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  1. Available from Listed on Amazon.co.uk from £11.99 EDIT: but see posts below before being tempted to order!
  2. Fantastic progress and the DT with the Rogers looks stunning, I'll wager it is better than new! I am also absurdly jealous of the Foden, a thing of beauty. Thank you for producing this thread and and giving us our regular Diamond T fix, it makes great reading.
  3. That's a fantastic vehicle, I just wish I had the space!
  4. They're only an MOT failure if fitted in headlamp units designed and type approved for halogen bulbs and on vehicles which have been type approved with such. It is not an MOT test item in any other light unit (at least not yet as far as I know) although it is technically illegal in a type approved light unit designed for an incandescent bulb on a type approved vehicle. I don't think even now trailers need type approval (do they? Happy to be corrected) in which case suitable LED bulbs would be fine.
  5. It certainly saves time if you're single to begin with, because it probably won't be long!
  6. I was sure I had read that the ban DID include hybrids, and I remember wondering why anyone would buy a hybrid in this case. Perhaps either I have mis-remembered or the policy has changed.
  7. There's nothing clever at all, the two parts just have a slight taper (no thread, no bayonet, nothing at all). It will either be corrosion holding yours together or possibly someone has driven them together really hard, e.g., with a sledgehammer.
  8. There's no need to apologise for instilling new life in an old thread! One of my Wallabys has an identical two-piece handle, and it is interesting to see another as previously I had though perhaps this was a backyard modification. Mine took some effort to separate too, penetration fluid and I seem to remember the application of heat, but once apart I polished the outside of the lower handle with a flap disc and the inside of the upper handle with a suitably sized flap wheel and applied a smear of grease to stop them rusting, since when I have had no trouble. The first Wallaby I bought was missing its handle and I bought what was probably the last ever handle sold by Trewhella Bros in Birmingham. At that time they could supply spares for both Monkey and Wallaby winches, and had I know then that they would disappear without trace a few years later I would have bought a quantity of sets of spare springs for both types - the Monkey in particular always seems to need new springs. I have now resorted to making my own springs. The wallaby is an outstanding winch, lighter and more portable that its bigger older brother, the Monkey Winch, and yours looks to be in excellent condition.
  9. That doesn't appear to be the same as the late Sankey one I binned when the damper failed not long ago. At that time I found that a replacement damper firstly extremely difficult to find and secondly was going to be more expensive than a complete new trailer! Judging by the apparent bend in the shaft of your lunette, when you say "damper" do you actually mean the complete coupling assembly, rather than the damper within it?
  10. When parking up my Land-Rovers for any substantial time I block between bump-stops and axles to relieve the springs and put blocks or stands under the axles to relieve the tyres. This also means that it is easy once in a while to rotate the transmission to keep it all oily. If rodents are likely put one or more ultrasonic repellent devices in and under the vehicle (available from the likes of Amazon in battery or mains versions), they really do seem to work. The biggest problem now seems to be what to do about the fuel. With diesel I'd put biocide in and leave it fuelled up, but petrol is the kicker now it has ethanol. The best advice seems to be to drain the fuel, run the engine till the carb is dry, then put a quantity of Aspen (or similar) chainsaw fuel (not two-stroke though), prime the system and run for a few minutes. This way there should be no ethanol left in the system to dissolve it.
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  12. The only consistent thing is the total inconsistency!
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