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Entries from June 2008

I am building an HHO generator to save 20% on my fuel bill

June 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am building an HHO generator to save 20% on my fuel bill

Hi,
As you all know I am an avid 4 Wheel Driver. My Prado 3.4 V6 is reasonably fuel efficient returning 19.5mpg (14.4lt/100kms) on a 7,500 km outback trip. A day trip out the back of Melbourne can see consumption drop to around 17mpg because proportionally there is more real 4WDing being done on a day [...]

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Tags: Technical

Landcruiser 100 IFS weak diffs

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Landcruiser 100 IFS weak diffs

G’day, the other weekend we were up the Big River area in Victoria doing some fantastic 4WDing. There had been some very light drizzle in the morning leaving a slightly damp surface to some of the tracks. By afternoon we came to one track that looked really interesting. We took the chicken track down and [...]

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Tags: General

KUMHO JOINT WINNER OF 4×4 MAGAZINES ULTIMATE MT TYRE TEST

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

KUMHO JOINT WINNER OF 4x4 MAGAZINES ULTIMATE MT TYRE TEST

The team at 4x4galore.com love reading 4×4 product reviews, so we were very pleased to see that the Kumho Road Venture MT KL71 was joint winner of 4×4 Magazine’s (UK) ‘ultimate tyre test’ to establish the best mud-terrain tyre on the UK market.
It shared top honours with a BF Goodrich, beating offerings from Goodyear, Wildcat, [...]

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Tags: General