Tuesday, 14 September 2010
A day of mainenance
So much for the rest day in UlaanBataar or UB as it is known. The underground hotel car park looks like a car graveyard. The problems entrants have with cars are legion. Most crews have embarked in major surgery with cars in all sates of diassembly. Problems range from broken steering wheels to trashed gearboxes and disintegrated steering column bearings. Fortunately we have been able to focus on preventative work with spanner checking and greasing. I checked the fuel filter which was distinctly sandy in colour. Adrian managed to clean the inside of our home which had been covered in a thick brown dust! We have now moved upto to sixth in class but our strategy remains to get through Mongolia in one piece. We also m$anaged to find a superb local engineering shop who repaired our errant shock absorber for use as a spare. They fabricated a new top eye and welded it onto the top as original. A really beautiful job even extending the shocker and cooling the cylinder whist they welded the top. I think this must be a standard repair out here. UB is alive with US mining engineers and its evident to me that chinese demand for copper and other minerals will change this country over the next decade. Come and see it before it changes for good. Off early tomorrow for 5 more days in Mongolia with yut camping tomorrow night. We are told to expect snow and the weather has really changed!
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