Feels like we'll still be here for Christmas at this rate :-( Going to go and find some comfort food in the kitchen and see if I can shake off this Eeyore feeling.
An independent overland adventure, from the UK to Cape Town via the West coast of Africa, travelling in our trusty Unimog called Moglet.
Moglet in Africa Website
We left our house in the UK in 2008 and fully intended to be in Africa not too much later. Two years on, and we've finally booked in a ferry to leave Barcelona for Tangier at the end of November 2010! It's been eventful and fun and I wouldn't change a single day of it, even if it has all taken a bit longer than expected...
Prior to this shiny new blog, there was and still is a Moglet in Africa website to wander through. It's been up and running for a while now and has loads more detail on the route, the vehicle, us, preparation, pretty much everything other than the trip diary itself. It will also be the site that gets maintained throughout Africa to detail lots more information on top of a trip diary. As well as that, it's also got a link to our original Moglet website which has more details of the original planning and preparation for leaving a house rented in the UK, personal and medical preparations, plus the driving all around Scotland we did for a few months following our original departure in 2008.
So in a nutshell, if you're just interested in the diary for the trip down Africa, the blog will be mostly all you need to worry about. But if you're interested in how we got to this point and what's happened to us so far, or want more information on the Africa bit than cant be found in a blog (GPS co-ordinates, lots of photos etc) have a look at the websites :-)
Prior to this shiny new blog, there was and still is a Moglet in Africa website to wander through. It's been up and running for a while now and has loads more detail on the route, the vehicle, us, preparation, pretty much everything other than the trip diary itself. It will also be the site that gets maintained throughout Africa to detail lots more information on top of a trip diary. As well as that, it's also got a link to our original Moglet website which has more details of the original planning and preparation for leaving a house rented in the UK, personal and medical preparations, plus the driving all around Scotland we did for a few months following our original departure in 2008.
So in a nutshell, if you're just interested in the diary for the trip down Africa, the blog will be mostly all you need to worry about. But if you're interested in how we got to this point and what's happened to us so far, or want more information on the Africa bit than cant be found in a blog (GPS co-ordinates, lots of photos etc) have a look at the websites :-)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Oh No It Doesnt...
The Eberspacher is still broken :-( It ran for hours and hours after Jason reinstalled it at the weekend, then when it clicked on the next morning if turned off again after 15minutes. Ever since then its been a daily event to take off something and replace it with a new bit to see if it works, and nothing does. Right up to about an hour ago we though we'd cracked it, having fiddled with the fuel feed and then listening to everything running smoothly for half an hour. Then she cuts out and tells us via an error code that the fan is jammed - exactly the same damn error code that we got over a month ago when this whole saga started. And since then she's had a new fan, a new motor, a new flame sensor, a new inlet pipe, a new exhaust... The only options left now are to try replacing the electrical bits, the brain of the unit, or replace the whole unit entirely. We're already down hundreds of pounds and still apparently no closer to a fix, and more spare parts will probably be another couple of hundred. A brand new unit is closer to a grand, but that also buys us peace of mind and confidence in a part of Moglet that we'd really like to have faith in. Thats assuming theres a unit of the model we need thats available...
Oh, and did I mention that the 12v circuit in the cab decided to go pop for no apparent reason over the weekend too? The fuse has been replaced and its all up and running again, but we're still none the wiser as to why a 5amp fuse would blow on a circuit that has less than 3amps running through it fully loaded, even allowing for startup spikes?? I wouldnt mind, but we havent even used anything on the circuit since it was installed and tested, let alone had the chance to overload it!
Feels like we'll still be here for Christmas at this rate :-( Going to go and find some comfort food in the kitchen and see if I can shake off this Eeyore feeling.
Feels like we'll still be here for Christmas at this rate :-( Going to go and find some comfort food in the kitchen and see if I can shake off this Eeyore feeling.
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