What did you do to your Patrol today!

[sil3nt_dr3ams]

it's hard to tell by photo it could be the wheel bearings,

[BigRAWesty]

That's what I was thinking, kingpin bearings.. You'd hear wheel bearings like that..

[rafa]

In the last month I've rebuilt my front hubs, no great feat . But it taught me how the entire front diff works, as simple as it is the engineering behind it is amazing in terms of how to make a diff near on indestructible. Look for one wheel to completely loose it like the one in the picture one of the king bearings has to have fallen out lol. You can take the cv's out and the hubs will still hold there alignment its the top and bottom king bearing that literally attach it to the diff.

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Please by all means those that know more than i do correct me, before you venture on these kinds of trips you should know your car inside and out and have all your maintenance done. This isnt a common problem that happens this is something that would have takin quite some time to develop.

My vehicle is serviced every 5000km and had all new wheel bearings 6 weeks ago. I'm hopeless with mechanics but pay to have it over maintained. Any ever found it's fixed there and then.

Your right about not hearing anything. I hit a wash out (wet season creek) not too fast I think. Then it lunged to the side and I stopped.

Interesting point came out it to do with remote travel and communications though. I got on my sat phone and tried to make a call to the next town along the track and couldn't hear a thing. So I used my HF radio to make a radio call. It worked fine.

[TPC]

My vehicle is serviced every 5000km and had all new wheel bearings 6 weeks ago. I'm hopeless with mechanics but pay to have it over maintained. Any ever found it's fixed there and then.

Your right about not hearing anything. I hit a wash out (wet season creek) not too fast I think. Then it lunged to the side and I stopped.

Interesting point came out it to do with remote travel and communications though. I got on my sat phone and tried to make a call to the next town along the track and couldn't hear a thing. So I used my HF radio to make a radio call. It worked fine.

What type of Satphone do you have?

[rafa]

Thuraya satsleeve

[BigRAWesty]

Is the car in your possession still??

[TPC]

Thuraya satsleeve

They can be difficult as they work back to one geostationary satellite so you need to be facing the direction of the satellite when using them, but you probably already know that.
I have had difficulty using the Thuraya when it is windy as the wind prevented me from hearing and when I turned away from the wind I lost service.

[rafa]

Is the car in your possession still??

It's locked in at a bush police station. I got a lift for the last 200km. Then will have to get a charter plane back to Darwin Friday.

Truck left Darwin at sparrows this morning to go get ute.

[rafa]

They can be difficult as they work back to one geostationary satellite so you need to be facing the direction of the satellite when using them, but you probably already know that.
I have had difficulty using the Thuraya when it is windy as the wind prevented me from hearing and when I turned away from the wind I lost service.

Worked fine so far when I have never "needed" it. You know hi honey what's the footy score etc. Pretty pissed that it didn't yesterday. Was in open. Facing the right way. Even stood on one leg

The codan NGT never fails

[Winnie]

Do you have insurance for a recovery like that?