Next morning we get to Dalhousie and take a swim in the spring – a must do! Whilst swimming the Dalhousie rangers tell us we MUST leave immediately or we’d be stuck for four days. We pack our cars quickly and leave for Mt Dare – with the rangers following us out. We passed a stock standard (manual) D40 from Tasmania on our way out – they and their travel companions decide to sit the weather out at Dalhousie (we thought food and cold beer was a better option for sitting out the rain).
On the way back my alternator packs a sad, the 80 series develops a bad noise from the front left CV joint and we battle back through water and mud in near dark. A white D40 also arrived at Mt Dare in limp mode. They’d unsuccessfully tried to cross the Simo but the DPF needed to do a burn and as they couldn’t get it to 80kph it shut down and went into limp mode. We reset the ECU and she was right as rain (I also told them they should have locked in low range and revved it hard for several ks to complete a burn). I was now feeling pleased that I had my DPF removed!!
Next morning the desert is closed until further notice, which suited us as car repairs were needed. So we took a lay day.
On the way back my alternator packs a sad, the 80 series develops a bad noise from the front left CV joint and we battle back through water and mud in near dark. A white D40 also arrived at Mt Dare in limp mode. They’d unsuccessfully tried to cross the Simo but the DPF needed to do a burn and as they couldn’t get it to 80kph it shut down and went into limp mode. We reset the ECU and she was right as rain (I also told them they should have locked in low range and revved it hard for several ks to complete a burn). I was now feeling pleased that I had my DPF removed!!
Next morning the desert is closed until further notice, which suited us as car repairs were needed. So we took a lay day.