Kombi Blog

From Coober Pedy Shirl really travelled well, despite buying new points I didn’t put them in because she was running so well. By 2pm we had reached Peterborough and decided to stay there the night.

In the morning (Friday 18th July - Day 28) Shirl started and ran well for the first hour and then started to play up and we ended up limping into Broken Hill. I have a friend in broken hill who is a mechanic and who use to own kombi’s - even had a samba at one point. I gave him a call and he was willing to look at Shirl.

I also had a look myself and found the choke on the right-hand carby was stuck open and the wire that runs to the coil had broken. I fixed those while Shirl ran better she could only get a maximum of 70km - which was enough to potter around town till my friend could check Shirl out.

We got to watch another awesome sunset

Watch the moon rise

And visit Bells Milk Bar - which is a must if you ever visit Broken Hill.

After dinner, my friend (Stephen) gave Shirl a real going over and fixed a few minor issues, like a loose vacum hose, adjusted the points and the timing, he also found that Shirl’s accelerator cable was stretched and a little dodgy.

After a few hours Shirl was running well but there was still a problem with the fuel delivery and maximum speed was only 85km - 90km which we decided was enough to get us home.

Ian