Wednesday, Oct 08, 2003 at 23:40
although i can tell many many stories that fall into the dumbest or funniest and both categories it think i will tell just one.
this story goes over some 3 days.
was driving down the
gibb river road to
Kalumburu with my mate just as the sun was setting with the lights on when suddenly we only had the park lights working.
the dumb stuff starts now.
stopped the car and began inspecting the problem. kept looking even though the light was fading fast. after a while mate suggests we get going as better to drive with some light instead of none. that made sense.pity it wasnt suggested an hour before when we had some light to drive by. we finally get to a camp site after having to drive with my mate holding a spotlight out the passenger window.
get to
kalumburu the next day and begin a comprehensive inspection of the lighting system. pull this and that and everything in between apart. no luck. we ask for help from another bloke who is mechanically minded. no luck.
dont stress as we figure we will sort it when we get to kunnunurra.
week later we leave for kunnunurra. it was only after we had to spend about 3 hours driving with the spotlight again that we figured we should have left kulumburu in the early morning to miss the sunset rather than in the early arvo as we did.oops.mind you another very very dumb/funny thing happened but that another story.
so anyway drive into kunnu with the spotty as headlights, dipping it next to the car as other vehicles approached.
the next day i find a auto electrician.
wait 5 minutes to be seen. then spend 5 minutes telling him my tales of woe. explained how everything was pulled apart, inspected,cleaned,sprayed,tested, reattached all to no avail.
we walked to the car, i opened the bonnet, he went to the
battery and with the consumate skill and knowledge that comes with ability located the wire that runs the lights and proceeded to show me how nothing works when it has come out of the clamp that attaches it to the
battery. no words were spoken.they didnt need to be.by simply holding up the wire enough was said.
the electrician kindly recrimped the wire to a new clamp.when i asked him how much he just gave me a "you are too pitiful to take money from" look and said "no charge. its on the house"
i drove off shaking my head having learnt a simple lesson. look for the simple things first.
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Follow Up By: macca - Thursday, Oct 09, 2003 at 14:48
Thursday, Oct 09, 2003 at 14:48
similar thing happened to me when I had the 4 Skinner,oops ,runner. The rear window was electrically operated and whilst out around W.Oz couldnt get the bloody thing too work. So the missus was climbing in through the back door to retrieve stuff. Auto elec at
Norseman couldnt sort it out either. It wasnt till we got to
Port Victoria that I had had enough so proceeded to find the prob with a vengeance. After a fustrating afternoon, I had just about given up slammed the tailgate shut and lo and behold if the window didn't proceed to go up. After checking round the back rubbers I found that a piece of rubber seal had curled over and was holding the tailgate off the bloody switch..
When I told the commanding Officer I had fixed she waas proud of my auto elec skills it but I didn't tell her how till we got home.
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