emergency spares for Nissan

If you can afford it change your hoses and keep the old hoses as spares if they are ok.
An extra spare tyre is handy. Both these roads have plenty of travellers so you should be able to get help if need be. At least 20ltrs of water is a must drinking quality then it can be used for all purposes.
Enjoy your trip.

Ian,

Have a browse through the Trip preparation section of this site and there is a list of parts and spares suggestions.

I spent heaps on all the big things on my Landcruiser before my last trip, but it was different things that got me stuck. Fortunately both things broke on day one and we could fix them ourselves in Kalgoorlie before leaving the bitumen.

What broke - things that were put under extra pressure with the extra load on the motor and components.
- Water pump seal and output shaft seal from the gearbox.
Both gave way, IMHO because of the extra heat created by the extra load of the roof rack and fully loaded truck.

For me the lesson was the importance of a shake down day drive, for example, or a prelim trip with all the gear you're planning to take.

For one it puts all the bigger loads on the vehicle and will show up any flaws before you go, and it also helps sort out the packing and ditching of extra gear that you don't really need.

Some of the forum members have great sites, sorry I can't find them now, listing what they took and what they used. The latter being much much smaller.

IMHO it is age and deterioration that breaks radiator hoses/belts. The chance of getting a stick through a hose is pretty low unless bush bashing. What is going to destroy an air filter so you can't limp to the next big town? If you're not travelling in convoy in someones dust all the time, a regular tap out should keep a new filter up to the job I'd guess.

Up to you to take that risk or not.

Enjoy the trip

Tim

G'day Ian, my wife and I did a similar trip last year, took all the spares and used most of them. But the most important was the snatch-em trap and the hand winch we used them both ..especially on the Plenty Highway(read goat track). We helped a few stranded station wagons with unwarey European travelers. We travelled for 3months and the spares I took did the servicing on the way. The GQ never let us down.
Have a great trip