Ahhh, Madrid.

Traffic and lane discipline leave a little (!) to be desired, but we are making good progress. Plan is to stop in another 100km or so bit we'll see how it's going. Some proper sunshine as well, hurray!

Update.

So sunglasses go on for the first time on the trip.
We have spent most of the journey in cloud or fog so far, its nice to see the sun!
There have been a lot of lorries on the road as expected. Some have been called Leci-trailers some Voltrailers so Kate reckons there is an Ampervan somewhre!

Location...

Elev 2109ft
N42.51.470, W 002.53.592
Up in the clouds. And it's raining...

Day 1 in the BFG... Location:

N 42.53.090, W 002.53.635
In the clouds. And it's raining...

Spain!

So after the most boring ferry crossing we have finally made it to Spain.
Did manage to sleep for about 22 hours of the 36!
Now just waiting to off load from the ship. Onwards to southern Spain.

At the docks!

So we have arrived at the docks and met a couple of the other vehicles on the trip.
Now the long wait for the ferry boarding.
Time for a coffee.

Packed!

The start of the journey.

So after much planning and thought and of course the odd spanner in the works we are ready for the off.
The Landy is packed and ready to go. Are we ready? I think so but we will have the couple of days drive through spain to work out what we have forgotten to pack and hopefully buy on route.

Thank you to all who have wished us well on our little adventure. I will try and blog as often as I can get signal and will also post some Lat and Long point for you all to do a search on google maps!

See you in a month!

Transfer box.

HURRAH!
The new transfer box is installed and working great.
Quick oil change tomorrow and all done ready for the off on wednesday.

Final preparations.

So saturday was an eventful day. I went over to a friends garage to sort out the front kingpins as they were a bit "used" and put on some protective covers to the swivel housings.
All went well and we stripped down the wheel stations regreased and sorted the kingpins out.

The small fly in the ointment was the discovery that the transfer box had eaten one of its bushes. this was the bigger clonk that I had noticed a few days before. So drained the oil and removed the inspection panel and found teeth and glitter! Never a nice thing to find inside a gearbox.

So onto the internet and a posting in on www.lr4x4.com and quite a few offers of T boxes came in. I opted for a defender one but it was in Felixstowe. So a fast drive over in the golf on sunday afternoon and I collected a Discovery 300tdi t-box. yeah well we thought it was a defender one but on inspection of the numbers it wasnt. Never mind it should be better for the long drive through Spain.

The vehicle has now had its errant tbox removed and I am going over to the garage this afternoon to deliver the replacement so fingers crossed!

Test blog from mobile

Test from mobile with picture.

Test blog before trip.

Ok so this is a test blog before we go away in two weeks time. Lets see if the attachments upload from the email.

Truck is ready!

Well I think the truck is no finally ready for the Sahara trip.
Took a few photos today of the roof tent up and awning rigged. Looked pretty good.
Cant wait, so were going to take it on a few shake down trips to see what we have forgotten.
Here are a few photos.
well there would be if blogger would let me upload them!

busy weekend..

Blimey what a busy weekend.
Started off with a little trip down to Taunton to help a friend move his two MG's from the farm to his nice new double bay garage. Traffic by Stonehenge was the usual insanity.
Then scream back with the trailer empty. Home and relax.
Sunday was Waxoly the Defender now it has had the new rear cross member welded in place. Thanks to Chris.
I always get covered when waxolying to went in fully boiler suited and head cover, gloves. Did a real nice job and got it all over the chassis and into the chassis rails. Pleased with myself.
Decided to attack the MGB afterwards and pulled a bolt out of the roll cage to get the tube in which worked really well up until it sprayed out all over the drive! D'oh!
Clean up time.........again.
So just got the spare wheel carier to fit to the bonnet and the truck is ready for the Sahara trip. But got many shack down trips to do before hand.
More to come.

New toys for the Landy

So new light bar and lights from Katy and also a handy shovel from Seagers. Thanks.

More from Abingdon

New Landy at Abingdon 4x4 Festival

HHmmmm Landy or MG,,,,,,,

So its been and interesting year with the MG sprinting. I have not done any but kate has been out in the midget quite a lot but our focus is shifting towards our other toy a Land Rover Defender.
We are looking after my sisters and have bought our own beast to play with.
I have posted some silly videos on youtube. www.youtube.com/tjnicolson
Have a giggle!
More to come soon.

FW: Midget Go Go stop!

So the start of the season is upon us and we were looking quite
organised. Midget has a nice new quiet exhaust from maniflow on it and
was sounding great when wewent to collect it last thursday. Using the
new tow vehicle a Land Rover Defender, 200tdi 90.
We continued the tow upto Summit toget the MOT done which of course it
failed on some rear bushes. So summit fixed all that and we went to
collect on saturday morning.
We managed to get just off the M4 when the head gasket went!! A quick
nip home to collect thw Landy and trailer. Once home we stripped the
head off and started cleaning the faces for the new gasket.
All started going back together sunday morning and was running by the
afternoon.
So now all I need to do is give it and oil change and a polish then its
ready for Rushmoor.

TJ Nicolson sent using MOTO Q 9h