How long do you really need to warm-up your diesel engine up for?
We recently sat down with an expert on diesel engines and turbochargers to find out if long warm-up times are killing your engine. We thought it about time to sit…
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Rudolf Diesel, father of our engines
There are few 4X4s that don’t have Rudolf Diesel’s namesake invention rattling away under the bonnet. The inventor of the diesel engine, Rudolf Diesel, was born in France during 1858,…
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The question of capacity
Since the dawn of time, humans have sought bigger and better. Since humans worked out that breathing clean air is kind of a good thing, followed by the introduction of…
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You could still buy a TD42 Patrol in Papua New Guinea, in 2016
It’s the engine that gets Australian 4WDers properly hot under the collar, as they stand around a popped bonnet nodding and humming positively. Sure, the ZD30 stopped popping pistons left-right-and-centre,…
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2019 Ford Ranger Pricing revealed
Ford has announced pricing for their incoming 2019 Ranger utes, which will be available in Australia towards the end of this year. Let’s get down to brass tacks, starting at…
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Climbing Uluru to be banned by October 2019
Climbing Uluru will be banned by October 2019, in a unanimous decision by the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board. “Some people in tourism and government for example might have been…
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How to not load your roof rack. A cautionary tale
What we have for your today is a story from Facebook, which has a few people in a bit of a sharing dither. We picked it up from our mates…
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Feral cats – the ultimate killer
With nearly 30 extinct species under its belt, and a now-official Australia-wide spread, how can this introduced species possibly be stopped? Up until a few hundred years ago, our entire…
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