Tuesday, Mar 23, 2004 at 20:39
Well,, to make a short story long found the leaks about 50kms south of the
jardine ferry crossing so we tried to fix them straight away... We had a two part epoxy which we used to seal our leaks... It slowed it to a slow weep on both tanks so off we went again...
I noticed my fuel gauge down to ½ after about 100kms and so did Dick and we stopped to take a look again... The corrugations had opened up the
putty and also the cracks had lengthened by a couple of inches and mine had split around the back on the bottom as
well as the side...
We had no
putty left so we used soap/bulldust and water which did sweet FA....
We had make it close enough to a town with LPG until we could use the tanks of LPG we had saved for just in case....
By hopping from fuel stop to fuel stop we made it all the way to
Laura that night and had to park our vehicles out the front of the pub on a mound so we could slow the fuel coming out whilst in a public place.....
The next morning we went hunting for more
putty but the servo had none so we tried the bulldust soap and water trick again and it sealed for about 100kms before it was streaming out again...
320kms out of
Mossman we both flicked over to LPG and we arrived there late in the afternoon running on our last bit of LPG and finally made it into a servo... Dick filled up 1st and my turn was next.... But the corrugations had broken off my brass filler tube and the LPG i tried to put into my tank ended up blowing straight out of the bottom of the vehicle into thin air...
So anyway local tow truck driver helped us out and made another brass fitting and we were going again...
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