OzWanderers

31/12/2024

We hope 2025 brings you happiness and good times

23/12/2024

From us to you, Merry Christmas and best wishes for a Happy 2025 full of adventure and fun! Safe travels

19/12/2024

Pre Christmas visit to Mudgee/Gulgong, tasting the regions best at gilbertfamilywines

16/12/2024

Another great week staying in the Crowdy Bay National Park. The Diamond Head campground is a good base for visiting the region at $24 night it has a dump point and flushing toilets.

11/12/2024

Thanks to all that gave us advice on footwell water bladders and transfer pumps. We went with the Fleximake 105ltr bladder and Kickass 12ltr/min pump. Works a treat and no leaks.

11/12/2024

SWIFT DUAL HOT WATER SYSTEM

On our current trip we are off grid and could not get hot water working on gas. The led light on gas switch just flashed.

We tested our unit and found one of the four thermostats was open circuit. From what we understand of the four thermostats two are for gas on 12v and the other two for 240v operation.

There is a 60 degree thermostat that automatically opens when up to temp to cut off the gas and closes again when cool to reheat. The other one is a manually resetable 75 degree safety or over temp thermostat.

To get hot water we removed the 60 degree series link and bridged to the overtemp which got us out of trouble. Turning off once heated to prevent tripping the safety.

Looking at the Swift spare parts we could have bought a whole new assembly as per photos for $70 plus freight but found that we could replace the faulty component through Jaycar for just under $10 with a 30 min drive plus 15mins work to fit it.

Hopefully our experience this helps someone else one day. We now carry a spare thermostat!

27/11/2024

Hope everyone is keeping cool and staying safe in the current east-coast heatwave.
We are busy packing the van ready for our early summer beach camps! Can’t wait.

07/10/2024

School holiday chaos in paradise

04/10/2024

16/09/2024

Now look me in the eye and say that!

05/09/2024

Great day to be out and about.

28/08/2024

Great to see the early spring colours in the Central Plains of NSW with Wattle and Canola providing golden highlights on a rare green country side.

28/08/2024

Great to see the early spring colours on the Central Plains of NSW with Wattle and Canola providing golden highlights on a green country side.

12/07/2024

We need some help deciding. We are looking at buying a footwell water bladder and transfer pump to help extend our water capacity, allow us to transfer from car to van and pick up water from creeks etc straight to the van tanks, but we are concerned about leaks in the car. Anyone had problems with these things or recommendations? Looking at the self priming pump in a box from KickAss.

23/06/2024

Bringing back some sunshine East Beach Kiama

14/06/2024

This week we put our MM4X4 Vehicle Electronics Lock up kit through a mountainous test. We crossed the Snowy Mountains climbing from Tumut and decsending Brown Mountain while towing a 22'6 Van. See comments on the post for more details.

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