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Two of my nephews have Toyota Hilux Utes, both of them have left their gear ratios as standard, although one of them may change his. Their standard ratio is 32.08 : 1 which reflects that both are running 2.8L diesels. Which may be a reason they are running different ratios to what you are...

MaxTrax for recovery boards. We have 4 MaxTrax Mk II full size boards, needed to use them twice. First time was in very hot deep sand, second time was in slimy mud then almost immediately after, a rocky ledge type of bridging situation where we doubled them up to traverse a rock crack. Just...

As these vehicles aren't meant for 4x4 work and are essentially a round town delivery truck, I don't believe there are rated recovery options for any of the NRR, NPR, NQR versions. The NPS (4x4 version ex factory) doesn't have any rated recovery points either! This is the rear end of our NPS...

Interesting things have happened with vehicle pricing since COVID-19, in general they have gone up quite a lot. Our Isuzu NPS 300 is a single cab chassis manual model, the cheapest configuration possible. The cab chassis was manufactured in 12/2019, delivery to Australia happened (as far as I...

I knew I had seen that mounting arrangement somewhere before. This is from Austral, Qld based importer of made in China slide-on campers, which by all accounts are reasonably good. I understand that they import the unit as a whole, and in Australia outfit the innards with Australian compliant...

Yes, good luck with the build. The only thing I would be concerned about, is the placement of the rear spare wheel. It is really well back and with the centre of the wheel at around 2460mm from the ground, it really is high. In Australia it wouldn't be legal as it is past 60% of the wheel base...

Fretting corrosion I would say. Looks like it is an external male female set of splines, which after use don't get used for a short while, oxidisation forms on the newly exposed (rubbed) metal, then the next time it is used the oxidisation (rust) is removed as the oxidised surface is ground into...

I think this is a good distance. We have 22cm above my head and even wearing thick hiking shoes, it feels normal. 15cm is about the minimum, less than that and it starts to feel closed in.

I too, thought it may be desirable to have more clearance for articulation of the rear axle, if the axle articulation gives 300mm of movement, meaning 150mm up and 150mm down, that should be alright. If the articulation is more than that, it looks like it may get close to the underside of the...

I agree with you about the older N series of Isuzu trucks being quite smaller in total allowable weight. The NPS and NPR seemed over the years to have moved ever upwards in tandem with identical maximum allowable vehicle weights. I would agree that that models NPS and NPR were around 6 tonne or...

Now with regard to the differences between the NPS and the FSS, I'm not that well informed of most of the differences but there are a few I know. I have test driven an FSS recently for a friend who (at the time) didn't have the appropriate licence, it was a crew cab model. Essentially the FSS...

I have seen this NPS with it's caravan attached to the chassis rails a few times, at least I'm assuming it's attached to the chassis rails as I haven't really looked underneath; although I should've. I first saw it a couple of years before I took these pictures, then I saw it again as I was...

I do! That said, I don't know of any diagrams of the componentry, however I went out and took these three pictures. The fourth one is the front axle hub assembly, unfortunately not quite what you are after...but. The fifth one is a still from a video on you tube as it ascended a bit of a hill...

I own a January 2020 build NPS, the single cab model runs a drivers seat, depending upon the year, it may be a mechanical seat, otherwise it isn't. The standard passenger side is a bench seat with a folding backrest for the centre passenger and only a lap sash, no shoulder seat belt strap. We...

Are you after a Central Tyre Inflation System (CTIS) for your vehicle? If you are, then there could be an issue with this CTIS as it requires hollow axles. It appears to be a very good system, but there are few vehicles out there with hollow axles. We have an aftermarket CTIS fitted to our...

Perth Western Australia, or Perth Tasmania? Mick.

Just had a thought, and this happened to a Canadian couple some years ago, they were unable to drive a motorhome they were thinking of buying as it was classed as Light Rigid. In Australia a normal car licence allows you to drive anything up to 4500kG in total weight, referred to as GVM (Gross...

Found it, or at least I think this is the one he was talking about. The first picture goes straight to a video, with comments, definitely a good way to get an appreciation of how good or bad it is. https://www.caravancampingsales.com.au/items/details/0/SSE-AD-7261610/?Cr=1 I'll be in that...

I may be in Bairnsdale next week, which is still about 230km short of Mallacoota...... What exactly are you looking for? There is a 4x4 Mitsubishi not that far from me, from memory it is basically a caravan on the back of a 6 tonne Mitsubishi cab chassis. It was on the market some time ago, I...

We have two of these units, one in our kitchen, the other in our bedroom. When idling along for heating in the bedroom in winter as it now here, ours uses somewhere around 200-250W to maintain 13ºC-18ºC. In the summertime with sweltering heat, keeping the room around 21º-23º with external...