Pit Stop!

We arrived in Bawiti around 6pm on 1st May after spending a couple of days doing nothing at Salma camp Cairo. We spent one afternoon and evening catching up with Quentin and Julie who arrived from Siwa and drinking Egyptian wine. When we got to Bawiti we smelt diesel and looked under Taffy and we were leaking at a steady drip drip. The leak was coming from the heater pickup at the low end of one of the tanks. I managed to take the pickup to pieces with Shauns telephone help, and refitted it but not before we had lost 100 liters of fuel on the sand.  It appears the tank has a split in it, so we will need to replace that when we get home.
Jacques and Mandy turned up that night and cheered us up a bit by showing us some of their pictures from their trip so far from Australia to here. Very tempting and very doable!
In the morning a garage mechanic made some repairs and made us fill up and the diesel poured out faster than before! With 280 liters of fuel in the tanks the garage cannot take the tanks off so have suggested that we just run on a few litres at a time. This reduces our range dramatically as it seems once we have around 60 liters or so we start to leak. We are going to run the fuel down to empty and drop the tanks off in Luxor and see what we can do.
The leak continues but I have decided that I will try to repair this myself when we get to Luxor with my swimming pool sealant that I brought with me!


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