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Stockton beach Rocky day out:
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:49 pm
by RockyF75
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:50 pm
by RockyF75
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:09 pm
by HotFourOk
Nah you need a shinier car
And you better make that snorkel if you go through that water!
Heaps good pics Nath, was a good day
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:12 pm
by nads
looks like you had fun. I used to have a rocky. complete with the gutless 3y. Now if I had hit the water like that no. 3 sparkplug recess would have filled up and caused a miss, making it even more gutless :(
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:15 pm
by murcod
Nice pics.
Is that salt water that you were driving through?!?
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:46 pm
by r0ck_m0nkey
murcod wrote:Is that salt water that you were driving through?!?
Those bits of water are usually fairly fresh, they also become the bearer or quicksand for the lucky ones.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:33 pm
by RockyF75
r0ck_m0nkey wrote:murcod wrote:Is that salt water that you were driving through?!?
Those bits of water are usually fairly fresh, they also become the bearer or quicksand for the lucky ones.
Yeah they'r fresh. Made darn sure of that b4 cruisin through
. Quicksand sounds like fun, but not with A/T's
... didn't see any while we were there but I think The Rocky might have previously
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:18 pm
by r0ck_m0nkey
Trust me, it isn't fun, doesn't matter what tyres you have they all work the same in quicksand (i.e. they don't). You also won't see it until you're ground to a sudden halt and stuck up to your sills. Although mostly it's around the edges of those inland "lakes" (as the ones you were driving through) or ones that have dried enough to have no surface water and just looks like a wet patch of sand. Getting it out isn't to much of a problem it's all the sand getting into your brake drums, if you don't clean it out right away and continue to drive it will destroy your brakes.
What makes it worse is you can walk across it and the sand will feel fine and firm, but once the weight of a vehicle goes on it, all the underlying water comes to the surface and thats when you sink.
Can you tell i have been stuck in the shit twice
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:31 pm
by tabrocky
Great photo's.
Looks like you blokes had a heap of fun...
Lucky buggers.
If only we had a "Stockton" here in south oz. The coorong's ok, but stockton has more open un-vegitated dunes (read... drive were you like).
Cheers.
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:00 pm
by ferris
were did the diff come from on the back off the ute . looks like the old rust bucket lost its diff . good work boys
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:52 pm
by RockyF75
ferris wrote:were did the diff come from on the back off the ute . looks like the old rust bucket lost its diff . good work boys
Some people carry spare hoses and tools, some even carry spare CV's and uni-joints....us daihatu owners... we take spare drivelines
The whole reason for the trip was cause Kane "The Rocky" was nice enough to replace the bearings in my rear diff
. So we threw a borrowed one under mine, and carted my busted one up there.