Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 21:02
We had stopped about 30 minutes prior to this and I did not notice anything unusual. As I said earlier the road was not causing any angst.
The vehicle weight was much lower at this point because we had slowly been using water etc and I had no intention of adding weight as we would hit the Stuart the following day. We had been on the road for about four days.
The vehicle has had an ARB
suspension upgrade and lift , airbags , nitro shocks etc. The slide on comes in at 450kg. Add two spares and carriers. A 100 litre water capacity which was
well down ...say 40litres. Food, personal clothing ,bedding and 60 litre fridge. Couple of pico folding chairs and a plastic table. Toolbag. Cannot think of much else just the usual that everyone carries.
Well I am assuming everyone carries this stuff. A bottle white wine for the missus and a 2 litre cask of red for me. Maybe a bottle of rum.
So its back to either me, my driving, the tyres and/or the road. My guess at this time is that it was me lowering the pressures and then adding a little speed.
After this episode I raised the pressures and lowered my speed. Raised my awareness and drove to the conditions as they say. Travelled the next say 300 klms in similar road conditions but absolutely no probs.
Regards
jim
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