As planned, a short 250km hop south to Marla today along the Stuart Highway.
Arriving early, around 1pm, gave me a chance to give the Land Rover a look over and tend to a few outstanding jobs. Other than one of the bolts on a rear trailing arm being a little loose all seems fine. I tightened the bolt up on the trailing arm and also nipped up the adjustment on the auxiliary tank filler cap that has been weeping slightly.
Before we hit any deep sand or dunes I’ll probably disconnect the low range sensor on the gearbox as the way the engine ECU reduces the engine power and throttle response at low revs makes driving it quite hard work, especially when I’m more used to driving a big V8 in sand.
Our planned route for the next week, as outlined in yesterday’s post still stands. It’ll be at least 10 days before we drive on bitumen again by which time I suspect we’ll be glad of a smooth, predictable road surface !