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I did a birf job on my mates HZJ80 on the weekend in exchange for his roofrack. The roofrack is the one in all the pics of my trip. The rack was only on loan for the trip but now I own it so I'm going to add a roll out awning, axe and shovel mounts and a set of roof lights.
Nice one, Mick.
Cheers.
Matt
Cheers.
Matt
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Ha, yeah mate.
On my 80srs, (ARB non winch bar), I cut off the old mounts and welded new, wide ones on. They are flush with the bottom of the bar, and are 75 x 6 flat bar - 70mm long. I put 6mm rod in the fillet to weld into, as well.
Sure was a memorable trip, wasnt it.
You never plan for weather like that.
Funny that you got moved from your comfy campsite to the shearing shed - Classic.
Youve got some great photos there.
Quite a few of those cars are familiar to me as well.
Personally tho, I dont know if I could work all year to save up 4 weeks holidays LOL
Excellent read - thanks Mick
Cheers
Matt
On my 80srs, (ARB non winch bar), I cut off the old mounts and welded new, wide ones on. They are flush with the bottom of the bar, and are 75 x 6 flat bar - 70mm long. I put 6mm rod in the fillet to weld into, as well.
Sure was a memorable trip, wasnt it.
You never plan for weather like that.
Funny that you got moved from your comfy campsite to the shearing shed - Classic.
Youve got some great photos there.
Quite a few of those cars are familiar to me as well.
Personally tho, I dont know if I could work all year to save up 4 weeks holidays LOL
Excellent read - thanks Mick
Cheers
Matt
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With a mickldo jnr on the way it might be a while till I get a chance to go on another big expedition. I'll have to make do with weekend trips and long weekends in the meantime. At least I'll have plenty of time to plan my next big expedition.
WOW 
!, very good pics and report mate 
!, your country is great, i live to far 
, hahahahaaa,
!, very good pics and report mate !, your country is great, i live to far , hahahahaaa,
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WOW
Thanks guys for your kind words
Great report Mick.
Of course, for us Cruiser fanatics, Australia is a Mecca of sorts and we rely heavily on the reports you all from down under provide us.
Thanks for a great thread. Good luck with the 105 build up.
Cheers.
-onur
Corrales, NM
Of course, for us Cruiser fanatics, Australia is a Mecca of sorts and we rely heavily on the reports you all from down under provide us.
Thanks for a great thread. Good luck with the 105 build up.
Cheers.
-onur
Corrales, NM
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Thanks beno
For those of you that haven't figured it out yet I am building another rig. The thread is https://forum.ih8mud.com/expedition-builds/197144-hzj105-expedition-build.html
Hopefully there will be plenty of fresh trip reports from OZ in the near future.
Thats really, really cool. Every truck in every picture was badass 
Thanks for the writeup.
Thanks for the writeup.
Nice, very nice. Lucky to have such an abundance of open country.
Thanks very much for sharing.
Thanks very much for sharing.
great write up I had a chance to go to broom a few years back on a month long trip but i could not get off from work with some people from the overland mag; I wish i had went b/c now I'm back in the usa. Hey some questions for ya? How did your tires hold up and puncturs or tires coming off the rims? Also how about lights t night time; did you see any good set ups for roof top set up? As for the shower under the bonet; I looked for the write up for that one did the water come from the tank in the back? I know you did not use it but was it set up for hot water? ifso what was used to heat the water? thanks for the write up great pics.
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Thats really, really cool. Every truck in every picture was badass
Thanks for the writeup.
Russ in California said:Nice, very nice. Lucky to have such an abundance of open country.
Thanks very much for sharing.
Thanks for the kind words guys
r3run33 - The MTRs did very well as far as puncture resistance went. I didn't get one puncture all trip. I did adjust tyre pressures to suit the conditions for every change in conditions. I don't like the MTRs as a tyre though, I'll be looking for something different for the 105. I'm thinking Mickey Thompson MTZs or some Pro Comp Xtreme MTs.
I replaced my small IPF rectangular lights at Broken Hill because they wouldn't light up enough of the road, too many roos out there not to be able to see them. I bought the Hella 4000s and they were brilliant on the long straight outback roads. I probably need more spread now I am back near the coast. It is a bit hard to see round the corners, maybe I will get some other lights and aim them out each side or get some HID upgrades for the headlights.
I have had bad experiences with roof top tents in the past but I think I should give them a second chance. The one I borrowed to use was a huge one. It was heavy, it caught the wind, it was a pain to set up, the roof rack couldn't be used for anything else. I like the ARB Touring tent though, it is only a fraction of the size and is a lot simpler.
I never used the hot water system on the trip. It wasn't hooked up to the tank in the back normally but it could be easily. The whole system used push on garden hose fittings so the intake could be hooked up to the tank, mains water via a tap, a bucket or straight out of a creek, river or lake. Out of a bucket is best, this way less water is wasted as you can stand in the bucket and recycle the water. The pump works at 17Lpm so the 40L water tank would be emptied in just over 2min. In the desert you just don't have that sort of water to waste on a shower. It should be good camping down at the beach where the freshwater creeks supply unlimited water though.
The heat exchanger is a copper tube with a copper coil inside. The coil carries the shower water and the rest of the space in the tube is filled with coolant that is tapped from the heater circuit under the bonnet. The shower water is heated by the engine coolant but they are kept separate from each other. Water temp is adjusted by using the heater tap inside the cab, it adjusts the amount of coolant flow through the heat exchanger.
I hope that answers your questions.
thanks that does answer alot; i would use it for showering after surfing so conserving would not really be needed; sorry if that is not a very nature friendly statement. by the way how has the water problems there in oz gone; when i was back there we had to conserve all the time. Also do you remeber what company you used for the water heater system? Currently I used a jug with water and rinse off as much sand as possible for the trip back home. I would like to set up some lights so this use also. thanks again for the write up
Sorry forgot to ask abut the computer mount thing; i was gonna order one was it really bad with the vibrations??
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The shower would be brilliant for that. My heat exchanger is a home made one. Any good plumber should be able to make one for you. If you want to buy one Twine and Glind both make good heat exchangers. My pump is a Whale pressure pump that I got through one of my marine suppliers (I build boats at work).
The drought is pretty much over here in Qld, we now have flooding in just about every river
.The RAM mount I got for my GPS was great but the laptop mount was hopeless. It shook around and vibrated and that was on the blacktop
If you didn't have a passenger and could locate it lower and to the side the vibrations may be less but I'm sure a more solid mount could be made.
