Monday, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:39
Should be a top trip ;) and a Ford
Ranger MK II will do that easily -- I own a Ford
Ranger MK II and I know how good they are :)
O.K. just some of my opinions about your list
- Roof top tent (advice appreciated, thinking of a cheap kings to not have to worry about it)
I don't like roof top tents, as they make quite tricky to base
camp, even just staying a a area for 2 days, you will have to pack up the roof top tent every time you move the vehicle, and that's a pain. If you are running out of room, a roof rack and a large lockable top box works really
well, make packing up easy. For a tent, the modern instant tents work
well, and I like using stretchers, but
test the stretchers in the
camp shops to make sure that it's a quick and easy to pack up stretcher -- A good idea for your trip base
camp at a
Jabiru caravan park for about 3 to 4 days -- I can recommend
Kakadu Lodge caravan park, and do day trips to Jim Jim and
twin falls, Yellow Waters dawn sun rise river cruise -- you see if you were to do that dawn cruise, you would be packing up the roof top tent in the dark just so you could drive you to the destination of the Yellow Water cruise.
- Dual battery
- Regulator to run the fridge when not driving
Yeah dual battery is a good idea, depending on what your doing for your future, a portable setup may be good idea with a DC to DC charger, I am not sure what you meant by regulator, may be a low voltage cut out or something.
- Carry extra diesel (do you really need a long range tank?)
Not that necessary for the trip that you have planned
- Are bull bars really useful?
Yes, yes and yes, I did hit a kangaroo on my last trip going from
Darwin to Port Macquarie, it actually hit and damaged the caravan, it's could have been the radiator and no it does not set off the airbags as someelse has suggested, there is just some many animals on the road and judging by the amount of road kill on the road, I would certainly recommend a bullbar. If you are shopping be a bullbar, get one with rated recovery points built in.
- Given all the dust, should I add a
snorkel?
Snorkel is a nice thing to a have for a piece of mind, but not that necessary -- I would certainly add bullbar before the
snorkel
I do have a write up about how built up my Ford
Ranger PX MK2 for touring at
http://4x4earth.com/forum/index.php?threads/my-mk2-ford-ranger-2016.40913/ might be a good read up and how I have setup my dual batteries and the long range tanks etc.
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