My SA trip

by **Ric** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:05 pm

Here's a few progress pics from our driving trip around SA.

There were lots of salt lakes

Grain silos at Port Pirie

A small part of the Flinders Ranges

The yellow track is what we've done, purple is what we have yet to do...
(We're basically going straight through to Ceduna, then slowly winding our way back around the coast.)

Damn Big Brother is watching me!

by **Ric** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:11 pm

Now this is a signpost!

In the "Arid Lands" reserve at Port Augusta.

Looking towards "Iron Knob"

Kimba is halfway across Australia...

Outside the Garryowen coffee room at Wudinna

Our GPS track for today. (In yellow)

by **OOB40** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:03 pm

Have to ask.... Did you get it off the clock on that straight road? LOL

by **DaCrpldOne** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:30 pm

nice photos ric, i live in the state cant even say ive seen any of it... but im sure your having yourself a decent time...

dont know about off the clock, ur comp readout says a max speed 165.9... surely would've been tempting to push a little further...

enjoy the rest of your trip ric, if you wanna take some photo's when ur in adelaide lemme know!

by **OOB40** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:07 pm

On a road like that, who wouldnt be tempted!!!

by **LIBER8ED** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:52 pm

i struggle to resist the temptation any time i come to a road where the end of it falls off the horizon..

apparently, :cool:

my car goes off the clock :neo:

by **gt_dicko** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:40 am

Nice photos there Ric, for a while I thought you were going to include the liberty in all of them...

by **OOB40** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:42 pm

LIBER8ED wrote:i struggle to resist the temptation any time i come to a road where the end of it falls off the horizon..

apparently, my car goes off the clock

So does mine!!

by **MY07GT** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:54 am

So did u visit the iron knob?

Phil.

by **Mano™** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:29 pm

travel alone did we ric?

by **Ric** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:42 pm

We're usually alone at these locations, so either I take my wife, or she takes me, I don't think we have single photo with both of us in it yet...

The trip got expensive today. I must have got a nail in one tyre just before we went on a long dirt road drive on "Whalers Way", a very scenic drive south-west of Port Lincoln. It appears I hit aa pothole after the tyre had gone most of the way down, breaking the sidewall.
The tyre is stuffed, and the Bridgestone dealer couldn't even fit a tube, or get another (at $450 full retail) for 2 days.
It looked like we were going to have to drive back to Adelaide without a spare, but the local Beaurepaire agent managed to stretch a 16" tube over the 18" rim, although he warned me not to exceed 60 km/h if I have to use it, cos the tyre is so bad.
I've organised a suitable tyre for me in Adelaide, at a much more reasonable price. We'll be back there tuesday night.

by **SpecB** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:18 pm

Ric that's shocking luck. So now you have a space saver spare? lol

by **Ric** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:44 pm

Got the new tyre fitted, thanks to Kym Davis tyres in Magill.
I must have checked into the only motel in Adelaide without phone lines in the rooms :evil:

I'm parked out the front right now, leeching off someone's unsecured wireless connection, but it is a bit patchy...
(We're in a Motel in Glenelg, just around the corner from Glenelg Subaru Sti)

I'll post more pics when I can get properly online in Mt Gambier.

I bought a hacksaw before I went to get the tyre replaced, intending to cut out the worst section of the old one to keep as a souvenir. The tyre fitters had a good laugh watching me try to cut through the tyre bead, I gave up after 15 minutes cutting, and had barely got through the first of four cuts. I'll have to be content with the photo I took of it.

by **Ric** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:10 pm

A small update on another disaster that happened on the trip.
From http://forum.liberty.asn.au/viewtopic.php?t=180 ("Walkthrough: Hyperflow Top Mount Intercooler Install")

Ric wrote:
Ric wrote:In electrical terms, there is no difference which terminal you disconnect.
It's just safer to do the negative, as this won't make any sparks fly if yours spannrrrre se

I'm back on air.
I spilled some water on my notebook keyboard on Wed night, and now a quarter of the keys don't work right. Finally stopped at a town large enough to have a Dick Smith where I could buy an external keyboard.

I meant to type:
"It's just safer to do the negative, as this won't make any sparks fly if your spanner touches the body."

I started back at work today, and repairing the laptop was high on the agenda.
After a bit of experimenting, we discovered that the panel above the keyboard could be popped off.

It was then a simple matter to remove the keyboard assembly.
I blew it out with compressed air, bathed it in contact cleaner, and blew it out again, which achieved absolutely nothing :evil:

I then investigated the FFC connector where it plugs into the motherboard, and discovered a low resistance between two pins.
A bit of probing with a sharp dentist's probe under a microscope managed to dislodge whatever was doing it, and now it's good as new. No more lugging a USB keyboard around

(Sorry about the fuzzy pics, left my cam at home, so had to use the phone to take them.)

by **Mano™** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:52 am

IS that the long stright everyone talks about that car jsut drop it? and hope there is no highway patrol on it? :lol:

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