What spares would you carry? 1000 mile mac 4x4

[spy]

As some of you know, I got a place on the mac 4x4 challenge from the reserve list!  I have hardly any time left to prepare anything!  I still have no MOT but that should be sorted by monday.... 

Anyway, the question is what spares should I carry?  I am replacing basic ignition stuff when it gets serviced on sunday and planned on keeping old dizzy cap, rotor arm and leads etc as spares just in case (nowt wrong with them at the moment).  I will be taking rear wheel cylinders as I have em already. 

What should I take?  I have done a deal with a local motor factors who will give me a fair ammount of stuff on a sale or return type basis but dont know what to ask for. 

What would you take? 


Cheers,


Mike

[EvilEd]

Based on last year, some stub axles and bearings.... Remember at least two landies where the bearing had welded itself to the stub axle and was a b**** to get off.  I think one managed to borrow an angle grinder, but the other in the hotel car park was trailered home. IIRC if you have a spare stub axle, it's a relatively quick job.

EE (Team 2 2007)

[Hightower]

We generally don't take that much.

This year the Nanocom will be in the cab with a bag of tools in the back.  Other than that it's the obligatory spare bulbs, cable ties, jubilee clips, water, screen wash etc . . . . . .

[denviks]

Based on last year, some stub axles and bearings.... Remember at least two landies where the bearing had welded itself to the stub axle and was a b**** to get off.  I think one managed to borrow an angle grinder, but the other in the hotel car park was trailered home. IIRC if you have a spare stub axle, it's a relatively quick job.

EE (Team 2 2007)

definatly take a set of bearings......as ed says, they were a sod to strip out at bala car park.....well and truely welded to the stub axle.... 3 teams were sat there for about 3 hours trying to get the rangie to the finish  :D..

i take a few spares with me normally..... but having just got this 110 my time is limited to..... :(

[kizz81]

gaffa tape,
even used it to tape up the broken welds on the back door in the middle of europe :lol:

[smo]

Personally on somthing like that i wouldnt carry any spares. If you use your car regually and look after it then there is no reason why somthing which is actaully quite tame would stress it requiring any spares at all.

[kizz81]

"smo" i agree but things do happen unexpectedly, for exampl i had been running my 90 for at least 5000 miles without checking oil levels, filled them all up but after 4 days and 1500 miles of intense driving the transfer box ran dry in the middle of the swiss alps the only place th RAC dont cover us on a saturday so everywhere was closed, had to get police to open garage and get us some EP90,

things break even when new  :shock:

have a good mac 4x4

cheers kieran