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Am I reading this wrong, is this relating to scratchbuilt?

I've got another today that's an old axle made by BPW a commercial axle manufacturer. It's cable brakes, same tow hitch arrangement as a hydraulic override. Works fucking amazing.... 35% imbalance. No parts available because too old. I think I'm going to cut the cables and weld the hitch solid. Trailer weighs 940kg

Wof guy backed the car up with the trailer on the rollers. Gave me a fail, 25% efficiency. I took the trailer back to the workshop wasting the customers money stripping and inspecting and finding brakes faultless. Went back, guy backed it up again, fail. Had to ask him if I could pull the lever (remember I'm not a general public, or I'd never be allowed in the lane) braced on the front of the trailer and managed to get 52% with my foot on the handle.

Exactly Fail

Do any of you wof guys know when the virm rules for general trailers brakes changed? In that now they have to be 20% balance and 50% efficiency. There's a few trailers I know that are probably going to get their brakes removed because of this. They aren't required to have them, but it's too difficult and expensive to make them pass. More safe?

Lvvta was set up by a bunch of hotrod nice guys to give a voice to the general public against the bureaucratic rules of the nzta, to help them see reason and be fair. Imo it seems to me that bureaucracy has taken over lvvta too

"more or less in the plane of the wheel." Is what now?

See this picture looks like a mudflap, but I think it's supposed to look like a mudguard that might be part of a trailer type thing

Yeah but aren't you getting width and length mixed up?

This is for mudguard width? It doesn't actually state mudflaps e.g length right?

@DoBro Jesus @JustHarrywhat vehicle are you taking?

Who would do such a thing? /spam

I don't have that much time to myself atm Where is it?

Yes Does this mean we can organize something, go and play trucks in the bushes?

There's a few different ways I've seen for doing the cab tilt thing. Hinging the deck at the rear and tilting the entire deck Lifting floor like @yoeddynz And another is hinging the entire above-cab overhang along the roofline and tilting just that section up. (We've had a few horse trucks like this and I'll try get a pic next time one is in, even just for entertainment). This one is electric hydraulic, has a changeover valve from the taillift. Dinky telescopic ram you might just be able to make out about 1-2m under deck. There's another like this but the deck is smaller, lighter, and uses a large bottle Jack just forward of the rear axle

Going to need matching booties

I can't see the mounts in the pics very well, is the rad going to handle being attached to the chassis and the cab ok?

Send it

Lees valley is good I'm sure you got it sussed Used to be able to go all the way down kaitorete spit and do a full circuit of lake ellesmere, as long as some farmer hasn't locked a gate.

Have you got a route planned? Would you like some suggestions?

Suggest lose that dodgy lightweight loop on the rear and put on one of these http://www.jost.nz/fileadmin/user_upload/jostnz.co.nz/pdf/bpcph20wmk.pdf

There's a 4wd area on the west coast that has a condition of access that no mention can be made of it in any form of social media or access will be revoked.

Keep in mind to think about the ramifikarens, refer jetboat thread

I haven't seen any pictures from Maungatapu, were you all just too busy holding on/falling off?

I think back diff binding clunky noises