Thread: Disco Adventure

I so wanna do that one day. Looks like it was an awesome trip.

Communication
To keep in touch – mainly in convoy – we have fitted a 40 channel UHF. These are great for keeping in contact between vehicles and for Toyotas letting everyone know when they get stuck.

Winch
To winch or not to winch, to lock your diffs or not to lock – that was a big question. From what we read there were overlanders who worshipped the winch gods, and those who were winch atheists. In the end we went for the winch over an ARB diff lock for a number of reason. Firstly we have traction control on the Disco that works quite well at maintaining traction when the centre diff lock has reached its limit. If I ran front and/or rear lockers, I know that I would engage them when I got stuck, and then leave them engaged to see how far I would get. Once you get stuck with your lockers engaged then there is nothing in reserve. With this in mind we went for a Warn 9000lb winch with the intention of not having to use it but having it there if we did. We carry an ARB snatch block (to reduce the load on the winch) and an ARB winch extension strap if 30m of cable is not enough. We recon the winch will get more use recovering stuck Toyotas along the way than getting us out of trouble.

UPDATE: Truckasaurus has never been stuck. th ewinch has only been used a few times to recover stuck Toyota's. It is more peace of mind than essential for Africa. That said, if we had hit certain roads at the wront time of year, we may have needed it.

Ha ha

He mentions stuck Toyotas a couple of times... obviously a real LR man!!

Damn malaria, i had planned to do that when i got home from os but i did Nairobi to Capetown and got malaria in Malawi - was meant to get home prepare a vehicle and head off but it took a while to recover fully

Thanks for the Link....

Looks like I'll be missing in action tonight

Nice looking disco ..... but then I may be a little biased.

Cheers, Mark

I wonder who these people are? Are they on here? Anyone know them?

Lucky buggers... one day my turn will come