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@@Silvos29 @Silvos29 We'll see... And it's you're not your. The apostrophe signifies an abbreviated letter.

@@Silvos29 @Silvos29 We'll see... And it's you're not your. The apostrophe signifies an abbreviated letter.

You are correct - they are -5 on the front. If you want a zero offset front rim, then ROH do that in the Vapour design.

@@spudboy1328 thanks mate. I’m not a big fan of the fake beadlock look plus the rear sets is at -47 which is a bit too much. How are yours running on the -5 ? Thanks !

@espkh1549 I just fitted them yesterday (the -5 and -25 offset Kings Wheels) and they improve the look no end. You can't really notice the -5 at the front, so they look stock. But the rear looks a lot better at negative 25 and you can see the difference there. I agree with you about the -47 being too much. And they're not legal (in South Aust anyway).

@@spudboy1328 thanks mate! I think I’m gonna go with this option. Can’t wait to see your next video!

OK - I didn't look at the steel options. ROH in Alloy have -12 and -59, and I thought the -59 was a bit too much of an ask for the bearing offset. The King Wheel rims I ended up buying are -25 on the rears, so I'll get 50mm of correction.

I agree with you. Neg 59 is way too much offset considering every other rim on the planet is positive offset or zero. With the 70series you can break the axle housing at the U-bolts with any type of increased offset. You'll be fine with the Neg 25 on the rear.

@@spudboy1328 Also I hadn't seen any mags in a neg 25 with a 1600kg rating, so thanks for pointing them out.

Hi - I think the alternator is 130A. The canopy is only on the vehicle when I go camping. And if I take the canopy I won't be taking the camper (that's for when the missus comes camping). So only one of those 2 circuits gets used (at the same time). I've just updated my master diagram with a 40A fuse for the 25A DC/DC - thanks. Fair point about the UHF. I'll think about re-routing that. I'm not having 240v in the canopy, but the camper has a 3000W inverter. It also has 1200W of solar, so it should be fine to re-charge without a huge load on the alternator. Thanks for all that feedback - much appreciated.

I didn't know about the MDS whole axle replacement. Only ever seen the replacement stubs. Thanks.

OK - I did a quote on the JMACX website, and it came out close to $18K I reckon, but that was with shocks perhaps. $7k is not too bad for the fitted diff. And I think you're right about the 35s!

OK - I didn't know they went up to 3950Kg When I looked into them it was the lower limit. Very reassured to hear you like the 800Kg parabolics. It was a bit of a wild card choice for me. I should get the car in 2 or 3 days, so I'll be able to see what I think pretty soon.

Interesting! The reason I got the CowFish is so I don't have to keep up the subscription to StarLink when we're not remote. I've already bought it, so I'll install it and see what I think. I've used Cel-Fi Go up in the mid-north of SA and it worked really well, and Cowfish is supposed to be better than Cel-Fi Go. So I'll report back once it's installed and I can test it. Cheers - David

@@spudboy1328 Now that Roam is only $80p/m for 50Gig. I have not suspended my Starlink since June. Not a huge data user when on road.

I guess we'll see. I've got a 2.8 Prado and uphill with a load the temps were getting high, so I fitted an oil cooler which has knocked 10 or 15 degrees off the temps. So I might have to do that again on the 79. Although I have read somewhere that Toyota put on a bigger oil sump and transmission pan (bigger than the Hilux?). So I'll keep an eye on it and see if I need to put on some additional cooling.

This statement is not 100% correct. Regardless of its size, the 2.8 is as good as the V8 if not better. The idea that each cylinder has to work harder is actually not quite true.

You have no idea.

@@craigdavid6668 pretty disappointing true? My V8 just doubled in value 🥶

@@Silvos29 Mate, I’ve got a 200, 79 V8 and bought Hilux’s for my supervisors, they flog them, we go away together, towing etc, they are as bulletproof as the V8, you have no idea what you’re talking about and probably don’t actually own one based on your comments😂

Yeah - I had to decide on the 'system' before anthing was fitted, as it all had to be done pre-rego. So there's a degree of guesswork. I did a spreadsheet (of course!) of all the items I take exploring and how much they weigh, and which axle they sit over. On paper I'm pretty close to the front axle load limit, but I've still got good headroom on the rear axle. So we'll see how it looks when I put it over a weighbridge in a few months. On paper my GVM is going to be 3650Kg, so the ARB 3950Kg kit with parabolics seemed a safe bet.

Nope - I made them myself.

@@spudboy1328 you wouldn't have by chance made plans that somebody could follow and make a set for themselves?

@@sjf67gtoI've got CAD plans for the steps if you want them. Find my website by searching for David Deere and MAN and there is a contact email there, You'll have to do the maths for the rails for your particular situation, but it's not rocket surgery. My platform was 1200mm high and I wanted 4 steps, so then it's just triggernometry. Cheers - David

@@spudboy1328 👍

@@ARCHIES_79_LC Thanks - not too worried about negative comments! Anyone who ends up here is probably doing their own 70 series build.

@@Sisu2280 Yep. It's scheduled to get done.

Yours is going to be worth a mint in 10 years. It'll be one of the last V8s to ever come into Australia.

@@GlobalTriathlonNetwork I wish. Add another $20k. It's stupid what they cost.

Thanks. I'd sorta love to be doing an 'ultimate build' with rear coils and axle correction etc, but that gets to scary money pretty quickly.

@@spudboy1328 yeah, they look good but the money involved is huge for sure. I've done many trips into the outback though and have always gotten where I set out to go. The only thing I've done differently (other than the obvious) is I have got "33 mud terrains to make sure I've got that extra 10/15% more traction, been stuck with the all terrains a couple too many times. Muddies just get rid of stuff stuck between the treads much better. Noise? Oh well. Look after those rear wheel bearing! Grease, grease, grease, I carry a grease gun. Lol. BTW I'm in Adelaide as well.

Yeah - I've got to work on that! My eyes are all over the place...

@4x4smile We got out of it during COVID. The pricing was pretty favourable, so we moved it on and bought a Landcruiser 70 series with an AluCab rooftop. The MAN was fabulous for open country touring, like beaches and deserts, but it was way too big for smaller tracks, and anything with overhead branches was out of bounds. We did a fair bit of reversing back along tracks that turned out to be too small for us.

We had it for 8 or 9 years though, and saw a lot of Australia, especially the Centre and northern WA. Supremely comfortable, both for travelling and accommodation, but he was a big thing! You never could forget how big it was :)

@@spudboy1328 awesome thanks for the info. They look to give a comfortable ride, good amount of torque over the isuzu nps. Out of curiosity what l per 100 did you get. I'm pretty sold this is the solution to carry my jetski and tow my 3500kg van. Did you have anything big mechanically go wrong eg cv's? Watched pretty much every tgm vid on TH-cam and all I see is good things.

@4x4smile We got 24L/100 overall. On flat highways we could do 19L/100, but then in soft sand or hilly country I've seen 70L/100!

It was pretty reliable overall. We went through a few oxygen sensors, which clogged up on a regular basis. The biggest fault we had was on the Gibb River Road, where we got a gearbox fault. Thought we were going to have to be towed to Darwin (from Winjana Gorge). After a lot of SatPhone calls to our Adelaide dealer, and calls to Germany, we got a partial resolution that allowed us to keep driving. When we got back to Adelaide, MAN repaced the mechatronics unit on the gearbox (under warranty - was $11,000 otherwise!)

No - we sold it in the middle of COVID. Have moved across to a LandCruiser 79 now...

​@@spudboy1328why the downsize?

Well, you can get them but at the moment there is an 18 to 24 month delivery wait.

@@spudboy1328 as long as I can get a MAN truck crew cab, I think its worth to wait. Thanks for the reply. Enjoy the rest of your trip mate.

No problems with them at all. They have quite stiff sidewalls, so you have to let them down a lot to get them to bag out on sand (like 20PSI).

@@spudboy1328 Did you have to get the truck engineered because of the larger diameter tyres?

@@chippyjohn1 No - I don't think there are any restrictions on tyre size for trucks (as opposed to cars, where the max increase in diameter is 50mm). We are currently running Super Singles (385R65 22.5) and there's not a huge difference between them and the OEM tyres.

Hey Danny - I made them myself. Have you got access to a plasma cutter?

@@spudboy1328 yea I can get one pretty easy... I need a set of steps like this to get up into my roof top tent... getting a bit difficult with the crap ladder... especially getting up in the night to go... ya know getting older now.... don't want to break my neck falling in the dark

@@spudboy1328 good job by the way... very nice

I can email you the DXF file (AutoCad) of the steps if that would help. The rails are pretty easy to work out, it depends upon how high you are going from gtound level.

@@spudboy1328 thank heaps... of appreciate it... my email is .. pd4877@yahoo.com

They are 425's. If I was doing things again, I'd go fractionally smaller and put on 385's as this is a common size in Australia (Super Singles) which you can get anywhere. 425's would be hard to come by in the outback! Also, the 425's are stupid heavy.