In The Wild - Photos of Grenadiers in their Natural Habitat

[Korg]

My Grenadier in the Simpson Desert (Lake Caroline claypan). 8,000km over 3 weeks, 200L of diesel on board, 100L of water, 4T GVM upgrade and sitting at 3.92T fully loaded.
Awesome trip, no car issues

 

[Fab]

My Grenadier in the Simpson Desert (Lake Caroline claypan). 8,000km over 3 weeks, 200L of diesel on board, 100L of water, 4T GVM upgrade and sitting at 3.92T fully loaded.
Awesome trip, no car issues
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I can only see the picture when I press the reply button

 

[Korg]

I can only see the picture when I press the reply button

no idea why ... maybe image too big?

 

[TheDocAUS]

The Grenadier would thrive in the Simpson, great image.

 

[Clark Kent]

My Grenadier in the Simpson Desert (Lake Caroline claypan). 8,000km over 3 weeks, 200L of diesel on board, 100L of water, 4T GVM upgrade and sitting at 3.92T fully loaded.
Awesome trip, no car issues
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Ineos promo shot right there

 

[HugoB]

Great photo. Are you carrying the 200L of diesel with a long range tank + those jerry's on the side? how about the water storage?

 

[Karl_B]

My Grenadier in the Simpson Desert (Lake Caroline claypan). 8,000km over 3 weeks, 200L of diesel on board, 100L of water, 4T GVM upgrade and sitting at 3.92T fully loaded.
Awesome trip, no car issues
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Great photo. Sand flag?

 

[Korg]

Great photo. Are you carrying the 200L of diesel with a long range tank + those jerry's on the side? how about the water storage?

Fuel: 90l factory, 68l Brown Davis, and 2 x 20l jerrys (one each side molle panel) = Total 198 litre
Water: 20l jerry with internal pump at rear ladder (LeTech ladder}, 1 x 40l water tank (PAK Offroad ute tub) installed behind rear seat after moving seat back brackets to forward position so that seat back is vertical (10min job), 1 x 40l water tank rear footwell (PAK Offroad Footwell Tank). Note that with the rear water tank installed I can still get up 6 front runner boxes in rear cargo space plus a 55l dometic slide out fridge - almost perfect fit as boxes held in place by table on rear door.

 

[TheDocAUS]

Fuel: 90l factory, 68l Brown Davis, and 2 x 20l jerrys (one each side molle panel) = Total 198 litre
Water: 20l jerry with internal pump at rear ladder (LeTech ladder}, 1 x 40l water tank (PAK Offroad ute tub) installed behind rear seat after moving seat back brackets to forward position so that seat back is vertical (10min job), 1 x 40l water tank rear footwell (PAK Offroad Footwell Tank). Note that with the rear water tank installed I can still get up 6 front runner boxes in rear cargo space plus a 55l dometic slide out fridge - almost perfect fit as boxes held in place by table on rear door.

What was your total fuel consumption across the Simpson, from Mt Dare to Birdsville or vice versa? I did west to east some years ago.

 

[Korg]

What was your total fuel consumption across the Simpson, from Mt Dare to Birdsville or vice versa? I did west to east some years ago.

For the Simpson we averaged 17/18l per 100km at 3.93T max weight.

 

[Tazzieman]

For the Simpson we avergaged 17/18l per 100km at 4.93T max weight.

4.93 or 3.92?

 

[Korg]

4.93 or 3.92?

my bad .... 3.93

 

[TheDocAUS]

my bad .... 3.93

Above 4.5 tonnes brings into play, a different ADR regime.

 

[Tazzieman]

my bad .... 3.93

Either way , impressive. Probably 10L/100km better than my petrol version!

 

[Korg]

Either way , impressive. Probably 10L/100km better than my petrol version!

and still had plenty of power for high speed on the blacktop even with the air drag of the swags on the roof.

 

[TheDocAUS]

and still had plenty of power for high speed on the blacktop even with the air drag of the swags on the roof.

Do you have rear airbags?

 

[Korg]

Great photo. Sand flag?

The mount broke off the bullbar but as we part of a convoy it wasn't an issue.

 

[Korg]

Do you have rear airbags?

As part of the GVM upgrade yes.

 

[TheDocAUS]

The mount broke off the bullbar but as we part of a convoy it wasn't an issue.

My sand flag is similar to your UHF aerial, on the roof rack.

Post in thread 'What did you do with your Grenadier today?'

Mar 29, 2024

FLAG POLE MOUNTED
Today I mounted the Bushranger Safety Flag onto the roof rack. You can vary the flags height, using 1, 2 or 3 fibreglass poles.

I used a Razed antenna mounting bracket and attached the bottom of the flag pole onto the bracket (these 2 images are from the Razed website).

The nuts were torqued to 7Nm, and I used Nord-Lock washers, instead of the supplied split washers, as Nord-Lock washers will not come loose due to corrugations...

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[Korg]

My sand flag is similar to your UHF aerial, on the roof rack.

Post in thread 'What did you do with your Grenadier today?'

Mar 29, 2024

FLAG POLE MOUNTED
Today I mounted the Bushranger Safety Flag onto the roof rack. You can vary the flags height, using 1, 2 or 3 fibreglass poles.

I used a Razed antenna mounting bracket and attached the bottom of the flag pole onto the bracket (these 2 images are from the Razed website).

The nuts were torqued to 7Nm, and I used Nord-Lock washers, instead of the supplied split washers, as Nord-Lock washers will not come loose due to corrugations...

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I will be doing the same as you and also the same what I have done for the GME arial in the next couple of days - just waiting delivery of the mounting bracket.