hey
just wanted to know some thoughts from people, whats the best way to clean your 4b when leave the beach.
I'm heading up to fraser and last time on my old disco all i did was go to a car lovers in noosa and sprayed everything underneath with soapy water.
Are there better methods? some guy in rainbow beach does something where he sprays the underneath with some oil or somthing? any thoughts on that as well..
cheers
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that some guy in rain bow sprays a lanolin/fish oil combo.... thats best before u go, this helps to prevent contact between sand a metal....then yes high pressue lightly deteregented water to cleen it down and then regrease after
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eliteforce32 wrote:that some guy in rain bow sprays a lanolin/fish oil combo.... thats best before u go, this helps to prevent contact between sand a metal....then yes high pressue lightly deteregented water to cleen it down and then regrease after
yeah but i heard it is recycled water. same at the one at north shore (using water potentially with crud in it already?!?)
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De-lux wrote:eliteforce32 wrote:that some guy in rain bow sprays a lanolin/fish oil combo.... thats best before u go, this helps to prevent contact between sand a metal....then yes high pressue lightly deteregented water to cleen it down and then regrease after
yeah but i heard it is recycled water. same at the one at north shore (using water potentially with crud in it already?!?)
they remove the crud from the water. It isn't just taken from the drain and shot back through the hoses
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Best way is to get under it and physically look for sand etc. I use one of those angled staun massojet things. Gets sand out of places you can't even see. Pressure cleaners are not good enough to be used by themselves as they can't get into most places. Let the water flow through every nook and cranny until it flows clear.
Once you have done that you can do it again a week later once the sand has had a chance to settle again.
I also spray lanolin underneath on everything about 1 week before a beach trip.
Sounds like a lot of work but 4 years of beach trips and not a spot of rust. Must be doing something right.
Once you have done that you can do it again a week later once the sand has had a chance to settle again.
I also spray lanolin underneath on everything about 1 week before a beach trip.
Sounds like a lot of work but 4 years of beach trips and not a spot of rust. Must be doing something right.
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On your way back come through Gympie and go to Widgee Crossing. This is a spot that has a very pebbly base that you can cross the Mary River (excluding when there is lots of rain). The crossing slopes down gradually as you go upstream so you can nose your truck upstream and drive as deep as you want and turn it off. Let it sit there to 10 minutes with fresh water funning through your chassis then drive home..
auto_eng wrote:On your way back come through Gympie and go to Widgee Crossing. This is a spot that has a very pebbly base that you can cross the Mary River (excluding when there is lots of rain). The crossing slopes down gradually as you go upstream so you can nose your truck upstream and drive as deep as you want and turn it off. Let it sit there to 10 minutes with fresh water funning through your chassis then drive home..
nice i might give that go
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auto_eng wrote:On your way back come through Gympie and go to Widgee Crossing. This is a spot that has a very pebbly base that you can cross the Mary River (excluding when there is lots of rain). The crossing slopes down gradually as you go upstream so you can nose your truck upstream and drive as deep as you want and turn it off. Let it sit there to 10 minutes with fresh water funning through your chassis then drive home..
that's a really good idea. it's ashame that there's not
more fresh water creeks where this could be done.
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IMO the best trick is to give it a good hose down and then like someone said earlier just leave the sprinkler going for 30 minutes or so and move it along and so on and so on!
I use to do beach driving every weekend for 4 years and when i sold the lux there was no rust. I did treat it every year with fisholine and tectol.
Also when you are on frase island camp as close to ELI creek as possible. Its great to go up there at night for a Swim/bath (do not use soap) and i use to drive threw the fresh water part where it comes out onto the beach (you will see what i meen when you get there). As long as you drive threw the creek where in comes onto the beach the rangers won't say anything, in fact i asked one if it was OK and he said it was fine!
I would drive back and forward threw it 10 or so times with water going over the bonnet. I would do this every night! Then when you get home, instead of washing out 7 days of sand you only have 1 day of sand!!
I use to do beach driving every weekend for 4 years and when i sold the lux there was no rust. I did treat it every year with fisholine and tectol.
Also when you are on frase island camp as close to ELI creek as possible. Its great to go up there at night for a Swim/bath (do not use soap) and i use to drive threw the fresh water part where it comes out onto the beach (you will see what i meen when you get there). As long as you drive threw the creek where in comes onto the beach the rangers won't say anything, in fact i asked one if it was OK and he said it was fine!
I would drive back and forward threw it 10 or so times with water going over the bonnet. I would do this every night! Then when you get home, instead of washing out 7 days of sand you only have 1 day of sand!!
hey POS, have you got anyother tricks/tips for frazer, like things to see, places to go. Im heading up there next weekend for a week or two, any insight would be helpfull
thanks
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Yeah, here it goes! I dare say you are taking the ferry from Inskip point!
Before you get to Fraser, make sure you drive along Rainbow beach (don't go up to Gympie) its a really good drive (even spend a night camping along rainbow beach. Just be very careful, there is a place just near Rainbow beach township where there is a rocky out crop. Unless it is dead low tide DO NOT attempt to drive around them. Back track 5 minutes and take the inland track. The amount of cars that have gotten stuck there over the years is rediculas. Stop in at the Rainbow servo and they have hundreds of photos on the wall of cars that have been destroyed there!!!!
On Fraser i really love camping close to ELI creek. It was surprising though that a few months ago they had actually closed ELI because of the weather it had effected the water flow. I think its open again now!
All the Lakes are great, Lake Mackenzie is nice its like the "Beach" out of that stupid movie "the beach". There are heaps of lakes that have nice big sand dunes leading into them, take a Boogy board as you can slide down the sand dunes straight into the water! Top fun!
All the lakes and Creeks are Fresh water, so really nice and refreshing, especially on a hot summers day!
Central station is nice too, its in the middle of a thick rain forest, you can do walks out of there to fresh water creeks, you can then walk up the creeks. The water is SO clear, you just don't believe it! You will see eals but none of them bite! (yet ).
The Maheno ship wreck is good to see, but once as you've seen it thats it. It doesn't relly interest me, we mainly use it as a meeting point or a good reference point!
Indian head is a good lookout that you can see just how big and long the beaches are! Just hear Indian head is the "Champaign pools". They are rock pools with all these little holes in the rock (volcanic rock) and when the waves/swell comes in it forces the water threw the holes and its meant to llok like a glass of champaign. It does, but you have to get the tide right! Good place for a swim as you don't have to worry about rips, sharks etc etc. In the whole tome over on fraser you will find that most of the times you go swimming is either here ate the pools or one of the freshwater lakes or creeks!
Be expecting plenty of walking, most of the creeks and lakes are about a 10 - 20 minute walk off the tracks!
4WD is easy if your use to Sand driving!
Remember the main beachs (and Rainbow beach) are gazetted roads with a enforced speed limit of 80 kmh. Normal road rules apply! Most people over there are there to have a good time and most are fairly well experienced. Many will warn you with a "flash of the lights" if you are approaching a hazzard eg small creeks running down the beach that you can't see till the last minute. These little run off's can change from day to day. So just return the favour and flash oncoming traffic if you have just crossed a hard to see obstacal.
Like i said normal road rules apply, stick to the left. Sometimes you will see a vehicle coming towards you with his indicator on. This meens he is going to which every way he is indicating, he may be about to veer off or the sand is to soft to go any lower, just slow down and indicate to the opposite way he wants to go just to acknowledge that you saw him!
You will see this happen and get use to it quick!
When you pull up somewhere, get in a habit of parking with the facing down hill (if possible) and when you get back to your car always check you free wheeling hubs, some D!CKS think its funny to see people getting stuck and go around unlocking one hub! You will see that many of those "Tourists Hire 4Wd's" have the hubs locked and then a tech screw screwed in to stop people undoing them!
If you see some one stuck, its up to you whether you want to help them!
I say this because when a car is stuck below the High tide mark, it meens DANGER. I have seen many times where the recovery car has also gotten stuck and then two cars are destroyed! Take a tide chart and know the tides. If you do help them out walk down onto the sand first, most of the sand below High tide mark is very hard and good to drive on, but sometimes there are soft spots (usually where people get stuck) walk around and see for yourself if its nice and hard, if it is then it would be pretty safe to try and recover them! Do not feel liable if the tide is coming in and someone is stuck. Once as that water hits the tyres its bye bye for anyrig out there. The person stuck will usually get quite load and start yelling at everyone nearby for not helping. But there is no point! I have pulled up and there was about 50 cars all watching one guy try and recover his mate, the locals and the regualars knew they were both screwed once as that water splashed the tyres! Two rigs totally screwed!
Other than that its a farken awesome place!!!
The only other thing you have to watch out for in summer time is EYE STRAIN!!! The amount of backpackers getting around in nice little bikinis is unreal!!!
Oh and take heaps of FUEL. Fuel over there is usually 30-60 cents dearer per letre than the mainland!
There is also a good Bistro at Eurong, if you feel like not roughing it on night, great meals and plenty of Eye Candy!
Sorry for raving on, its been a while since i've been over there and i have nearly talked myself into going!
You will have a absolute blast, even if it rains its still a great place!
Before you get to Fraser, make sure you drive along Rainbow beach (don't go up to Gympie) its a really good drive (even spend a night camping along rainbow beach. Just be very careful, there is a place just near Rainbow beach township where there is a rocky out crop. Unless it is dead low tide DO NOT attempt to drive around them. Back track 5 minutes and take the inland track. The amount of cars that have gotten stuck there over the years is rediculas. Stop in at the Rainbow servo and they have hundreds of photos on the wall of cars that have been destroyed there!!!!
On Fraser i really love camping close to ELI creek. It was surprising though that a few months ago they had actually closed ELI because of the weather it had effected the water flow. I think its open again now!
All the Lakes are great, Lake Mackenzie is nice its like the "Beach" out of that stupid movie "the beach". There are heaps of lakes that have nice big sand dunes leading into them, take a Boogy board as you can slide down the sand dunes straight into the water! Top fun!
All the lakes and Creeks are Fresh water, so really nice and refreshing, especially on a hot summers day!
Central station is nice too, its in the middle of a thick rain forest, you can do walks out of there to fresh water creeks, you can then walk up the creeks. The water is SO clear, you just don't believe it! You will see eals but none of them bite! (yet ).
The Maheno ship wreck is good to see, but once as you've seen it thats it. It doesn't relly interest me, we mainly use it as a meeting point or a good reference point!
Indian head is a good lookout that you can see just how big and long the beaches are! Just hear Indian head is the "Champaign pools". They are rock pools with all these little holes in the rock (volcanic rock) and when the waves/swell comes in it forces the water threw the holes and its meant to llok like a glass of champaign. It does, but you have to get the tide right! Good place for a swim as you don't have to worry about rips, sharks etc etc. In the whole tome over on fraser you will find that most of the times you go swimming is either here ate the pools or one of the freshwater lakes or creeks!
Be expecting plenty of walking, most of the creeks and lakes are about a 10 - 20 minute walk off the tracks!
4WD is easy if your use to Sand driving!
Remember the main beachs (and Rainbow beach) are gazetted roads with a enforced speed limit of 80 kmh. Normal road rules apply! Most people over there are there to have a good time and most are fairly well experienced. Many will warn you with a "flash of the lights" if you are approaching a hazzard eg small creeks running down the beach that you can't see till the last minute. These little run off's can change from day to day. So just return the favour and flash oncoming traffic if you have just crossed a hard to see obstacal.
Like i said normal road rules apply, stick to the left. Sometimes you will see a vehicle coming towards you with his indicator on. This meens he is going to which every way he is indicating, he may be about to veer off or the sand is to soft to go any lower, just slow down and indicate to the opposite way he wants to go just to acknowledge that you saw him!
You will see this happen and get use to it quick!
When you pull up somewhere, get in a habit of parking with the facing down hill (if possible) and when you get back to your car always check you free wheeling hubs, some D!CKS think its funny to see people getting stuck and go around unlocking one hub! You will see that many of those "Tourists Hire 4Wd's" have the hubs locked and then a tech screw screwed in to stop people undoing them!
If you see some one stuck, its up to you whether you want to help them!
I say this because when a car is stuck below the High tide mark, it meens DANGER. I have seen many times where the recovery car has also gotten stuck and then two cars are destroyed! Take a tide chart and know the tides. If you do help them out walk down onto the sand first, most of the sand below High tide mark is very hard and good to drive on, but sometimes there are soft spots (usually where people get stuck) walk around and see for yourself if its nice and hard, if it is then it would be pretty safe to try and recover them! Do not feel liable if the tide is coming in and someone is stuck. Once as that water hits the tyres its bye bye for anyrig out there. The person stuck will usually get quite load and start yelling at everyone nearby for not helping. But there is no point! I have pulled up and there was about 50 cars all watching one guy try and recover his mate, the locals and the regualars knew they were both screwed once as that water splashed the tyres! Two rigs totally screwed!
Other than that its a farken awesome place!!!
The only other thing you have to watch out for in summer time is EYE STRAIN!!! The amount of backpackers getting around in nice little bikinis is unreal!!!
Oh and take heaps of FUEL. Fuel over there is usually 30-60 cents dearer per letre than the mainland!
There is also a good Bistro at Eurong, if you feel like not roughing it on night, great meals and plenty of Eye Candy!
Sorry for raving on, its been a while since i've been over there and i have nearly talked myself into going!
You will have a absolute blast, even if it rains its still a great place!
Thanks for the info, you made me even more excited, i might have to take some binoculars to help with the eyestrain. 
thanks for the fuel warning - i might have to get an extra jerry can
cheers
Dave
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thanks for the fuel warning - i might have to get an extra jerry can
cheers
Dave
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.ave:. wrote:Thanks for the info, you made me even more excited, i might have to take some binoculars to help with the eyestrain.
thanks for the fuel warning - i might have to get an extra jerry can
cheers
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POS wrote:Yeah, here it goes! I dare say you are taking the ferry from Inskip point!
Before you get to Fraser, make sure you drive along Rainbow beach (don't go up to Gympie) its a really good drive (even spend a night camping along rainbow beach. Just be very careful, there is a place just near Rainbow beach township where there is a rocky out crop. Unless it is dead low tide DO NOT attempt to drive around them. Back track 5 minutes and take the inland track. The amount of cars that have gotten stuck there over the years is rediculas. Stop in at the Rainbow servo and they have hundreds of photos on the wall of cars that have been destroyed there!!!!
On Fraser i really love camping close to ELI creek. It was surprising though that a few months ago they had actually closed ELI because of the weather it had effected the water flow. I think its open again now!
All the Lakes are great, Lake Mackenzie is nice its like the "Beach" out of that stupid movie "the beach". There are heaps of lakes that have nice big sand dunes leading into them, take a Boogy board as you can slide down the sand dunes straight into the water! Top fun!
All the lakes and Creeks are Fresh water, so really nice and refreshing, especially on a hot summers day!
Central station is nice too, its in the middle of a thick rain forest, you can do walks out of there to fresh water creeks, you can then walk up the creeks. The water is SO clear, you just don't believe it! You will see eals but none of them bite! (yet ).
The Maheno ship wreck is good to see, but once as you've seen it thats it. It doesn't relly interest me, we mainly use it as a meeting point or a good reference point!
Indian head is a good lookout that you can see just how big and long the beaches are! Just hear Indian head is the "Champaign pools". They are rock pools with all these little holes in the rock (volcanic rock) and when the waves/swell comes in it forces the water threw the holes and its meant to llok like a glass of champaign. It does, but you have to get the tide right! Good place for a swim as you don't have to worry about rips, sharks etc etc. In the whole tome over on fraser you will find that most of the times you go swimming is either here ate the pools or one of the freshwater lakes or creeks!
Be expecting plenty of walking, most of the creeks and lakes are about a 10 - 20 minute walk off the tracks!
4WD is easy if your use to Sand driving!
Remember the main beachs (and Rainbow beach) are gazetted roads with a enforced speed limit of 80 kmh. Normal road rules apply! Most people over there are there to have a good time and most are fairly well experienced. Many will warn you with a "flash of the lights" if you are approaching a hazzard eg small creeks running down the beach that you can't see till the last minute. These little run off's can change from day to day. So just return the favour and flash oncoming traffic if you have just crossed a hard to see obstacal.
Like i said normal road rules apply, stick to the left. Sometimes you will see a vehicle coming towards you with his indicator on. This meens he is going to which every way he is indicating, he may be about to veer off or the sand is to soft to go any lower, just slow down and indicate to the opposite way he wants to go just to acknowledge that you saw him!
You will see this happen and get use to it quick!
When you pull up somewhere, get in a habit of parking with the facing down hill (if possible) and when you get back to your car always check you free wheeling hubs, some D!CKS think its funny to see people getting stuck and go around unlocking one hub! You will see that many of those "Tourists Hire 4Wd's" have the hubs locked and then a tech screw screwed in to stop people undoing them!
If you see some one stuck, its up to you whether you want to help them!
I say this because when a car is stuck below the High tide mark, it meens DANGER. I have seen many times where the recovery car has also gotten stuck and then two cars are destroyed! Take a tide chart and know the tides. If you do help them out walk down onto the sand first, most of the sand below High tide mark is very hard and good to drive on, but sometimes there are soft spots (usually where people get stuck) walk around and see for yourself if its nice and hard, if it is then it would be pretty safe to try and recover them! Do not feel liable if the tide is coming in and someone is stuck. Once as that water hits the tyres its bye bye for anyrig out there. The person stuck will usually get quite load and start yelling at everyone nearby for not helping. But there is no point! I have pulled up and there was about 50 cars all watching one guy try and recover his mate, the locals and the regualars knew they were both screwed once as that water splashed the tyres! Two rigs totally screwed!
Other than that its a farken awesome place!!!
The only other thing you have to watch out for in summer time is EYE STRAIN!!! The amount of backpackers getting around in nice little bikinis is unreal!!!
Oh and take heaps of FUEL. Fuel over there is usually 30-60 cents dearer per letre than the mainland!
There is also a good Bistro at Eurong, if you feel like not roughing it on night, great meals and plenty of Eye Candy!
Sorry for raving on, its been a while since i've been over there and i have nearly talked myself into going!
You will have a absolute blast, even if it rains its still a great place!
after that gigantic read, im hella keen to get there again. im going to organise another road trip with my mates thanks to your inspiring post. (im not being sarcastic)
indubitably
and if any of u guys r keen for some real 4bing let us know, i come from Hervey Bay and there are loads of lads that would be much ablidged to be the tourist guide around that arear.....when are people heading up to fraser? im heading back to the bay at the end of this week for some lovin from the other half, friday morning im leaving and coming back sunday some time, so if anyones up around that area then would like to show some people how some locals do it! 
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auto_eng wrote:On your way back come through Gympie and go to Widgee Crossing. This is a spot that has a very pebbly base that you can cross the Mary River (excluding when there is lots of rain). The crossing slopes down gradually as you go upstream so you can nose your truck upstream and drive as deep as you want and turn it off. Let it sit there to 10 minutes with fresh water funning through your chassis then drive home..
you can also go to travey crossing south of gympie ...
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