well done for taking your van ,love road trips we did 4 weeks in our old sandman to queensland many years ago and also one to cairns in our HQ monaro. my brother has taken his sportspack chrysler van to every state in australia on holidays, thanks for sharing sounds like a great trip
Very well done Ian, the way you laid that trip out for all to see is brilliant. I now want to take in a trip there also, fabulous.
"Proud To Be An Old Fart".
Love to get in and drive. Not a fan of the restore and look at it school of thought.Originally Posted by hdt134
So much better over there without the traffic to contend with.
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They are the smoothest roads you will ever find. It is a real struggle to find a pot hole anywhere. We only came across a few bad sections, mostly on the roads intoo popular spots like Port Arthur, Tahune air walk and a couple of smaller roads up at the Bay of Fires.
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Suspension
New Front GSR shocks.
New Front Sports Ryder coil springs.
New Front sway bar “d” + link bushes +”d” brackets.
New Upper & Lower Balljoints.
New Inner & Outer Tie rod ends.
New Idler arm & drag link.
New Upper Inner & Lower Inner Control Arm Bushes.
New Rear GSR shocks.
Rear Leaf Spring Reset (inc. eye & shackle bushes + new shackles.)
New Rear sway bar “d” + link bushes + “d” brackets.
Legally lowered all around , it still passes a RWC
Here is all the technical data that Pedders got up on the van. Doesn't mean a lot to me.
Sounds like a great trip. Since finishing the resto on my van (which I drive most weekends) I've copped the same "ya don't see many of them around anymore" thing as well.
My standard reply is " yeah,... well ya gotta have something to do the shopping in"....that usually cracks 'em up.
It also looks like we are running almost identical suspension set ups as well with all the same "new stuff" except I don't have a rear sway bar because HJ's never had them from the factory.
cheers ian
I thought they might tell you something like front - 2nd stage drop. rear - 75mm blocks
appreciate the info mate. i reckon it looks perfect - ironed out but not down to the weeds!
BQZ
I thought so too. I had to ask to get that amount of info, bit strange really.
all the dealings that ive had with pedders (from a supply and fit side of things) have been less than memorable... however their rear commy ute springs are better than lovells!
BQZ
Looks like a great place, your tour must have been a pleasure especially in that car.I do hope to take my wife there one day.Thanks for sharing pic's.
Well done Ian & Jo!!
Looks like you had a great time, Karen and I did a similar trip in a new VR commodore ute before the kids came along years ago and loved every minute of Tassie and loved the driving experiance. I remember that nearly every second car out in the country would give you a wave.
Doing that trip in a sandman will certainly be going on the bucket list.
great job of recording the trip for all to enjoy. Great stuff.
cheers Rob.
Ian and Jo looks like a great trip very jealous and it's great to see you getting out and about with your van I went to tassie in 1977 as a year 11 school excursion 14 days 11 in tassie it was a great excursion and I espically remember the bridge port arthur ,queens town , Bernie ,the roads,that 5 tear water fall ,anyway was going to travel Tasmania with camper but with accommodations easily available we may follow your lead and do tassie In sandman or gt
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