Looks like the new suspension & exhaust will have to wait a bit as I've decided I need to do what I should have done before fitting out the camper. ie. deal with the creaking noises & repaint the chipped/rusty areas of the chassis. I've ordered some paint online. http://www.kbs-coatings.com.au/kbs-c...-paint-kit-pro
Not a job I really want to do, but will feel better about it once done.

Went into town to Clark rubber today to try to get some suitable rubber to make some 'spacers' for between pod & chassis rail. Jeez I hate going to Clark rubber, I'm sure the job description for their employees includes the ability to be permanently surly & impolite, to pretend to have product knowledge when they really know jack sh*t, & to be covered in facial pimples! I can forgive the latter, but those first two attributes really piss me off. In a so called 'specialist shop' is it too much to expect them to employ people who can offer sensible advice? Grrrrr. The strips of 'insertion rubber' of the right thickness were only available in much wider strips than I need, with a minimum length of a metre sold. Was going to cost a small fortune. They had strips of a softer dense foam rubber strip, but I thought it may compress too much or 'push out'. I ended up buying 50mm wide strip of 12mm conveyor belt material but wonder if it will have enough 'give' in it. Only way to know is to fit it & find out (unless anyone here can advise on what might be a suitable type of rubber product???). It's gonna be fun trying to make holes to take 12mm bolts in the conveyor belt material. Thinking maybe a piece of pipe of suitable diameter, sharpened at the end, heated & then pushed/punched through it. Oh what fun that's gonna be. Not.

Stropp, do you recall anyone needing to get a new front diff fitted around 2 years ago? Would love to know the story.

Cuppa