What did you do to your Patrol today!

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Gday Cuppa, sorry regardless of my previous post I actually am in the right thread! Just wanted to put forward my opinion on this issue.

As @MB said steel putty is really good stuff, but specifically i wanted to raise the issue of superfluous weight when touring. The post I deleted above read as such:

Steel putty is great sh!t. Dont leave home without it. Never used it in anger but gave it a test run on a hole in some steel at home. What can i say, it's hard as a rock, would have trouble chiselling it off. Essential item for touring and doesnt weigh 13-odd kilos. Personally I'd not carry a full spare oil change when touring, especially behind the rear axle with corrugations, cantilevered forces and all. A good sump guard, a container to catch oil leaks and steel putty in the kit but that's just my opinion.

A completely smashed sump (and subsequent uncontrolled spill) when touring is very unlikely imho.

Plassy, you might recall my drama with the Chev conversion and punching a hole thru the sump at 222klm from new?I lost 5L of oil and it could not be stopped because it was stinking hot and i didn't have a pan large enough to catch it anyway, so after letting it cool, cleaned it up, bogged the slot full of liquid putty metal stuff and then had the nightmare of finding 5L of oil down the bottom of Burgoynes Gap. The guy I was with fortunately had 4L and the remainder was made up of chainsaw oil. Now I carry the putty and enough oil for a complete change, as again you can always get caught and drown the engine and need to drain it as well - and yes i have been in that predicament before also. This stuff is the tale of nightmares, but they can happen, so I reckon the extra 10kg is good insurance in my view.Only thing I would try to do is distribute it between the wheels not over the back, but thats just a simple. 'what can you do' situation I guess.