Suzuki 4WD Club of Victoria

Jon I think Steve has a good point. Did I see that Matt was going to come along? We need to have an appointed trip leader and preferably one who knows the area. When I came to grief with my Landrover I was with an experienced guy but he did not know the area. He had the experience to save himself bu...

Sorry, I did not mean to indicate that the bar pulling off the car was not a problem just that it was not so dangerous as the hook pulling off. The calculations to check the pull through force on those 4 holes on the end of the chassis are very simple. I have the formula at work (don't remember it i...

Jon The way I look at it is that you want the snatch strap to break before the attachment point on the vehicle fails. You need to understand how the different ratings work. The rating given to a snatch strap is it's nominal breaking strain. A 6 tonne strap will break at something just above 6 tonnes...

Saturday will be fine with me. I can do Sunday as well if that is what the majority want.

So if this trip is good for someone with a slightly adventurous soul and a slightly modified Jimny with 215's then I am in also.

Count me in for this one.

Jon, I am interested. We wouild need some advice from others on the track so I will have my maps at the meeting tonight. Would be good to have some more experienced people with us as well althoiugh i am pretty comfortable with the easy tracks and probably the easy side of medium as you say.

Highway travel was no problem. Sat on 100 or 110kph as per the speed limts with the cruise control on. Just had to change down to 4th gear on some of the hills. Nice and quiet with air con and heating on most of the way.

Thanks Steve for organising a great weekend. Got home at 6.30pm. I have pretty much set up camp again tonight but this time in the garage for drying. Happy to see someone took more stuff than me but I have no idea how you got it all in the car Jon. Great driving by the way Jon for a stock Sierra on ...

Thanks Steve. I am carrying extra fuel anyway if anyone is worried. See you on Saturday.