These guys legit make me want to get a 4wheel drive vehicle and go off roading! Thank you for the amazing content and inspirations. The adventures are always a blast to watch
There are thousands of km of tracks across Australia you can tow off-road on. I wouldn't be towing up the kinds of technical terrain they do in these shows but they are pretty clear the intent is to test the toughness of the rig not to recommend it is something that should be done. The idea is to tow on the easy to medium access tracks then set up a base camp and venture onto t he hard and very hard ones. As far as "why not to....." one could also argue this is a "why not to climb large rocky steps" show as they more often than not break things.... Once again though if they enjoy it and can afford it go for it - I'd say the same about off-road towing. If you don't like it don't do it. If you do then go for it.
Thank you once again for offering these show free of charge. I love your 4x4 adventures. I own a jeep, and once the warranty is up next year. I hope to add a winch, a 2-inch short-arm lift kit and some nice 35 inch Ko2's :)
There's lots of powerline tracks here in ontario, canada too. I think it's service roads to the powerlines that provide a main trail for others to branch off of.
Getting jealous on what you guys are doing there! I so miss my 4x4 :) And visiting Australia is becoming more and more one of my dreams. With my own 4x4 :) Kepp it up guys! Great tour! :)
Y'all are awesome! Much respect. Just wish i could afford to show ya some trails in the USA and Canada. I'd love to have ablast like y'all do! Happy trails and awesome video's!
The substance Graham was talking about is Ooblek. Its a mixture of water and corn starch that acts like a solid when shocked, but objects will sink slowly.
@@garethmccash5986 yeah it must have kept fatiguing throughout their whole trip and then eventually bang. Good on them though, its just as likely that these sorts of shows don't release this sort of stuff on film due to financial agreements etc but they did which is honest.
aside from the double intro did anyone else feel like this was edited by someone new? seemed like there were a couple of really hard cuts and transitions that aren't the norm for them. still, always great content and can't wait for the next one!
Those are some amazing plantations you were running through! Really clever engineering by Graham, never seen front wheel independent steering before.I would think it worked better with two steering wheels though!
in aussie land you cant really modify your vehicles. so lifts bigger tires even stuff like a solid axle swap and lockers is not possible unfortunately. very strict laws. i live in canada and have a ram with a 6 inch lift if i drove that down the road there id be thrown in jail
@@Dreamscythe1 i would understand if there were strict laws about steel bumpers and similar things like in eu, but lockers??? thats utterly illogical. why would they be forbidden?
@@ykcumop your right a locker is not really forbidden some people do have them. its not a very common thing for some reason it seems though maybe where people just dont do lifts ect they dont really think about them.
On the IFS trucks you really dont want a front locker. It's VERY hard on CVs. Everyone I've wheeled with that has broken a CV had a front locker. I stick with rear locker only and if that doesn't work I skip the obstacle or pull the winch.
@@joeltasca2531 I havent done trails quite that gnarly but have been taking mine to Moab for 10 years and havent bent one yet. But they are fairly thin and you cannot get heavier ones.
anyone know why they keep dragging them around everywhere? or the utes with the tray full of shite? you'd think figure out a better way after a while haha
Wonder what a brand new right hand drive turbo v8 diesel 79 series would be worth to you? They sell for around $75,000 here in Aust. That's about US$58,000. Then add US import duties and shipping, you'd be up for US$100, 000 I reckon.
As an American, I'm fascinated by how different Aussie 4x4 is. In America, we use mostly Jeep and some Toyota. It's really common to see 4-6.5" lifts, long arms, solid axles, and 35"+ tires on rigs way smaller than what you guys drive (I.e Jeep Wrangler). I can see the advantage of keeping a lower CoG but rollovers are typically due to inexperienced/ignorant drivers, and the taller lifts seem like they'd have more advantage than not. I'd love to see a video explaining your guys' rigs and choices for how you've built them. It's crazy to me to see this extreme off-roading in what is essentially a full size pick up that has IFS, a 2" lift and 32" tires. Clearly, we see the shortcomings of IFS with the broken steering component. Nathan's 200 looks like it has no lift but maybe bigger tires, but he's towing a freaking trailer through the whole thing! Rod's rig has solid axles but doesn't look like it has any articulation. It's a huge rig compared to what you'd see on trails like this in the US and it really shows how tight it gets. Shaun's rig is most common to what you'd see in the State's: Solid axles front and rear, lockers, winch, and 35" tires. It seems you guys don't bother to disconnect your sway bar end links before hitting the trail either. Any reason for that? It's almost standard practice when we air down to also disconnect the sway bar to give front solid axles as much articulation as possible, usually about 30% more than with the sway bar connected.
Australia has a lot laws against big lifts and big tyres etc i own what you call over there a nissan frontier (or nissan navara to us aussies) and the most i can do is a 2" suspension lift and a 2" bigger tyres which i think is a 31" tyre any thing more than that and you get pulled over by the police they impound your car or worse so its not worth it. whenever we go out 4wding we have to take heaps of spares because we break alot of parts
@@drmm3936 - Not sure what you're asking, but I'm referring to the end of the bloopers where Shauno's comment (as stated above) describes the smell of Rockets cab. If you are unfamiliar with the smell of "nan's kitchen" it's kinda like a stale, musty, lightly cleaned, "old person" smell, that I reckon most Aussies have experienced at one time or another. If that makes sense?
Thank you Mark ..I got that but after that sentence, I heard him say another sentence but it was inaudible. Hoping you caught that. Anyway, thanks for the reply..
I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!! I love Graham and Shaun !!! They are my favorite people to watch out of the whole world, Keep happy,safe and keep doing the show :). I would love to buy a Toyota Land cruiser 80 in the future, is there anything to look out for? Im in the United Kingdom :)
55:49 personally wouldnt stick my arm out of a 4x4 down that terrain if you roll your oinned under a few thousand kilos of car and even if your arm isn't amputated the bone will be powder and just need cutting anyway. Roll cages only work when you are inside them.
Tie rods are an issue on the North American Duramax daddies. The Chev/GMC duramax market has sleeves for those tie rods to keep them from bending. Might they have something similar in AU for those baby dmax rigs? The sleeve replaces the jam nut and runs most of the length of the inner tie rod arm to make it thicker and beefer. Might be something to look around for :) Hello from British Columbia Canada, keep up the awesome series!
Wish my buddy and I knew about those tracks when I was there in 1983, we ran every track that we could find in South Australia...even made a few come to think of it.
Graham, the scientific substance that you are referring to is called goop. Made from cornflour and water. Maybe Shaun just played in the mud as a kid. I love you guys! Keep up the great work and keep having fun!
