19-12-2007
And here comes another capital of BB’s history: we where still traveling in the Mounties downhill, when I noticed that the brake was very week, putting it in the lowest gear I managed to stop it in front of a restaurant and put some brake oil in it, now I could brake again but surely only for a sort time. To repair it I surely needed some spairparts,but this could be possible I have noticed a lot of M.B on the road. We overnighted there, but the next morning the BB would not start, when it had been cold during the night it could be because of that, I had to ask for help and four strong men pushed it to start. So here we stood with two problems.
Downhill we reached soon a little town where a mechanic fast found a leek in defect flange in the hydraulic system. To get it started we still had a problem ,thinking that it could be a flat battery we started it downhill and took off, but when we should start it after lunch it still did not start and when there came smoke out, there was no doubt that the starter motor was ill. The next town showed to be a big town now in a flat area.
I feared how to find an electrical workshop but we got help to that, and it was just to put in the reserve motor I brought from Sao Paulo. First we found out that the start motor really was broken gone into pleases and second that my reserve starter was no good it was for 24 volts and the flange did not fix either . The electrician offered to repair it, But his workshop was very poor, so I asked him if he could get a whole new one, and what a luck he he himself had just one , price with everything 200 Us$.
This morning he put it in and lucky we where, later he took us in his car to a post office to send letters to Brazil, even that was not an easy task so we where glad for his help
And on top of this he had a friend who had a cafenet and in no time my mail went off.
Text to nine photos:
No 1 Can you read that? I can not
No2 A change in the flatland.
No 3 The electricians.
No 4 At breakfast, he served porrige.
No 5 here is written something like auto electrik.
No6 What ar they gathered here for? I never found out, something with money.
No7 And here they do the job.
No 8 and here we are in the Petrolzone
No 9 He is saying his prayers.