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Hi All, Hope every one is going okay, i have been plodding a long with the van making some headway. Some of the of the pictures in the last post showed the van on its side don't know how that happened but those pics wasn't the only thing on there side i end up on my side whilst carrying some propeller plate for...

Hi from the UK. Had a 5th wheeler before now gone to this 7.8m long 2.5m wide 1900kg, Alde central heating, auto leveling system, solar, transverse fixed bed. Used in the UK March until November and Portugal for the winter. pulled by a 2013 Navara 3.0ltr v6

Dear knowledgeable types Dunlop SP175E tyres P or LT? The marking is 195/R15C 106/104s, I cannot find a P or LT anywhere on the sidewall The Dunlop site tells me they are LT but they look to bulge a bit too much. I am preparing for gibber tracks and the GRR hence want to be certain. Thanks in advance L...

A surfer, who is well known for the amount of waves he catches, is asked for his secret. "It's simple," he replies. "When I get up in the morning and my wife is lying on her right side, I only take waves with a right break. If she is lying on her left side, I only take waves with a left break." "But, suppose she i...

An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane. He turned to her and said: Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger. What would you want to talk about? the little girl replied to the stranger. Oh I dont know, the atheist said. How about w...

Hello All Anyone have a link to the "Grey Nomads Times No 176". Deleted in error, cleaned out the trash and it's not available on the website Cheers Jeff

Hi All, Have a couple of questions about these sirocco fans, i have had a look at you tube and the sirocco manual. It tells me that the diameter is 180 mm but i cannot find out what the measurement is from the base where it fits to the van to the edge of the fan, basically i am try to find out the dimensions so i ca...

While travelling this great country of ours, I came across this, I could not resist taking a picture and posting it Some people have a great sense of humor or maybe he was fair dinkum, interesting what the police would say, may it would test their sense of humor as well. Safe travels Graham

Heading off from broome to Adelaide via Tanami road stuart h/way driving 2014 BT 59 towing 22 supreme van curios to get any input on the roads from broome to Adelaide cheers

Is this the Lucky Country? Quite a bit has been written about the plights of many in this country. We read about many towns that are struggling, and of farmers too in drought affected areas etc. It made me think how lucky how many of us in this forum are, to have the life we do, being able to afford to travel,...

Doing the rounds of his barns in a remote country area, a farmer came across a parachutist who had landed in a pile of hay. "What happened?" asked the farmer, who knew tourists often visited the region for parachuting. "My chute failed to open," the parachutist replied. "Ah well, if you'd asked the loc...

I'm connecting 2 x 120 AH AGM 12v batteries in parallel, I'm worried about voltage leveling in case one of the batteries goes bad and I don't realise it. I have heard about Zener Diodes. has anyone installed them if so ..what size, how to, where to get. etc etc..Thanks -- Edited by Peter and Jian on Su...

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hello, does anyone know if the $5 camp at the train station has toilets? Thanks

Gday... Read about it here Cheers - John

After 10 years of wandering we sold the rig and bought a house BUT a few months ago were again bitten by the wanderlust bug. As we have been "off the road" for 4 years I decided to look at this & other sites for updates. It made me chuckle to see there are still those "dream stealer's) stories. The most am...

I have a problem with the hot dipped galvanised coating cracking and falling off some sections of my caravan chassis. I think I now know the cause of the problem and what the fix would have been had a quality control inspection been conducted by the galvaniser or chassis manufacturer or even the ca...

I have a carefree awening on my van and the ratchet does not seem to lock the roller in place. As a result the holes that the bows fit into on the main roller beam have become elongated. Iâm assuming the ratchet is the problem. Can anyone give me their opinion on this problem and an the ratchet be replaced as...

Are any of you Grey Nomads gemstone fossickers? Everywhere I go, I like to have a poke around in streambeds and gravel deposit or around old or new mines. I have found quite a few reasonable sapphires and zircons, a few bits of topaz and smokey quartz and some interesting pieces of opal, I don't do much wi...

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