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    Quote Originally Posted by bigguwesty View Post
    Got the zd back last week.
    $2500 bill so not to bad I think.
    Anyway next up is the intercooler as its leaking......
    Good to have that back. What are you going to do with the intercooler? You going to weld it up?
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    Took the Patrol with Tvan hitched up, fully packed for long term travel, including full fuel tanks + 2 x 20 litre jerries of diesel on the Tvan, (total 220 litres)+ full water tanks in Patrol & Tvan (total 255 litres), & both of us in the cab, over both of the free VicRoads weighbridges on the Western Highway a few kms east of Ballarat today.

    Two surprises.

    1. Both weighbridges gave exactly the same results! (Gives greater confidence in their accuracy)
    2. Weight of the Patrol (including the 100kg tow ball weight of the Tvan) was exactly the Patrol's upgraded GVM!

    Patrol 3900kg
    Tvan 1120Kg (ATM =1400kg & GTM =1270kg)

    Given that most of the time fuel & water tanks won't be full, & food stocks at point of departure are the highest they will be I'm pretty happy (& relieved) about the result.

    Since returning from Tassie we have removed a number of items we hadn't used (including an an unused under tray water tank), but added a few items for more remote travel (eg. spare shocks & a few other repair & servicing items) so couldn't be sure of what the weight would be. Although I don' think we are carrying anything superfluous it would not have surprised me if we had found we needed to find some weight savings, but as it stands all is good.

    I know we are heavy & pay the price in acceleration, fuel consumption & hill climbing speeds, but we are not in a hurry - mostly happy to sit on around 80kph-85kph on good roads & to go as slow as conditions we find require.
    We've kept fuel records since we left home last July on a phone app & the overall average over 21,570kms is 15.46 Litres per 100kms with a worst of 16.8 & a best of 13.6. Less is always better, but given the profile of a canopy wider than the body, a roof full of solar panels & an overall rig weight of around 5 tonnes I feel the old girl does us pretty well.
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    Tested out the old girl, last night. 2 foot of snow. Pretty happy with an N/A. Did a couple of times, but survived.


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    Quote Originally Posted by katwoman View Post
    Tested out the old girl, last night. 2 foot of snow. Pretty happy with an N/A. Did a couple of times, but survived.


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    Nice Kat. You are very lucky to have easy access to the hills. And you are familiar with them. Im hanging out to just get a day trip in the snow.

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    Finally got around to picking up my hi mount today. Its still sitting on the floor of the work car as my back is farked and I can't lift it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cuppa View Post
    Took the Patrol with Tvan hitched up, fully packed for long term travel, including full fuel tanks + 2 x 20 litre jerries of diesel on the Tvan, (total 220 litres)+ full water tanks in Patrol & Tvan (total 255 litres), & both of us in the cab, over both of the free VicRoads weighbridges on the Western Highway a few kms east of Ballarat today.

    Two surprises.

    1. Both weighbridges gave exactly the same results! (Gives greater confidence in their accuracy)
    2. Weight of the Patrol (including the 100kg tow ball weight of the Tvan) was exactly the Patrol's upgraded GVM!

    Patrol 3900kg
    Tvan 1120Kg (ATM =1400kg & GTM =1270kg)

    Given that most of the time fuel & water tanks won't be full, & food stocks at point of departure are the highest they will be I'm pretty happy (& relieved) about the result.

    Since returning from Tassie we have removed a number of items we hadn't used (including an an unused under tray water tank), but added a few items for more remote travel (eg. spare shocks & a few other repair & servicing items) so couldn't be sure of what the weight would be. Although I don' think we are carrying anything superfluous it would not have surprised me if we had found we needed to find some weight savings, but as it stands all is good.

    I know we are heavy & pay the price in acceleration, fuel consumption & hill climbing speeds, but we are not in a hurry - mostly happy to sit on around 80kph-85kph on good roads & to go as slow as conditions we find require.
    We've kept fuel records since we left home last July on a phone app & the overall average over 21,570kms is 15.46 Litres per 100kms with a worst of 16.8 & a best of 13.6. Less is always better, but given the profile of a canopy wider than the body, a roof full of solar panels & an overall rig weight of around 5 tonnes I feel the old girl does us pretty well.
    Thats awesome cuppa. How goot are our old tractor donks on juice? 13l/100 best up to 16l/100 worst with a non stressed engine. Modern, smaller 4x4 diesels arent getting much better than that (if any) and theyre working harder than the 42. And they depreciate fast.

    I will admit, i have contemplated selling the gu2 through lack of use. My daily is a vx commodore, not worth much but gets drived a lot. 10l/100 generally and in good nick. I went through a stage where i contemplated selling that and the trol and with the 30 odd k buying something like a ranger or bt50 with the 3.2, and only paying 1 rego and 1 insurance. I dont really need a brute force rig for my kicks now, but when i sat down and thought through the financial pros and cons of that decision, im better off with the status quo due to the moderate fuel consumption and virtually zero depreciation of both current vehicles compared to newer vehicles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cuppa View Post
    Took the Patrol with Tvan hitched up, fully packed for long term travel, including full fuel tanks + 2 x 20 litre jerries of diesel on the Tvan, (total 220 litres)+ full water tanks in Patrol & Tvan (total 255 litres), & both of us in the cab, over both of the free VicRoads weighbridges on the Western Highway a few kms east of Ballarat today.

    Two surprises.

    1. Both weighbridges gave exactly the same results! (Gives greater confidence in their accuracy)
    2. Weight of the Patrol (including the 100kg tow ball weight of the Tvan) was exactly the Patrol's upgraded GVM!

    Patrol 3900kg
    Tvan 1120Kg (ATM =1400kg & GTM =1270kg)

    Given that most of the time fuel & water tanks won't be full, & food stocks at point of departure are the highest they will be I'm pretty happy (& relieved) about the result.

    Since returning from Tassie we have removed a number of items we hadn't used (including an an unused under tray water tank), but added a few items for more remote travel (eg. spare shocks & a few other repair & servicing items) so couldn't be sure of what the weight would be. Although I don' think we are carrying anything superfluous it would not have surprised me if we had found we needed to find some weight savings, but as it stands all is good.

    I know we are heavy & pay the price in acceleration, fuel consumption & hill climbing speeds, but we are not in a hurry - mostly happy to sit on around 80kph-85kph on good roads & to go as slow as conditions we find require.
    We've kept fuel records since we left home last July on a phone app & the overall average over 21,570kms is 15.46 Litres per 100kms with a worst of 16.8 & a best of 13.6. Less is always better, but given the profile of a canopy wider than the body, a roof full of solar panels & an overall rig weight of around 5 tonnes I feel the old girl does us pretty well.
    Hi Cuppa. I would have thought that at almost 5 tonnes, those fuel figures would be pretty pleasing. I get low 13s just driving around for work with a non loaded wagon.
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    Yes @10G, but I'd guess with your consumption figures you would probably commonly be sat on or around the speed limits? I'd suspect if we upped our usual cruising speeds to 95-100 we would see a big increase in fuel consumption.

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    Finally got around to working on some baby stuff. I'm stoked with the result.

    Shout out to @AB for the change table idea it came up a treat

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    Nice job Nicco! We used our change table for about a week and ended up changing her on the floor cos it was easier.
    They are good for storage though and we are still using it for that lol.

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