So I've started a thread in the touring section about my round OZ trip so I thought may as well start one on the thing that's getting me round the country.
I had a very clean Maverick TD42t before the GU which I was planning on doing the trip in but wanted something more comfy and an auto so the Mrs can drive. I was looking at HDJ100 cruiser but for 16grand couldn't look past the 48 patrol. She's loves a drink but I knew it would. The good thing is no over heating and plenty of power to tow the camper.
It's a 2004 TB48 auto wagon. I'm running EFS 2" coils, Ironman foam cell pros, 285/75/16 Toyo Open Country's, 3.9 diff gears, winch, full roof rack, fox wing, rear bar, 229 litres of the good stuff on board, 67litre water tank sitting on some Drifta drawers with the bed base extension where the rear seats once were for a bit more organised space. All electrics done by the man himself Leethal. Running dual battery's with aux in the draws with a bcdc1240 battery charger. Other than the electrics I've done most of the work myself at my mates who owns a mechanical workshop in landsdale in Perth.
The car has performed really well. Has been using average of 25L/100 towing our 1.5t camper and the car weighing in at I think around 3.4T so I'm pretty happy with it!
Had a few dramas along the trip. The main battery went in the first week. The battery charger changeover relay for the solar input kept ****ting themselves but fixed it with a good narva relay. Ball joints on the draglink shat them selves on the Dampier peninsula so got a second handy sent up from Broome. Fox wing joints snapped in the storm at Winderabandi point. Leaking sub tank which was fixed in Broome (breather came loose) but now the main tank is leaking the same way which will be fixed while I'm here in Darwin.
But we have driven some rough tracks including the munja and Kalumburu all towing the camper so all in all its been sweet.
I'll try update if I do anything along the way of the trip but atm it's just fixing things that break.
Cheers for looking
Chris
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I had a very clean Maverick TD42t before the GU which I was planning on doing the trip in but wanted something more comfy and an auto so the Mrs can drive. I was looking at HDJ100 cruiser but for 16grand couldn't look past the 48 patrol. She's loves a drink but I knew it would. The good thing is no over heating and plenty of power to tow the camper.
It's a 2004 TB48 auto wagon. I'm running EFS 2" coils, Ironman foam cell pros, 285/75/16 Toyo Open Country's, 3.9 diff gears, winch, full roof rack, fox wing, rear bar, 229 litres of the good stuff on board, 67litre water tank sitting on some Drifta drawers with the bed base extension where the rear seats once were for a bit more organised space. All electrics done by the man himself Leethal. Running dual battery's with aux in the draws with a bcdc1240 battery charger. Other than the electrics I've done most of the work myself at my mates who owns a mechanical workshop in landsdale in Perth.
The car has performed really well. Has been using average of 25L/100 towing our 1.5t camper and the car weighing in at I think around 3.4T so I'm pretty happy with it!
Had a few dramas along the trip. The main battery went in the first week. The battery charger changeover relay for the solar input kept ****ting themselves but fixed it with a good narva relay. Ball joints on the draglink shat them selves on the Dampier peninsula so got a second handy sent up from Broome. Fox wing joints snapped in the storm at Winderabandi point. Leaking sub tank which was fixed in Broome (breather came loose) but now the main tank is leaking the same way which will be fixed while I'm here in Darwin.
But we have driven some rough tracks including the munja and Kalumburu all towing the camper so all in all its been sweet.
I'll try update if I do anything along the way of the trip but atm it's just fixing things that break.
Cheers for looking
Chris
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