Wednesday, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:45
Gail and I are back home on the Gold Coast after our trip to Alice Springs via Boulia and Plenty highway, then on down the Old Gahn railway track to Chambers Pillar, Finke, Mt Dare, Delhousie Springs, Oodnadatta, Cooba Peedy, Eyre peninsula then back through NSW to Qld. I would like to thank all
BOG members, Noosa Fox, Bushtucker man,Boystoy,44,Nik N Off and Black Cobra for there advice on track conditions, points of interest and tyre pressures. All of this advice was most welcome, particularly tyre pressures as we did not have one puncture on the whole trip, which says a lot for low tyre pressures on those horror tracks, this is our third BT but I have never let our pressures down as far before, probably explains why I have had more damage to items from the vibrations before. I ran BT tyres at 25 PSI cold and F250 with GVM weight of around 4600kg at 35PSI cold, just wasn't game to come down to the 30PSI that you are running Noosa Fox, but then your truck is a bit lighter than mine, guess I just carry too much. i have had my GVM increased to 4,490 kg so I am only over when i have all my extra jerry cans of fuel full. Some days I did not average 20KPH which is very boring but its that or lots of damage to the rig, once again thanks and will now start to get rig ready for Tassie after Xmas, we will be there for Jan and Feb so hope to see some of you down there, anyone know the cost of the ship for BT and Truck
Eric and Gail
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