Gertrude our 1976 Sopru

[onetrackwonder]

Hi Wayne I must have read it wrong but all good,thanks for the advice, We managed to get away for the VW Spectacular and had a great time, managed to clock up just on 2200km for the trip, ran from Tilba up to Sydney where we stayed with my mother for the night, got to wash the Tilba dust off the car that night and check the oil which was all good, then ran up the freeway, thought we would stop at the Leyland Brothers Rock for breakfast only to see it burning too the ground, sad days, anyway we had an awesome time up at Nambucca, lots of very cool cars and people, never checked the oil at Nambucca because it was fine in Sydney, then the run home we done via the coast and just before Nabiac the oil light came on so we stopped and checked it out and the oil was way low, actually halfway down the stick so we filled it up and continued on our way, once back in Sydney it needed a top up again and then the trip back to Tilba we never used a drop, so from Tilba to Sydney nothing, Sydney to Nambucca and Nambucca to Sydney heaps. like 2,0L and Sydney to Tilba nothing, so I am thinking that the oil breather line that I connected to the air filter may be sucking the oil down the carbie at the high revs on the freeway and was wondering what everyones thoughts on that was, I might have to add a catch tank that breathes into the filter and drains back to the sump, as it hadn't used any oil before this trip and the change to the breather

Leaving home
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At Raleigh Raceway a place that I have done plenty of laps at in my karting days

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My brothers partners surname is Barrett and then this beauty parks next to us at Raleigh

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Here is my wife and her sister who travelled down from Toowooomba

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Im sure that everyone has seen plenty of pics of the event but here is one

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Just when we were leaving Nambucca from up on top of the hill, went to take a pic and a guy that lived there came out and offered to take our pic, great stuff

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South West Rocks on the way home

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At the swap meet we managed to pick up a Sopru Roof Rack which are pretty rare, our rack was not the original so was a great pick up

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had an awesome trip, van ran like a train even though the oil was an issue on the freeway

 

onetrackwonder, Aug 22, 2018