Last minute High Country trip.

[JonnoD]

Last weekend I got the call from Matty at about lunch time to head to the high country.
Who was I to say no.
Thanks for the awesome trip lads!
Dont ask me what track we went on as I was just a winch bitch. Lolhttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/39.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/40.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/41.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/42.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/43.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/44.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/45.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/46.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/47.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/48.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/49.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/50.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/51.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/52.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/53.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/54.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/55.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/56.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/57.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/58.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/59.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/60.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/61.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/62.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/63.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/64.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/65.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/66.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/67.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/68.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/69.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/70.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/71.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/72.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/73.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/74.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/75.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/76.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/77.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/78.jpg

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[JonnoD]

Here are a couple of vids I threw together

https://youtu.be/TEoJC3o6IZE

https://youtu.be/yzILla8ePFI

https://youtu.be/hMi2Jat-R_4

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[MudRunnerTD]

Was soooo Shiit....

God's Country!

Great to see you again mate.

[Maxhead]

Fark me boyz, This is TV worthy to show every crunt Patrols are unstoppable and unbreakable.
What a great trip you bunch of legends!
Keep rolling boyz!


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[AB]

Jonno, that was awesome you creating the vids, thank you mate!


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[Maxhead]

Jonno, that was awesome you creating the vids, thank you mate!


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Mate, that is awesome vid for sure


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[BrazilianY60]

Is that a Land Rover graveyard?


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[BrazilianY60]

This has to be the best picture in my opinion. It reveals such beautiful body lines of the GQ.



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[JonnoD]

Is that a Land Rover graveyard?It was on the way back in to Licola, just a random property full of scrap, I stopped counting at about 10 series 1's

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[Hodge]

Looks shit hot gentle men...
Absolute God's country !!!


But wait .. what in the f@#$ ? MudRunnerTD

Is that your GU ? *confused*
Did you see the light and got your GU back or was this trip prior to buying the V8 shopping car ??


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[MudRunnerTD]

Looks shit hot gentle men...
Absolute God's country !!!


But wait .. what in the f@#$ ? MudRunnerTD

Is that your GU ? *confused*
Did you see the light and got your GU back or was this trip prior to buying the V8 shopping car ??


Sent using Pixel 6I blame this bloke!!! He was Man Handling his new ride all weekend!!

Lucky bugger

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He might have left his keys in his Swag on the first morning. Lol

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[MB]

A real heart warming scratchy winch adventure, so glad Wossco managed to spend some time with Old PA, they really needed this together [emoji3590][emoji106][emoji106]

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[Avo]

A real heart warming scratchy winch adventure, so glad Wossco managed to spend some time with Old PA, they really needed this together [emoji3590][emoji106][emoji106]

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Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkLook at them sausage fingers....no wonder they do damage

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[MudRunnerTD]

Bhahahahaha ShitHead. The fire was roaring and I was in Shorts. The jacket over the legs was to keep them Medium Rare

[Winnie]

A real heart warming scratchy winch adventure, so glad Wossco managed to spend some time with Old PA, they really needed this together [emoji3590][emoji106][emoji106]

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Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkA treasured photo for sure, I bet Grandpa will always remember this moment. [emoji3590]

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[MB]

Grandpa? I meant Old PA (Personal Assistant) and or ‘Navi’ in his passenger seat, you’re just cruel and judgmental Chrisso Mate [emoji23][emoji106][emoji106]


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[Plasnart]

Grandpa? I meant Old PA (Personal Assistant) and or ‘Navi’ in his passenger seat, you’re just cruel and judgmental Chrisso Mate [emoji23][emoji106][emoji106]


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You'd make it in politics mate, with a snake lure like that!

[MB]

Honestly On the Fly 🪰 Young Son, never my initial intentions to Sticky Trap 🪤[emoji51]


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[MudRunnerTD]

Ya wouldn't be dead fa quids!

[AB]

Uncle Dazz we love you bro!

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[MB]

Settle Petals, if it wasn’t for Uncle Daz Legend we’d still be running 2.5hp High Mounts with 2 x Snatch Blocks weighing our back pockets down [emoji2957][emoji12]


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[Winnie]

The dark side to our stupid hobby.... 20,000km old wheel bearings.
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[Rossco]

Oooh ouch. . Yeah I got mine changed before Tassie and asked to keep the old ones as spares but think they werent much meter than that. .[emoji51]

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[Winnie]

I will buy a pair, put them both in and keep the used passenger side one as a spare.

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[PeeBee]

The dark side to our stupid hobby.... 20,000km old wheel bearings.
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What caused that huge chunk out of the stub flange Chris? That is a very short life, any indication of what else caused this? That grease looks very gritty and contaminated? Bloody mess and a pain to resolve. Sorry to be seeing this.

[Winnie]

They are GU diffs and that piece out of the flange is to allow for the ABS sensor which I don't have connected.
I'm not sure what caused the failure. There was a small amount of water inside, we had done a lot of river crossings. The inner axle seal was broken but that must have happened due to the shrapnel inside. Perhaps it just seized due to lack of use? The car had sat in the shed for a long time before this trip. The grease is mostly black, it had obviously gotten very hot right at the end.
I was a little sus on the bearings all day on the Sunday as I heard a few noises and notice the hub was hotter than usual, I kept check of it all day and it had come good. I checked again as we aired up in Licola and it felt good, was driving fine. We were probably less than 10km out of Licola when it failed completely.

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[Winnie]

Plenty of worse things could happen I suppose. I'm not too upset about it, I am getting good at doing swivel hubs now. We give these vehicles an absolute punishing so something has got to give.
I have learnt a lesson in keeping a set of wheel bearings as spares though, it would have saved a tow.

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[Rossco]

Yep I've started a revised spares list lol. . Dare say water found its way in somewhere along the line damitt. .

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[Winnie]

I did park in a creek for a while waiting for the slower folk to catch up cos it looked cool, in hindsight it wasn't my brightest idea. Even thought to myself how cool it looked with the water flowing through the holes in the wheels.
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[matfew]

Haha guess the cats out of the bag now regarding the big ol GU.

Was hoping to just roll into Licola beside daz in the y62 for some puzzled looks but that didn't happen then the story just got to far gone haha.


Had a ball on this trip. I literally made the decision to go at 12 on the Friday. Rang jonno and asked if he wanted to be winch bitch and off we went.

Here's to a ton more. I loved almost every minute. Need to bring it the cut and polish soon though.... Lol


I only really took a couple photos. These are parked at the bottom of Barkly River jeep track.

Thanked jonno for the vids. Bloody awesomehttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/106.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2021/11/107.jpg

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