Good afternoon could anyone tell if i could toe a jayco outback to cape york we are planning a trip next year around june/ july ..thanks kero
Good afternoon could anyone tell if i could toe a jayco outback to cape york we are planning a trip next year around june/ july ..thanks kero
As long as it has a tread coupling, and reasonably heavy double wrapped springs you should be fine. Get the anti-chatter double leaf springs if possible. They help alot on corrugations.
and a major thing alot of people forget about going up north. Get yourself some really really really decent tyres for your car and trailer. Or you will blow side walls like water balloons.
if you drive sensibly you should be fine
and which way are you heading up?
Yeah depending on which way you are going, its bitumin now.
Gees Simmo I not too sure about that.Originally Posted by Simmo2
THANKS FLEX. Not to shore witch we are going yet.have good tyres/and springs . We have had it into the bungle bungles&gibbriver rd . thanks kero
Mouth (fingers) into gear before brain!!!!!
Sorry, I was thinking about Cooktown!! (nearly Cape York!!)
It's nearly 800-1000km more drive to the cape from cooktownMouth (fingers) into gear before brain!!!!!
Sorry, I was thinking about Cooktown!! (nearly Cape York!!)
and its all dirt.but its a well used nice wide road so all you have to content with is corrugations. if you go the inland route.
definitely dont go up to cooktown and up the coast road. Its without a doubt one of the hardest 4x4 tracks in australia. specially after a bit of rain.
Its do-able but your average speed will be 10km an hour if your towing.
Hi mate. I drove to Weipa a month ago and the PDR was pretty good for most of the way. With a trailer you will have to go slower and I'd recommend stopping regularly to check things. Use a TREG hitch to help smooth things out, drop the tire pressures on the trailer a bit to help with shock absorption and you should be right. Also consider protecting the trailer in some way from stone chips otherwise you'll get the sandblasted look.
Got back a few weeks back. Lots of camper trailers go up but most seem to stay on the Development Rd. We went up on the OTL and came back on the DR. Camper trailer would need to have excellent off-road capability for the OTL.
Development Rd was in good nick except for the last 200 - 300K which had some very bad corrugations.
The run across to Wiepa was a dream.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM,
havn't been up there since 2003.
Either there has been a lot of improvement or i must have been on another road?????
The road to weipa turnoff wasn't too bad but above that the corrugations would destroy anything but the best camper. as Flex says you will be doin 10km ph.
Some genienuses will tell you to go over 80 kph.Do so at your own peril!!!!
The overland telegraph line is definately out for trailers. Deep water crossings and tight turns will destroy your camper.
My advise would be to leave the cam[per at Mossman caravan park and camp the way up to the top.
You dont need the stress of breaking axles, springs,and anything else that can break.The best part of goin to the top is goin up the OTL and experiencing the really challenging sections on this road, The development road is basically one of the roughest corrugated roads in the country.other than that it is boring especially if you have to travel it both ways
This is just my personal advise!!!!!
Hope this is helpfull!!!!
PS make sure you take a spare set of springs.wheel bearings and anything else u might break if you take the camper.
Jim
Have to say getting to Laura will be easy, nearly all black top and if you are planing a trip up through lakefeild it was pretty easy 2 weeks back, , the track to Bathurst was good, and no real hassels tiny bit of bulldust , alot of vehicles have pounded it already, development road by June not to bad but always will be coregatted , . But next year, lots of factors to take in, have been up there towing a 4WD trailer and two trialer axles later limping home, on one of the mates spares. Been stuck in the mud in june going through the Wakooka track. So it all depends where you intend to go to , and what you will be towing with .
Greg
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day , teach a man to fish and feed him for life .
I would love to have the opportunity to go to Cape York and do a bit of crabbing or fishing along the way (also weary on crocs) but to see Cape York in the flesh would be the pinnacle. I don't have a 4WD. I can get to Cairns on the cheap by rail or fly up when cheap airfares are on.
Maybe sometime next year if someone is heading up for a few days and back then send me a pm. Cheers, Peter
Leave the jayco at home - you'll wreck it.
If in doubt ring jayco - they'll agree with me.
The internals aren't up to it and it'll rattle to bits.
C.J.
Yep, don't like to be a skeptic, but we saw a number of camper trailers of various descriptions rattled to bits and just left on the side of the road on our trip up there a few years back.
If I was gonna do it again and with a camper, I'd tow the camper to Cooktown, find somewhere to leave it then go on with a roof rack Ship Shape tent or maybe an easy and quick to put up tent.
Cheers
Rhys
I have a Jayco Eagle Outback, and have done the drive (without the trailer) and there is no way I would drag the Outback up there, it would be worthless at the end of the trip. There are very few camper trailers of a high enough quality that I would be comfortable in towing all the way to the cape.
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