ashman
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My wife and myself had 6 weeks looking after a friends house while he was away at Agnes Waters a couple of miles from the historical sea side town of 1770 on the Queensland coast 5 hours drive fro our home also my brother in law also live up there, but this is where my run of bad luck stared.
We loaded the 130 dual cab Land Rover up (we have owned it for over 8 year without any problems) I decided to take the Triumph with us so loaded it on the trailer as we had to make a trip back home ever 2 weeks ( the wife was getting hearing aids fitted) anyway we had traveled the 500ks drive up there got to the begin of the road we were staying when the clutch on the Landy failed, this was at 8 pm and 4.6ks from the house, so unloaded the Trumpy off the trailer to a mates place to get help, we loaded the trailer up with all our gear and left the Landy on the side of the road (blown throw out bearing failed) lucky a good diesel workshop in town so new clutch kit fitted we picked the Landy up the morning we were going for a quick trip back home and back again so decided to take Landy with the trailer and bike that I am going to fix up, got to Bundy which is 126ks from Agnes Waters and blew a hole in the radiator so stuck on the side of the road, a quick call to the workshop that did the clutch job thinking they done something when they took the gearbox out to cause a hole in the radiator, they arranged to get the truck and trailer towed back to them.
We had to be back home early next day so got dropped of at the house we were staying and we jumped on the Trumpy to go home, by this time it as after 5pm when we got going again, then on the way home got done for speeding (not my day) we finally got home after 9 pm to fine all the large trees next door to my back yard had been felled, I nearly cried as I grew up with these trees, a few days later we were back at Agnes Waters then a day later I lost my throw over saddle bags off the back of the bike in between town and the house we were staying they were empty at the time, I retraced my trip but they were no where to be found, someone picked them up.
Anyway back to the radiator they found my head light wiring got caught up in the fan and pulled the hard plug that connects to the right head ligh had put the hole in the radiator so order a new ratiator, when it arrived they pull the old one out to find my inner cooler for the turbo had a Major crack in it ( the turbo has been playing up for a few weeks before that) so was lucky got a second hand one for half the price of a new one.
So now it's time to head back home for good loaded the Trumph on the trailer, packed the truck up and a way we went, didn't get far 65ks out we had a blow out on one of the trailer wheel, so jacked it up on the side of the road to fine I had left the wheel brace for the trailer at home, so pulled the bike off the trailer and did a 60 is ride to Bundy to buy a new wheel brace, the wife stayed with the truck till I got back, finally got the wheel off to put the spare trailer wheel on to find the spare wheel was a diffrent wheel patten, it was the same size wheel but earlier model Holden rim, there was a small outback church where we had pulled up so we towed the trailer to it so it was hidden from the road and we left the trailer with the 2 bikes there and drove the 60ks to get the new tyre fitted to the oginal trailer rim, finally back on the road (a 5 hour trip took us over 10 hours and got home about 9pm that night.
They say bad luck comes in 3s but so far my luck hasn't changed yet, a week later one of my near new Guzi rear shockies blew a seal and being just over 2 years old of course I had to pay them to fix them (not a happy Chappy) and I did let them know my disappointment about it, so what else can go wrong, my luck has to change soon, by the way the trees were felled so they could build another house closer to my side fence, I just feel like selling up and going bush, but I have lived in my house for all my life except when I ran away a few time in my younger days, just glad the beer fridge always has a beer in it.
Ashley
PS my mate that we looked after his place asked when we are coming back up again, I told him I will never go back there again as its been nothing but bad luck and cost us a small fortune to fix the car and we didn't even get a chance to go off shore fishing on the reefs because of the winds that blew for the 6 weeks while we were up there.
We loaded the 130 dual cab Land Rover up (we have owned it for over 8 year without any problems) I decided to take the Triumph with us so loaded it on the trailer as we had to make a trip back home ever 2 weeks ( the wife was getting hearing aids fitted) anyway we had traveled the 500ks drive up there got to the begin of the road we were staying when the clutch on the Landy failed, this was at 8 pm and 4.6ks from the house, so unloaded the Trumpy off the trailer to a mates place to get help, we loaded the trailer up with all our gear and left the Landy on the side of the road (blown throw out bearing failed) lucky a good diesel workshop in town so new clutch kit fitted we picked the Landy up the morning we were going for a quick trip back home and back again so decided to take Landy with the trailer and bike that I am going to fix up, got to Bundy which is 126ks from Agnes Waters and blew a hole in the radiator so stuck on the side of the road, a quick call to the workshop that did the clutch job thinking they done something when they took the gearbox out to cause a hole in the radiator, they arranged to get the truck and trailer towed back to them.
We had to be back home early next day so got dropped of at the house we were staying and we jumped on the Trumpy to go home, by this time it as after 5pm when we got going again, then on the way home got done for speeding (not my day) we finally got home after 9 pm to fine all the large trees next door to my back yard had been felled, I nearly cried as I grew up with these trees, a few days later we were back at Agnes Waters then a day later I lost my throw over saddle bags off the back of the bike in between town and the house we were staying they were empty at the time, I retraced my trip but they were no where to be found, someone picked them up.
Anyway back to the radiator they found my head light wiring got caught up in the fan and pulled the hard plug that connects to the right head ligh had put the hole in the radiator so order a new ratiator, when it arrived they pull the old one out to find my inner cooler for the turbo had a Major crack in it ( the turbo has been playing up for a few weeks before that) so was lucky got a second hand one for half the price of a new one.
So now it's time to head back home for good loaded the Trumph on the trailer, packed the truck up and a way we went, didn't get far 65ks out we had a blow out on one of the trailer wheel, so jacked it up on the side of the road to fine I had left the wheel brace for the trailer at home, so pulled the bike off the trailer and did a 60 is ride to Bundy to buy a new wheel brace, the wife stayed with the truck till I got back, finally got the wheel off to put the spare trailer wheel on to find the spare wheel was a diffrent wheel patten, it was the same size wheel but earlier model Holden rim, there was a small outback church where we had pulled up so we towed the trailer to it so it was hidden from the road and we left the trailer with the 2 bikes there and drove the 60ks to get the new tyre fitted to the oginal trailer rim, finally back on the road (a 5 hour trip took us over 10 hours and got home about 9pm that night.
They say bad luck comes in 3s but so far my luck hasn't changed yet, a week later one of my near new Guzi rear shockies blew a seal and being just over 2 years old of course I had to pay them to fix them (not a happy Chappy) and I did let them know my disappointment about it, so what else can go wrong, my luck has to change soon, by the way the trees were felled so they could build another house closer to my side fence, I just feel like selling up and going bush, but I have lived in my house for all my life except when I ran away a few time in my younger days, just glad the beer fridge always has a beer in it.
Ashley
PS my mate that we looked after his place asked when we are coming back up again, I told him I will never go back there again as its been nothing but bad luck and cost us a small fortune to fix the car and we didn't even get a chance to go off shore fishing on the reefs because of the winds that blew for the 6 weeks while we were up there.
