Thread: Show us your Deefers !

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

What economy did you manage? IIRC loaded up, on similar roads with reduced pressures, I was getting about 18L/100.

A tail wind day on the highway and got 10.5L/100 on a 115L run
A head wind day on the highway and got 13.5L/100
I ran it about 1500rpm for much of the rough stuff and got about 15L/100
The corrugated roads, especially the sandy stuff (NT end of GCR) added between 1-2 L/100 compared to hwy numbers.

Speeds generally 100 on the hwy or smooth gravel, 80 on the corrugations or rougher unsealed roads depending on conditions

TP: F36psi, R42psi for hwy, F24psi, R30psi for unsealed

Did the telegraph track across the bight earlier this year and got close to 15L/100 for the ~1000km offroad/beach

Did you put the LED headlights in? How do you find them?

Interested to hear about about what u done to stop/limit the Dust ingress.........

Originally Posted by ninetubes

It was an absolute pleasure. 10,000km in 28 days and about half of that offroad. Travelling with a ford ranger and a prado towing a patriot camper, both very well set up vehicles but obviously the 90 ran rings around them in the rough stuff. Not just in capability, but also practicality - it really was in it's element!

The corrugations were not bad on the gibb or gunbarrel, but the roof rack came loose very early on, which was just a re-tighten which never came loose again.
Mitchell plateau and kalumbaru roads were pretty severe though with extreme corrugations and LH rear brake line suffered a fatigue failure. The steel piping broke away from the inboard nipple above the diff. I noticed the fluid loss early and was able to easily plug it and top up the fluid without needing to bleed it. This is a huge plus on the landy, it's so field repairable. Not sure if there was a stick or something in it that caused it, or just the weight of the line itself vibrating away.
Fortunately i wasn't with the other vehicles at this point and obviously didn't say anything (the LR reliability jokes wear a bit thin sometimes) and drove the next 5000km with 3 brakes, no issue. It pulled up so square that you'd hardly have known it was missing.

The dust was epic, but I had been working on a few mods to keep the truck dust free which worked a treat. Next to no dust inside. Used a snorkel precleaner which caught a lot, haven't checked the airfilter yet.

The highway driving was fine and got good economy.

The river and creek crossings (i lost count of these) were also no problem. Never got hung up or stuck and had no ingress dramas.

The proper offroading (munja track etc) was great and the defender made everyone else look like they'd bought a knife to a gun fight. Absolutely no issues. The worst of it was the tall grass (~90km of it, mostly taller than the car). It made navigation really hard and the constant risk of a concealed rock or stump etc made for very slow going. constantly having to clear it out from under the car wasn't much fun either.

In short it handled it all in it's stride. Conditions were remote, very arduous and just plain hard on the vehicles, and i would not have wanted to drive anything else.

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Hue, the headlights are the JW speaker ones. They are good, but 2 years old now. I feel like there there are cheaper options that perform equally or better available now.

Rob, I put on a wheel carrier to take weight off the rear door, doubled up the back door seal with some 3M “D” strip, spent some time sikaflexing the panel join gaps, sealed the heater ventilation gap aaaand sorted a cabin air filter so I can have positive pressure clean air inside.
It’s the best mod I’ve done. We used to be able to actually see the dust coming in through the vents.
I’ve posted about the filter in the ventilation gap thread earlier this week. There are some photos etc there

Any Snakes?.......You had an epic trip

Originally Posted by ninetubes

Lots of long grass, plus a big rock. Had a great time hanging out in the landy with my lady. 4 weeks 10,000km.

Originally Posted by martnH

Any Snakes?...

yep. were lucky enough to see plenty of snakes, lizards, crocs, sharks, camels, quolls, wallabys etc. it's an awesome country we live in.
only time i felt unsafe was when we unwittingly disturbed a nest of napping greyus-nomadus with some territory day fireworks...

They are the worst wildlilfe of the lot.
Luckily for you, they are easy to out-run if you need to.

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

They are the worst wildlilfe of the lot.
Luckily for you, they are easy to out-run if you need to.

Throw a decoy back of biscuits the opposite direction to that of which you plan to run.