The Lifestyle Pioneers are Simon and Liz Bailey, who, along with their two young sons, traverse Australia in their Landcruiser 76 & Titanium Caravan, sharing their adventures and travelling advice online.
Documenting their adventures in weekly half-hour videos every Sunday, the travelling family are exploring all corners of Australia whilst offering valuable advice to inspire, educate and equip adventure-minded people on off-grid and off-road caravan living.
Going above and beyond the offering of other content creators, The Lifestyle Pioneers actively coaches and supports viewers to help make an adventure lifestyle a practical reality.
Travelling full-time with young children, Liz and Simon balance their two sons’ educational needs whilst providing unique experiences fostering a love for the Australian environment and quality family time.
With over two years and 70,000km of off-grid caravan travel already under their belts, The Lifestyle Pioneers are only getting started.
Pinion bearings have worn the hardening off them. Very common problem, easy to tell since the noise varies under speed and load. Fairly straight forward fix, just needs to be done right And it’s a common problem with jmacx setups
Looks like the Jmacx track corrected diff. I have the same one in my 76. Have had 2 Toyota dealers so far have trouble with this when greasing wheel bearings. There is a handout from Jmacx that you can give to the dealer mechanics that shows the procedure for bearing service - locking the diff before axle removal as you mention. Interested to see what the fault turns out to be,
The diff isn’t a Toyota part. It’s an aftermarket setup that converts the cruisers leaf spring read end to coil. If I had to guess I’d say someone forgot to fill it with oil last service a few days before the failure.
Yep, that's what they say. But that doesn't mean you buy one and you'll never have an issue. In this case it was a mistake made when it was serviced. Could happen to any make/model.
Sorry hear see your having trouble with your vehicle, it just goes to show that you should have some form of a communication device when you venture into the outback, wether its a Sat phone of Starlink, we hope it works out for you with minimal cost
Oh guys, sorry to hear about your troubles, this shouldn’t be happening with a new Toyota! Someone has let you down! I guess by the time we see this video and next weeks you are probably sorted, at least I hope so. Be interesting to hear what the issue was. You guys handled the situation very well, at least on camera as Liz said :) only hope it’s all gone well for the repair and you get to continue your adventures. Will find out next week. Stay safe out there and all the best for the week ahead. Cheers 🍻
Good tip about the traction control. We head out to Mt Augustus most years at XMAS time because it’s nice and hot and therefore quiet. However, you ID an issue that’s always on my mind when we go each year and that’s the fact that it’s bloody remote and on the road/tracks we travel there’s normally no one else around so breaking down would be a bit scary as I am not a mechanic either. We’ve not seen anyone most times once we’ve left the Mullewa-Carnarvon road so know the feeling and thoughts of “remoteness”. My ‘insurance’ like you is to get it serviced (over servicing really) just to ensure this sort of thing doesn’t happen. However, you did get it serviced so that takes away my confidence in relying on that “service” now LOL. Looking forward to the follow up vid now 😊 and hope it went well. Fingers crossed 🤞🏽😅
Now that you've got Elon travelling with you, you'll be able to call in the cavalry no matter where you end up which should give you some comfort and being proactive with maintenance is definitely the key 👍
I feel your stress, we were in a similar situation returning from Cape York. Then our GU went into limp mode. Limped into Cairns and they seemed to sort it as a bad sensor. Then the car went into limp mode again about 100kms from Mackay. It was the start of a long weekend so was a nervous wait. Good to see you kept level headed and didn’t panic
Well done guys, Yep, the old big screwdriver is the Fitters Stethoscope. At least you could whip the axles out and tailshaft and drive in Front wheel drive. Benefit of a 70 series floating axles.
Diff bearing on input shaft is most likely but could be output bearings on either side, is my best guess Good luck, best wishes and well done for not falling apart with the stress!
Sounds like you're near Milly Milly Station. I used to work there as a kid. Would be great if you could pop in there. I've always wanted to go back. Good luck with the car.
All good but as an unsponsored viewer if you tossed both in the air a sorted the wheat from the chaff I know which would be more effective. Starlink by a mile.
That why WA has become over priced like the Coral Coast at $ 100 a night for a peace of dirt I just checked out Albany the same over $100 night WA people are getting sick of being ripped off
G'day loved the info you provided when you touched on stopping and starting your starlink subscription so you don't get charged double in a month can you expand on that please
You can pause the subscription any time for as long as you like. You need to be pausing for 4 weeks to make it worth it though with how the billing cycles work
I think some people need to take a breath before posting such negative garbage in the comments. You guys have done an awesome job and have every right to be proud of your rig.
@@TheLifestylePioneers me, from listening to ' content creators ' like you, just wondering if you could go somewhere without posting it like all hundreds of others, oh look what I've found, get a job boy
Why did you move the controller from recirc to open? With the vehicle coming towards you the recirc is the one I always default to as it stops taking air from outside and recirc what is already in the vehicle - what makes you do the opposite?
To be honest I can't remember which way around it happened in the video but generally we're on fresh air and re-circ when following or passing another vehicle .n the dirt.
@TheLifestylePioneers I drilled a holes in the ends of the mid support conduit. This restrained the Stone Stomper on the conduit as the Linch pins created a sort of end. RU-vid doesn't support replying with images which would save a thousand words.
If you're ever in perth , we would love to go four wheeling with yas. We could even camp on the beach with yas if you're in need of a free camp and a good fishing spot
Sorry Simon....diced it should be 😜 We have not long moved to the Pilbara and Carawine/Running Waters are just amazing, glad your enjoying it ❤ Can't wait to see more 🙂
