Pathfinder O/R camper Gibb River

Grahame,
Not exactly the answer you're looking for, but for what it's worth, we took a '62 'S' Valiant from Sydneyalong the GRR in the 1989 RedeX Bash and a '69 Fairlane in the RFDS Outback Trek in the late 1990s, and while the road corrugations were unwelcome in various paces I don't remember them causing any grief to any of the cars. Both the cars had travelled on minimum bitumen after leaving Bourke and both went on lots of station-property tracks (as distinct from public roads), thus they got a hammering.
We took four #80s (and wives) along the GRR (no trailers) in '98, went to all the Gorges (but not to Kalumburu - next trip) and had no problems anywhere.
I can't imagine that the GRR should present any problems to a good O/R C/T.
You lucky sod,
DickyBeach

should be a piece of cake although Pentecost River may be a tad high so early in the season. Some places may not open until June either depending on late rains. Check with CALM office in Broome.

Recall someone on the caravan forum ? (or was it the campertrail or Overlander forum? ) had done a trip in the Pathy towing Goldstream? camper ...didn't ahve a problem except for one of the horn brackets failing on the Tanami thru fatigue due to the corrugations on the Bungle bungles and Tanami....if he hadn't picked the probelm early could have resulted in damaged to air con radiator.......

We did the GRR late last year in a Landcruiser towing an outback canvas C/T. The electric brakes on the C/T disintegrated with the vibrations, as did much of the kitchen utensils from the continuous pounding, beer cans wore holes in the sides from rubbing against each other. The rollers on the slide out kitchen smashed as did the UHF CB antenna (Dick Smith stainless steel variety) Fibreglass ones are the go. The ageing deep cycle fridge battery decided to throw in the towel at this time also. We had no flat tyres but had met people who had up to 5 punctures (2 in 5K's in one case). ALKO have since released a new brake system designed to withstand this corrugations much better with a ceramic sleeve in the magnet. There is a lot of corrugated dirt road with not much assistance so make sure you are well prepared. Pack everything in well - wine cask bladders can be inflated to pack in any extra space, put your beer cans in socks to reduce the wear. Make sure heavy items like spare wheels and water tanks are secure and can't wobble.

Good luck - it is well worth the effort - Don't miss the Bungle Bungles its well worth the visit - We took the camper in there also.