When the fuel don't flow....

Our planned Anzac Day trip to Lake Waikaremoana was curtailed just an hour into it.
Whilst going up a reasonably steep hill, the truck suddenly lost  power. It would idle fine but as soon as a little accelerator was added it died. If I stepped on the accelerator hard it would roar into life.

I am mechanically challenged, but it seemed as if it were a carburettor problem and it felt as though the carby had two types of jets, one for low revs and one for high revs, the low revs causing the problem.

I managed to nurse it home and had a look through the factory service manual to find this motor has a carburettor with low and high flow jets, a primary and secondary for each. A trip to town to get some aerosol carby cleaner and the problem was sorted....sort of. It still run rough and hesitated on light throttle.

I asked Ongaonga Motors to clean and check the carby, which they did quickly and expertly and she runs just fine now. Marcus (the mechanic) said the carby 'was full of water and sh*t'. Hmmm this would explain the problems.

Wikipedia has this information on carburettors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carburetor

East Coast New Zealand- Beautiful

Kaiaua Beach, East Coast New Zealand

Freedom Camping in Gisborne

Donneraille Park, Gisborne.

Freedom camping is alive and well in Gisborne. For a very reasonable fee, the camper gets rubbish collection and a great set of locations to choose from.
I was impressed that there was no rubbish left at either location. Freedom camping doesn't necessarily mean a mess.

Somewhere to cook

A blurry photo of the new shelf with cooker. 

My idea of a shelf

Folded away for travel.

We have light

Lights and switches now hooked up.

Running water

After too much time and effort trying to get a 12v pump system to work without leaks, I decided to go with a simple, and effective,  hand pump. Cost $59.95
This meant the battery would only have to supply the LED lights, so a cheaper battery was required.
Also means that if you want a glass of water at 2am there isn't a pump making a huge noise.

First over-night trip

Adventure machine at Waipawa River looking east

Looking up to the Ruahine ranges

On the bank of the Waipawa River, on an unusually calm night we spent our first night in the adM.
Three thumbs up was the conclusion.

Bench and sink

The bench for the sink and storage is partway done.
I used off-cuts of the 'ultrasign' board and plastic drawers from 'The Warehouse'. Nice and light.
Still have the plumbing to do and a step on the left side to get up to the bunk.