We drove about 20 kms up the road and George began to pull off, something wasn't right. We'd blown a tyre and on inspection he discovered we'd also lost a wheel nut. He decided we'd turn back and have both fixed in Thargomindah before we moved on. This was the beginning of another long week !
We were going to have to wait till Monday for the Toyota dealer to open ... yes there was one here, but we didn't expect them to have what we needed. So we rang ahead to the Station... at least we still had Telstra service !
I was picked up by the station cook, Kim, in the station 4wd ute on Tuesday afternoon and arrived at Durham Downs Station ready to begin work on my own ! George was left to wait !
Long story short ... Tyre was to come on Wednesday's truck and the wheel nut on Thursday's. The tyre arrived but it took the mechanic 2 days to get to it, and the wheel nut was ' lost ' in transit. By Friday lunch George decided, after meeting a retired diesel mechanic at the caravan park, to risk the drive out so we could have the weekend to unpack and organise our new home.
We are still to receive our missing wheel nut !!
Posted by Lynne
