“All the gear and no idea” is a pretty common saying in the off-road community

One place in Australia where you can see an endless run of 4x4 owners that have no idea how to use it

Bush Mechanics 2001 ‧ Documentary It's crazy aboriginals fixing very broken cars 😂

The 79 series cruisers are bloddy expensive for what they are. So yeah, solid axles front and rear, v8 turbo diesil, but super basic inside and look like something from the 70s. You can still buy them new though though. They have a reputation for being rugged and reliable, and even without lift kits etc they are very capable off road.

A few kilometres south of there is a place called Mudlo rocks. It has claimed/killed more 4x4s then anywhere else in Australia. Basically you have to drive around the rocks at low tide and if you get stuck the incoming tide will drown your vehicle. Rainbow beach hotel has a "wall of shame" with pics of all the 4x4s that didn't make it. A few vids are here on youtube about the place.

It’s a 79 series land cruiser, the most commonly used Ute by farm (what we call a “station” in most cases) workers, owners, ect. They’re everywhere here haha, 4.5L turbo diesel V8, 5 speed manual only and solid axel front and rear

That ute is a Toyota Landcruiser 79 series single cab. Its got a 4.5 Litre Turbo Diesel V8. One of the most common utes here in Aus.

Awesome fuel efficiency 20 ltrs per 10 metres 🤣 or 5 Gal per 11yards 🤣🤣🤣

Fun fact for you. You can catch the ferry/barge to Fraser Island from Inskip

Back in the 80's and 90's we used to hang around all those beach entrance spots up around Rainbow Beach, you could pretty much pick who was gonna get bogged and who would cruise through with minimal effort! Double Island point had some fun beach entrance points too.

It's a stunning area. Look up the coloured sands at Rainbow Beach it's part of this region

Just lower the tyre pressure, neither 4wd looks to have done this

The best bit of this reaction video is you knowing your 4wds and how to drive on sand. You rock mate.

The meathead has more muscles than horsepower it seems. NFI man, hes probably not even aired down at all before hitting the sand. Took like 12mins in to realise he needed to air down. They will sell a 79 series to anyone it seems, surprised he didn't smash a driveshaft with that style of driving.

At Rainbow Beach, sitting on the hill watching the weekend warriors try getting around the Coffeepot is is hilarious. Rainbow Beach is just before you get to Inskip Point, a beautiful little town, isolated and spectacular views.

These toyota's with flatdeck are used in New Zealand as farm vehicles. Great for carrying hay bales .

Quick tip for this. Third vehicle at 90degrees to strap. Attach another strap. 90 degree car pulls. Original tow car hard brakes. This will add load to strap. Pull towed vehicle out of groove and changing direction of towed vehicle if further assistance is needed. Works for cars in mud best. Only need a short strap.

Hi Ian, if the had have aired down and taken it a bit slower in low gear and less revs that 4x4 that was stuck would have just popped up of the sand and away they go, problem with some is to much money and no training, that rig you liked would cost $120,000/$150,000, ,cheers, Neil.

Inskip point is where you go to catch the ferry to Fraser Island. Where they're filming is only a short distance from the sealed road, so many people take the lazy option and figure they'll drive onto the ferry and let their tyres down on the way over, which is why so many get stuck here, because they're still running road pressure.

lol, the amount of people that don't let air out of their tyres in these situations is amazing

It's a bit of a Aussie pass time watching people get out of bogs and putting up their new tent, drinking beer and laughing 🤣🍺🇭🇲👍

People actually set up chairs in the shade to purely just watch everyone get bogged there.

This is in my backyard, sand can be quite soft when it’s hot and a few cars been through. Tyres down, CDL engaged and you’re all good. Just avoid WOT and or hopping as that’s how you break stuff! Haven’t got stuck yet at Inskip!

Inskip Point is a Queensland camping staple. There is a giant sinkhole there now. This place is considered the gateway to the Fraser Coast. Not far from here is a car ferry that takes you to the lower end of Fraser Island, the largest sand island on the planet. It has a beach that you can drive on, 120 kilometres long (75miles) and has traffic lights for aeroplane landings.

Ian, that is a 79 Series Toyota Landcruiser with a 4.5 Litre V8 Turbo Diesel, originally made for work in the mines but has become very popular with the 4WD folks. They come in single cab like the one in the video and also dual cab.

Those cruisers are the ducks guts. I drive an NS pajero exceed. I've built it basically as a luxury touring car for camping etc. It's a capable 4x4 but I used to drive a cab chassis hilux that you would've loved. Lifted 3", 33"MT tyres, 8'steel bed, steel bar work all over, snorkel, turbo, and decked out the bed to camp in. I did most of my 4x4ing in the Victorian high country.

The truck doing the towing is Toyota Land Cruiser 70 series. That particular model has a 4.5 litre turbo diesel V8. Toyota Land Cruisers have dominated the off road scene in Australia for at least 40 years.

I just watch this and face palm... 1. Disconnect the trailer 2. get the bogged car free and put someone in who actually knows how to 4x4. 3. retreive the trailer with the ute obviously can tow it easy as. 4. job done.

I think you'd get a kick out of a channel called "built not baught". It's a channel where average blokes show us the modifications they've made to their respective 4x4s... great way to see the variety of trucks we have here in Australia.

Hi Ian that track is the main track onto the barge over to Fraser and the Vehicle is a Lc79 Landcruiser Ute with a 4.5l turbo diesel V8 .. if you like the Landcruiser have a look over on Patriot Campers channel 👍

That big cab-over truck you saw pass by was an Isuzu F series 4×4. Isuzu cab over trucks are very common here in Australia but not in America where conventional cab trucks are more popular.

That's a 79 Series Toyota Landcruiser. Absolute classic 4wd vehicle. The new ones have a V8 twin turbo diesel with more torque than god himself . 🤟

Inskip point is o e of two ferry points onto/off Fraser Island. It is an all day series of vehiles, some getting stuck and others breezing by.

I love my Nissan Patrol.... honestly, no front end problems and a hand break that works. They look like they were headed to the Fraser Island barge. You should check out the rainbow Beach pub wall.. people getting stuck on the rocks.. so fun to watch.

South of there is Rainbow Beach, awesome for camping & 4x4ing.

We have basically three sets of Land cruisers here in Australia - for a long time. Heavy duty basic farm/mining land cruisers as in the video, with a turbo diesel V8, possible other engines and in different configurations. Very, very expensive, but last and have often the BEST resale. Then you have the less hardcore every day family land cruiser wagon. Also expensive, to the point that people switched to the Nissan patrol and some people were buying the latest land cruiser just to make a profit, because they could sell them straight away at more than they bought them, because of low supply, long delivery time, COVID-19, huge demand - and people would pay the price. Australia is the world's biggest market for Land cruisers, with I think some Australian input. All through the outback and mining and farms and parks and wildlife service and SES, Police, remote ambulances and fire trucks as well. The third is the Prado Basically a smaller brother to the land cruiser. ( the Hilux is in the smaller UTE category, and we have had the Surf and four runner before. I think the Fortuner, is a wagon version of the Hilux ? ) The Hilux is the best selling "vehicle" in Australia, often swapping back and fourth, monthly with the Ford Ranger. The market has changed dramatically since the ending of local manufacturing, when it was basically between Commodore and Falcon and earlier, between Falcon and Kingswood.

Ian if you ever do a line of T-shirts they could have your phrases on them : ) "Hella Mean" "He is driven the hell out of that thing" "What are we workin with guys?"

There is nothing more fun than a day at the beach watching people getting bogged at the beach. And that is a ute. We don't call them trucks. Trucks are like the big semi-trailers etc. :)

Love your remarks on our 4x4s , I got a Pajero 2017. Goes everywhere we want, they didn’t get him out, he built a house there and is living there still lol

79 series is around about $100,000 and you can get them stock like that or come with like a workmate or the four-wheel drive and you can get gas or turbo diesel

IN Skip is one of the 2 place where you can car ferry over to Fraser Island or what we now call Kari. Kari is the traditional name for Fraser.

Both cars need to be at 15PSI in the tyres, or a bit less.They are both members of the Inskip 40 PSI club.. There is a video kicking around of an XB Falcon sedan driving past struggling 4x4s..

toyota landcruiser 79 series. its a 4.5l v8 single turbo diesel and yea from factory these bad boys are manual only.

Got to say we do have it all when it comes to off road vehicles and places to off road, we all so have some really good off road TV shows and at the moment All 4 Adventure is No°1. 👍🤓🇦🇺

Yep. First time to Inskip - got bogged. And got pushed out by some locals fishing the beach. I felt so bad, but they were so cool about it, no problems. Btw, I was towing a trailer as well and hadn't let the tyres down. DUH.

so inskip is notoriously soft sand, and its the main way onto fraser island. if you lower your tyres down to 12psi, everythings fine, just a lot of newbies have no idea and just trying to power through. Also, that ute is a toyota landcruser, 79 serires. they only come out in manuel.

Toyota landcrusier , inskip point is where the barge goes to Fraser, most that gets stuck forget to let their tyres down. You can see to the right the vehicles waiting for the barge.

You should try watching the “Leyland brothers 1972 cape York trip action cut” or even the condensed version. Shows how hard it was off-roading back in the day and crossing the Jardine river before the ferry

I love when American watch our Aussie utes or know as cruisers think that all the sound is the engine but it’s really just the exhaust

79 Series are considered the only tough landcruisers left. 4.5 litre diesel v8 is one of the standard motors. They're agricultural as hell but tough, and are very much a status symbol for miners, tradies, and yobbos. Old mate in the 200 series is probably running Highway tyres at 40 psi with all that weight too.

Ian says "You don't wanna be pumped up tyres on sand. Everyone knows that! The whole reason for the BOGGED at Inskip channel is that way to many people don't!

Completely Agree, Car being towed is the same motor just twin turbo.

Rainbow Beach is actually an official highway. It has a route number and appears on road maps as an alternate route.

It's funny to see all the vehicles already up on the point ready for the barge and all the cars going left and right closer to the camera going through with ease and then there is this comedy , even at the end I'm not so sure about airing down the tyres a lot ( if they did ) and then trying to tow , stand a chance of spinning the tyres on the rim maybe ? Good old Inskip Point , an ongoing source of entertainment :-)

The "40 psi club" They just don't comprehend low tyre pressure

Most of the issues with drivers is that they don't air-down. Another cause is that they are way overloaded towing way overloaded trailers. Back in 1980 I drove a 2wd Holden Sandman panel van onto Rainbow Beach after seeing dozens of 2wd vehicles driving onto the beach. We asked them all, as they were airing down or airing up, why they weren't getting bogged down and they all gave the same answer. We then headed up the beach as far as we could go where I got bogged as the soft sand hit the bottom of the chassis. Luck would have it that a VW Beetle turned up with a bloke and his 4 girlfriends who helped push us onto the harder sand and we turned around and headed back. The trickiest part was the deep soft sand entry to the beach not unlike the sand there at Inskip but with the lowered air pressure and picking a good line so as to avoid the chassis bogging us got us through. Tyre pressure management is the key to not joining the mobs of clueless idiots like the ones who bog down at Inskip.

That is the entry onto the sand where you get the barge over to Fraser Island, also, first truck is a 79 series land cruiser ute v8 diesel if you do some googling 👌🏼

yep that is a Toyota 79 series land cruiser these trucks are normally a 4.5 litre V8 turbo diesel they are live axle on the front and they've got leaf springs on the rear and this engine and gearbox has been in 100 series Toyota land cruiser and the 200 series Toyota land cruiser

You can see all the vehicles driving by in the foreground easy because they have the right tyre pressure .

A lot of people don't realise that it's fine sand compared to other parts of Australia and when it dries out it catches people out.

Try find the nissan patrol rb25 (skyline engine swapped) booked at inkskip. Side note, this is why sand is soft, people go through it road tyre pressure and dig it up

The flatbed truck is a 79 series Land Cruiser with a diesel V8

Ian - another cool set of vids you'd love and that are popular are 4WD 24/7 - They recent went to the Old Telegraph Track in northern QLD - some of the most insane 4wd'ing in the most remote places in QLD. Worth a watch. That 79 series land cruiser is $70k AUD+. People spend big on their offroading here in AUS. The big mining companies love the 79 series -not sure why - possibly the reliability?

Use to drive through here years ago in a split windscreen VW van. Too many revs and not enough low gears!!

That's a 79 series landcruiser single cab ute, yes it's solid front axle, they are all manual gearbox from factory, 4.5L turbo diesel v8. Good workhorse That's also a great plaything

Oh yeah! The sink-hole at Inskip. Check that out!!

To any Americans, Toyota land cruisers are practically ‘the 4wd’ in Australia. Nothing beats a 79 V8 on the beach!! 😂

That 4x4 is a Toyota Landcruiser V8. Probably a 200 series by the looks. A very popular in Australia usually with a hefty price tag attached

79 series , good at converting diesel into noise , they're a turbo 4.2 V8 and only make 2.8litre 4 cylinder torque .

No more than 15psi in super soft sand, they need to look half flat to work. Always take a little 12 volt pump with you to pump them back up before you head down the highway.

Gonna have fun getting all the sand out the intake. Not to mention what bypassed the filter and scored the shit out of the bores... Anyway good video as always mate.

True story, First time to Frasier Island, @ Inskip point I drive off the tarmac carpark onto the very deeply rutted sand. zot, straight down to the axles bogged with a fully loaded camper trailer on the back, um, you twit, forgot to air down. As I am airing down, man comes over and say's the obvious, "you look a bit stuck". My reply as I shove maxtrax under all four wheel's, locker s on and drive out. No mate just forgot to air down. He looked more deflated than my tyres ^^

That guy in the 79 series v8 turbo diesel ute just wanted to look like a hero. Look at bigged at inskip point patroll

I have never been to Inskip without seeing a few people bogged. Never been bogged there myself though. Look up Ngkala Rocks on Fraser island. The sand can be as bad, or worse, and it's up hill.

I used to go to inskip all the time as a teen! So fun

That is a 79 series Toyota Landcruiser (I may be wrong but I think that's the V8 Diesel version). Also in AUS we call those tray style Utes tray backs and you'll never guess what the tubs are called.. style sides.

I've been bogged at Inskip.

The Toyota with the fully loaded up trailer is probably heading to Fraser which is why it’s fully loaded.

"A winch somebody?....please!"

Next you should look at Cape York Telegraph track

As you’ve seen people are Sauk g what car it it, it has solid axles and leaf suspension. It’s a manual. They have a starting price of $80,000aud and are Australia’s most reliable cars

you gotta see " the old telegraph track "

"4wd247" Fraser trip is great to watch!

Yeah that’s a GXL Toyota Landcruiser 4.5 litre V8 turbo diesel 151kw 430 nm (202 hp and 317 lb ft) commonly manual transmission with a drop side tray back single cab and they mostly are duel cab with the drop side tray back. They’re an evolution of the 1970’s called the 70 series keeping the shape of the 1970’s model but with gradual improvements along the way and a 25 year life span instead of 10 years for most vehicles. If you were to get them in America it would be between $50,000 and $150,000 USD

One time I was at Inskip and a car was going near the water because its more harder so he can go along the beach kind of fast but didn't see a lady that was sitting down. You might put 2 and 2 together. I also dont know what happened to her dogs.

Theres someone in america bringing the old model 75 series landcruisers utes in from australia we are starting to get a shortage of the older cruisers as they are either getting exported to the states or stripped for parts to send to dubai for sand drags

Spent my life camping and fishing inskip and Fraser Island. Never been bogged.

It’s like siting in a caravan park watching people park

The thing that bothers me the most about this rampant engine abuse, is the fact he hasn't even got a top filter on his custom alloy snorkel ! Can you imagine how much sand is going into the main air filter ??

Dude, I reckon you could be a DJ ,......I can hear you on a FM station, good work mate

Shoukd react to a few cape york vids, is probably the most popular and well known 4wd destination in australia

79 Series lane cruiser, V8 Turbo Diesel, Solid Axel 4x4

1:13 the funny thing is, that looks like a reasonably stock ute

Heard of the finke desert race? might be your thing back in the day, we didn't have many pickup trucks and no SUV's just cars and 4Wd's like this land cruiser maybe if the stuck guy let some air out of those tyres...

Majority of off road vehicles are manual or stick shift as you say. They have to be to tackle the variety of terrains

DISCONNECT THE TRAILOR LMFAO

Wrecking my truck to help someone that hasn't got a winch and is stock, no way! When they get off the ferry on the other side, the same thing will happen over and over gain! Best to leg it!

I I've been there a few times, if it's hot and dry the sand is very soft in places. Perhaps thay should have dropped the trailer and put about 4 big guy's in the back of the cruiser and pulled the trailer after .

Happy to do a Q&A video about Australia

If it was anything other than a Toyota they would be picking up bits of driveline shrapnel all over the beach! The 79 series land cruiser may be initially expensive but what some people don’t factor in apart from its reliability of course is if you look after the vehicle when it comes time to sell (why would you want to) it’s resale value is one of the best in Australia and this is where you cash in because these things used bring a bloody good dollar on the used market far better than any other brand