Yeah dont want ants there annoying little buggers specially them ginger ants up  north, I am going to either fill the drums with boiling water and add bleach and let em sit for a week or maybe just use Milton or some other steriliser, I have them pretty clean now, tainted water is no good even if its honey flavoured lol

Imagine a 44 gallon drum made of plastic which is very thick, now its slightly smaller then a 44 but not much, theres plenty room under the bus between the chassis rails and the bus body itself infact for a 23 foot long bus its quiet capacious underneath,

I have room for two honey drums one for fresh water and one for grey water plus the 36 gallon second fuel tank I have courtesy of an old AEC truck and also the gas tank for the lpg system will go where the underneath rack for the spare tyre is, tyre relocated to roo bar and the second tyre up on the roof rack this is just a case only for those wondering how the hell do you get a bloody great truck tyre of the roof of a bus, its an old Austin Truck based bus we cant estimate its year of birth as theres no details on the plates to suggest its birth date Im assuming about 1970 ish as its complianced by BMC which is Leyland and its around the time of change over for BMC to be folded into Leyland,  its made in Qld by Athol Hedges and I have had it identified as a Leyland but badged Austin as they did for a little while

It has a 4 litre Austin Truck engine with a Turner 5spd and an Eaton Diff which is 2spd, have heard these motors went like buggery but were thirsty and ran hot, not sure Ill keep this motor I have an International Truck V8 engine and gearbox to go into it.

I did have someone tell me the bus was known as an Austin Redline.

Well Womby when wandering around up North and of the beaten track you gotta have water, ie for engine cooling system top ups, general drinking and washing up etc, a couple of 20 litre jerrys isnt gonna cut it for long, the grey water tank wont be full really, Ive lived up in the North for years and seen too many people go ill prepared and water is the big one,

Sure this is gonna knock the fuel economy around but its a catch 22 situation, I figure on using LPG most of the time when its available but need that petrol reserve in case no LPG, we would be putting along at 80 kph with Elvis blasting out the cd player, whos in a hurry? not me lol

I was bought up with Elvis and the Big O, after Cyclone Tracey the Big O came to Darwin to do a benifit concert, my dad a copper at the time was his security, dad and the Big O hit the booze one night we have personally signed photos and albums, probably worth something