to see the sunset from the Line of Lode. Great but f@#*&# cold. Anyway the fingers where ok to take a few photos.
23 June 2007, Saturday
Today we went to Menindee which is about 120 km;s from Broken Hill into the middle of nowhere. Besides being the first
Town on the Darling River it also has a massive man-made Lake System, however most of them are obviously dry. The main
reason to go there was to check the car on corrugations and see how it will perform - at the end it did pretty well. The fuel
pump for the second tank does not work anymore, but this should only be a loose contact which I will fix in the next couple
of days. Below are a few pictures from the Lakes around Menindee. More on the next page.
21 June 2007, Thursday
Not doing much, just scanning documents and sending some stuff home because we packed too much. Quite an easy day
and it rained also the first time - but just drizzle.
22 June 2007, Friday
Today I tried to add a water pump to our campertrailer, but for some reason it did not work out well. So maybe later again.
Besides that, our car was finally fixed - the upper control arm does not make any noises anymore - Great thanks to USA4x4
for sending the parts and Silver City 4WD for exchanging the joints. When in Broken Hill and you have a problem with a 4WD,
only one way to go - Silver City 4WD. Dennis and Johnny will help you out. A quote from them: "The impossible can be done
in a couple of hours, a miracle might take a day." That is a very healthy business attitude. Great guys. They are the 4WD
garage for the Outback Challenge, they normally work 6 days, 20 hours a day during the event. At the end of the day we went
to see the sunset from the Line of Lode. Great but f@#*&# cold. Anyway the fingers where ok to take a few photos.
23 June 2007, Saturday
Today we went to Menindee which is about 120 km;s from Broken Hill into the middle of nowhere. Besides being the first
Town on the Darling River it also has a massive man-made Lake System, however most of them are obviously dry. The main
reason to go there was to check the car on corrugations and see how it will perform - at the end it did pretty well. The fuel
pump for the second tank does not work anymore, but this should only be a loose contact which I will fix in the next couple
of days. Below are a few pictures from the Lakes around Menindee. More on the next page.
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