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General Category => The Sump => Topic started by: obsession on April 10, 2010, 01:20:23 AM
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can they do it and will the docko sell?
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hey guys, this could be hard to vote on. When ben gets there and sees that sandy beach, and bikini cladless beach nymps, he could be there indefinate, his arm could get real tired and he may never return. lol ;D ;D good luck benny have fun. lol ;D :D
George.
P.S plenty of pics would be nice. lol
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it will also depend on whether the van they are picking up for me will go into top gear haha...how long does 4000ks at 60kmh take?
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it's along way to use a tow rope
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Ben will do it as sure as the sun comes up tomorow,
"look its a bird, its a plane no its super beddyman" (ben)".
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it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's the one armed bandit.
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they missed thier plane . good start ::) add a day
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aahhh lmao hang in there beny i got good money on ya
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I've got good money on him too... Nearly three grand to be exact haha
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G'day
Just got back from Lightning Ridge. Didn't see Ben there.
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what where ya doing there blackbedford
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hey ben ----are we there yet!!
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dont tell me the one armed bandit is missing in action, hope he did'nt fall out of the plane. lol ;D
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maybe he's hanging out with ilean or kneel ;D ;D ;D
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what where ya doing there blackbedford
G'day
I was working, putting in new printers around the area.
Last week week I did over 2000kms going to places like
Lightning Ridge and Bourke dodging kangaroos, emus, camels and plague locusts.
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As you can see a lot of roads are long and flat.
On Thursday night I skidded through a mob of cattle that were on the road between Brewarrina and Coolabah.
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How I didn't hit any was a sort of miracle. In a wider van I most certainly would have.
We have been in drought for the best part of 10 years but we now have flood waters coming out of Queensland that are the size of Great Britain. Dry creeks are now 50kms wide. It has been a game getting around flooded roads and washed away bridges. I drove into Brewarrina only to find out the road to Bourke had just been closed due to bridge failure. I had to take a 240km diversion.
The old bridge at Bourke:
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My van does a LOT of miles and works HARD.
A couple of shots of the van with loads on:
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Most of those loads involved trips of well over 100kms. I am very happy with the Carry. It is cheap to run and very reliable. Gotta get a Bedford back on the road though.
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The boys are still going strong. They left my place just a few hours ago.
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good on ya boys keep it up
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Hey all, well Ben the one armed bandit has just left my place, and he could not wait to get his hands on my angle grinder, just as well i have 000 on the alarm system. Well he is headed south bound now after working on one of the vans, in my wokshop. Take a look at the Pics.
George.
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atleast he was wearing safety boots....
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::) ;D
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Hey that's my sweet ass van with all the problems haha
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Drive safe Benny, don't for get to stop in at Singleton mate for me............................... Cheers :o
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where abouts are you atm ben
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hey jimbo, the amount of time we spent at my place working on the white van, he could be a while, wasnt he suppose to be in vic by today ? has anyone heard from the one armed bandit ? ;D ;D
George.
PS here is benny at his best lol ;D ;D
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he is still a few hours from canberra and my van just caught on fire...
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Oh no how bad is it and do you know what caused it
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not sure what caused it...just f***ed a hose and a bit of paint damage....ben says its driving fine now..
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l hope theres been nothing wrong with the van and his making it all up, cos his running a muck in the beddy chasing women , falling of bar stools and leaving a trail of distruction!!!!!! GO THE ROAD TRIP !!!!!!!! ;D :D :D ;D
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Aaaaaaaaaw rossie. . wot d,you say that for. . . i want to be there too now ;)
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I got a SMS saying he had a "small fire" :D and he fixed it and was on his way
I bet he took the opportunity to toast marshmallows on the flaming bits before he fixed it ;D
Its a funny old place that Benny's World :o ::)
Warren
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the last beddie fire i had , did take all my beeer..... 10 cans and just put it out, then the nob head mates thru sand on it..... and laughed :-[. I was 17 ....... :-\
oh the mess AND the smell :'(
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I got a few calls from Ben yesterday and last night.
The van he picked up north was a shemoozle, the guy didn't have a frigging clue. No brake fluid, left wishbone rubbers gone as well as ball joint stuffed, accelerator cable buggered, rubber between air filter and carby held together by duct tape (where the fire happened) coil blown... but he's managed to get them both where they belong so far.
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Ha ha you guys are greAt. Most of the fun is over now:( now we dont have naths van lol.. Well we have had an epic adventure. Ill write up the crazy story when we get home on a computer:) almost in vic now.
Cheers
ben
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You go Benny !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D :D ;D :D
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onya ben, hey just after you left my place monday it started raining, and has not stopped since. ;D
George.
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Ben is the most talented dude out and icant thank him enough for delivering my van in one piece.... Despite all the issues it's a sweet van that's really straight and appears to only have a bit of surface rust and screw holes to fix body wise....
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trust me jon, its a cool ride, i was in bedford heaven on monday with a driveway full of vans, and being in the presence of benny was cool too. lol ;D ;D ;D
George.
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Ben has had a major incedent, Yep he blew a thong. But alas all is not lost we managed to patch it up and he is on his way again.
He has just left wodonga with the van packed to the rafters. Its been a very slow trip, travelling at 80 k's.
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declan64, did you buy that one with the bullet and axe holes?
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over here a thong is a womans g-string, oh no, just had a visual ;D ;D ;D
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YES, it came with 5 bullet holes in the windscreen and 2 axe holes in the side and best of all, thay were free.
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declan64, my beddy come from Albury/Wodonga? you didn't sell a white one a while back by any chance?
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nice one declan....love to see this one restored....looks radical....any more photo's/ close ups
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Able, No dident see it about. But there are a couple of others.
Dano,Ive been a little slack with the pictures, I will take a few over the weekend
Anthony
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u didnt see a missin green one did u ??? ??? oh alright ill miss off to bed now
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l got my van from up that way awhile back, from a place called Lavington l think
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well heres the crazy story..
main objective of trip.. buy strezes vans (air brushed one and wreck) wreck the second throw the parts in the back, transport it back home 3,300km, pick up naths van drive it from brisbane to canberra 1200km, have a bit of a holiday, bit of excitement. get to see east side of aus a bit. get home before work for jackson on thursday..
so.. friday morning 4 of us had our alarms set for 3:30am and randomly no ones alarm went off?? but jack woke at 4.30 so we ran around to get to the airport.
got the airport parking 10 mins lAate. but we missed the 5am shuttle. but didnt have to be at the airport till 5.40 anyway the shuttle went missing?? and when it came we only had 5 mins to get to the airport.
made it to the airport 5 mins late. and it cost us 10hrs sitting at the airport trying to amuse ourselves..
i tried to get a 1 day job at lots of the shops at the airport. but no luck there.
after a long day we got on the plane at 4.30.
pulled into cairns at 8. strez picked us up from the airport, man it was thick air!!
started wrecking the second van at 8.30. got lots of good stuff off it.. axel, grill, transmission, steering rack, stub axels, brake booster, seats
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here is the wreck. gotta love cairns for bringing out the rust in everything!!
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ready to smack out the axel. could only get 1 out. tried hard to get the other one out but no luck..
2am we left strezs dads house with a van with 4 seats in it (2 from the wreck van) on petrol:(
we made it 3 or 4 mins down the road and ran out of petrol:(
pushed it for about 2km to nearest servo.
filled her up and on the road wahoo!
another 5mins down the road blew a rear wheel cylinder:( bummer. oh well didnt need rear brakes anyway:(
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drove through the night. sleeping and driving. 4 of us so we could all interchange driving..
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also had a bed behind nelle where we slept to..
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townsville 8 am
cleaning up a bit.. had half a shower in maccas toilet basin.
then went on the hunt for a gas conversion.. man not 1 in 30 wreckers!!!!! got to be joking. these people sell gas at their pumps but no one has gas??? crazy!!!!!
caught up with clance in mackay! was sweet.. still looking for a gas conversion. petrol is way expensive!
drove through the night again.
made it to brisbane 12 midday sunday.. caught up with few friends. caught up with shane J checked out his van, threw the diff on the roof:)
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drove down south brisbane.
picked up the second van we were transporting for nath. man it needed work
things we had to fix before we went anywhere..
fit electronic dizzy.. the motor looked like it was tearing itsself appart cause of the points.
bleed the brakes.. no fluid in the brake reservoir, and pedal went to the floor.
left upper wishbone sliding around all over the place.. pin stuck in crossmember..
anyway we fixed it enough to drive it safely.
slept in the vans in a car park where we though was a good spot. i slept outside under the stars until it started raining. and i cuddled up in my sleeping back until i realized i couldnt get away from the rain and had to get in one of the vans. the spot we had choosen ended up not being a good spot. browns plains is apparently not a good area for crime. we had the cops rock up and interigate us. i couldnt think straight cause they woke me up and it made interesting talking for our conversation. the cops tried to find drugs or something i n the baclk of the vans. i laughed at them.. opps..
anyway they said not to do it again..?? we went back to sleep..
got up in the morning drove to georges house.. blew a coil on one of the vans. replaced it with a spare. caught up with george
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i sent the boys to wreckers to get a gas conversion while me and nelle did more work on naths van.. (wishbone)
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drove to the wreckers. jackson got his iphone and wallet stolen cause he left them on the roof of a car???? stupid
we converted strezs van to gas outside the wreckers.. yay cheap!!
then we headed off once again at 5pm..
we got lost at one point. and ended up on gravel. it had nothing to do with me cause i was asleep.
after wasting a fair amount of time we got back on the hwy..
we stopped in a truck stop and sleept for 2 or 3 hours..
first thing we split the vans cause we had to go to singleton to pick up a jag diff. and i scored a borg wagner centre out of it as well which was handy:)
on our way back to meet up with the others we had a phone call to say the other van had caught on fire. at that stage we feared the worst. jack said all the engine was burnt and it sounded serious.
then i had a chat on the phone to a towy that was at the servo and he said it was nothing major which was a relief.
but nelle got sick from the smoke and had to go to hospital.. man she was acting like such a girl.. oh well.
me and jackson got to van. i stayed there and got it running again while jackson went to hospital to make sure everything was alright..
fire started from air intake.. cloth tape wrapped around it by previous owner
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the fire only burn a few hoses which i patched up with other hose. and i cut the intake air hose on carby out drove without it.. also the accelerator cable got seized. so i had to use my left big toe on the throttle arm instead. that was fun.. 200kms until i had amazing cramps then i discovered i should take the spring off.. that made it more like cruize control!! much better!!!!
3.30am got to and slept at naths house in canberra for 4 hours, then had to go again lol.. had too much weight on boad had to get rid of some mud flaps cause they were rubbing on the tyres..
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left the gps in naths van so it took us hours to find our way out of canberra!! that was annoying..
photo of the van at the big submarine at that place cant remember..
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made it to albury wadonga and caught up with antony and he fixed my thong for me:) very importand
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could not get the diff filler open to check the oil in the diff and was paradoide the whole trip could do bearings or the diff.. so when we started heRing noise that sounded like bearing noise we were pretty scared. only had 1 spare axel..
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thank goodness it ended up being tailshaft bolts coming loose..
made it back to melbourne wednesday night.. so it was 5 days!!!!!!!!!!
dont think the docko will sell. not much footage.. but heaps of fun. the guys recon it was a full on epic adventure and the most fun they have had for a long time..
and i think ill be starting a business bens bedford bush mechanics:)
he he
thanks heaps to george for letting us use his tools also.. we really do have a great community of people on buga.
cheers
ben
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damn good story there ben, glad it wasn't in txt language lol ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Bloody brilliant Benny and the gang. Talk about an adventure! Gotta luv beddies for basic mechanics eh? Luv the pics . :D ;D :D
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Ben, you're absolutely insane! Love it!
I reckon you could sell that story to Readers Digest.
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good job buddy
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hey benny, glad your home safe mate, you should sell instructions on how to fix a broken thong. lol lol ;D ;D ;D oh yeh forgot to tell you about the browns plains cops lol. ;D ;D your lucky they liked you, or you may have had to do a rambo on them lol ;D :D I'll give you a war you wont forget. lol
George.
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that was a great thread lol love it pics are great to
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HaHa Benny - road trips are great - now common tell us all the stupid stuff you did :D
Warren
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Hey guy's that looked like fun wish I was 40years younger reminds me off a few trips me & my mates done back when Pitty you's didnt come past my place maby next time By the way Holbrook is where the subs are my old stamping ground's bet it was good to get home Cheers Reid
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Great read ben,cool story.
Who ate the toasted roll on the dash after the fire. :P
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next mission the nullabour, or from Darwin . well done mate.
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OMG.....I still cant convince my brain to believe what i read actually happened. Are you guys crazy....i have to give you big props for your relentless will. If that was me, ida just hooked it up to a truck travellin my direction and dragged that mutha all the way home:) hahahaaha.....ive not got the patience.
So who were the other 3 people with you? are they all forum members? And ive seen that mural van before, did the owner move and you went to get it for him, or did the original owner sell it and you went and got it for the new owner?
I think the most incredible part of the story is the fact that you did a Gas Conversion on the spot, to save on petrol....NOW THATS GOLD!!! Like to see a Greenie go that far:) ahaha
Your arm looked fine also? You heal quick.....i thought it would still be bandaged up and hangin from the tendons:) lol
GOOD ONYA I SAY.......Man if i was 10-15yrs younger......I STILL couldnt do it:) hehehe
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Man, you guys are crazy!!!
Ben you and your crew have talent. Forget about all those singing and cooking shows on tv. They need a tv show about a roadside gas conversion all done in a broken thong!
I'm so glad I found this website
Adrian.
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Forget the "A" Team how about the "B" Team.
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hey reid yeh sorry we started runing out of time toward the end of our trip..
definatly next time!
rubman i ate the bread. we didnt eat much while we were away. sorta my fault i pushed everyone to keep going lol..
kirk my arm is pretty lame at the moment.. it looks ok but its useless pretty much. going to a healing seminar tonight. praying for a miracle..
cheers
ben