150kg on the roof is a massive load and will make affect vehicle stability I would suggest!
we all like to think that we are good drivers and while this kind of load may make be fine when everything is ticketyboo what about when things go wrong.
swerving round a person or object that is in the road (elk test anyone? even empty 4x4s fail this one), or what about side slope stability when the ground unexpectedly slips aray from you, or swerving to miss that unlit bullock cart in the road at night. On my last trip my back wheel came off at 70mph on the autobahn. As I did a 360 spin (witnessing an effect like the parting of the red sea behind me) I was mightly glad I put my jerry cans inside (and ratchet strapped them down!) I wasn't so pleased when it came to sleeping in the back though. they stank!!
It is areally tough problem to solve, given unlimited funds extra tanks are the way to go, but we don't all have unlimited funds of course.
What Iam doing for my 101 is fitting a 200litre tank inside. This is completely sealed (no fumes) and fills from an external filler. It is connected to the main tank my a simple pipe and tap. when the time comes to transfer fuel simply take off the filler (to vent the tank) and open the tap. the fuel transfers by gravity, as it is higher than the main tank. It is still low down though and between the chasis rails. it's an adaptation of the system Chris Scott has in his landcruiser.
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Originally posted by gjackson:
Putting 2 jerry cans on the roof rack isn't going to make a LR or a LC significantly more unstable. Maybe 80 kilos more (including can). Lighter if you use Secptre plastic cans that NATO and the US Army are now using. If you load a full rack of jerry cans on the roof then, yes, you can get unstable. But just about any vehicle can handle 150kg up top with no problems. Just depends what else you got up there. I had a tent, a rack, a jerry of water and a jerry of diesel on the top of a 110. I couldn't corner like an F1 car, but I didn't have any problems in the dunes or in the mountains of SA.
And yes, my jerry cans on top were sitting on the long side. No problems with leaks, except from the water Sceptre can which did develop a small weep along the way. Being water I didn't care much.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Graham
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