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  1. 6th March 2013, 01:57 PM #61
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    Cool. Should do the same. We keep leaving them behind

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    Had an interesting chat with the copper at Tibooburra last trip. He was talking about the exceptions he'd witnessed:

    A road train came in with the windscreen completely stoved in. It had hit a Wedgie. They feed off road kill up there and are common, and commonly slow to get off the ground.

    4bies go out with camper trailers. The right tyres on the vehicle; rubbish on the campers.

    Day 1 a huge Winnebago comes in, from Innamincka via Cameron Corner. Adventurous to say the least.
    Days 2-5: road closed due to rain.
    Day 6: road opened to 4WD only. A whole stream of vehicles head out (us included) and among them a bunch of 4bies towing blacktop only vans.

    Geez you'd get jaded observing that and -off having to go out to 'assist'.
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  3. 6th March 2013, 04:25 PM #62
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    Sounds like a great adventure, even with the mishaps. No matter how long you go for, you tend to not have enough time, the more you have the more you discover.

    Stones, you recommend a stone guard on the trailer/camper that I can understand, but what about decent mudflaps. I note on a lot of grey nomad cars they have huge mudflaps going almost all the way to the ground. No issue for me really but I know mine are far to small, so was going to see what was on offer at the caravan and camping show tomorrow (at Caulfield Racecourse Thu-Tue). I'm also looking at other accessories, more weight , and ideas.

    Also, why bring back kangaroo bones . I can understand dinosaur bones, but you can get kangaroo bones on any country road, even some city ones

    Did you bring back any sleepers, desert timbers etc?
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    Neil, big flaps behind the rear wheels are often resorted to. Plenty of posts out there in webland.

    It's a contested solution to the problem.

    It's not my patch but one of the difficulties appears to be reduction of the necessary cooling air flow over rear axles and diff.

    Some folk resort instead to a mesh panel under the tow bar.

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    I don't do hard core with the Foz and CT but have done lots of outback kms; stone guard on the CT and corflute on the back window have done the job.
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    Have you made it home yet GJ ?
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    No answer Brad so I suspect his missus sold his bones to Springwater.
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    Sorry Brad, I must have missed the email notification of your post, I got back on the 6th March. Post #54.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy John View Post
    Sorry Brad, I must have missed the email notification of your post, I got back on the 6th March. Post #54.
    No worries, I obviously missed that post.
    Just went back and read that part, shame about the damage to the vehicle, just one of those shyt things that happen I guess.
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