Disaster Week Options

[nimrod]

As the title suggests, I have had one hell of a dissapointing week.
Started as I was on my way to Bermagui with boat in tow, I got to Nowra and the heat guage started to rocket towards the boil mark, lucky I was
close to a service station so bought a container and filled it with water, Couldn't see any obvious faults so let it cool and topped up the radiator
Got as far as Ulladulla and up she went again, this time as I was putting in water I could see it leaking out from the overflow bottle.
Filled up again when it cooled down got another 15 k down the road and again she got hot. There was that much road works going on I didn't want to
boil in a cue and not moving so I chose a decent spot and pulled over. By this time the leak had got worse and I knew it was hopeless to try and continue on
so I rang my mate at Bermi and he came up to pick me up. After sitting on the side of the road boiling hot with no shade for 3 1/2 hours he turned up
with the 4x4 so we put the boat on the back of the 4x4 and filled the commodore with water once again, took the grill out and left the bonnett
on the safety latch so it got more air flow. Managed to get it to my mates place, next day put it in the garage to get fixed while we went fishing.
Fishing for 2 days and not a single fish due to lousy windy conditions that made lure casting a nightmare.
Day 3 I decided to drive home minus boat as my mate can use it for a couple of weeks till I get down there again.
Anyhow the water problem now fixed the car was running great, that is till I got to Marouya when it started coughing and spluttering and making weird
knocking noises. I pulled it over to the side of the road and rang a mate in Sydney to come and pick me up, that was at 4.30 in the afternoon.
Due to my mate having a few commitments he ended up getting there at 11.30 pm loaded all my gear into his ute and got home at 3.30 am.
Next day I organised to have my car picked up and taken back to Bermi ( another mate with a car float ) since then my mate has said he has driven my car
around heaps and it hasn't missed a beat. Doesn't matter I have now lost faith in it and now have bought another Commodore wagon as I like them and
will now sell the one down Bermi.
To end the saga I have sold my boat to my mate in bermi to cover cost of newer car, so now I don't have a Bass boat any more, so back to the drawing board.\

Frank

[oz man]

wow not a nice few days it seems. Hope all get better.

[kkw]

Dramas, Frank. What are you drawing, Frank? Fed's wife has done a painting course. Maybe you could do a line drawing and she could fill it in with paint?
Just kidding. Hope all works out. You can convert my Quintrex to an open deck "bass boat" if you get bored.

[nimrod]

But wait!!! There's more to this story and you may not believe the next chapter but it is fact, this is what happened.
I went back down to Bermi ( Cobargo ) to finalise the sale of the red car and collect the money for the sale of my boat to Roger.
This went as planned and I spent a day just sitting around as it wasn't good conditions to go fishing.
Decided to head home at 3pm so I could be home by 8pm.
Everything going well till I got to south Nowra and up went the temp gauge I pulled over and just sat in the car for a while not really
believing what was happening, after the car cooled down I popped the bonnet. It had been raining and there were puddles of water
so all I had was a plastic shopping bag so I got some water from the puddle in the shopping bag and filled the overflow bottle.
Yep sure enough the bottle had split and water was gushing from under the car. Exact same thing to 2 different cars within a week of each other.
I thought to myself That bloody Chinaman that I had killed was haunting me.
I sat in the car for a few minutes and then it came to me. It's just a plastic bottle with a hose sitting in it, ( the bush mechanic coming out in me ) so I drove to a garage,
bought 2 ltrs of milk poured the milk down the drain and punched a hole in the top of the milk container and pushed the hose into it, made a small breather hole filled
It up with water, filled the radiator with fresh water, and drove home with the temp gauge sitting on 1/4 all the way home without a miss.
The delay cost me about 1 hour.
I now have to get another overflow bottle and new radiator cap for this car.

[oz man]

your weren't having the greats of luck