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Too Good To Be True<\/h2>\n
All was going fine, then I started to lose a little bit of power we were only 150 klms \u00a0down the road and almost to Hawker. Just an other 140 ks to Port Augusta I thought, then the gauges on the dash started flutter around. Thats when the coach started to drop the RPM of every 30 klms…. I was losing around 100-150 RPM, it looked like some electrical gremlin had raised it’s ugly head. We made it into Port Augusta but just at a max speed of 60k\/h, fill it up at the first servo we came to. After a 750 Lt hole in my pocket an 1000 Lt tank sounds great till you have to fill it up.<\/p>\n
Let’s Sleep On It<\/h3>\n
After a good nights sleep it was off to the truck work shop across the road. They just so happen to have someone free to start working on it there and then… \u00a0How good was that? \u00a0So off we to the shops to stock up on things you can’t get in the middle of nowhere. ( Yulara NT).<\/p>\n
Back at the workshop they had found after 3 hrs it was not an electrical problem at all but a fuel supply problem…..in particular the in tank filter. Bugger I’d just filled the bloody thing up and now It has to drain the hole lot, so 5 x 205 Lt drums later it was 5pm on a Friday night and the filter was out.<\/p>\n So by Monday afternoon, the filter was clean, pumping the diesel back into the tank, we’re back on the road.<\/p>\n But about 9 months later driving into Alice Springs….. Oh bugger it’s happening again! \u00a0With only 450 Lt in the tank and some drums from a caravan park, \u00a0we drained the tank again. This time it was modification time because that filter was not going back in again. Some more shopping in Alice and a movie it was back to fix the filter system for good.<\/p>\n We are still getting sludge out of the tank I’ve cleaned it out about 5 times now, but the tank is slowly cleaning it’s self out. I just have to remember to turn the valves back on after I clean the filter, \u00a0yes I did forget the first time and had to bleed the diesel pump to get it going again. You only ever do it once..<\/p>\n [contact-form][contact-field label=’Name’ type=’name’ required=’1’\/][contact-field label=’Comment’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’\/][\/contact-form]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First Day On The Road Leaving Leigh Creek S.A \u00a0on the start of our new life, We had to be in Yulara to start work in five days. With a smile on our faces the next stop was port Augusta for the night, then head north on the Stuart Hwy. The coach was packed full … Continue reading Why Don’t I Have Power<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/bigbusbigadventure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3156-copy.jpg\")
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Back On the Road<\/h4>\n
Curtain Springs to Alice<\/h5>\n
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