Well our stay in Perth has almost come to an end! We came here expecting to stay for about six weeks and ended up staying for 20! Wow, that's four and a half months and we've had such a lovely time!
A few highlights of the last week:
Caravan:
We bought another spare set of springs for the caravan just in case we break another spring on our last leg of our journey. They're pretty heavy so I was trying to get rid of excess weight, and decided to install the two brand new suspension rockers instead of carrying them around as spares. The centre rocker has a grease nipple in the end to keep the rocker lubricated, but when I'd tried to the grease had gotten dried up and gone really hard which had probably contributed to the wear. I had to pull most of the suspension apart to get the rockers out so I could clean out the dried hardened grease so the rockers could be lubricated again. On the old rocker, I found the steel bush on the centre pivot point, and the two side nylon bushes which I'd replaced in Darwin, were all showing signs of wear.
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| The old centre rocker. Notice the wear at the top of the centre pivot point, and at the bottom of the side pivot points. |
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| The
centre pivot bolt. See that dark dot in the middle of the shiny patch?
That's supposed to be a hole which grease comes out of! It had gone rock
hard! |
