Thread: A run of bad luck

G'day all and greetings from Birdsville

Can anyone beat this.
You will recall we were all set fo our run along the dog fence and Hay River etc. Well ...........................

5 vehicles planned to leave ........

1st was a week late due to a special fold out tent setup he had made for his landy tub trailer being 50mm too wide.

Next down is a TDi Disco with a cracked head so this bloke is stranded in Tenterfield for a week.

Next comes Doug whose spare wheel carrier on the back of his old Rangie snaps off when he steps down onto it from his roof rack. We are in the middle of Bulloo Downs and 145 Km from Thargomindah. He badly breaks his arm in 4 places so I make 2 round trips to Thargo, 1st with him and 2nd with his vehicle.

We finally all join back up at Innamincka (except Doug with the broken arm). We get to Wakers Crossing where the Tenterfield Disco driver's 33 yo drugg addled, alcoholic spoilt brat son tosses a major hissy fit and his poor bloody old man (who should know better, but doesn't) takes him home.

Down to 3 vehicles ....

Now mine starts to play up horribly over reving and knocking something terrible. Limp into Birdsville, having left our CT at Poepples (sp) Cnr.
Check the oil to finf about 7 litres of diesel in the sump ....

Check he injector O rings and they all look fine so maybe a cracked head. Don't want to think about the state of the bottom end at this stage.

We're stuck in Birdsville until we fly out on Thursday and the landy goes out on a truck next Sunday.

So .... can anyone beat that for a run of bad luck.

Cheers

Rosco

Just remember, story's of things going wrong are far more fun to tell/hear than storys of things going right

And WHAT a story you've got