Thursday, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:13
Hi Everyone,
Happy to hear you're enjoying the vid.
To answer a the questions,
Kilcoy Yowies, Thanks.
Motherhen, One solar panel, yep but wont be that way for long, I have 6 in storage with all my other treasures ( the blokes will know what I mean...), I'm going to put another couple on.
Gone Bush...Yea..not bad eh.. :) Bit like winning Lotto..... :) haha. Just kidding Ladies ( Man I really need to learn about self preservation.. :)
Uncle Dodgey, sorry mate, don't know how to tell.
Noosa Fox...mate, least let me try...just kidding, it's really the domain of small vans, not only in length but width also. There's space sacrifices compared to you guys.
Sawtybt, how'd you find that out ?
Willie, if you look carefully at the dune descent shot from the bottom you'll see some tracks that end 75% up the dune face, that's the point I got to trying to get up. A couple of week prior I actually made it up and over after three attemps, I'll resize a couple of pics and put them on youtube if I can. I'll post the link when it's done.
Rockgoc, When I saw that bay I knew it'd be a challange and I camly thought..." WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE " It was ~ 3Km's long and the middle had quite a steep beach. I tramped it and hung on, made it just under half way and stopped before I got into real strife, Elke's Cuz, who was behind me only made it a quarter of the way around, when he reversed back he let the LC slip down out of the tracks so when I reached that point reversing the BT it naturally followed his tracks and the rest is history... I'd dropped my tyre pressue on the H2 to 14 PSI and was running the BT tyres at 14 PSI as well. When we towed it all back to firmer ground I sunk the boot and picked a higher line hitting it at 75Kph, the H2 has 315HP and great gobs of torque in low range, I needed to get 75% of the way in order to get around the real boggy stuff and drop onto the firmer flatter stuff, I only just made it,when I hit the firm stuff I was down to about 5Kph and trying to look collected !!! The BT handled really well, kept it's line superbly even though it runs a little ( 50mm Max ) proud of the H2 track. By the way turns out the bay is named Boggy Bay, I think the guy on the ATV thought I was a nut, 'course YOU don't DO you !! haha
Motherhen, The BT tyres were at 14 PSI the whole trip, it makes for slow going over the limestone sections, of which there is lots. One has to be particularly aware of turning corners with low tyre pressures as corkscrewing of the tyres is pronounced and where possible one has to try and not have the van turning onto sharp sided rocks when manoeuvring around the corners. Going nice and gently is the trick. The H2 tyres were up at 20 PSI prior to hitting Boggy bay for the second run and left at that until I came off the beach 10K's South of Cervantes.
Thank you all for taking the time to view the vid.
Al
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Follow Up By: Happy Camper - Thursday, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:21
Thursday, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:21
This should read,
Motherhen, The BT tyres were at 14 PSI the whole trip, it makes for slow going over the limestone sections, of which there is lots. One has to be particularly aware of turning corners with low tyre pressures as corkscrewing of the tyres is pronounced and where possible one has to try and not have the van turning onto sharp sided rocks when manoeuvring around the corners. Going nice and gently is the trick. The H2 tyres were up at 20 PSI prior to hitting Boggy bay for the second run.
They were then dropped to 14 PSI and left at that until I came off the beach 10K's South of Cervantes.
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