Why our return journey is delayed
I received this email from Tom, regarding their trip back home... And a picture showing why their return trip has been delayed...
"Hi all,
Got about 60 miles down the road from the Beach Hop heading for home and Fat Cat started to make a rhythmical expensive sounding noise in the rear end.
A kind passer by in a ‘78 Canaro stopped and offered help.
He returned with a Chev truck and a trailer and we loaded Fat Cat on and he took us to his home where we rolled the F100 into his garage.
He had a lot of the necessary tools but it took a combination of ga and an extra heavy home made slide-hammer ( heavy duty chain and hefty piece of box-section steel) to get the axle out.
The pic is not the best but you can see the dried up bearing etc.
Out helper put us up for the night at his house and has lent us a 2002 (or thereabouts) Mitsubishi Galant which is tidy and serviceable and he took the axle into the local engineers and ordered new bearing, shrink ring and seal for the axle.
So we used the Mitsi to drive into Te Aroha and soaked in the spa pool nearby while waiting for the bearing to be fitted to the axle. More later! Tom."
Here is that picture....
I received this email from Tom, regarding their trip back home... And a picture showing why their return trip has been delayed...
"Hi all,
Got about 60 miles down the road from the Beach Hop heading for home and Fat Cat started to make a rhythmical expensive sounding noise in the rear end.
A kind passer by in a ‘78 Canaro stopped and offered help.
He returned with a Chev truck and a trailer and we loaded Fat Cat on and he took us to his home where we rolled the F100 into his garage.
He had a lot of the necessary tools but it took a combination of ga and an extra heavy home made slide-hammer ( heavy duty chain and hefty piece of box-section steel) to get the axle out.
The pic is not the best but you can see the dried up bearing etc.
Out helper put us up for the night at his house and has lent us a 2002 (or thereabouts) Mitsubishi Galant which is tidy and serviceable and he took the axle into the local engineers and ordered new bearing, shrink ring and seal for the axle.
So we used the Mitsi to drive into Te Aroha and soaked in the spa pool nearby while waiting for the bearing to be fitted to the axle. More later! Tom."
Here is that picture....
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