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Went to do a little exploration of some new trails & a couple of favourites around Buxton, blew an airbag & spent half an hour field-fixing it with a length of thick-walled tube wedged in between the upper bag mount & radius arm end, finished the lane we were on & then limped 30 miles home. Fortunately it was not unexpected as I'd noticed a bulge last time I was under there (hence being prepared with the bit of pipe and straps etc) and we're due to pick up a set of +2" springs tomorrow anyway so will be converting it over to coils as well as gaining an extra bit of towbar clearance.
Went to do a little exploration of some new trails & a couple of favourites around Buxton, blew an airbag & spent half an hour field-fixing it with a length of thick-walled tube wedged in between the upper bag mount & radius arm end, finished the lane we were on & then limped 30 miles home. Fortunately it was not unexpected as I'd noticed a bulge last time I was under there (hence being prepared with the bit of pipe and straps etc) and we're due to pick up a set of +2" springs tomorrow anyway so will be converting it over to coils as well as gaining an extra bit of towbar clearance.
Replaced the radiator. The transmission oil cooler cracked at the joint when attempting to wrestle the radiator out from the oil cooler assembly. One of my friend did a great job welding it up. Ouch, new oil cooler assemblies are over $600!
We went for a road trip to Lapland and returned on Monday.
~3000 km (1800 miles) driven, ~420 liters of diesel burned and ~1200 EUR spend on the diesel.
Around 2,50 EUR per liter, consumption around 14 liters per 100 km.
ARB Flinders on the roof, and a whole lot of stuff in the back weighing the rear down almost 2 inches.
Had fun and will definitely do it again.
Picture taken near a wilderness hut in the lapland, far from everything. It was 23 kilometers from public roads and took around 1h45min to drive to. As far as I know, that the only hut You are allowed to drive to.
One small mishap with the truck.
After returning from the offroad track from the wild, I noticed that the truck was spewing it's oils out.
The roto filter cap had come loose and let it all out. Tightened it and put 5 liters of oil in and continued the trip. I topped up coolant once or twice, maybe total 0.5 liters.
custom voyager rack finally arrived and it came out perfect was able to get our new iKamper Skycamp 3.0 tent mounted up. Headed to Telluride/the San Juan’s for 10 days starting this Friday so super excited to break in the new set up.
I wish I knew, came with the car when I bought it. Still haven't made a swing out spare tire carrier...been on the list way too long. The bumper is the best I've seen in person aside from the crappy bulbs in the turn signals as no one can see them in the day.
