Loose Steering and Top Cruising Speed

i tend to cruise at 90-95 or so, (that's indicated. its worth checking your speedo's accuracy). mine will happily go out to 110, and get there quite easily from 90 or so, but as well as what JDNSW said about noise and fuel burn, at that speed my confidence in the vehicle's road holding and ability to swerve or rapidly reduce speed if needed quickly falls away. also worth remembering that at 110 you're probably not going to be able to accelerate quickly from there either, eg if you had to floor it during an overtaking move. its a 20 something year old truck, not a sports car!

In simple terms these are 4-6t truck motors in a Land Rover will do b/w 500k and 1mk

You know what they say " drive it like it's stolen" and you still won't hurt it.

Regards

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Originally Posted by BushBandit

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Also what's this buyers guide you speak of Barefoot Dave? ....... Cheers again.

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Dave has put a lot of effort in compiling a buyers guide to Perenties - everything you want to know before buying, but probably also a lot that you want to know after buying. He is selling them.

John

I've found about 90km/h to be the sweet spot for fuel economy. I get about 10km/L at that speed. Its seems going from 235/85 ' s to 33x12.5's to make no real difference to economy

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Mine will sit on 100-110km all day. However, 90km is much quieter and more economical.

I agree 100% with John. Look all the suspension bushes and tie rod ends for movement. Finally check if there is any movement in the spline at the bottom of the steering box at the pitman arm or steering drop arm. The nut holding the pitman arm to the steering box might also be loose.

The perentie steering will never be as precise as rack & pinion steering. However it's quite ok if maintained.

Just an update fellas. Got the steering sorted over the last day and a half was a combination of a few things mentioned here, looked to be mainly the tie rod ends though. Thanks again made it a lot easier knowing exactly where to look.

Also took the radiator out and did all the cooling system while we where playing around. Looks to be in surprisingly good condition but I think it's brand new. Still had the tags on it.

Going to buy the manuals tonight fellas, so thanks for pointing me in the right direction there.

Also picked up one of the stronger looking perentie winch bull bars of a bloke in the hills. So will be chucking that on, not that there was anything wrong with the coat hanger that's on it just prefer the look and looks a bit stronger.

Cheers,

Yeah that Buyers Guide that Dave has written is the best Manual/Guide/History lesson that you WILL ever read!!!

Yeah the army Perentie's came with a few different bullbars...

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Originally Posted by BushBandit

Just an update fellas. Got the steering sorted over the last day and a half was a combination of a few things mentioned here, looked to be mainly the tie rod ends though. Thanks again made it a lot easier knowing exactly where to look.

Also took the radiator out and did all the cooling system while we where playing around. Looks to be in surprisingly good condition but I think it's brand new. Still had the tags on it.

Going to buy the manuals tonight fellas, so thanks for pointing me in the right direction there.

Also picked up one of the stronger looking perentie winch bull bars of a bloke in the hills. So will be chucking that on, not that there was anything wrong with the coat hanger that's on it just prefer the look and looks a bit stronger.

Cheers,

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Hi

Sounds like you bought the ARB upgrade brush bar and technically not a winch bar as ALL bars come with the gap in the middle for the winch or blanking plate

Enjoy!

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Hi

Sounds like you bought the ARB upgrade brush bar and technically not a winch bar as ALL bars come with the gap in the middle for the winch or blanking plate

Enjoy!

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Are you saying that the ARB style bar can't take a winch? Or are you just nit picking terminology Scott :P

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Are you saying that the ARB style bar can't take a winch? Or are you just nit picking terminology Scott :P

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The other way to look at it is all perentie brush bars are winch bars. The winch is actually bolted to the chassis through the same holes as the inner ones for the bar

Cheers