Thread: Maytown in a disabled P38

Wow, driving on a normal bitumen road on the bump stops is bad enough.

How many teeth fell out?

I agree! I drove 500-odd km from Coffs Harbour to Sydney on the bumpstops one night via the Pacific Hwy and that was bad enough!

Couldn't you get the airbag back on or had it split? Although, if it was in hard EAS fault, you'd need an EAS reset.

It didn't hard fault until I got over 60km/h, the bag was pierced like a tiger claw, I tried 100mph tape but it did not hold so we stuffed the bag full of wrags and hoped it would help! My bump stops are buggered, I just hope the shocks are not!

First actual piercing of a bag that I've heard of.

I think I'll leave the old one I've got stashed around the LPG tank right where it is!

Sounds like a good idea!

Originally Posted by Keithy P38

G'day all,

Just returned from my epic trip to Maytown! If you have seen Roothy's DVD from a few months ago you'll see generally what it was like - 80km of low range 4wding! It was very hard, very rough, plenty of creeks and very steep rocky climbs!

I managed to not only do this track (possibly the first P38 to ever do it), but I also did it without an air locker AND on the bump stops! About 5km into the low range I popped my left front airbag! Hard was harder and slow was slower!

The only damage she sustained was a busted left fog light and a rub on the left side on a bank entering a creek! I scraped the undercarriage only 3 times and had to pick my line very carefully!

Of the 1350km travelled, 800km was on the bump stops! That was hard!

Pics and a video of the airbag popping to come...

Cheers
Keithy

looking forward to the pics, and hearing more about the trip if you've got time

did you travel via Laura ? I was there last year and thought about going to Maytown but locals talked me out of it

We travelled through from the south (Laura at the end). The plan was to head up battlecamp road and stay at the lions den hotel then travel back to Townsville via the daintree but my lack of suspension changed that! We ended up going home via the Rex highway and past port douglas.

Looking forward to the Pics, I have just got back from my Easter trip so will put some stuff up too. 1500klms without dramas ( to my car anyway). I have worn a hole through the leather on the steering wheel, this is the only failure. I once drove my classic on the bump stops for 30 miles and that was hard going, you must be sore.