26/5/2007 - Second Week of the Kimberley Trip
We spent some time in Kununurra attempting to remove a flogged out harmonic balancer from a participant's 1HZ, The bolt had been crossthreaded and driven home by an impact wrench and took 3 hours of impact wrench work to remove!!!!! Needless to say the guy who owned it is going to give his mechanic (??) a hard time. Unfortunately there was other damage to the crank which required this car to remain in Kununurra so we are down one.
With a late wet this year the roads had just begun to open, but many of the 4wd tracks are still closed, so our planned itinerary changed a little. We had participanst exploring locally while we attempted the repair on the troopy, then off to El Questro we went.
We camped by the Pentecost for two nights and explored many local tracks before moving on across the Pentecost (400mm deep) up the Kulumuru road to Drysdale River Station where we had a warm welcome from Pam and Jo and the crew. We camped at Miners Pool one night before heading up to tackle the King Edward River which had been hovering at near a metre deep for days. I walked it and found that at its deepest it was just a tad over 900 mm deep. A brand new F250 which we saw in Drysdale hours before was still smoldering beside the road when we arrived. It had been drowned and an electrical fault did the rest. With most vehicles on the trip having a fording depth of 700mm we had to take some extra precautions, but the main vehicle of concern was a Rodeo towing a Kimberley Kamper. Despite the smoldering effie, all participants including the rodeo were keen to give it a go so we took plenty of precautions before entering the stream. All vehicles crossed without problems and only a tiny dribble of water got into the rodeo cab.
PS..I wouldn't recommend near metre deep crossings be attempted by the inexperienced.
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