Heading off for the 2009 GTG

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After day 1 we are in Renmark, the only thing we forgot was my pillow :cry:

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Sounds like a plan. Our kids have been play friend deficient for 15 days :shock: and are looking forward to meeting your youngsters. My young fella is 9 and little gal is 7.

See you there.

We have also booked in at the Alice Springs Desert Park for the Nocturnal Tour as you suggested. :mrgreen:

Ben

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Hi All,

This is our Prado ready for the off, we will be leaving about 4:30 in the morning to meet the rest of (The A Team) direct group, leaving from perth.






See you all at Ross River.

Cheers
Trev L and Family

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Hi Everyone,

All packed and ready for a 4:00am start to meet the other W.A folks to start our journey to Ross River.

See you in a couple of days.
Steve

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My goodness we should have had Camprite as a sponsor, we are going to have plenty of them to look at that is for sure. :lol: :lol: :lol: Did Pradopoint clean out Crikey Camper Hire of all their Camprites? :lol: :lol:

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Did Pradopoint clean out Crikey Camper Hire of all their Camprites? :lol: :lol:

Camprites and fridges.........

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Well FlyNdrive's ( Ben ) travelmate has started his journey from the USA today, Wil Kuhn's owns Sierra Expeditions and is the MaxTrax reseller in the USA. Wil is coming down to join Ben and they will be driving a Thrifty rental Prado.

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well we're in Alice already. a little earlier than planned but gives us time to restock, wash & shower

if anyone else is in town early give us a call 0409 990 192

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well we're in Alice already. a little earlier than planned but gives us time to restock, wash & shower

if anyone else is in town early give us a call 0409 990 192

Hey Glenn, I have been following your HF log. I saw you were out the western Macdonnells yesterday near birthday gap.

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On our travels today from Mount Isa to Tennant Creek (660kms) for the Pradopoint GTG, we were approximately 40km short of Tennant Creek. At this point in time, the car miss fired a bit so I pulled over and added 20L of fuel from our jerry can (had travelled 620 on our tank of 180L, pulling pop top caravan which normally goes 750km on tank and gauge still read 1/8th left) . Restarted the car, but the miss remained – got a further 8km down the road and it was un-drivable. I thought maybe the fuel filter was clogged (although it had been replaced in recent service) so tapped with knockometer to see if I could loosen any dirt, but still wouldn’t start.

After some helpful souls pulled over to lend us a hand, we called NRMA and waited about an hour. Brian was his name and he was a very welcome and helpful addition to our trip. He thought fuel problem as well and he pulled the fuel line off the filter but no fuel was coming out so we all thought fuel pump – so it was a tow to the Toyota dealership in Tennant Creek. Thankfully Brian is more than a roadside assistance tech – he is also the tow truck driver and he winched the Prado up onto his truck and we hitched the van behind and headed to town.

Toyota Dealer was helpful, but busy and said he wouldn’t be able to look at the car for a week !!! He thought fuel pump too, but suggested we fill it up with petrol and see what happens. BP station was next door and although Unleaded was priced at $1.47/L we excitedly filled it up with 157L – and that was after we had already put 20L from the jerry can in ??? That meant it only had 3L in it in when we originally pulled over. Hang on, that means I was out of fuel even though the gauge said about 1/8th left !!! Lets start it quick and see what happens I thought. Bingo, she sprung to life and we were all greatly relieved and back in action.

The question is, why didn’t the 20L from the jerry can get pumped up to the fuel rail, but when tanks filled to the top it did ? The dealer thought that the fuel pump may still be on the way out or the venturi part that transfers fuel from tank to tank is not functioning properly (is also part of pump).

Has anyone got any ideas ?

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On our travels today from Mount Isa to Tennant Creek (660kms) for the Pradopoint GTG, we were approximately 40km short of Tennant Creek. At this point in time, the car miss fired a bit so I pulled over and added 20L of fuel from our jerry can (had travelled 620 on our tank of 180L, pulling pop top caravan which normally goes 750km on tank and gauge still read 1/8th left) . Restarted the car, but the miss remained – got a further 8km down the road and it was un-drivable. I thought maybe the fuel filter was clogged (although it had been replaced in recent service) so tapped with knockometer to see if I could loosen any dirt, but still wouldn’t start.

After some helpful souls pulled over to lend us a hand, we called NRMA and waited about an hour. Brian was his name and he was a very welcome and helpful addition to our trip. He thought fuel problem as well and he pulled the fuel line off the filter but no fuel was coming out so we all thought fuel pump – so it was a tow to the Toyota dealership in Tennant Creek. Thankfully Brian is more than a roadside assistance tech – he is also the tow truck driver and he winched the Prado up onto his truck and we hitched the van behind and headed to town.

Toyota Dealer was helpful, but busy and said he wouldn’t be able to look at the car for a week !!! He thought fuel pump too, but suggested we fill it up with petrol and see what happens. BP station was next door and although Unleaded was priced at $1.47/L we excitedly filled it up with 157L – and that was after we had already put 20L from the jerry can in ??? That meant it only had 3L in it in when we originally pulled over. Hang on, that means I was out of fuel even though the gauge said about 1/8th left !!! Lets start it quick and see what happens I thought. Bingo, she sprung to life and we were all greatly relieved and back in action.

The question is, why didn’t the 20L from the jerry can get pumped up to the fuel rail, but when tanks filled to the top it did ? The dealer thought that the fuel pump may still be on the way out or the venturi part that transfers fuel from tank to tank is not functioning properly (is also part of pump).

Has anyone got any ideas ?

Okay, I cannot give you any help with the fuel issue but do you need me to book you in for a diagnostic check here in Alice? It is a public holiday here on Friday but I could ring around to see if it can be done on Saturday morning.

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well we're in Alice already. a little earlier than planned but gives us time to restock, wash & shower

if anyone else is in town early give us a call 0409 990 192

Hey Glenn, I have been following your HF log. I saw you were out the western Macdonnells yesterday near birthday gap.

yer mav
spent a few days out at the ranges, thought we would see the bits we'll miss doing the bogy hole route withe stan.
Spent a night out at birthday waterhole, exelent spot & what a drive 13km took us abou 3/4 of an hou all 1st & 2nd gear stuff. was going to stay down hermensburge way tonight but after a drive through decided to come into town early.

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well we're in Alice already. a little earlier than planned but gives us time to restock, wash & shower

if anyone else is in town early give us a call 0409 990 192

Hey Glenn, I have been following your HF log. I saw you were out the western Macdonnells yesterday near birthday gap.

yer mav
spent a few days out at the ranges, thought we would see the bits we'll miss doing the bogy hole route withe stan.
Spent a night out at birthday waterhole, exelent spot & what a drive 13km took us abou 3/4 of an hou all 1st & 2nd gear stuff. was going to stay down hermensburge way tonight but after a drive through decided to come into town early.

Mate your 90 shines on the banner.

Where are you staying? There are some PPers at the G'Day Mate caravan park already as they too have arrived earlier than planned.

Did you go out to Redbank Gorge and Gosse Bluff?

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we're in the macdonnell range park.
we did red bank gorge this morning, what a spot, didnt look like much as we set off on the walk but what a beutifull spot.
Gosse bluf has a good story both indiginess & scientific, the view from out side was good, but the drive into the bluff was a little disapointing.

if theres anything we can give you a hand with while were here let us know.

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Mate your 90 shines on the banner.

bit different to now then