Subaru Attempts The Old Telegraph Track - Cape York

The Subaru Offroad Forester has finally completed the Old Telegraph Track, Cape York!
For a channel first, the track has been made into a short film covering the highs and lows of the entire telegraph track from Bramwell Junction to the tip of Cape York as the Subaru OffRoad Forester battles the track after the wettest April in more than 20 years. Starting the track on the 12th of May 2021, we were one of the first vehicles through the track this dry season.

Perth to Cape York and back via Alice Springs in the Subaru Forester!
• 6.5 weeks
• 13,810km
• Over 5,000km of dirt roads
• 1,830L of fuel
• Solo trip with no assistance from other vehicles
• Easily more than a km of water crossings
• Stuck in water with the engine block fully submerged on 4 occasions totalling over 10 minutes
• Water in the car up to the top of lower seat cushion on the same 4 occasions
✅ Old coach road
✅ Old Telegraph Track complete - One of the first through for the season the and first to not use chicken tracks on any crossing.
✅ First through the CREB track after it was officially opened.
❌ Frenchman’s Track not complete, driven both ends to the rivers but depths not passable. The first crossing for the season was only a month later so we can’t feel too bad about this one.
• One snapped rear CV on old coach road – 15 minutes to replace
• Old crappy muffler fell apart crossing the Daintree – wired back together for the 6000km return journey and still going strong
• Wire in the alternator loom snapped – my fault for poor cable routing with insufficient slack – 20 min fix.
• Bearing under the AC pulley failed from water ingress – No AC for the return trip.
• Drive by wire throttle body decided to start sticking after the water - some cleaning and lube and she was all good
• Did a sidewall in cockatoo creek.
Apart from that she ran like a dream and survived all the abuse we gave her - still running like a dream back in Perth.
If I were to do the trip again I would probably put some heavier springs in the back but apart from that it was a great setup.
Already looking forward to heading back one day!

0:00 Into
1:40 Palm Creek
6:49 Ducie Creek
8:09 South Alice Creek
8:35 North Alice Creek
9:46 Heathlands Reserve Swamp
14:04 Dulhunty River
14:26 Bertie Creek
14:55 Cholmondeley Creek
15:03 Gunshot
20:05 Cockatoo Creek
24:27 Sailor Creek
24:55 Fruit Bat Falls
25:39 Scrubby Creek
26:59 Eliot/Twin Falls
28:14 Canal Creek
28:45 Sam Creek
31:53 Mistake Creek
34:42 Cannibal Creek
41:19 Cypress Creek Log Bridge
41:55 Logan’s Brook
42:49 Nolan’s Brook
48:08 Tip of Cape York


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