Icelandic 80 Cruiser thread

[Kjartanbj]

If I would find a place where I would need a snorkel.. I wouldn't go over it.. usually rivers that we are crossing have a strong current.. when the water gets so high that I would need a snorkel.. I would float down the river. running 44" tires I'm already very high so the air intake is high up , I've never been afraid of drowning the engine

 

[Grench]

If you get deep enough to need a snorkel there, you'd better be wearing an insulated dry suit.

I bet that water is mighty cold.

 

[Kjartanbj]

In this picture I'm reaaaally pushing it

 

[Kjartanbj]

small amount of water entered into the cabin , when I opened the doors there was a stream of water running out of the car for a 2-3 minutes

 

[Kjartanbj]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4345949211498
Those Italians that I pulled from one river this summer were not so lucky

 

[retrofive]

In this picture I'm reaaaally pushing it

small amount of water entered into the cabin , when I opened the doors there was a stream of water running out of the car for a 2-3 minutes

 

[scrowley]

would love to see a video of you crossing that river. Damn. Looks fun.

 

[Kjartanbj]

unfortunately I dont have a video of it , I actually reversed back when the water began to flow over my hood, the current was on the drivers side , so the water on the intake side was a little lower than on the drivers side where it was starting to flow over my hood , had to close my window because the water was so close to entering the truck hehe, then I decided to put it in reverse and abort, we had to drive about 50 km down the river to be able to pass on a bridge , then drive 50km up the river again to carry on our trip, some days this river can be crossed, but on that day it had too much water

 

[dafun1]

Those snow pics remind me of the Battle of Hoth from Episode V! I half expected to see some Imperial Walkers on the horizon...

 

[cruiserfj45]

What happens if you rip one of the air lines off. Is there a check valve that prevents sudden air loss like we have on our washing machine water supply lines to prevent flooding?

 

[Kjartanbj]

What happens if you rip one of the air lines off. Is there a check valve that prevents sudden air loss like we have on our washing machine water supply lines to prevent flooding?

No there is no check valve. as air is released and pumped in trough those air lines
If I rip one of those air lines out the air would start to leak out of all 4 of the tires, as I generally have the valves open between tires , but I would feel it and see the air loss on the guage , then I would just reconnect the air line, , we're driving on about 2-3psi in the tires, so we would notice very soon if the air would get too low

 

[lenross1]

So since all 4 tires are essentially all conected to the air and too each other (i.e. when you said that if one air line breaks all 4 tires would lose air) how do you know what psi each tire is really at? Are you just going off pressurizing the whole "system"? the "system "in this case would be all 4 tires.

 

[Kjartanbj]

Yes I just check what the "system" pressure is, but I can easily see what pressure one tire has in it, just close off the 3 other tires, and measure one at a time, but I don't have to know exactly what pressure the tire has, I just let air out until I feel the truck getting traction and starting to float on the snow then I stop letting air out , and measure what pressure I have, then as I go higher up in the mountains I have to let more air out as pressure rises in the tires, and it's of course the opposite when going down , then I have to air up a little so I'm not running on the rims

I have a little airbox inside the car that has one airline coming from the tank and pumps, then another one going under the truck to vent air out of the tires, then 4 lines 1 from each tire that are hooked up to this box also, valves on every line, so I can let air out of whichever tire I want or measure one at a time, but usually I just keep all the valves open unless i trying to go up a steep hill, then I close them up, because then the back tires tend to loose most of the air to the front tires

 

[Kjartanbj]

The valves on the sides are for inflation and deflation, the four valves that are in line are each tire, so I have full control of the system, then I also have a regular tire valve so I can measure the pressure with a penguage or whatever it's called

 

[Howard705]

Interesting that the preferred tire is the Dick Cepek F/C. Probably one of the oldest off-road "floatation" tread designs out there-not including the old bar/block/lug types. Pretty sure the F/Cs are just a copy of the old Armstrong Norseman-which is at least a 50 year old tread design-and probably a lot older that that.

 

[dales33]

amazing scenery, awsum photos and one seriously enviable 80 series.
rivals the top gear hilux

 

[THEROK]

Any interior driving environment/cockpit pics? Many thanks.

 

[Kjartanbj]

Thats on a middle of Europe's largest Glacier Vatnajökull , in absolute crazy
weather , couldn't see out the windows, VERY difficult conditions , heavy snow
-30°c , snow got packed on the windows , on the inside they froze up because of condensation, winds were about 20-30m/s , the engines wouldn't stay hot , they were consuming alot of diesel just trying to stay running, only thing we could do was keep going, drove by Gps track without seeing anything outside the windows

It was crazy , not something for everyone to do

 

[lenross1]

No doubt. What do you guys use to track the weather?

 

[THEROK]

So I'm seeing other make/models of Icelandized 4x4s. Is there something about the LC that makes them more attractive to own or do the Jeeps, Chevys, Land Rovers also work just fine?