Thread: Levuka 2 September 11-12th 2010

Thought I would put up a quick report from the Saturday trip to Levuka.

I had decided that as the weather had been pretty good all week and I was only going for the day, to just go down on my road tyres.

As soon as I turned onto the gravel road heading out of Woodenbong towards Levuka, it was obvious that was an error!

I arrived about a minute after Dave (busman) and met him at the house/office. We paid, and headed up to the campsite where we met, Greg and Teena, who had camped overnight, in their RR Ute on 35" Simex's, Darren and Mel, in Mels 93 Vogue SE classic, and Trav in the Bullet. It had apparently rained a lot the previous afternoon... great!

After dave in the gumboot, and myself in the 90 turned up, we were just waiting on Kelvin (Disco_thrasher) in his D2.



So once all aired down and we decided to get up from the sun we headed off onto the tracks.

We set up quick convoy with me leading, and Greg at the back, and headed out down Track 1, then down past the waterfall, heading towards Rock N Roll Gully.

Darren exiting RnR Gully:



We then headed down to Bullant going around the circuit section aswell. This was pretty muddy.

Dave:



Dave:



Kelvin:



Kelvin:



Greg:



The main crossing on Bullant:



Trav being Trav:



Kelvin attempting the other exit track:



Greg also tried that with limited luck!

Somewhere after here problems started, when my compressor for my lockers sounded like the crank inside it had broken. So I was reduced to not only a worn out set of tyres, but no lockers! Joy!

Darren then managed to catch a tree in the 93 RRC

out into the open:



Water crossing:



Then more isues when Kelvins engine stoppped about 5 seconds after this picture was taken.



We managed to get it running again, after a bit of investigation, it seems that water may have got into the aap sensor stopping the engine. So once started we headed back to camp for lunch.

After lunch, I decided to leave my car and hop in with Trav, and we headed out to the rainforrest behind the house.

Darrens damage:



We played around in the test track for a few minutes then headed into Rosemarys Road.

Unfortunately about 5 minutes in, we had the worst problem of the day, when Daves rear maxi drive grenaded the planetry gears punching a hole through the top of the diff housing

Greg and Darren removed the tailshaft, rear axles, and diff centre and we then managed to get the now fwd only d1 back out to camp.



So back at camp, we got the fire going. Darren and Mel had to leave around 6pm and I ended up heading off at about 730.

It was a good day, but not without drama! I hope Sunday was less troublesome for everyone!

I stipped my compressor and in the main it is fine, There was a piece of plastic sat on top of the piston so something has obv failed but its not terminal. I have swapped the compressor out of our Stage 1 for now.

Thanks for running the trip Greg, and thanks Teena for Lunch on Saturday!

Rgds
Pete

yeah all has been said up above
but will fill you guys in on my car problems on sunday i we changed battery terminals re did earthing removed my boost box prity much did a complete overall on the electric under the bonet on the top of a hill,as much as Greg says he cant do engine managment systems he did a real good job today in helping me sort it ,
THANK GOD Pete you left me with your spare ecu recoded it and car worked yeah i can get home
Thanks to all who helped in a very frustrating morning i think i controlled my anger and fury quite well with only having to count to 10 twice

Trip to KYogle to out-laws 60th b-day was trouble free and back home
once at home i pulled out the reciept for my new ecu and it was installed by Bruce Lynton Land rover at 11:30am on the 11/09/09 and funny enough i think my car stopped working about the same time a year later if some one has a pic when the car stopped can you check the time of the picture out of intrest LOL
good trip with great people
cheers Kelvin