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Just home from completing the Canning, well the part that is not flooded anyway. 2185kms or some serious offroad track. Yes, it is a track, actually a stock route with a track down the middle of it. Never been maintained. Rocks, mud ruts, bull dust, clay pans, salt pans, sand, dirt, gravel, more rocks, 800 sand dunes, sticks and tree roots, and corrugations like I have never experienced. I personally spoke to 7 vehicles who had replaced a total of 14 shock absorbers whilst on the track. All due to over heating due to excessive loads and speeds. Not that they admitted that. On a 30km section of the worst corrugations, we stopped halfway for 30 minutes to let our shockies cool, something we did often. We had only been travelling at between 10 and 15 kph due to the height and spacing of the corrugations. We were running 16PSI COLD in our Toyos. Were passed by three vehicles doing about 60kph and watching their suspensions working so hard was eye popping. Some of the carnage on the CSR that we saw, proved beyond any doubt, that the advent of modern four wheel drives allows any inexperienced, uneducated, money is not a concern, fool to tackle some of the harshest country I have expereinced and generally survive to brag to their mates. We survived because of planning, preparation and experince. Others got lucky.
Quote from: Freddie on Aug 16, 2018, 12:26:04 PMJust home from completing the Canning, well the part that is not flooded anyway. 2185kms or some serious offroad track. Yes, it is a track, actually a stock route with a track down the middle of it. Never been maintained. Rocks, mud ruts, bull dust, clay pans, salt pans, sand, dirt, gravel, more rocks, 800 sand dunes, sticks and tree roots, and corrugations like I have never experienced. I personally spoke to 7 vehicles who had replaced a total of 14 shock absorbers whilst on the track. All due to over heating due to excessive loads and speeds. Not that they admitted that. On a 30km section of the worst corrugations, we stopped halfway for 30 minutes to let our shockies cool, something we did often. We had only been travelling at between 10 and 15 kph due to the height and spacing of the corrugations. We were running 16PSI COLD in our Toyos. Were passed by three vehicles doing about 60kph and watching their suspensions working so hard was eye popping. Some of the carnage on the CSR that we saw, proved beyond any doubt, that the advent of modern four wheel drives allows any inexperienced, uneducated, money is not a concern, fool to tackle some of the harshest country I have expereinced and generally survive to brag to their mates. We survived because of planning, preparation and experince. Others got lucky.And that should be made post of the year! Not a truer word spoken.
2185kms or some serious offroad track. Yes, it is a track, actually a stock route with a track down the middle of it. Never been maintained. Rocks, mud ruts, bull dust, clay pans, salt pans, sand, dirt, gravel, more rocks, 800 sand dunes, sticks and tree roots, and corrugations like I have never experienced.We survived because of planning, preparation and experince. Others got lucky.