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trip reports Asia and the Far East Croydon to Cairns
trip reports Asia and the Far East Croydon to Cairns
Vehicle Specification
| Toyota Land Cruiser 4.2 Litre Turbo Diesel Automatic (100 series) | |
| BFG Goodrich - steel | |
| Old Man Emu | |
| 96 Litre Standard + 55 Litre auxillary | |
| 2 x 20 litre jerry cans. Nature Pure Filter - www.purewateronline.co.uk | |
| Top roofbox from www.roofbox.co.uk | |
| 2 x external tents | |
| Garmin Nuvi 350 using maps from www.smellybiker.com | |
| Gas cooker and Kelly Kettle | |
| Loads! | |
| Winch, sande ladders and loads of ropes | |
| Patriot | |
| Dried food only | |
| Invertor | |
| External light off 12v DC | |
| Everything! | |
| Big End went in Thailand | |
| Comfort, speed, capability, size | |
| As per "Problems encountered with vehicle" and fuel consumption ( | |
| Yes |
Five Quick Questions
If I could only give one piece of advice...
Don't overplan!
The most essential thing I took with me
Get a spiel about who you are and what you are doing translated into all the languages of the countries you are going to. Invaluable with the police, borders etc
The most useless thing I took with me (non-human)
None
Most ingenious self repair of the trip
Absolutely nothing went wrong with the vehicle until the big end went.
Would I recommend it?
Amazing!!!
Croydon to Cairns
From London to Australia (2008/2009)by gnaismith
Midlife crisis beckoning, job dodgy and we'd sold our house so we decided to get a land cruiser and drive from London through Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan and into China for the Olympics. And then down into Laos and Thailand, where our car blew up. We flew to Perth and rented a land cruiser there before driving the circumference of the country back to Perth. And we took our three daughters aged 1, 4 and 6.
Graham Naismith
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Comments (4)
written by James Thompson, August 14, 2010
Think i recognise your landcruiser! did it attend lincomb farm once and recently it has been at landcruisers overland in sussex??
Big ends went on a 24v 4.2? So it does happen then, for those of us were thinking it was only the 12v that had that problem...
Big ends went on a 24v 4.2? So it does happen then, for those of us were thinking it was only the 12v that had that problem...
written by Graham Naismith, August 14, 2010
Yep last summer we didn lincomb farm (and I dinted the side on a tree) and it was down at Landcruisers Overland in Sussex last month fixing rear dif and few other things after a Morocco trip. Must have spoken to u at Lincomb Im guessing! Yep Big End went cos I didn't the powersteering fluid being empty and the power steering went and I drove on and it somehow did the big end dont ask me how!
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