Nats diary 2026

[Blacky]

Nice pics there. Hope the oil pressure is behaving

Bloody thing - every time I back off in neutral the bloody thing stalls and it still has bugger all oil pressure at idle

[Blacky]

Anyway, left Mundrabilla this morning next stop Border Village. They know how to charge the theiving pricks, fuel at Eucla 10 minutes away was $2.50 a litre, Border Village it’s $2.75.

Luckily only needed 9 litres so fuel up and off into SA - next stop Nullarbor roadhouse- traditionally the most expensive stop on the Eyre highway and they didn’t disappoint- $2.85 a litre and 90km further along at Yalata it was $2.08 !!!!



Into Ceduna for a late lunch - a can of Pepsi for me and aquatic snot for Shahni




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[Blacky]

We had plenty of distance to travel today so that was about the only decent time out of the car - did 890 km today.

Gearbox hasn’t repaired itself since last year, or the year before that so the occy strap came into play

Lots of oversized trucks today
Made Kimba JUST before dark




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[Blacky]

Fuel burn for today -

A bit better than yesterday and today I had the cruise set 3km/h faster than yesterday- 108 vs 105


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[In the Shed]

Nice pics there. Hope the oil pressure is behaving

Bloody thing - every time I back off in neutral the bloody thing stalls and it still has bugger all oil pressure at idle

Hmmm….. wouldn’t think the two issues are related? Wonder if the timing needs checking?

[Blacky]

Nice pics there. Hope the oil pressure is behaving

Bloody thing - every time I back off in neutral the bloody thing stalls and it still has bugger all oil pressure at idle

Hmmm….. wouldn’t think the two issues are related? Wonder if the timing needs checking?

[Blacky]

Hmmm….. wouldn’t think the two issues are related? Wonder if the timing needs checking?

It stalled at some roadworks on Monday and struggled to turn over so I pulled a couple of degrees out of it but I don’t have a timing light with me to check it properly

[Errol62]

Lookout mate them hoysters is an afro-dizzy-yak.

Yalata was $1.99 two years ago.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

[Blacky]

Obligatory halfway shot -



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[In the Shed]

Keep on going. Plenty of willing helpers here in sunny S.A for a midway service & tune up

[Blacky]

Went into Iron Knob for a look - the place has seen better days
About the only photo I took at the tourist museum was this one of a mighty scremin’ jimmy

The servo was out of fuel hope we have enough to get to Port Agutta





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[FireKraka]

I love those 8/71 Detroit's, I worked on a lot of them back in my younger days on Navy Torpedo recovery vessels also 6/71's
If the engines oversped the superchargers had air flaps that you were supposed to drop to starve the engine of air and it would shutdown only problem was they would suck the oil seals in and just keep running on the oil, they were just about indestructible

[Blacky]

End of the Eyre Highway and into the ‘Gutta then through Horrocks pass and a refreshing beverage at the Wilmington pub





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[Harv]

About the only photo I took at the tourist museum was this one of a mighty scremin’ jimmy

Must be one of the few GM Rootes blowers not removed from the wild, polished within an inch of its life and mounted on a "corvette small block".

Cheers,
Harv

[Blacky]

Yeah it would be a great engine to stick in a hotrodded truck they have a sound all their own those old girls.
The sump is rusted out and it’s sitting under a water leak so I don’t hold much hope for it being rebuildable

Left Wilmington for Orroroo and had lunch at one of the pubs and found out the new publican lived in Kalgoorlie for the last 18 years, he leased the pub about 6 months ago



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