G'day guys. Well, I've got five 4x4 tips and techniques that I go through before I start a four wheel drive track
Let's go through them
Okay, so this checklists that I'm about to tell you about now
This is not a written down checklist, but it's a checklist that I've got up here in the mind
I tick it off each and every time before I start a four wheel drive track out there in the bush and the first one out
of those five
It starts at the front here where I'll get my tyre pressures down, you know always thought your tyre pressures down
You know, there's absolutely key to going four wheel driving
I won't go a lot of detail now about the pressures at all run
But I'll put a link to another video up above here check that one out now
I'll go into a lot more detail in that video where I talk about tyre pressures
I run and give you some ideas, you know
It's and tyre pressures that you might want to think about in case you're a bit unsure. So it always starts here
I'll get my tyre pressures down on all four tyres and then the second one out of that out of the five
Here's to get these hubs locked in now
I always lock my hubs in regardless, you know when I'm going out there in the bush, you know
I've changed the hubs on these
These aren't the the standard hubs that came out on the Patrol from standard. But originally it didn't have a dial
They're locked out
it just had sort of a nut in the middle there and you'd have to use his spanner to to lock my hubs in but
Now I've gone to these aftermarket hubs these work an absolute treat
so we'll go to the third one and I reckon there might be a couple in here that maybe you not thought about so we'll
See you go to these but we'll go to the third one and we'll check that one out
Okay. So number three is the isolation key for your winch now
While this key sits in my hand
I've got no power at all going to my winch and it's a great idea because if you're four wheel drives
You know parked out in the street, whatever
Well, it just stopped people but out of temper your winch and doing all sorts of crazy stuff with it
so
this key here is what goes in here and
Then turn that on switch that around there and now I've got full power go into my winch now
It's a great idea for yourself to do this before you head off now
I know there's probably a few of you out there that have got these isolation keys or switches on your winches
so get that key in there get full power going before you head off because you don't want to get yourself into a
nasty situation on a track where you know, we've got to get a winch recovery going on and you know
You might not be able to get your four wheel drive to go and get your key and then you know get your winch all
Activated so and you might have to yell out to one of your mates
And then you gotta explain to him where it is and you might not even know what he's looking for
So get that key in there get all your power going to your winch before you head off and then you're good to go
All right
The last two they start right in here before we head off and number four is to engage
Transfer case whether it be high range low range, whatever it is, whatever track you've got ahead of your there and look
I've got a stick down there, but you might have a the electronic transfer case with a dial
well exactly the same just make sure you engage that before you head off and then the fifth and last one that I
Certainly go through and that's UHF ready radio communications
Whatever channel that you've designated particularly forgot a convoy make sure everyone knows what that channel is
And then before you head off just drop in with each of those vehicles that are behind you there
And just make sure that they'll respond back and then that way
You know there all on channel and you've got good clear communications to the trip that your about to go on
There you go guys
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