Thursday, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:55
Hi Michael,
We did this trip solo and had three punctures along the way. The tubes were a bit sus after doing a north/south Canning and driving for at least 1500km at 12 -15psi air pressure. Repairing the front springs took the longest as we had to jack the old Tojo up high to be able to clamp
the springs. The centrepins gave way because I had busted both front shockies by the end of the first week into the Canning and with all that extra shaking and bouncing something had to give. The winch rattled loose internally and I tied it up with wire. The snorkle fell off and got put in the back of the vehicle. The whip aerial kept on turning itself loose and I removed that as well. And DUST....it was like living inside a vacuum cleaner!!! We were on our way
home to
Alice Springs. The distance between
Wiluna and Alice is around the 1800km mark. We refuelled once at
Carnegie Station and drove along the abandoned section of the Gunbarrel north of
Jackie Junction past
Lake Christopher. Have a look at my website www.kempen.id.au where I have a diary of our Canning adventure done in 1994. The first night we camped at the Telecom Tower east of
Carnegie. Next night was spent about 100km north of
Jackie Junction and the third night we camped at
Lasseters Cave( can't do that any more, I think). Got back to Alice late on the fourth day. We saw five vehicles between
Wiluna and Docker River on that whole trip.
Is you girlfriend still with you, if I may ask?
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