There’s a walking track to the bottom of the falls close to where you parked your cars. Great video and nice to see you exploring in our local area. Looking forward to part 2
What tips would you give for maintaing the gearbox temp? Do you usually 4wd in 4H and then set the auto in Sports mode and select the gear that you want to use or let the auto run between the gears as needed? I am thinking of putting an electric fan on my auto gearbox dual core transmission cooler at the moment.
Hey mate, I’ve got an external oil cooler fitted and am getting a thermal bypass fitted shortly. I have a scan guage and more or less drive to the temperature. If I’m in soft sand or driving steep hills, I will always run the car in low range as it doesn’t get as hot. At Stockton Beach I had it in high range and it got very hot, very quickly. I will use it in sports mode to control what gear I’m in, by doing that I can usually keep the auto temp under 100 even in sand. It does start to climb up a little higher if I’m conducting a long decent in low range
@@rangertouring depending on the terrain, I swap back and forth between sports mode and drive in either 4H or 4L. Despite many peoples comments about the Ranger gearbox, it is actually pretty clever and does a fair job of managing it's temps if left to self manage. 100% agree to swap into sport mode for steep climbs/descents but as soon as it levels off a bit, I swap back to Drive and you will be amazed at how quickly the gearbox jumps up to a much higher gear, relieving some of the stress. I'd also advise that if you do a lot of deep mud driving, to make sure you get right down into the bottom of the radiator with a hose, especially if you have bash plates protecting the cooling zone of the engine bay. When my first intercooler failed due to the winch cabling being run up against it and eventually wearing through the fins, Ford found that all the radiators at the front had about the bottom 3rd of each one caked in mud which impacted cooling performance. Looks like you had some good tracks there and saw some cool spots !!
There’s a walking track to the bottom of the falls close to where you parked your cars. Great video and nice to see you exploring in our local area. Looking forward to part 2
Bugger! Didn’t know you could get down there, would have been awesome to swim!
Thanks mate I've been wanting to go to Punchbowl Waterfall for a while now but never knew what the track in was like as no one show it. Thank you
Happy to help! Very enjoyable track! It definitely is one of the less travelled places!
What tips would you give for maintaing the gearbox temp? Do you usually 4wd in 4H and then set the auto in Sports mode and select the gear that you want to use or let the auto run between the gears as needed? I am thinking of putting an electric fan on my auto gearbox dual core transmission cooler at the moment.
Hey mate, I’ve got an external oil cooler fitted and am getting a thermal bypass fitted shortly. I have a scan guage and more or less drive to the temperature. If I’m in soft sand or driving steep hills, I will always run the car in low range as it doesn’t get as hot. At Stockton Beach I had it in high range and it got very hot, very quickly. I will use it in sports mode to control what gear I’m in, by doing that I can usually keep the auto temp under 100 even in sand. It does start to climb up a little higher if I’m conducting a long decent in low range
@@rangertouring depending on the terrain, I swap back and forth between sports mode and drive in either 4H or 4L. Despite many peoples comments about the Ranger gearbox, it is actually pretty clever and does a fair job of managing it's temps if left to self manage. 100% agree to swap into sport mode for steep climbs/descents but as soon as it levels off a bit, I swap back to Drive and you will be amazed at how quickly the gearbox jumps up to a much higher gear, relieving some of the stress.
I'd also advise that if you do a lot of deep mud driving, to make sure you get right down into the bottom of the radiator with a hose, especially if you have bash plates protecting the cooling zone of the engine bay. When my first intercooler failed due to the winch cabling being run up against it and eventually wearing through the fins, Ford found that all the radiators at the front had about the bottom 3rd of each one caked in mud which impacted cooling performance.
Looks like you had some good tracks there and saw some cool spots !!