The Greek Breakdown.

Somebody had to have a somewhat serious breakdown, and to date it is us. It all started when we went to Agios Nikolaos from Iraklion some 60 km to look at what I’m assured is the second largest city on Crete. On our return to Iraklion the ute started to run rough, I thought it was fuel but soon realised that was not the case. As it was the day we were leaving Crete and catching the ferry back to Athens on the main land, I & others only had a quick look to see if we could fix it, but to no avail. It was organised that I got towed up onto the boat, as it was a steep ramp up if I could not do it under my own power as it turned out to be the case. A blitz did the job and I was set for the ferry ride.

When we unloaded at Athens at 0630, Mick & I started work on the old girl, it was not long before others started to join in and help. There was no spark on one cylinder and weak on others. Well that was when the fun started. We changed a distributor cap and in doing so mixed up the wires, which gave us endless grief from then on. After a lot of time and frustration that was resolved. The new cap did not fix the fault. We then decided to pull the distributor completely off and have a look at it, what we found was a surprise to us as one of the 2 rotor button points was bent and broken due to hitting the cap. It was a relief to find the fault, then set about replacing the distributor with a spare I had on board. To cut a long story short after then taking it back off to clean the points (as we forgot to before we fitted it) we got the old going better then ever and on the road again some several hours latter arriving at the camp for the night at midnight.



David Mottram in his Chev truck has a brocken main leaf on a rear spring that he has to still get repaired.
We have done 1700 miles so far averaging 14 mpg