THE WALLABY TRACK WITH LIONEL MUSSELL
NOW MORE SOME
MORE TROUBLE
HAVING JUST OVERCOME ITS DIFF PROBLEMS,
YEMMY DECIDES TO MAKE MORE MISCHIEF.
I'm glad I didn't write this yesterday! Everything
was good then. As regular readers would know,
my motorhome has had major mechanical
problems. The repairer in Queensland botched
the differential replacement, and I had to
have Yemmy transported back to Victoria for
further repairs.
The new repairer did a marvellous job
reconditioning the old diff. He'd had machining
done so oversize bearings could be fitted and he
obtained a crown wheel and pinion with the right
ratio. He then reassembled it all and swapped
it over with the incorrect diff that was fitted
up north.
A road test proved it was running okay.
He had done far more than was done for $7400
in Queensland and his total was about a fifth of
what I was charged for a completely botched job.
It was great to have Yemmy home again and I soon
had him packed and ready for a trip to Denmark,
WA, and the National Muster of the Australian
Caravan Club. Lots of friends offered all sorts of
good wishes on my Facebook page and through
my blog.
Three days in and things were going swimmingly.
But then, on the fourth morning while bowling
along with not a care in the world, suddenly a
light on the dash came on and everything went
very quiet!
It seems that Yemmy has fuel problems – either a
filter or fuel pump. I spent a lot of yesterday trying
to arrange help using my phone that alternated
between a weak signal and a ‘no service’ signal.
I'd spent the day just off the highway and was
pleased when a tilt truck finally arrived around
tea time and, although it was too small to take
Yemmy back to Ceduna, at least using a cradle
for the front wheels he moved him to a rest area
that was so much safer.
Since then he's been 400km back to Streaky Bay
where the trouble was found to be just a fuel pipe
that had come out of its connection.
See you down the track.
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Moving Yemmy, to a rest area, off the main road.
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