Thread: Setting up D4 with the lot!

Can’t remember if you have a roof rack on the list, but you will get far better radio reception by having the antenna on the roof rack.
I use this style for when we go away and I swap it to a 4” rubber duck for around town. It lets me use undercover car parks and gives good around town reception. I had no loss of reception between the Flinders and Arkaroola

Ours is on the front of the Rhino rack and we get very good reception. I'm going to make it's attachment to the rack one where I can just reach out and turn it flat as it catches the roof of the car port if the car isn't at it's access height. I've never liked the look of those huge things so beloved by the owners of other makes stuck out the front of the vehicle.
AlanH.

Originally Posted by ATH

Ours is on the front of the Rhino rack and we get very good reception. I'm going to make it's attachment to the rack one where I can just reach out and turn it flat as it catches the roof of the car port if the car isn't at it's access height. I've never liked the look of those huge things so beloved by the owners of other makes stuck out the front of the vehicle.
AlanH.

You mean these ??????

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Originally Posted by jh972

ok, my 2 cents worth.
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I don't agree that a snorkel is not necessary. It definitely will supply cleaner air on dust roads,
Don't get where 150 ball weight adds 220 to rear axle load though. That would mean it takes 70 off the front axle. Maths doesn't seem right but I do agree that weight will be your problem. Consider putting extra spare on trailer, rather than on swing away carrier.
But what a great build & what a great adventure coming.. Good luck.

Re snorkel - do you have any data to prove that?…

To calculate the actual ball weight affect on the rear axle; multiply the ball weight by the (vehicle wheelbase plus the rear overhang) and then divide the answer by the wheelbase.
e.g. Disco:-
w/b 2900mm overhang 1320mm
Total 4220mm
Camper towball weight, for example, 240kg
240 x 4.220 = 1013
1013 / 2.900 = 350kg
on the rear axle.

David

Originally Posted by WabiSabi

Ideally we’d use the third row for one of the kids so they have a bit of space. Previously we had a Delica which was terrific for the amount of space and the captains chairs but horrible to work on.
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On long trips we ended up having both rear seats up, as the kids wanted to sit next to each other to play games, so sometimes there were two kids in the rear.

Fitted the Front Runner ladder today and broke just the one bolt, pretty usual for me that I bust something while fitting. Didn’t break any plastic tabs though so that’s a win. Ladder seems secure but was a bit of a job to get it to fit.

Also added the maxtrax bracket system and one for the shovel to the pioneer rack. I like the new shovel clips from Rhino they are lockable and very fast and easy to remove the shovel.

Waiting on everything else to arrive, the mail is soooo slow at the moment.

still tossing up between the ARB and the TJM Pro air compressor.

Spoke to Tim at Traxide about connecting a UHF and air compressor and he confirmed the trailer break needs to go direct from the cranking battery.

Key issue at the moment is the spare wheel mechanism isn’t working. I can’t lower it enough to get the spare in it. I had a puncture recently and the guys at the tyre shop over spun the mechanism and now it doesn’t work. I’ll do some trawling on how to fix/replace.

Thanks as always for your thoughts, all noted!

Originally Posted by WabiSabi

Key issue at the moment is the spare wheel mechanism isn’t working. I can’t lower it enough to get the spare in it. I had a puncture recently and the guys at the tyre shop over spun the mechanism and now it doesn’t work. I’ll do some trawling on how to fix/replace.

Thanks as always for your thoughts, all noted!

Would it work if you attach a kettle bell weight to the wire rope and try to lower it? Sometimes a little weight on it helps

Originally Posted by John_D4

Would it work if you attach a kettle bell weight to the wire rope and try to lower it? Sometimes a little weight on it helps

I got underneath and pulled at it while my wife wound it down but it only move about 150mm and then stops. Also as soon as there is any weight it doesn’t pull up.