Monday, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:06
Don't worry about the RASIGS. I was wondering if you were an old lost mate from Vietnam.
I agree. And slower. At 20-25 PSI tyre pressure the ABSOLUTE max we would do is 80KPH and only for a short distance. We would normally sit around 40 on heavy
corrugations and higher on lesser/softer ones. Of course there are also many of reasons to go even slower at times. It's not set into the cruise control. It's just a "ballpark" figure.
As is our custom whenever we stop (fuel, photo,
toilet or camp/cuppa) we
check tyres, wheel nuts and shocks. Always have and its amazing how many do not. Even though they say they do. You watch them. At the
gate on the highway to the Bungles we stopped to pump ours up to have a cuppa. We watched cars coming out after us. Only about a third pumped up their tyres. ONLY ONE leant down and felt the shocks. And that was a BAD road when we were there in June.
20 to 25 PSI was also a figure we used in the Army and more recently in the 4WD refresher course we both attended. 20PSI almost doubles the amount of tread on the road and it also allows the tyre to "balloon" and absorb a lot of the "bumps". Tyre wear is not an issue with us as they are the last link with the road. 35PSI is the recommended figure for bitumen from our tyre brochure and 26-32 for slow/rough gravel (and
corrugations) .
This topic is about
corrugations and I do not want to hijack the thread. My email is vk1dx@bigpond.net.au. Please feel free to contact me direct.
Phil
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