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Bloody ute didn’t stay clean for long …..


Today was a lazy day, had breakfast at Back Beach cafe where we kicked the 2024 after party off - bloody surfers are mad , it was only about 10 degrees


Wandered around rainy old Bunbury for a while and then went out to the Bush Shack Brewery for lunch





Last toilet photo of the trip I promise



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Then did a little bit of maintenance on the ute, topped up the gearbox oil with a fancy new trolley jack me mate had in his workshop


Once that was out of the way we had a bit of electrical work to do - used a work safe approved EWP, elevated work pallet, and safety thongs



No need to worry I checked and made sure the pallet had a current tag on it


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This morning we said goodbye to our friends and headed over for a quick catch up with a club member who has nearly finished their EK sedan, it has a fruity 202 with a Haltech controlled EFI setup




Then we headed home in what was the worst weather of the entire trip - Perth winters are absolutely miserable
Pissing rain and blowing a gale - went through some roadworks and one of those trailer mounted LED billboards had blown over it was that bad - crosswind too so it was a fight keeping the ute on the road


Made it in one piece


Unloaded and back in bed with her sisters



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Sitting on the lounge chilling out - did some number crunching.

total km - 7,123
litres of fuel used - 787.53 litres
mileage - 11.06 litres per 100km
old school measurement - 25.54 miles per gallon
oil consumed - 0.0 litres, bit better than last years effort of around 1 litre per 100km
water consumed - 0.0 litres
gearbox oil consumed, 1 litre.

After the day the gearbox kept jumping out of gear I refilled it in Gazzas shed in Mildura and bought an occy strap to hold it in gear - we drove from Mildura to Whyalla like that , a distance of a bit over 600km. The next day we tried it without the occy strap and it has not jumped out of gear since that day , roughly 3000km and it hasn't missed a beat

Must have retrained it mate.


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That’s a decent cruise….. and good mileage to boot. Can you remind us what diff centre you had on this trip?

Pleased you solved the gearbox with the magic oil

Regards
Stephen

Pretty sure it has a 3.36:1 in it at the moment

Blacky wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:22 pm Pretty sure it has a 3.36:1 in it at the moment