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kakadu

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  1. Try again I pressed enter to early I have just upgraded my battery system to full Enerdrive 300ah lithium system to reduce a bit of weight in front of 2011 topender so I have An AGM system for sale. It consist of 3 x 120ah fullriver deep cycle batteries less than 3 years old with battery boxes,40 amp xantrex solar charger ,40 amp xantrex AC charger and 1000 watt projector inverteras per picture. System was working great just had the weight issue. $600 the lot
  2. Hi Tony Just a side question while I am doing my brakes I am going to replace all the wheel bearings and was wondering what method you use to remove the inner bearing cones the outer ones are easy buy just tapping them out with a punch but inner ones are hard to get to. Cheers Kakadu
  3. Thanks for that Tony its good to get the heads up from the people who know what they are talking about Cheers Kakadu
  4. Tony are these for offroad vans I have a topender and have read the brake magnets need to be offroad pacific Regards Kakadu
  5. Hi Chris Thanks for your info have just ordered new lenses for mine Kakadu
  6. Thanks Merv did not have trip planed had to forgo grand parents duties to make it happen but they will forgive me. your 20ins GMC rims are going good. Kakadu
  7. Hi All Got a call from one of my brothers on Monday asking if I was interested in going to The big Bash,since then everything has been booked but what I need from anybody who has been and done the bash before where can you top up water tanks and dump toilet before going into area. Brother is travelling from Brisbane and I am travelling from Melbourne and meeting at Lighting ridge for a couple of days then onto Charleville for a night,Windorah then to Birdsville on the Saturday before .WE are free camping at Birdsville before going in on Sunday,could not book into caravan park at Birdsville they don't take bookings for one night bookings. Kakadu
  8. I agree wholeheartedly Steve after posting the pic and checking it out I cleaned it up the next day I must have been very lazy at the time because I always keep the truck clean inside and out. Kakadu
  9. Make sure you visit Maldon which is just outside of Castlemaine if you have time, It is a beautiful place. I spend a lot of weekends free camping at the Butts camp ground there .I was born in Maldon and love going back there Kakadu
  10. I agree with everything Merv has said, we went there in 2014 and left our van at Drysdale station for 3 nights, went to Mitchell falls and Kalumburu and just used the awning on side of chev with a mossie screen clipped on to it and a self inflating mattress, was a good experience but because of how rough the road was I am glad we left the TE there. They are a tough van but some times a little common sense can help. Kakadu
  11. Hi Nev I agree with you I did some homework on this when I first took delivery of my chev and came to the same conclusion re the plumbing so gave it a miss
  12. Hi Rob I had the same problem and put it out on the forum and got a few good answers if you write fuses up in the search bar you may find out more info Regards Kakadu
  13. Hi Colin I fitted my diesel care filter to firewall under bonnet on passenger side I used the mounting bracket that mounted the filler neck of my adblue tank which I removed I will try and post a picture. Also since photo I have changed both fuel filters according to truck computer which was saying I have 25% of use left in them. I never let it go below 25%, but I always keep an eye on the glass bowl on bottom of Diesel Care filter and drain every couple of weeks. Kakadu
  14. Hi Colin Tony is right, I sent diesel care an email and asked them what I needed for my chev which was a filter head and filter and some hose, The length of the hose depends where your original filter is mounted. I mounted the new filter to the firewall. Part number for filter is 31863. Kakadu
  15. Hi to all I can recommend purple, as an ex tanker driver all the drivers used purple on our alloy wheels and fuel tanks and they came up like mirrors and made the truck look smik. If you polished them on a regular basis it was an easy job to do, even had one bloke that would lie on his back and polish underneath his tanks and when asked why he would say that if he ever ran over anybody they would see themselves as he went over them. kakadu
  16. Hi Doug I have kept the 20ins rims on my 2011 silverado and fitted Micky Thompson LT305/22/20 Baga MTZ muds. Last year I damaged a rim up in the Bungle Bungles and had to change it and had no problems fitting it into the spare wheel compartment, 18 & 20ins tires have close to the same diameter because the 18s have a higher sidewall. I am looking at fitting LT285/55/20 BF Goodridge alterains or Micky Thompson ATZ P3. Cheers Kakadu
  17. Hi Brian If you look up hywaytrucks on the net , they have a store in most capital city's also are an online store. I bought 2 flaps from them which were MUDFLAP 455MM X 610MM TRUE BLUE for $39.00 and they do the job and look good to Cheers Kakadu
  18. I think that you will find that the Tundra has a V8 petrol and only 3.5 towing kakadu
  19. Hi Merv I took your advice and had a look at towbarsaustralia and put an order in for the same one you said last night and this morning was told it has already been shipped today. Thanks Regards Tony
  20. Hi Colin Since owning the chev back in 2011 I have never used the WDH and have never had any issues with the van even when the better half is driving weather it be off road or passing road trains etc. I still us use the WDH hitch tongue because I have been unable to get one that is rated to carry the weight with enough height so the van would be level when towing. The one you show looks pretty good but even if I turn it upside down I still won't get the height I need so looks like I will have to see if an engineer can make me one up. Regards Tony
  21. Thanks Dave Will take those points on board and looks like I will have to visit bunnings, dam I loose to much time when I go there. Also I realize the bracket lifts the dish higher but it is still under the height of the aircon and the koggers I met at Bundaberg had already had the dish fitted and were going to Kedron to have the bracket fitted because the dish was causing a lot of flex in the roof when operating. Regards Tony
  22. Thanks for your help Lea I hope this works Bryan Great it looks like it did the job Tony
  23. Sorry Bryan I am trying to work out how to post photos I have done the attachment thingy but not working.
  24. Hi Bryan I hope the Pics work. As you see after mounting the satellite dish on the mounting bracket Kedron fitted for me I ran the wires down under the 2 solar panels on drivers side of van using wire clips drilled into solar panel mounting brackets to hold the wires and drilled through the roof under the front panel into the inside of the cupboard where I mounted the control box as per pics. to work out where to drill hole in roof I used the inside of the front window frame as a reference point and measured to the inside of the cupboard and then transferred the measurements out side and on to the roof which worked out great because being under the solar panel and fitting the cover plate which came with the wires and using selastic I don't think it will ever leak. I also shortened the the 2 coax cables and the electrical wires, taking a picture of the wiring plug with my phone so that I was sure I rewired the plug the same as suggested by David (cvtripper) which makes good sense not having a lot of cables rolled up inside the cupboard.
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