Saturday, October 10, 2009

Trip to Adelaide

Left Queanbeyan 8 am

Trying to cruise at 100kph.

Esperanza wanted to go at 92 0r 102kph. Bugger.

110 to 120 was used to vary the engine and harass 4*4's or gray nomads.

Temp sat just below the N and hardly varied.

Oils lost it's initial vapors from city running then stabilized at Max for the full trip.

We stopped overnight in a motel in Balrenald and had tea at the ex services club Yummm!

Arrived Balrenald 4.45pm -8 hours 45 minutes 719 km


Left 8.00 am

This day was a bit more interesting as we developed a “miss” - Bugger

The points were closing.

Re-adjusted by hand in Tailam Bend.

Worked OK but not as well as I wanted. Cruised into Adelaide with the idel a bit high and the occasional ping under hard acceleration.

Needs a good tune up and a new set of points. May also need a new distributor cap and rotor.

Arrived Adelaide 1.45pm 5 hours 45minutes later 572 km


Nice trip – quite relaxing and proof you do not need to always be in the latest zot mobile plus.

Total-1291 km later

Town Cost Trip-oddo mileage Liters L/100KM MPG Comments
Queanbyan 58.55 348 503979 42.15 12.11 23.48 round town
Gundagai 39.79 284
29.07 10.24 27.78 hume highway
narandera 27.87 188
20.21 10.75 26.45 suart highway
balranald 45.05 328 504698 33.65 10.26 27.72 Mallee
ouyen 24.03 160
17.18 10.74 26.48 Mallee
Talum Bend





Filled from can
Adelaide

505270





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