Thread: Defender Puma vs Toyota 70 Video Review

Originally Posted by B92 8NW

Nice definition I found: "Compression lock up occurs when the engine exerts a braking force on the drive wheels greater than the amount of traction available"

And it can be a fairly scary occurrence in a truck, heading down a steep hill with a loose surface. Sometimes all you need to do is lift the foot off for it to occur.

Much more likely to happen in a lightly laden vehicle at the rear wheels


Martyn

Another typical test, done by another typical tester. "The defender is better, but for no reason at all I choose the land cruiser, no other reason than just because I want to".

I had this experience in the Disco descending those steep bits of the Deua Mericumbene trail in the wet....learned about using the accelerator rather than the brake

I've recently returned from driving Melb to Cairns. I was surprised to see so many new VDJ79R Cruisers parked on people's front lawns with crappy hand painted "4 sale" signs (surely there are better channels through which to sell a $70k car?). I assume either people have bought them and realised they can't afford them, or they aren't as good as the HZJ/HDJ that they probably upgraded from and want to go back to an older one.

Still having said all that, all I saw throughout inland NSW/QLD was 70s. Two D1s and three fenders by contrast.

Also I want to know how QLDers can make their aspirated 75 do 140kmh. Perhaps the distinct lack of hills gives a false sense of how "powerful" they are...

Originally Posted by B92 8NW

Also I want to know how QLDers can make their aspirated 75 do 140kmh.

If they have the 1HZ they should do it easily, provided they are in tune. A mate of mine used to have one that would do 160 on the flat.

Originally Posted by one_iota

I had this experience in the Disco descending those steep bits of the Deua Mericumbene trail in the wet....learned about using the accelerator rather than the brake

I remember another hill like that to Mahn, but we tabogoned down that one

Originally Posted by BMKal

Haven't seen it as a sticker. I can send you in jpeg format or similar and you can see if your local signwriter can make a sticker from it if you like.

Please do, if I can get em printed I'll send you one. please send to gerald.duncan@tafensw.edu.au. Don't worry about the privacy bit with the email folks (I expect someone will say I shouldn' put my email up here but hey, so what?)

cheers Gerald

Didge,
Here:
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or just for a jpeg:
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