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Right vans not on the drive, and i'm bored. Syncros and Nato hitches, can you just remove the ball and bolt one one? Or can the ring be removed from the trailer and replaced with a normal hitch?
I've started looking at sankey trailers...........................

lloydy wrote:Right vans not on the drive, and i'm bored. Syncros and Nato hitches, can you just remove the ball and bolt one one? Or can the ring be removed from the trailer and replaced with a normal hitch?
I've started looking at sankey trailers...........................

I have been admiring them for ages, you seen how big they are though in real life

jed

Even the smaller ones aint light tho.. leave em to the landy boys...
unless you really must have...
Hitch could be swapped, but prob have some addaption for the brakes..

Nato tow bar was available for t25.. not many about though... Mike Plompen had one...

wonder if this would just bolt on?
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toomanytoys wrote:Even the smaller ones aint light tho.. leave em to the landy boys...
unless you really must have...
Hitch could be swapped, but prob have some addaption for the brakes..

Nato tow bar was available for t25.. not many about though... Mike Plompen had one...

So it's not just a matter of unbolting the ball then? Is it a different setup altogether then?

jed the spread wrote:

lloydy wrote:Right vans not on the drive, and i'm bored. Syncros and Nato hitches, can you just remove the ball and bolt one one? Or can the ring be removed from the trailer and replaced with a normal hitch?
I've started looking at sankey trailers...........................

I have been admiring them for ages, you seen how big they are though in real life
No, bit on the large side are they?
jed

Go and drive past the TA place near The Woodstock, they should have some parked up in the compound for you to admire

jed

Westie T3 Syncro Nato hitches do exist, different beast not just bolt on off, different fittings, if you are passing Switzerland Ooor Wullie has one for sale, Russel has one I think, very rare generally, probably only a few hundred ever made, like the NATO canopies rocking horse droppings, Sankey trailers very chunky, better building your own personalised expedition trailer using same wheel rims as your truck imho

Sanky trailers are proper w@nk to be honest very heavy, plus very unstable we used to have to paint "mas 40mph" on um, I've flipped a few in my time!

Guess that'll go on the back burner then
As for building your own, can you just buy a chassis and make it up? Or do you have to fabricate the whole thing? (not that i'm gonna rush out and make one) I saw sandwedge started looking at making them, but i'm not after anything that posh/expensive

WHS^

admire by all means and leave it at that.

one on the back of your syncro ? your nice new AAZ has now adopted the characteristics of a very poorly CS

ELVIS wrote:WHS^

admire by all means and leave it at that.

one on the back of your syncro ? your nice new AAZ has now adopted the characteristics of a very poorly CS

Had to read that twice, first off thought you were saying my engine was poorly
Did work start on it today?

My neighbour has a Shanky trailer ..... it weighs a tonne ... literally

The NATO towbar is just like the westie one, except the central bracket is different and puts the 4 mounting holes for the NATO hitch (different pattern to a normal towbar) at the same level as the main horizontal tube. It wouldn't be hard to make a good replica from a spare 2WD westie towbar. The bumper has a hole cut out that fits over the bracket.

Heavy crap!

Cheers for the info, I'll strike the sankey off my wishlist.
Now to go and buy one of those 8k Aussie expedition trailers