The decision has been made to travel the country. With two beautiful new friends (Heff and Mikki) and my best mate (Nelso). The girls had already bought and half decked out their vehicle by the time we (Nelso and i) actually decided we were going to travel with them. So i started scouting around on eBay and found a 1988 Toyota landcruiser troop carrier that looked outlandish enough to capture my attention.
So we all went for a road trip up to Sydney to purchase this ridiculous beast. When we finally go to Maitland where the car was located, we started to inspect the vehicle, Mikgater noticed there was a leak coming from under the front, turns out the leak was the power steering box seal. After some tinkering to no avail, we made the decision to wrestle the beast without power steering until we got back to Wagga Wagga. (at the moment its still not fixed.) After a large night out in the city it was time to drive home again. As soon as we get out onto the open highway the bumblebee swerved violently to the right, almost wiping out the girls driving my other car.
Through tenacity and sheer determination of will and might i managed to wrestle the angry beast to a rest area. We looked over the wheel we though may have been causing the trouble, we couldn't see anything glaringly wrong with it (oh we were very wrong). I had by this time dismissed the swerving as some sort of gremlin living in the brake system.
We limped the heavy creature home and discovered the wheel was leaning at a very concerning angle. As we soon found out the wheel bearing had completely disintegrated and had left nothing but powdered metal flakes behind.
Anyways lucky it was a landcruiser or the wheel may have very easily came off and sent us into an early grave. We have since fixed the two front wheel bearings and this weekend will be attacking the rear bearings hopefully.
I'll do another post of some images of the bumblebee in her current condition.
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