Nice trailer

Mr B · Post by **Mr B** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:45 pm

Take one BX estate and a MIG welder

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Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:34 pm

Is that sh1te or not? I can't make up my mind.

Hang on, I think it's sh1te

mountainmanUK · Post by **mountainmanUK** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:36 pm

I THINK I like it........but then again......I MAY be wrong!

artic-steel · Post by **artic-steel** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:41 pm

whys everybody posting messages twice?

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:43 pm

I don't know what happened there.

Post by **docchevron** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:41 am

I think it's sh1te, although I am toying with the idea of making a hydraulic car transporter using two bx rear subframes...

djoptix · Post by **djoptix** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:53 pm

Now THAT is a good idea. How would you supply pressure? Could you set up a drive from the wheels for the HP pump? You'd need a small manual pump to keep it up at a standstill or when parked. Wire an electric motor through the towbar electrics?

Post by **docchevron** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:31 pm

Well. I was toying with the idea of suzi line and tapping a supply from the cars HP circuit, having a plug valve on the rear of the car to drive the trailor.

The other solution would be to use something like a C5 electric hp pump..

I duno, it's all in the planning stages at the mo, but I think a self levelling trailor would make towing a pleasure, and of course loading / unloading could be made easy by dropping the height!

Vanny · Post by **Vanny** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:15 pm

don't forget anti sink valves! That will save you some trouble and a half, although might look stupid when the car sinks and the trailer doesn't.

Isn't the height setting for the later XM's controlled electronically, in that there is no mechanical lever linked to the HC's? If thats the case then maybe you could link it to the normal BX lever in the car so that if you raise the BX the trailer raises too?

Post by **docchevron** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:32 am

na, shant bother with anti-sink valves, but yeah, XM's and CX's had solonoid controlled HC's, so I had intended to have a remote in the car to operate the level.

It's still in the planning process, a job for next summer when I've shifted some of the more pressing projects on the go at the mo, although I'm cracking through them, so maybe a job for the winter!

Mr B · Post by **Mr B** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:36 pm

Suppose you could swap the rear axle for a 405 and be without the BX unit altogether

Post by **docchevron** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:39 am

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

405 axles are awful, torsion bars.... so passe!

and they dont go up and doen, wheres the fun in that?!

M · Post by M » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:48 am

djoptix wrote:Now THAT is a good idea. How would you supply pressure?

Or you could graft on a C15 back subfeame as this chap has done...

tom · Post by **tom** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:40 am

Or just use the rear arms and some clever strutwork to produce a low loading HP trailer. The pump will need to be electric so the trailer can be towed by other vehicles and RS have some good ones which look suitable..

Mr B · Post by **Mr B** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:42 pm

docchevron1472 wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

405 axles are awful, torsion bars.... so passe!

and they dont go up and down, wheres the fun in that?!

Cos it's a lot less farting about with electric pumps and stuff