TheInterceptor
Forum Member
- Joined
- Mar 10, 2011
- Messages
- 369
- Location
- North Perth, WA
- Car Year
- 2002
- Car Model
- Outback Limited
- Transmission
- 5sp Manual dual range
So last weekend, Twinkles, my co-pilot Chris and I went in search of dirt and mud! And thats exactly what we found 
We decided to meet in the Coles carpark in Bunbury at 0800hrs, Twinkles being there on time had to wait for me who was a bit late as i had to pack the wagon before leaving since i had finished some body work on it the night before. SO i was powering along the highway to arrive at Coles at 0840hrs. We all did some quick supply shopping then packed it away into the esky's.
To my horror, i noticed a large puddle of oil under the wagon knowing full well it wasn't there when i parked! Its never bled that before, or any oil really!
To cut the long story short, it seems like one out of three rings on each the pistons has worn out and cant hack it at 110kph and has let compression escape into the crankcase blowing oil straight into the air filter box to which it leaked out of down the engine and onto the ground.
So with 5l bottle of new oil on board from Supercheap, we headed out of town via a fuel station.
We rolled into a service center ready to pump some fuel which is when Twinkles realised that he lost his mrs's credit card! Oops...so back into Bunbury we went, backtracking in hopes of finding the card!
As you can see we were off to a flying start :lol:
With the card lost and cancelled, we gassed up in town then headed out to the powerline track i had passed a long time ago which i had only glimpsed driving by.
It was pretty easy going.
Then we found a road with a steep drop (seen in the video) just off the powerline which led to a mound at the end of it. With enough speed, Twinkles would have made it but he was scared of damaging his Soob so he took it wayyyy too slow and got beached :biggrin:
From there, we trundled along till the powerlines ended which forced us to find more tracks! Down the dirt road we went heading through the forests till i noticed a strong blue through the trees. It was a dam! It was going to be one of either two dams in the region. So we decided to head towards it, heading downhill hoping to end up on the foreshore which we eventually did! It was obviously Welly dam haha.
Pretty easy to drive around on the side we ended up on (west side). After some thinking, Twinkles reckoned we should head south. Eventually we reached a "pinch point" where the water ends in a triangle which normally means you have to cross the water or go around. At this pinch point, the area before had a very damp and was muddy and slippery but was still pretty walkable. Anywho, the pinch point was very fun
We decided to meet in the Coles carpark in Bunbury at 0800hrs, Twinkles being there on time had to wait for me who was a bit late as i had to pack the wagon before leaving since i had finished some body work on it the night before. SO i was powering along the highway to arrive at Coles at 0840hrs. We all did some quick supply shopping then packed it away into the esky's.
To my horror, i noticed a large puddle of oil under the wagon knowing full well it wasn't there when i parked! Its never bled that before, or any oil really!
To cut the long story short, it seems like one out of three rings on each the pistons has worn out and cant hack it at 110kph and has let compression escape into the crankcase blowing oil straight into the air filter box to which it leaked out of down the engine and onto the ground.
So with 5l bottle of new oil on board from Supercheap, we headed out of town via a fuel station.
We rolled into a service center ready to pump some fuel which is when Twinkles realised that he lost his mrs's credit card! Oops...so back into Bunbury we went, backtracking in hopes of finding the card!
As you can see we were off to a flying start :lol:
With the card lost and cancelled, we gassed up in town then headed out to the powerline track i had passed a long time ago which i had only glimpsed driving by.
It was pretty easy going.
Then we found a road with a steep drop (seen in the video) just off the powerline which led to a mound at the end of it. With enough speed, Twinkles would have made it but he was scared of damaging his Soob so he took it wayyyy too slow and got beached :biggrin:
From there, we trundled along till the powerlines ended which forced us to find more tracks! Down the dirt road we went heading through the forests till i noticed a strong blue through the trees. It was a dam! It was going to be one of either two dams in the region. So we decided to head towards it, heading downhill hoping to end up on the foreshore which we eventually did! It was obviously Welly dam haha.
Pretty easy to drive around on the side we ended up on (west side). After some thinking, Twinkles reckoned we should head south. Eventually we reached a "pinch point" where the water ends in a triangle which normally means you have to cross the water or go around. At this pinch point, the area before had a very damp and was muddy and slippery but was still pretty walkable. Anywho, the pinch point was very fun
And i belive the lower bar has been rewelded infront of the grille to protect that area haha. I think its a good idea and it looks good. Youll have to redo my bar's welds Twinkles 