[Andrew E]

Bill,
Photos of the road side repair crew at work. I am holding the idler Eddie E with sunglasses Graame H and Bill H with his back to the camera. The idler pulley was retained between the bearings with C clips which let go. After much discussion the road side repair was done with stainless tie wire taken from the spinners off my car to replace the lost C clip though this fix only lasted 10km. After which the car was parked while we caught up to the rest of the group for lunch to work on a solution to get the car home. The plan was to drive back to Bacchus Marsh and borrow my cousins flat bed trailer and tow the car home to Barwon Heads however my cousin suggested it would be easier to take the idler off the car and make a spacer and tig weld the end of the shaft to prevent bearing movement which is what we ended up doing, With the back and forth trips to get the idler and then take it back to Bacchus Marsh and repair the end result was over 500kms in my 40 for the day. It was an interesting trip home (just on dusk). I was trailing Eddie a kangaroo jumped right out at his car and from my view it sure looked as if his car was doomed, I dont know how it some how missed him really scarey stuff. An 60kg Roo could make a real mess of a 40 travelling at 100kph. End result was both cars home safley although a tad later than we had planned.
Amdrew