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Thursday, January 12, 2006
The 116 survives the heat
The GTV has been out and about. Took it to Sydney (100km each way) in
34degree heat (that's Celsius, folks) and it survived. Topped up the oil
and checked all other fluids before leaving, of course - and carried a
supply of everything just in case. The old four-cyclinder carbie motor
idles slower in the heat, especially when sitting in traffic on Epping
Road, but didn't really threaten to stall. Of course the air con has
totally died now (the piston type compressor) so it was windows-down and
fan up.
Still, nice to give it a run. That trip was to Sydney CBD (my 7 yo daughter
wanted to visit the Powerhouse Museum, a technological museum at Darling
Harbour). I followed up with a run to work at West Pennant Hills yesterday
in cooler weather (about 70km each way).
Again uneventful but it was nice to let loose a bit on the freeway. The
plugs were complaining about some slow running in traffic though so I may
give 'em a clean.
Cheers, Rob.
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