RayT

Wet and forget works well. 

What top coat are you using?

personally I would go with whatever the top coat supplier recommends. 

Poor bloke only wanted to paint his tractor 😆 

Indeed Adrian. I even have 298 from the same manufactuer and it's different.

It also differs on background and application method. And 2 years later looks different again.

I like my trailer in 298 (although i feel its a bit too green) and the snark doesn't bother me. It would however be nice to get a definitive answer but I don't think it will ever happen.

Tey restorations/jeep parts sell a 298 in cromadex which seems popular and used by various restorers. It is vastly different in colour to another 298. 

Here's the colours plus some paint on the back of a bracket  but from when I don't know. The truck was overhauled in 52 and then a base overhauled in 56.

2 hours ago, 10FM68 said:

But why use a colour which you know to be inaccurate when you have gone to such trouble to rebuild an historical vehicle?  It's the same with markings - a wonderfully finished WWII MV and carrying markings it never could have done - more common than it should be - particularly, I fear, with British MVs where there are all sorts of oddities.

Why do I know it to be inaccurate?

BS381c 298 is a commonly used colour for British vehicles. Military vehicle paint supply a matt which starts satin but dulls down nicely. Goes on nicely without a primer but takes a while to harden. 

Thanks Richard, brilliant bit of info. I didn't realise there is a parts manual about, very handy information.

Dowel pins are hardened, but how hard in comparison I don't know. 

Sizes are 1/8 × 1 and 1/8 x 1 1/4 

My morris has some badly pitted loose needle roller bearings in the gearbox . None of the bearing suppliers can supply the size. Could dowel pins be used instead, would they be hard enough?

18 minutes ago, REME 245 said:

Eau de nil was introduced very late war and was later replaced by sky blue which is still in use.  It will be one of these colours.

The cylinder head is (as far as i know) original, the freshly painted part is eau de nil. The rebuild date on the engine is 1956. 

The two colours are a mile apart.

1950s engine rebuild colour is  apparently a green called eau de nil. Well mine is green, but eau de nil it isn't 😆

Site traffic must be down massively. 

I belong to a number of forums and non of them have issues like this. What is going on?

Looking good. Personally I never want to see a coach bolt ever again after doing mine 😆 

Hi Oz

Would it be possible to get some dimensions or a crayon rubbing of the id plate on your trailer so I can reproduce one for mine please?

Looking good.

The bolts down the side are slotted dome heads with nuts. The  timbers should have a chamfer on them on one side only.

Some jeeps used on the flightline were painted yellow. I just spotted a picture on Facebook but can't find it now though.

Go nice with the 25pdr on milweb 👍 

Not sure of condition only have a photo or two 

 I have found what I think is a searchlight trailer ,but sadly no searchlight. A worthwhile restoration?  

Resurrecting an old thread.... what's a searchlight trailer like this worth once restored? 

I've got a bent shaft on a towing eye. Any ideas of best way to straighten it or recommend someone who could straighten it in the Suffolk area?

Sorry. All I know is that hitch is a Canadian model.

The spring loaded hook in one of the images is Canadian.

Got this going spare. Collection from Suffolk.