Doing the freeway trip back from Queensland to Vic and at 95 to 100kph the wind noise is still a problem the engine fan can still be heard but Dynamat made a big difference even had no music on at one stage and could hear the boss
Cameron while you are going on the Center consol I made for my truck and our local Rescue Truck a map book holder in front of your existing top running down to the floor to hold A3 map books , I still like paper maps . The only down side to Dynamat is I can hear the boss talking to me ha ha !
Family Friendly 4x4 plenty of Euro regrested Expedition vehicles on the roads in Australia Mercedes , Ivecos ,MANs etc but you will need more like twelve months to do theAussie lap Ross
My Furness ,tank and pump,are in under body boxes and can still hear the pump ticking away the heat exchanger and fan are under the bed here in Aus. We haven't used it all that much in the last four years as we tend to head North in the winter Ross
Hey fellas these are under body boxes after 35000 kl mine are looking a bit stone pitted and the aluminium is a bit tarnished,but these can be classed as battle scars OK Ross
Don't give away all our Aussie secrets I think I have only ever had 2 1/2 degree ones use to have to put them in old Inters and Bedfords recon the last one was thrown in when I sold the front end machine last year . Ross
Macca I got my sleve through a trimmer who had a notice in the local fish and chip shop turned out he knew the son in law got it done in white plastic sort of canvas because the cream colour isn't as light inside had to put 12 x3 mm flat alli in side a tube top and bottom and pop reverted...
Keep up the good work my camper took two years running the workshop full time ,three nights knocking off around 10 pm all day Saturday and generally Sunday morning that said we still had a few weekends away and Christmas holidays final registration the morning of the third Christmas knock off...
How come you didn't build it from scratch ?? Years ago was given a 6x4 trailer just used the lights axle and springs and coupling to make an IRB trailer making a new frame was quicker than rehashing the old trailer good camping Ross
Boys and girls it's the same here in Australia as a Scout I camped and hiked for years with next to nothing my first 4wd was an old 55 Cruiser wagon no fancy accessorys 1 bloke in our mob had a Warn winch most of us had a snatch strap but that was all when I built my first camper based on a...
Seeing no one has posted any thing for a while thought I better slip one in Eddistone Lighthouse on the Bay of Fires North East Tasmania built in 1889 and standing at 35 meters it dwarfs the truck
Hi folks I have an Isuzu NPS camper I took a air intake from the front of the camper body next to the truck air intake for the engine in PVC storm water pipe down to a modified Toyota Hiace air cleaner mounted below the camper floor then through the floor in silicon turbo hose with a right angle...
Build your own fellas plenty of good ideas on this forum unless you are like me flat out building the camper and didn't post during the build because I didn't find the forum till it was nearly finished . Started out with sheets of paper the size I knew I had to work within on the lounge room...
I am in Australia and haven't seen spacers used like you guys in the States we generally get a wider axle to suit as by fitting a spacer I feel it puts more load on the smaller outer wheel bearing our local steel and hard wear store has a large range of trailer parts from couplings ,springs...
Yes we booked in October for the start of February sailed over night from Melbourne tried to come to alter the return booking by 2days earlier to no avail the truck is 3 meters high so we were on the bottom deck an ATW and Earthcruiser as well as large caravans on 4wd s that was for the two of...
OK fellas I am in Cygnet at present having taken 2 and a bit weeks to get this far it cost just under $ 800 to cone over on the Sprit in my NPS which is under 7 Mts long only a it longer than a Cruiser or Patrol and of course has a much better turning circle but let's not go there . We went to...
I added Dynamat under the floor mats all across the floor under the seats and up the rear wall the little bit left over I put above the fan / radiator on the engine side of the cab if you are going to do the engine compartment side I would suggest cleaning the panels well with Prepsol or uni...
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