100 Series Toyota Landcruiser
Submitted: Wednesday, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:33
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Paul from Adventure Camper Trailer Hire
I recently completed a trip up the Old Ghan
Heritage rail track and had on two seperate occasions a bolt break holding the pan rod arm behind the rear diff . Not good especially with off course one of our Adventure camper trailers in tow . I did speak to a few members from the Victorian Toyota Landcruiser club at Mount Dare who said they had heard of this part failing before but with the actual arm bending or breaking which was also repeated by the
Alice Springs service manager . I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so is this a major fault in the 100 Series (
mine is a year 2000 ) that Toyota should do something about as we know theres not alot of help out on these roads and with a vehicle that has not even done 40,000kms yet this does worry me .
Besides this failure I also had a shocker and wheel stud of all things break no flat tyres though that was one good thing .
I would love to know your thoughts .
Thanks
Paul . T .
Adelaide .
Reply By: JimB - Thursday, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:55
Thursday, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:55
G'day Paul,
No mate, haven't had that experience. Our 100 Series is a '98 diesel, purchased by us in Jan 2001 with 60,000. It had done some work already which was obvious but still reasonable nick. Pretty early on I replaced the
suspension with OME and that made a huge difference to the ride. Also replaced the original tyres (BFG 285/75 16's). The major trips we have done with it (
Cape York, Gibson, Great Sandy, Tanami deserts) we have not towed but set the vehicle up to sleep in. Only problem we've encountered has been with shockies that were replaced by ARB under warranty. Have now done over 75,000k's without mishap.
I wonder if the problem could be related to towing? Our last trip (6 weeks ago) to Mungo, Murray-Sunset and
Mutawintji we did tow our Heaslip and felt quite a difference. Still mate, I just plod along, certainly noticed a difference in fuel consumption towing at 100k's comp[ared to 90k's.
JimB
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Follow Up By: Paul from Adventure Camper Trailer Hire - Thursday, Oct 02, 2003 at 16:43
Thursday, Oct 02, 2003 at 16:43
Hi Jim .B .
I find it amazing that even speaking to a few people that they too mentioned it could be from towing .
The Landcruiser is rated for 3500kg towing capacity and 350kg ball weights My trailers maximum statistics are 1200kg towing and 100kg ball weight. Along way below Toyotas figures so I would not even consider this to be the problem .
I can also definately say that I was not pushing the vehicle to hard as I was one of the very people out that way who did not have one
puncture while others were having upto 3 at a time repaired .
As for the fuel when towing I found that with my old Hilux the same if you went over the 90 - 100 km per hr mark there was a big difference to the fuel consumption .
Anyhow how have you found your Heaslip camper .?
Cheers
Paul .
Keep on towing !
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Reply By: JimB - Tuesday, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:42
Tuesday, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:42
Happy with the Heaslip. The only inconvenient aspect of it is that the kitchen requires that the annexe roof and front wall be put on if you want to use it in inclement weather. We had previously had a camper trailer without a kitchen and found that the ability to move the stove around according to the wind / rain was a real benefit. The low pressure stove on the Heaslip also made it much slower to boil the billy when a wind was blowing. I have since made up a shield that goes around the stove, that should minimise the draft when the breeze is up.
We have taken the trailer on a number of very slippery roads and found that it tracks and rides superbly, just follows along like a faithful dog. Really forgiving even when the Cruiser gets a bit out of shape. The again we just potter along ay.
JimB
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