THE WORST DAMAGE YET!!! Is our trip getting cut short???
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2023
- This is our 9th daily update from The Gibb, this was by far one of the shortest drives but someone in the crew had the worst damage out of everyone on The Gibb so far.
Find out how the weather is affecting our travels aswell...
As always, thankyou for coming along for the ride!!
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Kadant feat. Eleonor Gislason - Carry On
Mindme feat. Cleo Kelley - Bruises
Candelion Feat Cara Dee - Even If The Sky Is Falling Down
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So appreciate you making the amazing effort putting together a video each day in real time. Safe travels.
Awww thankyou! I've had quite a few late nights...but I can sleep in a few days time 🤣🤣🤣
Thankyou for watching ❤️
Fantastic effort putting these episodes out everyday. I'm sure it more work than we realise 👍👍
Aww thankyou! Yes not going to lie... I reckon I'd be up to nearly 40-50 hours of editing so far 🤣🤣🤣 but I love doing it to give you guys real time videos 😍
We pulled into El Questro in 2019, convoy of three with four shredded tyres and one cracked rim - don't ask (the road wasn't graded but the council had dropped tonnes of shrapnel in prep for lambs foot rollers and then grading.
The workshop was very helpful - they make a daily trip to the K and brought us back 12 tyres, a greasable shackle bolt and other sundries for $200 transport fee (pre-paid for tyres). They then fitted some tyres for $200 and a carton of smokes. The cracked rim was left overnight for a snapping weld and good to go.
Wow! Amazing work from the workshop! Very very handy place to have on The Gibb for sure!
The Gibb has definately provided us both with some memories we will never forget! 😁🤙
You guys are doing a great job it has been very interesting.
The one thing we decided from watching you, is that our age (Seniors) with a full offroad van, we will not doo the Gibb.
We both think it is for younger people or car with tent tops.
Thank you for letting us experience this trip in "real" time. ❤❤
Aww this is amazing! We are glad that we could show you what it's all about, so you could make that decision for yourselves 😍😄 x
Hi guys, new subscriber - nice to see you out on the road with a young family.
Thankyou so much Stuart! Hope you enjoy our videos and following along with our family 😁
Hi karl and Katherine, being watching you guys from the beginning , but !! Trevor.and I are sooo excited to see the next stage of your epic adventure.
Omgosh, soo exciting..
I think you may have got either our names wrong or you've commented on the wrong video 🤭🤣
We are Leah and Tj 😄 x
Thanks for doing this series. Most enjoyable
Thankyou 😄🤙
Loving your daily updates. 😊
Stay safe in the rain, its heading you way
We are keeping an eye on it 😁 hopefully it stays away 🤞
Nice to see the ladies getting involved with off road videos after all they are there too. FYI, I have done 1000's of kilometres on dirt road mainly in the 70's and 80's but last year we took our 2012 ford territory awd up the Great Central Road from Perth to Uluru towing a off road trailer (not a flash one either) we had one issue with a old tyre. I don't recommend lowering tyre pressures below the recommended operating pressure unless it is boggy. Lower pressures increase the chance of side wall damage from sharps and can greatly reduces handling when you need it most. I ran 36 psi, the same as I do for around town.
Good video just the same.
Thanks for the tip Roger 😁
Thanks for following along our journey!
may help love the epp guys
Thankyou so much 😍
Thank you for sharing your trip
Thankyou for watching 😍😁
Great to get an understanding of what can happen unexpectedly and terrific to see that Aussie mateship / helping others out at hand. Hope the weather holds and you get out when you want to. Looking forward to the steak review!
Aussies are great aren't they, always willing to help a lending hand 🙌
gosh such a stress on the road being remote and having damage to your set up. Good on you guys for helping out.
Yea, there's no worse feeling I don't reckon! Luckily, we are close to Kununurra and not in the middle of the Gibb 🥲
Enjoy the warmth - zero degrees in Perth this morning. 🥶 I'm enjoying the series, thanks.
Oh no! There's me complaining it was too hot 🤣🥲
This episode was epic. Hope meals beers hit the spot.
Take care all. 🚙🚙
Thankyou! 🤙oh yes! Theh definatey enjoyed some food and beers after the day they had 😁
Fingers crossed with the weather guys as I heard it’s coming across.
Laughing with you saying about the humidity as I lived in Darwin for yrs lol.
Loving following your trip guys it’s great 👍
Oh wow! We were in Darwin last year and I don't know how you live there... hats off to you. The humidity is too much for us 🤣🤣
I hope the rain stays away but we will see 🤞🤞
Hi guys , oh gosh we feel for your friends with that damage to their caravan. Hope the rain does not get to you. Just enjoy and for goodness sake stay safe! Hugs
We hope the rain stays away 🤞 Yea we really feel for our friends, really sucks.
Thankyou for watching😍😍
Wow!!! What an adventure.
Pretty epic hey 😍😎
Loving everyday you guys are so cool :)
Awww thanks mate! You're the cook one for watching everyday 😁🤙
Wow luvin these eps every night and living the journey with u guys… wish we were there 🤙
Aww thanks guys for coming along! 😁🤙
Love the real life action.
Thankyou 🙌
Oh dear more trouble but we do feel for you all take care and enjoy your night out
Thankyou so much 😍😍
Shower guru, is it you
Shower guru, is it you . Hint of T-Rex song 🎶 lol
Go the 5. Stayin alive. Stayin alive Bummer for your poor friends Van spring breaking fingers crossed ya all stay high and dry another tip top episode 👍 under the rough situations
HAHAHAHA! you crack me up 🤣🤣🤣
Thankyou Paul 😁🤙
Your glowing,Leah😊
Thankyou Lee 😘😍
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How awful for that couple. I guess you can fix leaf springs?
Anyway, thanks for showing the real action and tears and fun too.
Drive safely x
Thankyou for watching 😄 They are ordering parts and sorting out how to fix it as we speak 😁😍
Certainty enjoying your trip, glad it’s you not us. Hope your friends get things fixed ok. What a nightmare, daymare 😢. We absolutely hate corrugations. Take care and enjoy your few days at El Questro.
Yea corrugations are the worst lol... thankyou 😄
We will be all gorged out after El Questro haha but it's going to be amazing 😍😍
Holy moley guys! What the hell!!😵💫
Let's hope no more dramas & you get to relax.
Look forward to what happens next.
Hope the steaks🥩🥩 & cold beers🍺🍺 were delish🍻❤
Yea we'll that's it for rough roads... only have to get out of El Questro and we are back on tarmac FOREVER 😍😍😍🤣🤣
OMG what a bugga! Luckily Kununurra is not too far away as something like that needs luck on their side. I mentioned about driving on the other side of the road to avoid the worst of the corrugations. Perhaps it was my suggestion or else others know the same trick. 😊 In anycase I hope it helped a bit. I think if I was going there I would get a rooftop sleeper for that specific trip. And I would most likely be travelling alone too which appears to be not a good plan for that area. They certainly seem to be the worst corrugations in Australia. Not even across the middle of the continent has them that bad. But I don't know about laying bitumen all the way despite what people say about it increasing tourism. They might want the extra revenue but do those places need the extra crap that goes with easily accessed tourist places.
I hope your steak dinner was good. The rain is coming! I hope you don't end up having to leave there too soon. 🙂
Yes I agree, those are the worst corrugations we have ever done and we have been to the Cape and have done the Oodnadatta Track aswell as other corrugated roads and nothing compares, the sheer length if the corrugated roads is the bad part.
We are lucky that this happened closer to Kununurra, rather than in the middle of The Gibb, that would have been a disaster 😳
Best way to deal with those corigations is around 60-70 kms an hour. Once you get the freqency right. You glide straight over like their not even their.
That's right 😁 that's what we try to aim for! 🤙
Towing caravan on the Gibb is an absolute lottery. I wouldn’t dissuade anyone but you have to accept that it could result in a lot of toil and trouble.
Yes, we knew there would be damage, I'm sure everyone that does The Gibb knows that risk 😊
You are ticking off so many of those iconic Gibb things every day, what an experience to look back on 😊. So sorry about todays damage, but it’s probably a blessing that it happened at such low speed. I’ve got a question - would you rather drive on really really really really soft sand, or corrugations ?? 😂😂. Good luck for the next few days. Same thing is happening in the Flinders and north of there at the moment.
Yes such a blessing that it happened at slow speed and near to Kununurra 🙌🙌
Ooohhh me and Tj loved this questions and very much laughed as we knew straight away we would rather sand anyday lol! 🤣🤣
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Leaf Springs are great until they aren’t! Glad they limped into camp.
Best case scenario in a pretty crappy situation 😊🤙
you guys are killing it out there on the gibb just curious where and who done your van suspension upgrade
Thanks so much guys 👋 😁 The underling axel done at the Caravan Repairs and Service in Underwood QLD 😄
Never give up
100% 🙌🙌
If TJ wants to do some 4wd ing then maybe Harry’s Hole. It used to be private but I’m pretty sure you can go there now. It’s a great drive in and incredible when you get there
This is amazing, thankyou! We are going to see if we can suss this out 😁🫵
Hi. We are just living your adventures on the Gibb. Just wondering what type of drone you guys use ??
Thankyou 😍 We have a DJI Mavic Air 2s
How'd did your Navara pro 4x warrior go
Thinking of buying one
Does the twin turbo make a big difference with power
Mine isn't the warrior, just the pro 4x 😁
The twin turbo comes as standard so hard to compare it but mines had a tune and goes really well! We're really impressed with the car! 🤙
And had no dramas on The Gibb
The Gibb River Road is pain in the arse. Should be bitumen road to allow to relax and enjoy the countryside.
Haha yes! It would be more enjoyable, alot of people are against that happening though.
We knew the risks doing The Gibbs with such rough roads 😊
It probably would pay to carry obvious spares such as u bolts?, nuts, bolts. Spare Anderson plugs . Soldering iron
Fuses. Engine belts. I would carry a compact stick welder and a small qty of steel angle and plate etc.
Hi Frank, we did carry alot of spares and nuts and bolts etc we just didn't think about ubolts this time 😅
Possibly overtightened the U bolts. With spring washers they don't need to be crazy tight...
Thankyou for the tip 😊
Just a note, you should not use spring washers anywhere, no bolt manufacturer or technical publication recommend them for anything, flat washers and correctly torqued.
OMG ...please pass on my best wishes..the only " good" is that they were able to limp into the park after many hands - bush mechanics did temporary repairs Jan Adelaide
100% lucky we have some handy mean in our group as well as an amazing mechanic that stopped and helped 🙌
I would never pull a caravan down the Gibb
Thats all good, each to their own 😊
that suspension could have been so much worse if it failed on the hway at 100kmh!!
Right!! Very lucky that it happened where it happened 🙌🙌🙌
'll never understand why people drag bloody overweight Mcmansions around . The twin cab manufacturers max tow weight are just bullshite. No wonder so many people come to grief and holidays are ruined. Smaller, lighter vand make holidays so much more enjoyable. You dont need all the crap put into these aluminium dog boxes....
All good mate, each to their own, we knew there could be damage doing The Gibb but we have done the experience because we are travelling Australia and with 3 kids in tow, we'd rather do it in a caravan and not a tent etc... it works for us and that's all that matters.
As for weights, we have done the right thing and have been weighed, hence why we chose a lighter van to suit our car.
But yes, like I said... each to their own. We knew what could happen coming in to this... along with everyone else that does The Gibb 🤙