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Day 7 still I went to Mt Remarkable N.P via Pt. Augusta to get some supplies, visited the arid lands botanic garden. Got into Mambray creek campground around 5 PM. Not enough time to see Alligator gorge. It's an 8km walk one-way from Mambray creek or more than 1 hour drive by car. Still, managed to ...

A typical view from inside Gammon ranges, mostly only accessible on foot (there aren't many roads in the park) https://i.imgur.com/6TXXAUd.jpeg Day 6 went on a 12km bushwalk that turned out to be more than 15km in the end, my fault :roll: Didn't take enough water and nearly expired in the heat. At t...

So I did crawl back to Marree at 40, sometimes 25km/h hitting bump stops on every corrugation :cry: Got back into town after 7pm, the hotel owner was very kind and let me have a room for another night at such short notice. So day 5 at sparrows fart I set off back towards Leigh creek banging and scra...

Shortly after takeoff, this is far north SA. Yes, it is pretty dry and desolate https://i.imgur.com/3XUlogI.jpeg The lake still had close to 2m of water at the deepest part, but evaporating by the day as evidenced by the white salty shoreline. It won't be there for much longer. https://i.imgur.com/x...

Back on the black top https://i.imgur.com/4kUxpL7.jpeg I think this was a roadworks section, otherwise there is bitumen all the way to Marree. Pretty isolated! https://i.imgur.com/7onLwWJ.jpeg And just as I rolled into Marree from the south, so too did the Shitbox rally from the north/west! Over 250...

Same day as the Trezona hike (maybe a mistake :lol: ) the Mt. Ohlssen bagge hike was 2.7km almost straight up to 900+ meters of elevation. I nearly couldn't do it, many stops to catch breath but the view was totally worth it, Wilpena pound is breath-taking. https://i.imgur.com/NpthRVt.jpeg And back ...

Lots of pics in this one, a lot of ground was covered :biggrin: This was a first for me, going this far north. I spent 7 nights "on the road" so to speak from the South Flinders ranges to Marree and then Gammon ranges and Mt. Remarkable. Probably close to 2k kms were travelled, a lot for an old car!...

Pyrenees looks nice! Looks like Wooded native forest, not enough of that here in SA to explore. Todays drama; broke the clutch cable! Was just creeping into the driveway at work this morning when it let go, bunny-hopped into my parking spot and stalled it :lol: Very lucky it was just the very end th...

Black it was! Prepped, primed and painted all in the same afternoon :lol: Gotta be careful of fingerprints on installation. And it got a serious workout last weekend being our October long weekend. 4WD club trip to a private property near Peterborough, very southern edge of the Flinders ranges. It w...

Looks like a fun day out! Where there any major scratches? I find the Brumby/MY platform is great for navigating scratchy tracks as they're so narrow compared to modern fourbies.

This weekends project had some urgency, going on a 4WD club trip next weekend. Only noticed 2 weeks ago when I stuck my head under there that the moustache bar was bent like a wet noodle :o Yesterday I started before 9AM, got the car back together after 6PM so it was a big day and I am very sore tod...

Found a decent substitute for long-perished/broken slider knobs, cheap and plentiful on ebay. Was watching a YT 4wd'ing channel and an interior shot of a LC79 Landcruiser got me thinking... They fit! Pretty tight, don't go in 100% of the way but still good enough to use, makes the sliders easier, lo...

Nothing much to report with the old blue wagon, it just works :biggrin: Still need to replace the sagging rear torsion bars but for now I just wound up the adjusment bolt which has stopped the rear tyres scrubbing over big undulations in the road (there are many around here) The gearbox is being its...

How did you manage to break a zerk?? Got it sorted now? No, not yet. It's a tiny thread I don't have much hope of identifying to source a new fitting. And have to get the broken piece out first. Thinking it might be a job for my better equipped engineer mate when the diff is out next. Bloody grease...

A sign of a well sorted car when you only have regular wear+tear/service items to worry about The uni joints are a fun job indeed, lucky you only had 2 to deal with. Broke a grease zirc on one of mine recently

Went on another 4WD club outing this weekend. At a place called Peake, there is a farm property which encloses a very large area of big sand dunes (in the middle of mallee/bare flat lands, go figure) The owner lets groups and clubs use the camping area and sand dunes for $20 per car per night. And a...

That sounds like a frustrating saga, intermittent electrical gremlins are the worst! :( Couple of questions; Does Basil still have his factory original alternator? 500k km is a lot! And the brushes can and do wear out as I found out this year. Which leads into; Have you measured the battery voltage ...

Not alot has been happening in the last few months, except a number of little niggles building up into quite a list that makes me consider taking it off the road till they're all sorted! :lol: I noticed a split front inner CV boot earlier this week :roll: while investigating a small patch of P/S flu...

It all started with this one on the PS1 https://u.cubeupload.com/Stingrae/20250426024550.jpg Oh wow, what a classic, the memories :lol: I reckon I watched my brother play that when we were kids. That your copy? $48.99!! for a video game in the mid 90's, about a years worth of pocket money :lol: I w...

That looks like a project and a half in the making! :o and ye gods man was that thing driven through a hay field at some point? :lol: A lot of grassy junk on that engine. Do you care about JDM purity? keeping it original? If you're going as far as to rebuild the engine and sleeve the cylinders then ...