Things seem a bit slow here lately. Think a lot of people are still cooling
off after summer. (Too tired, too busy, can't be bothered etc).
So who's planning an interesting trip this year? Where and when ? Make us
all jealous if you can .

Last Sunday (7th March 2004) my partner and I
were camping on the south bank of the Murray
River in NW Victoria a few 10s of kilometres SE
of Robinvale. We stayed in the one spot for four

From another forum.
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ya better check out ur bullbars, i read in the paper that they're
gonna bring in a $225 fine with 3 license points for "unsafe" bullbars

I have been researching for a while on getting a 4wd but want to ask for
your advice before I do. I want to join a club, do the courses so I can hold
my own in the NT where I want to go to work.
What I've come up with is fairly basic: a 4x4, 4dr, manual, 5spd, diesel

G'day mates,
As my latest 5L petrol "Handy Can" imploded and tore itself assunder,
I started wondering whether one of my cache of empty 5L plastic oil
containers would do the trick for storing *mower* fuel (unleaded

I hope someone can give me some help here.
Our Prado is a 98 model, 110,000kms.
Lately it has been intermittently hard to start. It seemed like the
battery - the original - had died, so replaced it. At first all was Ok. Now,

Has anybody on there travels come across available biodiesel..it was the
next big fuel alternative for us oilburner owners ...then it died in the
arse you don't hear anything about it anymore.
It makes me wonder whether it's yet another thing that's being played down

I have a 94 model 75 series l/cruiser troopy with a 4.2 l diesel  which has
done 115,000k.
I have recently started towing an 18 ft caravan and the troopy is a bit slow
on the hills. It has been suggested to me that I should fit a turbo to

I'm looking at a 2003 Nissan Patrol ST 3.0 TD Wagon with 5,000km, auto,
safety pack (passenger air bag plus ABS), bullbar, tow bar, driving lights,
cruise, 5 yr extended warranty, tinted windows, seat covers, dash and floor
mats, left & right weather shields.  To buy new would be ...

mate of mine has a 99 petrol hilux and is getting a drive line noise which
is intermittent on coasting at about 80 k but is now becoming worse. He has
had the diff out and in twice with a diffrent centre courtesy of arb who
fitted a diff lock 10000 k ago and the noise stayed (this ...

hiya all ive just aqquired a 78 fj40 landcruiser swb thats been rolled and
was wondering if its legal to put a body of  something different onto the
chassi  otherwise wheres a good 4x4 wreckers in melbournes west that i would
be able to find a body to bolt onto this beast   i really ...

I'm trying to edumacate the 4wd dickheads here. This guy says its ok to go
to Inniminka in a car.
"Neil Gerace" <geracen@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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I'd like to review/replace my 4WD First Aid kit. Keeping
in mind the sorts of problems we may encounter in the bush
and that we may be 24+ hours from expert help would
someone with knowledge in this area care to do a list of the

Thanks to all those who posted in reply to my earlier questions.  One
constant theme, appears to be that our cruisers should last us longer.  Some
of them do in one sense, in that when they are retired from field work, the
better ones are retained for the staff based in town, who ...

Remember me?
Barnsey from Townsville!
I used to have some vague credibility on this newsgroup when I owned a turbo
patrol, then lost some when I owned a Subaru, then lost even more when I