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eccsmk

posted on 30/6/08 at 10:45 PM Reply With Quote
build your own trailer

please click me...............................thankyou






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Mark G

posted on 30/6/08 at 10:51 PM Reply With Quote
Or click this one, Coz it works


Edit to replace the broken link...

[Edited on 27/4/09 by Mark G]






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eccsmk

posted on 30/6/08 at 10:56 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by Mark G
Or click this one, Coz it works



boohoohoo
its all going wrong today






thank you for the linky






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posted on 30/6/08 at 11:19 PM Reply With Quote
I whish someone would post a link to "Build your own trailer for under 200£"...


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MikeR

posted on 30/6/08 at 11:25 PM Reply With Quote
Build your own trailer for under 200£

hope that helps

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posted on 30/6/08 at 11:59 PM Reply With Quote
Like the title of the link...still 944£ though..

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Mr Whippy

posted on 1/7/08 at 07:56 AM Reply With Quote
go to the scrap yard and pull off the back axles from escort vans or the like, they have the drum brakes and leaf suspension already, £50 should get 2 good axles with wheels. Thats the most expensive part of a trailer build usually and given the normal miles a trailer does what’s the point of buying new stuff? I saw one guy use the master cylinder as well to give it hydraulic brakes rather than the cables where the hitch just pushed the piston back when the car braked. Much simpler than all that cable malarkey.

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Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet

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mcerd1

posted on 1/7/08 at 08:40 AM Reply With Quote
I've got a 'locost' trailer in the pipeline for my dax (if I ever get round to it)

one of the things I had to clear out to get my donor car in was a rotten old caravan

a few hours with a grinder and a big hammer and I had a nice galv'd chassis with a 1 Ton gross, fully independant suspension (coil sprung)
its not too big but will need chopped a little and the brakes / hitch will need a service - but the best bit is it cost £0

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BenB

posted on 1/7/08 at 10:20 AM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by mcerd1
I've got a 'locost' trailer in the pipeline for my dax (if I ever get round to it)

one of the things I had to clear out to get my donor car in was a rotten old caravan

a few hours with a grinder and a big hammer and I had a nice galv'd chassis with a 1 Ton gross, fully independant suspension (coil sprung)
its not too big but will need chopped a little and the brakes / hitch will need a service - but the best bit is it cost £0


Surely the best bit is that you're taking a caravan off the road

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mcerd1

posted on 1/7/08 at 11:06 AM Reply With Quote
I wish I'd taken some pics of the demolition - it was quite good fun

also I wish I'd kept the alloy sheet and sold it for scrap, at the time I didn't think it was worth the effort of seperating it from the wood + steel, but the scrap alloy prices now ...........

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Fencewrecker

posted on 3/7/08 at 11:40 AM Reply With Quote
Another caravan off the road - Result

A friend of the family donated there trusty old caravan to me for my holiday. I made a few minor improvements prior to departing. It took less than an hour with a reciprocating saw to make it a flat bed trailer, and within 24hours had sold the ali for £90 (£20 if the wife is reading this). So first few days beer money sorted. And one less traffic jam.

Now I just have to finish my car, then convert trailer into proper car transport.

Dave

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sucksqueezebangblow

posted on 3/7/08 at 04:01 PM Reply With Quote
First fences then caravans! What next??!!!





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