how much range do I need?

Firstly. What do you call remote?

Phil

Love the sound of your plans. If you could advise if you are sticking to highways, or doing desert crossings etc the responses can be better answered. If you are just sticking to highways then there are servos usually every few hundred kilometres.

Which are these remote places you plan to visit? Even the desert is dotted with Aboriginal communities that have fuel outlets.

Motherhen

Yeah would definetely be doing a fair bit off offroad such as cape york, vic high country but probably not a desert crossing! Possibly towing a camper around 1 tonne, obviously a lot of high way travel which wouldnt be a problem

Until 1 year ago, I had a NL Pajero which ran on gas and petrol. Wnen towing our 16.5 ft Jayco poptop caravan, I had about 350+ km on gas, and about 300 on petrol. I drove around the block 3 times with this rig and never had any problems with fuel. I carried a jerry can, and filled it when I got to areas where fuel was likely to be scarce. I then used it up ASAP because I don't like carrying petrol inside the vehicle.

Your Tojo will use heaps more fuel than my Pajero, but the range issue is still the same problem. One thing I did with my Pajero was to install a relay in the petrol pump power supply. When the car was on gas, the petrol pump was isolated and not operating. This allowed me to leave the gas tank full (as a reserve supply) and switch to petrol when I was in an area where there was no gas, and still be able to run the petrol system to empty if necessary. If the petrol pump was still operating, it would damage the pump (this is why they tell you to keep a minimum 1/4 tank of petrol at all times). When I got back to a gas supply area, I switched back to gas and all was normal.

On my last trip round the block, I used 2 tanks of petrol - the rest was gas. Typically, we would go to a place and set up the van, and then explore out for a few days, then move on. We didn't miss out on that much, but what we saw told us that there is heaps more that we haven't seen - the more you see of Australia, the more you realise that you know nothing about the place.

I would prefer to have at least 700 km range in the tanks. My current tug - a Pajero diesel has 650+ km range with the caravan, but I will still take a jerry can with me, and also can get diesel a lot easier than gas when I am outback. ALl I have to do it pay for it! Incidentally, I still maintain that my old setup - the Pajero on gas was cheaper to run that the new diesel Pajero, by gee the new one is very nice...

Hi Matth j. I have the same rig, I towed my off road caravan 17,500 kms last year from Victoria up to Alice Springs, across the Tanami to Halls creek to Kununurra, then down the west coast to Perth and home. I used gas as much as I could, and filled up my gas at every reasonable oppurtunity. If I was down to a quarter of a tank I'd fill up. I had a jerry can of petrol also. I generally found I could buy fuel at least every 200/ 300 kms. Even crossing the Tanami, planned ahead you can buy fuel, research your road maps and you will find there are plenty of fuel stations. You'll quickly get to know your range. For me by the time I needed to fuel up I was also ready for a break to stretch my legs. A few years ago in Cairns and beyond on the way to Cape York. I foundfuel stations selling LPG were very scarce. So we kept the gas tank full and ran on petrol, gas was our back up. No problem. I love my fz105. :). Happy travels.

Thanks for the replies very helpful, I was thinking there were far less petrol stations than what everybody has said! Thanks