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- Peter and Sandra OKA 374
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I don't think Newman is a real bushfire-prone area so my thinking is some sort of industrial fire (caught in pool of burning fuel?) or maybe a fractured gas cylinder (there are striped burn marks on the RH side).
Really sad no matter what the cause, imagine how you'd feel, brand new expensive vehicle, doing a big retirement trip and suddenly it's all gone. I hope the owners escaped unscathed.
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- TH
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I have seen a couple of tractors burn to a similar state on bare ground (both had electrical faults under the cab that ignited stubble residue)
Driver's side looks like it was hotter.
My money is on Spinifex or an electrical fault.
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I am not a metal or fire expert, but it looks like the springs was made with soft metal. But I am no expert.
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How is the eastern side Chris?
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Joseph Baz wrote: Lobo,All you need is 500 degrees C for steel to be malleable that is not that hard to get in the centre of the fire,in my wood fired oven I get the centre of the fire to 650-800 degrees for an hour and that radiates to have the whole oven at 350-400 degrees
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Cheers Joe, I thought springs would need a lot of heat to bend, guess 500 is the number.
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Was an LT in town last week with 22” wheels... but still the normal 8 studs.. I wouldn’t like to have to find a spare..
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Fires can start for a variety of reasons, I don't know if an 'official' cause was determined in this case.
As for the wheels/axles. The original NT has/had BAE housings/axles and they weren't really very good. In fact they were renowned for failure. I don't know how many diffs/axles Rudi & Suzi went through in NT#1 but it was several. It may be that the 8 stud variant you saw was an NT with a Dana 80 'upgrade', Paul Nott has done several of these.
I'm told that Dean has this all sorted now and his replacements/spares are up to scratch.
From memory, the early NT's had 'normal' one piece rims with later models having the 'composite' rims as shown in the picture. A big benefit here is that the rims bolt together around the tyre so no special tools are needed to change a tyre. The downside though is that forgetting to air down before disassembly can lead to having your head removed as the rims separate under pressure.
Another major fail with these rims is that the tyre valve assembly comes from the inboard side of the rim centre and pokes through one of the gaps to the outside of the centre disc to allow inflation. On a previous Oka-ing Adventure an NT with these rims became bogged in river gravel and whilst trying to drive out river gravel was picked up in the inner rim and spun with the wheel neatly (well, not so neatly) guillotining the valve stem assembly between the inner rim and the brake caliper. This happened on two wheels, fortunately the NT had two spares. Unfortunately the driver had to leave the group and drive several hundred Km's into Port Headland to find that there were no suitable replacements available locally. Eventually replacements were found, 6 in all and that was the lot in WA. All were purchased. I would never consider using these rims for any serious off road work.
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