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Well, not in a patrol, since they haven't been in the US for many decades. I don't include the new armada 'thing' as a patrol :smile:

Obviously I do have a patrol in oz (old MQ), but here in the...

Well, another visit to WA (live/work in the US) and got to take my older son out into the oz bush. We visited a bunch of places that I've been through before and then added a bunch of new places as...

Yeah, Odyssey are likely stupid expensive in oz. Here (in the US) you can get a decent sized 4wd sized one for around $200 or less (on sale).

The optima failures were a dead cell overnight in my...

Optima batteries have a BAD reputation here in the US. I had very poor life out of 2 red top optima batteries and will NEVER buy them again. Here in the US, they are relatively cheap, typical red top...

I replaced a triple cluster of fusible links on my 80 series here in the US. Cost about $12 from the dealer. Oz pricing is obscene for a lot of auto related stuff.

Anyhow, I replaced the fusible...

IF you want to follow the Anderson recommendation, the YELLOW ones are for 12V. Of course it seems many folk have NOT followed their recommendation so end up with GREY which are 36V. It appears a)...

Old school... Fly wire mesh (steel) from some window on our house from years ago. I've had the mesh on the front of the patrol for at least 15 years, radiator is totally bug free, grass free etc....

East of Mundaring there's some open state forest with quite a bunch of tracks wandering through it. Some mud to play with in winter too.

Here's a tracklog from about 6yrs ago:
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If by 'in the back of the car' you mean inside a wagon etc then consider the situation when you have a flat and the tyre is covered in mud. Then of course there is the loss of storage room in the...

Beyond light output is also EMI/RFI from the electronics. I design LED drivers for a living and recently spent some time quietening an existing design I had which involved a bunch of test equipment...

It's MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) :)

I've run an 80W panel through a different MPPT product (not ctek) and it does fine with a 47L ARB in HOT weather (>38C daytime temps). Mono or Poly...

Here, let me do another post so I get closer to MY 25 posts so I can get my manuals too :)

J/K

cheers,
george.

Here's a quick summary of the trip. First morning hail and rain, a few days later it's well north of 100F. Last part is along the edge of the Doctor Hicks range in the Great Victoria Desert (just...

Yeah, lots of them - I seem to have a knack for finding them too. This one is actually a pretty decent track, I drive down it every few years it seems if heading back from that general area (west of...

Bit of video from my last trip bush a few weeks ago. Some partially overgrown track heading south of Lake Seabrook to Weowanie Rock (north of Yellowdine)


http://youtu.be/3qee4BAzZCc

cheers,...

Do you have airflow for the fridge? A fan or something? I've found my ARB fridge runs overtime if the vents are 'crowded' by adjacent items/panels etc (in warm/hot weather)...

cheers,
george.

This -> https://eplaya.burningman.com/viewtopic.php?t=33842&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 is pretty clever for a 12V evaporative cooler if you have a) not too much humidity and b) water to spare....

I just did my old mq (noisy old diesel beast) with some ebay butyl based material.

Did the door skins and rear side panel skins and also the tailgate skin. Those were the easy ones and just...

Yeah, cost $10800 brand new back in Nov 1980, and there's more than $10800 in aftermarket stuff that has been added over the years... Certainly more $ in diesel fuel than the original cost as well :)...

Ok, may as well add to some of the old iron in this subforum :)

Bought Nov 1980 in Perth. My 1st 'car' and still own it of course. It's been modified/changed many times. Seems there's always...

Hi Folks, I've ordered some new rubber for the old MQ on amayana and successfully received the front left and right quarter vent rubbers to replace my old hard/crispy ones.

Figured I'd order a few...

Thanks, glad you folk liked the writeup. It was a great trip and I look forward to visiting the Great Victoria Desert again, there's certainly a lot of interesting things to see and a lot more to...

Bit of a writeup from a 2 week trip we did late Oct/Early Nov.

http://www.george4wd.taskled.com/oz2014.html

A few of the pics in case you don't want to read the writeup.
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Head gasket failure is a possibility or even a cracked head that 'pressurizes' the coolant system. In the US you can buy kits to test for exhaust contamination in the coolant, can you get them in oz?...

The turbo has been on the sd33 for at least 20 years now, so it appears to not be too much of a long term reliability issue :)

The reason for increasing the fuel is that I changed my mq from 24V...