for calculations a full jerry of fuel weighs about 20kg. In a landrover you can end up with a moment of high comedy when you find you cant get out as the roof guttering has collapsed, trapping the doors. Use a good roofrack with a minmum of eight contact points (full length on a 110) also windscreen pillars can collapse and winscreens break. My 4 point roofrack on a suzuki sj413 collapsed the guttering after just 15 minutes on the piste!!. (on the PDC, I wouldn't normally drive a suzuki for expedition work!) It was ok on the road but the vehicle was seriously unstable with 3 cans and psp on top (mind you, they wobble a bit anyhow!) apparently when I went round corners you could see daylight under my front wheel as it lifted in the air!
If you are using a roofrack because you have run out of space inside you are carrying too much equipment! If you look at the video on this site of the landy rolling on a dune one of his problems was too much weight up top (the other was not accelerating as he started to slide, so his vehicle went broadside on to the slope)
Andy
landcruiser H60
landrover 101
moggy minor traveller!
www.plymouth-dakar.com
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1990 Landcruiser H60. Full rebuild completed 2014
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