3 PSI

G'day,

I was watching the British 5TH GEAR program on Sat TV last night and these blokes went to drive up a mountain off road in the middle of winter in ICELAND! Five or six vehicles mainly Toyotas from what I could see. Two of the vehicles have already driven across the Artic and Antartic.

These vehicles have humugus baloon tyres to drive over the snow and at one stage in the middle of a blizzard one of the tyres slipped off the rim as they drive these vehicle with 3 psi in the tyres. Was quite a job to get the tyre back on again.

The lead vehicle is fitted with an extension frame on the bullbar and to the rear bumper so that if they slip forwards into a crevasse then this device can be folded out on to the other side of the crevasse to stabilise the vehicle and to hold while the rear wheels push forward using the difflock until the front wheels touch the other side. Once the front wheels grab then the vehicle can be pulled across using the difflock and the rear stabiliser support utilised to keep everything level. If that fails then they have to winch out using snow anchors( I think they had a rear winch fitted as well). Awesome stuff!!!

They managed about 5km across the snow in twelve hours but had to turn back because of the increasing ferocity of the storm.

Makes our offroading look like a picnic in the park :-)))

Cheers,

Willie

Never a dull moment