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    Isuzu DMax on Canning with a broken axle

    This is a fairly new post on Youtube that I stumbled across. When I say broken axle, this is really broken.Jump to 21 Min...



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8G7WDB9QZM


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    At the 21 min mark, notice the helper air-bag between the leaf spring and chassis. I wonder if that played any part in the axle's failure.
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    Overloaded and poorly distributed weight, with inadequate susoension. When ate people going to learn these vehicles are just not up to it???
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    Not much love in the comments section either - plenty saying the same thing - overloaded and poor suspension setup.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cripesamighty View Post
    At the 21 min mark, notice the helper air-bag between the leaf spring and chassis. I wonder if that played any part in the axle's failure.
    The helper air springs, overloading and speeds to fast for the conditions could all contribute. They had already travelled quite a distance (fully loaded) on the trip before getting onto the CSR. They seemed to be under some time constraints.

    I could not help wondering if the crack could have shown up with an oil weep earlier on a daily pre-start inspection - which, admittedly, we do not always do in that detail each day if things are going well.

    Unenviable situation for them, hopefully some valuable lessons to be learned by all of us ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 87County View Post
    The helper air springs, overloading and speeds to fast for the conditions could all contribute. They had already travelled quite a distance (fully loaded) on the trip before getting onto the CSR. They seemed to be under some time constraints.

    I could not help wondering if the crack could have shown up with an oil weep earlier on a daily pre-start inspection - which, admittedly, we do not always do in that detail each day if things are going well.

    Unenviable situation for them, hopefully some valuable lessons to be learned by all of us ?
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    Isuzu DMax on Canning with a broken axle

    I think it’s a good educational video.....and good on the owners for letting the trip leader post up the failure. Also good Bush mechanicing to more the car and disguise.

    I watched the whole video, how to we know it was overloaded??

    I agree overloading and distribution are contributors but unless we have weights we’ll never know. Although doing the canning would put most car near GVM.

    Although, there is enough info on the net about air bag helper to deter me it in saying that for every failure there are 100’s that get by just fine.

    All makes and models have failures....just recently there was an SOS on here where a defender was stranded in S.A.

    Oh a mate has done the canning in both directions, stock prado than a stock hi-lux, I cannot remember what other makes and models were in the convoy but all made it without issue apart from a D2, had a leaking fuel tank which was fixed.

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    We had a canopy similar to that one sitting in the corner of the shed at one of my old workplaces, and I remember it weighed roughly 300-400kgs, but that was for a dual cab, not a space cab .. so 400-ish kg is probably about on par.
    Dmax spacecab GVM is 3000kgs, and depending on model payload is between 1300 and 1000kgs(all rounded).

    So with between 1300 and 1000kgs payload - 400-ish kgs for the canopy, between 600 kgs and 900kgs payload.
    Owner of Dmax has a tank of some kind fitted under the canopy forward of the axle(probably water) .. have no idea on what an ideal weight for supplies and gear would be for a Canning trip ???

    Can't imagine that it would have been grossly overloaded tho .. so probably more likely a case of bad luck. Hit the wrong corrugation at the wrong speed, with the wrong wheel.
    But considering the chap that posted the vid did say that they were down to 20k/h on the really bad corrugated section, doesn't seem that they were excessively speeding in any way.

    Can't imagine the cost of recovery tho.
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    Patrol with a broken chassis, Canning stock route. The fix was a great feat of bush mechanicing.

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    In the video's comments section, one guy - "Andrew H-P" - goes into a bit of detail about D-Max's having just these sort of issues on several minesites, and why they now don't use them.
    His comments thread starts with "Incredibly lucky that the catastrophic failure didn't result in a loss of control at high speeds or a vehicle rollover."
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