Monday, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:19
Hi
Ross,
The whole story,
My mates CJ5 Jeep spat a LH rear wheel bearing on the Cape Development Track on the way south about an hour out of
Coen. He'd done the right thing and had all the wheel bearings replaced before the trip but obviously that one wasn't up to scratch!
We first started with this idea,
Using a local hardwood log as a skid and with my Landcruiser towing the Jeep by an A-Frame. I can tell you for certain the log idea isn't worth spit. They wear out way too fast.
We then sat down and looked at what we had over a couple of thinking cans. We had the following,
2 cars with towbars,
7
wheels on the road
A bloody big "D" Shackle
A HiLift Jack
So, we inverted the tongue on my Hayman Reece towbar. Dropped the Jeeps' gooseneck onto the top of my goose neck. Dropped the pin from the D Shackle through the holes where the towballs used to be.
We then inverted the shackle and used it as a nut. Just as we'd hooked it all up a bloke stopped to ask if we where OK. In his toolbox he had a nut that fitted the pin out of the shackle so we used his nut rather than the shackle.
Once we turned the whole road train around we did a dead slow tow into
Coen with my mate sitting in the Jeep travelling backwards and holding the steering wheel straight.
The first photo I posted is in the
camp ground at
Coen that night. You'll see the rear wheel off the Jeep sitting on a rack on the cab of the Landcruiser.
We then road freighted the Jeep to
Cairns for repairs. To load it we did this:
Put the Landcruiser in neutral and sparked the Jeep up in 4wd. The Jeep then drove onto the truck towing the Landcruiser behind it. Once the Jeep was in the right position we diconnected the Landcruiser.
The Jeep rode to
Cairns for repairs and drove back to
Newcastle on all 4
wheels!
Geoff
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