It was so cold overnight, and in the morning, a solid sheet of ice covered the Ranger’s windscreen…

The first priority for today was to sort Gordie’s fuel filter issue out as the Titan was not able to be driven….

Branch was a bit late to the scene… MacGyver and Gordie already had the part out and were inspecting it….

Seems that the mechanic yesterday had put the old fuel filter back in when he realised the one Gordie had left him was for the front fuel filter (the Titan has 2 and they are different)… and as the mechanic did not have a part for the one he removed he had put the old one back in and sealed it with some sort of sealant around the O-ring… unsuccessfully as the Titan was drawing air in through it…

Unfortunately, the dealership that had done the service was not open til Monday so Gordie had to try and source a part or a solution over this weekend…. It appears that there were no fuel filters the same that they could find on first investigation…

Gordie and MacGyver removed the O-ring and as much of the sealant they could from the part and the area it fits in to… and then tried to locate a similar sized O-ring to put back on… a plumbing part from Bunnings looked like it had an O-ring that would do the trick…

They sourced the O-ring and then we all took a break and went out to the famous Broad Arrow Hotel for lunch…. The last pub standing in the almost-ghost town of Broad Arrow about half an hour out of Kalgoorlie….

The Broad Arrow Hotel was built in 1896 and has served people continuously for over 100 years. The pub was very unique in a Daly Waters Pub kind of way… lots of memorabilia and graffiti with signatures all over the walls from many years past…. Apparently now you are no longer permitted to sign the walls…

We ordered the famous “Broady Burger” and chips – delicious home-made burgers and great chips!!!

All the food was really good and went down well sitting out in the sun away from the biting wind…. The wind chill factor felt like it was 1 degree!!

Broad Arrow was established in 1893 when prospectors O’Mara, Quinn and Pike left Kalgoorlie to explore for gold and found good deposits there. It was given its name due to the trail of broad arrows that O’Mara left for his nephew so he could find them as he was leaving Kalgoorlie later than them. At its height, Broad Arrow had 8 hotels, 2 banks, 2 breweries, a stock exchange, a large hospital with a special fever ward, several shops, a magistrate, a blacksmith and a Dramatic Society!

There is not much left of the township now – a water tower and a few run-down miners cottages….

After lunch we drove back to the caravan park and Gordie and Trev got stuck into repairing the Titan…. Unfortunately, Branch was napping…. And the plumbing O-ring concept failed….

So, Gordie contacted the NRMA for some advice, and Trev contacted Luke who was a great help sourcing different options for parts that may fit the Titan…. As tomorrow is Sunday there will not be much open… but Repco is and they may have one of the parts Luke has suggested so after church that’s the next stage of the plan…..

For the rest of the day we caught up on washing, blogging, reading etc… a fairly relaxing time….