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Ready for the camping trip at Cooloola.
Stopped on the roadhouse on the way to Cooloola beach for camping, we went to Swan gully 4 wd park a few days before and notices some suspension wobble on the way home. Panhard rod, ( I think that's the name of the rod that locates the front axle side to side) bushes and one bolt was worn and the radius arms bushes were also knackered. I had spare radius arms, and my neighbor was able to press new bushes into the panhard rod, so the steering was nice for the trip. It was not much trouble to fit the new radius arms about 3 hours I think , I did them one at a time.
The airbagman suspension on the back is great I'm amazed how good the ride is, on and off road, I had about 50 psi in the bags, ( normally about 36). We ran 20 psi on the 235/85 ATs for all the sand driving
The disco 2 transfer case is running sweetly, and we're able to keep up with the the traffic on the M1 though with the roof rack on I think the engine will struggle much above 110 km/hr.
At 100 km/h the boost is about 10 psi, at 110 its 14 psi. Noticeably higher than without the roof rack on, EGTs seem to be good though, 400-450 c. (I'm using GPS speeds, my speedo is 10 km/hr optimistic), but I don't see that as an issue 110 k, is my max sustained cruising speed.
The trip was about 600 k , including our beach driving etc, I changed from my aux tank to the main tank at 350 k .
I only saw a few defenders on the beaches, a nice blue defender (looked tdi ish) was at the beach camp ground.
Cheers simmo
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D90 on Holidays - Before and After
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Hi
We just completed one of the tag-along tours in the Snowy Mountains with Great Divide Tours over the Christmas break. Here is a shot of my 90 all loaded up and ready to go in the driveway and one a few days later after a few puddles.
enjoy!
Andrew
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Back in a defender after 5 months and loving it :)
