Hitch for Trailer
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Topic: Hitch for Trailer
Posted By: Olly4088
Subject: Hitch for Trailer
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 5:16pm
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All, The hitch on my road base has completly seized up over winter to the point that once I had got it on the car I almost couldnt get it off. Can someone advise me of the best place to buy a new hitch? ------------- Phantom 1298 |
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 5:28pm
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From the makers of your trailer would be the best bet, but will WD40 solve the problem? I'm sure there was a thread on WD40, once? ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Olly4088
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 5:32pm
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I have covered it in wd40, prolube all the things that should make it work but it is compltly shot to bits ------------- Phantom 1298 |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 7:06pm
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Any good towbar fitter will be able to sell you a hitch.If they can't then they will know someone who can (where are you?)there is a trailor manufacturer in Huntingdon and my village that I could pm their numbers to you,but i don't know if they do mail order. ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 7:36pm
Broken things always fall into 3 catagories: WD40 type. Ductape type. Hammer type. If all the above fail: It aint worth fixing. ------------- |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 7:53pm
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i think thats slightly wrong always try fixing things in this order wd40 hammer once it is worse than you started with try duck tape! ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 8:37pm
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depending on where you are...use the yellow pages or.. www.towsure.co.uk If you are near Cambridge there are q few I could recommend but if not then use the above. Most of them are generic just make sure you get the right size hitch for the ball you have on your motor. Paul ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: 29er397
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 9:14pm
| indespension is a chain of trailer makers and parts sellers, cheap but quality products. we bought all of the stuff my bro needed for his GCSE tech project there and it was all very reasonable.(he built a trailer to carry a 185cc go cart) |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 9:54pm
| Actually WD40 isn't that great at seized things. A good penetrating oil is much better. Even straight auto diesel is better than WD40. |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 10:53pm
But it comes in a squirty can so whilst it looses points on usefullness, it gains them on ammusing stunt compatability ------------- |
Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 11:14pm
Have you tried soking it in Coca Cola? No jokes!! Thats the way my great uncles un seize tractor engines  . You may need to let it soak i.e. cover it with coke for a length of time.
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Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 5:08am
| You havn't been greasing your balls. Use WD to shift some rust, but you must give it as good going over with wire wool. Then Grease liberally with the regular autogrease you put on your trailers bearings and other moving bit. Buying a new couple is a waste of money, as is not looking after it by not greasing. |
Posted By: Olly4088
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 8:15am
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I havent had chance to look after it, it was shot to bits when I bought the boat thats why. ------------- Phantom 1298 |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 12:47pm
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Apparently in the USA, the coca cola company condition their truck engines with the product they sell to drink!! Hmmm, is it a wonder that it rots teeth?! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: Jamie
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 2:06pm
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American police also carry coke to clear blood up off the road apparently.
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Posted By: phantom_iv
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 3:45pm
| never knew coca cola was so useful - There was me thinking you were supposed to drink the stuff! |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 4:20pm
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Good grief no - imagine what it does to your insides... ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 4:37pm
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has anyone ever been really immature and done the wd40 flame thrower??
------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 10 Mar 06 at 4:54pm
Ah ur behind the times my m8. Hav u made petrol rockets before?
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Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 11 Mar 06 at 9:23am
You dont get the range with wd40, not enough presure  ------------- |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 11 Mar 06 at 10:30am
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Be careful, boys... remember that some of our younger members can be easy to influence... One signature says "The voices made me say it". How will you justify Rob.e's house and most of his neighbourhood gone to flames, with Rob standing in the middle of the rubble, clutching his singed, half-finished Spanish coursework and muttering insanely under his breath : "Y&Yers made me do it!" ??? Hm? Think consequences....
Besides, as a girl, I can tell you that hairspray is the best (but don't tell my kids ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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)Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 11 Mar 06 at 1:14pm
Are you not sposed to stick it up your nose?? ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 11 Mar 06 at 3:35pm
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Who nose? (ba dum dum tish) ------------- |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 12:00pm
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[QUOTE=Black no sugar]
Be careful, boys... remember that some of our younger members can be easy to influence... One signature says "The voices made me say it". How will you justify Rob.e's house and most of his neighbourhood gone to flames, with Rob standing in the middle of the rubble, clutching his singed, half-finished Spanish coursework and muttering insanely under his breath : "Y&Yers made me do it!" ??? Hm? Think consequences.... BNS I can't thank you enough! "Younger members" Ooooh! I'm so happy. It's actually not too long since I did my Spanish "A" level, but I left school long before course work was invented.... I can't find a geriatric emoticon, but surely you've noticed I sail a Solo Any road up, you've made up my mind, I'm changing my sig....
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Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 1:04pm
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MYTH: This myth has been busted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman on Discovery Channel's - Mythbusters ------------- Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36 |
Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 1:06pm
MYTH: This myth has been busted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman on Discovery Channel's - Mythbusters ------------- Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36 |
Posted By: Javelin53
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 1:25pm
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3 in 1 is best for freeing thing s ------------- I hoped the threat would be enough! JAVELIN 53 ENTERPRISE 16691,RESTORATION JOB TOPPER 29388 BUCKENHAM SC |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 1:45pm
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Try amnesty international ------------- |
Posted By: toffee
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 1:53pm
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iam 16 and sigle and i hate saling |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 2:07pm
You seem to have some issues operating a keyboard there too fella... lifes not looking up is it? ------------- |
Posted By: Jamie
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 2:41pm
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Posted By: laserboy404
Date Posted: 10 Apr 08 at 9:24pm
this guy has either stumbled into the wrong forum or he needs serious help |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 10 Apr 08 at 9:31pm
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Dude this thread is like 2 years old, why oh why are you digging it back up? ------------- |
Posted By: laserboy404
Date Posted: 10 Apr 08 at 9:37pm
sorry, bad habit, just came across it and it made me laugh
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Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 10 Apr 08 at 10:42pm
Don't know who else is finding it funny, TBH, why not start a thread called "Lets just post for the hell of it, just to up my post count!" ------------- |