Reply With Quote
OK!
All photo's uploaded to facebook... I'll fill everyone in though
Minus Day 1 - Breakdown between Boorowa and Canberra, we stopped for lunch in Boorowa about 20k's from Yass towards home, with no problems, about 5 mins back on the road the golf just died, then ran again after shutting everything off... Then a few hundred up the road, it died again, with no life - it seemed like no fuel, so we took the fuel filter off (which was a hell of a task as the new one had really jammed on) and discovered a blocked feeder, so we thought it was that... BUT this wasn't the problem.
I started to take off the injector lines to see if there were any more blockages, and I bumped the solenoid line for the pump and Dad had left the ignition on, it clicked and I discovered the line had come loose, so we put everything back on and away we went again!
Day 1 - CANBERRA TO HAY
Dressed up in our "Plus 4's" coz we're in a golf, with a massive golf ball on top, which we ditched in canberra due to worries about power and fuel economy...
Pic by Cam of Bad Panda.
We got to Hay trouble free, aside from the massive head winds and poor fuel economy, we lost our buddy group early on and took a while to re-group but thats part of learning the SBR.
DAY 2 - HAY TO SILVERTON
Bit of rain and an icy gale for the day which was themed up to be Pricilla Queen of the Desert dressups... hundreds of men in drag is quite a site to see...
We went via Ivanhoe and Menindee to Broken Hill, a pretty rough bit of road after the torrential rain from a fortnight before, but we didn't make it to Menindee before disaster struck for the little golf...
This bit of road was really dusty, heavy plumes of red dust streamed behind us, until it turned into blue-black-red mix... my mates in the Benz hauled up behind us because their radio wasn't working and told us to stop (Dad was driving, and totally oblivious to the mirrors...)
Dad knocked it out of gear and first problems first, the engine picked up revs... He turned it off, it didn't stop..
Before we'd stopped moving I pulled up the bonnet latch (on the passenger side) and jumped out of the car, my initial reaction was that the throttle had jammed open on the rough roads, and I flicked it open and shut a few times which didn't help, then slammed my hand over the intake to shut off the engine.
We had a Peugeot mechanic with us, he suggested it was a run-away engine off blow-by, so we popped off the intake...
It was... not only that, but trying to crank it over we discovered it had hydraulic compression lock... we were gutted, and pushed it on to a triage trailer for the haul to Silverton.
The golf made it to camp before we did, and was pushed up to beside the Bad Panda boys who had lost their windscreen before we even hit dirt that day! They had to kick the screen out and continue without any protection until they got to Broken Hill... balls of steel... Our buddy group had plenty of issues that day, with the Speedweak V8 Merc blowing an oil cooler line as well, thankfully that was fixed roadside and they got to camp safe.
~ To be continued, a 3yr old wants to play...
Bookmarks