Is that the freeway that shredded your tyre?Quote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
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Is that the freeway that shredded your tyre?Quote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
Yep damn it! I staked a Khumo on the third day on the inside wall. I Put 2 plugs in her and drove for 3 more days until it started leaking. Re plugged it and got another day. Was adding air for 2 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by djc123
Got to Big Red and dropped the pressure from 25 in the back to 14psi. Took it's toll I think. Reinflated to 25 for the trip into Birdsville and got into high range for the first time in a week. (have not seen above 15km/h all week) and hit 40 on the corrigations and the plugs split and tore the inside and blew to tyre. 100m on the corrigations did the rest. 1 destroyed Khumo.
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Shoulda just stuffed it full of leaves and sticks and kept driving ... would have got you home to Geelong no worries ...
Munched the tyre Dazz, stay safe mate!!!
I left Birdsville at 8am yesterday. We did 800 kms yesterday and camped at Hawker. We did 1100kms today and I rolled into the driveway at home at 12:15am.
Home!
Shower and bed for this monkey
God I feel like I have Jet Lag today. Unpacking sux
Forget the unpacking Darren, that can what for another day, I'm sure you have plenty of stories and pics 2 start uploading.................
so get crackin!!!
P.s: Good 2 hear you back safe n sound
Cheers Plas, I got thrown straight back into work and have been at a Big Geotech Conference this week. only getting to my emails and voice messages today (150 emails in the inbox) Damn!!
Got some great pics and shot a heap of great Video with your windscreen cam mate. i have to try and collate it into a video package and then embed it here. I will have to spend a little time figuring out how to embed single AVI files here for a taste though??? do i need to send them to photobucket first?
Got a Joke...................
What does it take to get a Toyota Hilux across the Madigan Line????
A patrol to tow it across?Quote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
Tappa tappa
Ah aside from the Nissan, a shovel, snatch straps, max tracks, spare parts, patience.... am I close?Quote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
THREE Nissan's apparentlyQuote:
Originally Posted by KRISTOFFA
Whats this conference, havn't you got PTD and need a few days off?
PTD = post trip depression, bugger of a thing to get.
Takes nothing, a Toyota is not worth saving, you should of just flicked a match and drove away *LMAO*Quote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
3 Nissan Patrols and a Welder.Quote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
:smileyvault-cute-bi
I told that joke to the Mechanic at Birdsville who was swapping my blown tyre and his response to the Question............ A Hilux has No Business out there!
Mate! Without the Nissan Patrols there is No Joke there! That would have been a viable solution. Abandon the vehicle if your prepared and walk out if you can. Its Killer Country out there and not much is coming to get you.Quote:
Originally Posted by NissanGQ4.2
Well I don't need to worry about walking as I drive a Nissan not a Toyota *LMAO*Quote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
Stay safe,enjoy, 4x4 Australia mag just did article on your very trip, couldn't find 1 camp but
amazing trip. look forward to the pics
Yep, can't wait for the pics and vids mate...c'mon get your arse into gear :) hahah
Wow I will have to and buy the mag and have a look. I can claim success finding Every Camp other than camp 3 and 4 where ther is no Public Access.Quote:
Originally Posted by threedogs
We found Camp 1 and there had not been anyone there for many many years with no foot prints or any wheel tracks to speak of. Awesome.
Given each camp now only consists of a gold painted Star Picket with a small plaque smaller than the palm of my hand! To find a couple of them by driving through unmarked bush to a dot on the gps. Zoomed in to 1000% and the dot on the GPS is a square Km! Finding the star picket at camp 1 was a big deal!
Did you lock in the co-ordinates? You could probably sell them lol!
I have jumped onto Tappa Tap so I can post a couple of pics from my phone. I used the phone for the first few days then pulled the big cam out . I should have gone the good cam earlier but oh well, I had a bit going on ;)
Here are a couple of pics of the car loaded and showing the roof load.
On the roof went an RV4 oz tent, 3 Jerry cans of diesel, 2 max trax, roof bag with a bare spare tyre and tyre changing gear and a heap of "just in case" spares ( belts and hoses) for the mighty TD42 and a work bench I used to safely load the roof each day and it came in super handy as part of the kitchen when cooking each night.
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The 25lt drum you can see at the back was the washing machine . Fill it with 5 or 6lt of water, some front loader powder and your washing and go driving! Ring out the washing when you get to your destination. Worked a treat.
So the call came early from our fellow traveller in the Hilux (Kevin) that he had a broken a front strut on his Hilux on the Oodnadatta TK damn it so time to find some parts for him.
We pulled into the wrecker in Mildura and were happy to hear that he had a front rack off a hilux in his lot and could help with what we needed.
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Loaded with the parts we needed we hit the road again, we headed North West and got through Renmark to find the sky open up and the rain came down.
We pulled into a wayside stop and pitched the first night camp as quick as we could. All good though as the rain left us and the sky cleared to let the warmth of the day float away.
Cold! It got real cold!
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We went to bed with a wet car and woke to a car covered in frozen rain drops and thick ice on the tent!
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Darren, you are aware you can get solar panels these days that should take care of your power needs while out in the bush......................no need to carry that big power pole around with you *LMAO*Quote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
Damn ! It did feel a little top heavy and all! Wish i'd known that damn it!Quote:
Originally Posted by NissanGQ4.2
Nah she travelled soo well and true. Solid as a rock!
So i ripped out the drivers side back seat and replaced it with a box made from 10mm ply that finished at the same height as the Black Widow Drawers and gave me a flat floor down the drivers side which was a real winner.
It turned out that in the box would fit standing on their side 3 x 20lt jerry cans that i filled with water. I screwed down the lid and went there only when i needed to refill the water.
I had another 10lt jerry with a tap that i used for day to day water and had that in the back beside the fridge. So 70lt of tap water in all. I then bought another 3 x 10lt casks of water for drinking as i drink bottled water at home and my boy only drinks water also so 30lts would be a winner. Total of 100lts on board.
I hunted for a long range tank for the GU in the weeks leading up to the trip and I scored one off ebay for a song out of a GQ that bolted straight up and enjoyed 147lt in the back and 30 in the Sub tank and ran with another 3x 20lt jerries on the roof for a total of 237lt of diesel on board.
I used the tubs out of my camper trailer and put clothes in 1, food in another and pantry / cooking utensils in the third. I scored factory tie downs out of a Benz Van off ebay and fitted them strategically to allow for a tie down over each of the tubs with close fitting lids to hold the load well when the going got tough. Very pleased i went to this effort as it got hammered.
I moved the drop down fridge slide with the 45lt Engel to the passenger side on top of the drawers allowing for enough space for the 10lt of water to go down the side. I packed most of the food into the left side black widow drawer and the right side carried all my Tools and recovery gear. I have a fold down table on the big rear door so the fridge and the food drawer could be accessed while the table was down making a meal ;)
All in All it worked a treat.
give me a day or so and i will upload all my pics to Photo Bucket and see if i can get some of these AVIs to Photobucket too and will post up some great pics for you all.
Cheers guys
Good read to wake up to, sounds like you were well sorted and it payed of.
Looking forward to seeing more pics MR. The washing machine is a great idea! i would never had thought of that
What we did in our Lux during the Simpson TripQuote:
Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD
That is exactly what happened to the Hilux half way across. We came across 2 hiluxes at Mt Dare that had done a mercy dash to Alice Springs to buy 2 struts that had done exactly that tooQuote:
Originally Posted by macca
Are sorry Plas yeah been pretty crazy mate. Finally got all the pics off my wife's camera and in the process of getting em on my Mac to go through and post up here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plasnart
Check out my build thread though bud for my weekend just gone. Got home from the Madigan and straight into the GQ for an Extreme Snow swag trip!!!
I took your windscreen cam for that too and got some insane footage
OK Plas let see if this works for a taster......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Z8qXhl5mI&feature=plcp
Cheers Daz, dont stop there keep em comin ;-)
Here is the next one. This was actually shot before the other vid on the same day.
I have made an error with the label too, by the time i started shooting we were at about camp 2 so had already found camp 1 with NO FOOTPRINTS at all suggesting that not very many people find camp 1. We found camp 1A and were heading for camp 2 i think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH95SLkK2ug&feature=plcp
Its a shame i did not get the video working sooner as the area between camp 1 and 1A was extraordinary and some of the heaviest bush i saw for the trip. No Tracks and was bliss.
Enjoy guys
Good onya Daz cheers
Tap, Tap.......Who's there?
Great to see the view out the windscreen, really enjoy the isolation of a trip like that.
Your young fella sounds like he was great company, good to hear him in the soundtrack of your vids.
Hope he enjoyed the trip.
Thanks for them
Macca
Wow, pretty cool stuff. Slow trip by the looks of it....haha
..........on the move
Cheers guys, yeah Zach had a great time.
I had the cam set up to the right side of the rear view mirror at about eye height so what you see in the videos is about the same angle that I was looking. Over the sand dunes was pretty blind and we basically just dropped over the top. Made corrections when we could see. Lol