Home again where was everyone

Sandman, If you saw ragbutt coming, you would run and hide too.
Ragbutt, I saw Chris this morning and he said you got home yesterday. Glad the trip went well and no problems is a bonus too. We have another local member here too now, JeffM (JMA) to stir up whenever we get the opportunity. Kumunura is spending a lot of time at the lowlevel falls at Katherine keenly observing all the Backpackers going for a swim
Catch up soon.
dessy

Did you remove the axles as well??? asuming you have a constant drive 80??
If not then your diff would have still been turning and the savings would have been nil.
Seems as though the people who have put the free wheeling hubs kit in are saving about 2-3 mpg
Didnt see us up there for the same reason most of us have, cos we were all down here keeping the wheels of the country turning. LOL

Cheers Pesty

I left the axles in- One good thing I did get from it though is there was no backlash at all when the front wheels were not being driven. I had grown to live with it, but now the part time kit is on my wishlist. Smooth gear changes- here I come.

I need all the economy increases I can after copping a new figure of 2.5km to the litre with the new turbo.

Hey Wombat, who you calling odd???
Have you heard how Lurch is getting on?
The odds aren't that long, I frequently see EO stickers around here. Especially as we have 5 local members here in town. LOL I was following one only yesterday but I used to know the driver intimately but not so much nowadays. LOL (PS it WAS the wife LOL)

Desmond, isn't she still the wife?

She still is John but the "consumption" of marriage has been on the backburrner lately. Biggest problem is that I'm the one at fault LOL

"consumption" was a disease years ago, but I am sure that wasn't what you were meaning. You may explain some day. LOL I won't ask "please explain" here. hehehehe

The Hilux was just servicved properly etc by myself at home, tyres were Cooper AT I ran 28 psi front and 30 psi back and 28 trailer for all dirt roads, put up the car psi up for bitumen and left the trailer at 28. We tend to drive slowly (according to conditions) eg on the Kalumbaru road the corrugations were horrendous, we were passed while doing about 20 kmh by a convoy of 4 vehicles, shortly after we passed them stopped 2 of their vehicles had destroyed tyres. Maybe a lesson there. My mate using BFG tyres had 2 flats, one a nail and one a rock, both repairable, he had one trailer tyre destroy itself but it was only an HT tyre. His Jackeroo dropped both top mount bolts on his A/C condenssor on the Kalumbaru rd which let it move around cracked a pipe and he lost all the refrigerant. He also had a trailer built at renmark supposedly heavy duty to do the job, the spare wheel rack cracked on the Tanami and the spring hanger tore out of the chassis on the Gibb. We had chain, shackles etcv and tief it all up until we could weld it. Preparation is important no doubt but I think so is driving slowly. The Hilux performed absolutley faultlessly except for the long range tank which I had fitted less than a year ago which now leaks, that is not a Toyota part so can't blame them. Only thing I would do different is I think I will upgrade the suspension, maybe had too little travel a few times, standard suspension still which is prob not quite good enough for the load and trailer. Still very happy with the vehicle and equipment, got bogged once, on a beach at Cape peron, and that was driver error.

GB

It was 28 degrees when we stopped at 80 mile beach, we went for a swim but upset some fisher people and got sand in our togs.
Good weather though.

GB