Rear storage Stage 1 complete

Now why would a bloke of your experience say something like that?

Arrr....ofcourse, yer only a young fella. I know...long range tanks and all that.....never had to use jerries....LOL

I have all the confidence in the quality of my jerries



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Same thought here Phil. Was always taught to store them on their base or back with the filler up. Packem tight & they should be right :-)
Cheers Craig..........

Gday Willem,
young fella??????? I'm bald and grey and a grandfather and my youngest child turned 23 today. So I'll take it as a complement :-)))
But I've been carrying jerry cans inside my vehicles for 31 years. I've never bought a long range tank. I currently have space set aside in my traytop's canopy for 14 jerries - all standing up and forward of the rear axle. My previous vehicle - 90series Prado had storage for up to 15 jerries for longer desert trips. I like jerries!

Steel jerries were never designed to lie on their side. They are immensely strong standing upright (could support a car) but are easily pushed in on their flat side.

Your jerries are more likely to leak because there will be more pressure inside when they are bumping around on their side in the bush. If they leak you'll lose up to half the diesel - try getting that smell out :-))

I think you'd be wasting your money fitting long range tanks to an older vehicle. If it were me, I'd have the jerries sitting upright behind the front seats in the footwells, so they can stand upright (or even tilted a bit), and I'd have them well secured to the seat mounts. And that weight is then nicely forward of the rear axle.

I know plenty of people who have achieved what you are trying to achieve, but they have all owned Troopies.

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Phil

And I don't think safety is the problem.

I would suggest that your chances of finding 9 jerries that won't leak a drop is zero. You won't blow up, but as they day goes on you'll get anaesthetised by the lovely smell of diesel!

I know you are not far behind but anyone younger than me is a 'Young fella'. Its a term of endearment so consider yourself endeared....lol

And....I carry spare seals so that I can make sure I have no leaking or seeping jerries

Its all good mate :-)

To stop the leaks, I used to face up the steel surface that pushed against the seal with some wet and dry paper. The seals were usually OK.

And when you fill them up at about 45kg plus weight of can

where are you going to put your lunch. LOL.

Seriously hope its diesel and not bomb material

Woops having a brain fade and worked them out as 20 litre a can in lbs instead of kilos.
Will crawl back in my kennel and shut up.

Hahahahahaha!!!....Hey fella's...the jerries have been travelling in my trailer since the end of 2005. Had a hook to remove them and one jerry had its grab handle give way a couple of weeks ago. Now the jerries got shook up a lot more in the trailer with little or no effect apart from some paint rubbing off.

Yeah and it is diesel that I carry. I check the seals every so often and replace them if they look suss. No doubt there will be some diesel odour but thats the compromise I have to live with.


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I like to think of it as an investment in my life because if you hit something hard enough often enough things break!!!

Just looking out for you!! I'd do it for anyone!!!

Advice is always good but you don't have to take it!!!

Cheers safe travels

Chris

Chris

If I ever worried about the 'What if's', taking due care of most instances however, I would not leave the house. Life is a lot less complicated if you do not worry too much.

And as far as ventilation goes..I like to drive old style with the window open and my elbow hanging out. Its a lifestyle thing....lol


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Hey Willem, you insane old bugger. I like your style. I'm just as mad but have to tame it down. Yeah i do worry about things like that because" what goes wrong, does happen to me"!!!!

But thanks for the reallity check!!

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Chris

To all our inexperienced out there, "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME"
Murphy will only be on you side for so long before he bites you on the a...rse.
Fair Dinkum?? ROTFLMAO X 10.

Fred.

Chris...talking about worrying about things.....................

Have had this periodic rattle in the drive train when engine is idling. Put foot on clutch and it goes away. Been rattling like that for more than a year. So before I go bush in May I get some mechanically minded friends to listen to the noise as I am a bit concerned, but nor worried. A number of different opinions. Ahhh, what the hell, will go on trip anyway. Trip was round 5000km of which 400km was offtrack with trailer in tow. No worries. Get home repack and go to Victoria. Then come back home for three weeks and go to Innamincka and back....still same rattle. Its in the gearbox. Mate says don't worry, the buggered bearing cant go anywhere.......LOL

I will repair it when it breaks................


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Don't worry...be happy..................

Better to err on the side of caution then to go "what the heck" and don't come back.

My old girl (see my profile) got me down to sydney and back then down to the central coast and it was a buggered uni joint and that was at 100 to 130 kph. so yeah lifes short why make it shorter! I just like to eliminate said murphy and his silly law!!

so buger murphy and his silly craap.

So i won't kick fred lying on the floor, silly bugger!!

well that's my 2 cents worth, adjusted for infaltion and GST

lol

chris

GN

Like with everything else....you have to make sure that the steel jerrycan cap seals are working according to their design.

Having driven most of the soft option treks around this country I have now been concentrating on accessing remote localities and have been driving cross country on occasions.

Most times over 40 odd years I have run splits on crossply and radial tyres but had my fair share of on road punctures. Then I went to tubeless and it was OK for a while on the easy optioned roads but there are no tubeless tyres which can cut the mustard doing off track driving. So its a compromise one has to make. I reverted back to splits and crossply tyres and have had no major problems for the past two years and close on 40,000km. The drawback is lower kilometre range on the crossply tyres.

Yes, you will have rapid deflation on a tubed tyre if punctured at high speed. Yes, a tubeless tyre with a slow leak does not lose air rapidly. Both types of tyres will most likely be destroyed at speed they suffer a major cut and instant deflation.

Unfortunately there is no commercial tyre as yet which will cover all aspects of events...:-)

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G'day William
My last set of "drawers" were burnt at Dalhousie. Apparently I didn't make em strong enough to survive the track 30 years ago. Yours look good...sure beats my tieing them across the back seat.
(with petrol in em at that stage...travelling bomb but there was no EO to learn from in those days).
My tubeless have had a better history on the tracks and tar then my splitz had. Perhaps one needs that trailer to drag a set of splitz to the jumpintg off point , and then change all 4?
But there again that would defeat the idea of everything inside the vehicle for economy etc.
I still can't see how you're going to sleep in that thing, and still be able to answer the call of nature during the night. Oh well, no doubt where there's a will there's a way...its got to be easier than a roof topper after a few sherberts :)))

Footy

William?.....you trying to wind me up or something :-)

Have to get some more MDF tomorrow. Should have the whole thing set up by Saturday. Have figured that there will still be enough comfortable sleeping space.

Call of nature has been handled by a V8 Juice bottle for some years now. I really should patent that!!!!!....LOL

I carted petrol in the same manner in the FJ 55 and in the G60 for years. Never ever had an issue. Most people worry too much.


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Sorry WILLEM :)))...
Not trying to stir anyone up, just too many things happening around here.

Thanks Axle. I appreciate your thoughts....hahahahaha

We were talking caravans one time and I said that I had disconnected the cable brakes as the cables were rubbing on the wider tyres. Had been driving like that for a few years towing the 27 footer....carefully. Fella I was talking to nearly fainted....hahahaha


I reiterate....people worry too much



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Hello David

Where ya been hiding?

Blow up a diesel. Hmmm.........suppose it can happen



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And now you wish you still had it. Would fetch a mint on Ebay...lol

I have some 2004 German jerries.


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Hi Adrian

Rear vision isn't an issue as I normally use the mirrors and ten to one have the trailer hooked on. I need to keep things flat so that I have space for SWMBO if the need arises like and overnight camp when travelling. That area will also have loose bags and bedding on occasions stored there

I am intending to be at the Pyrenees. Se you there.


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Didn't think you were old enough to remember ceramic vessels under the bed....lol

Thanks very much Jim, I shall bear that in mind and let you know.


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Good one Moose

If I ever have a major mechanical breakdown in whoop whoop I can just walk away from it(carrying the fridge, that is)...lol


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You may consider carrying the fuel too Bro ;-)))))