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Hi Chris hope you get it all working fine I hope somebody can point you in the right direction

Jeremy

Sounds like you have a plan there John :thumbup: the steering worm will be okay for what the dumper will be used for its not like its going to work on a building site anytime soon; not really surprised at what you have found though, there are some class bodgers out there. :P Good luck with it. :thum...

essexpete wrote:The D series looks potentially unstable!

My first thoughts too Pete you read my mind I wonder if it has an outrigger that is not in view in the photo?

Jeremy

Liam these sound like common Doughty washers (don't know if its spelt that way?) they should be easy enough to pick up from an engineers merchant or hydraulic hose supplier, should be cheap enough.

Jeremy

Cheers buddy.. Had a look on Ebay, and theres a few at about £12. I dont suppose that anyone manufactures a new rubber seal with a similar profile ? Richard there are companies that supply the beading new I recall somebody posting a link on here somewhere? Just Google classic car windscreen rubbers...

Richard the tool is called a beading tool and I have used one in the past it looks like a steel loop that is larger at the one end, it forces the rubber out as you slide it along and puts the bead in the rubber I'd do a Google search for glass beading tool and see what comes up.

Jeremy

Hi Paul and welcome I am sure somebody on here can offer you some guidance with this.

Jeremy

Hi Richard I would think that you may be right and the axles made by an axle manufacturer, they could have also been made by British Twindisc have you looked on the axles themselves they may have an identification plate on them? Brake linings should be no issue you could get those re-lined with new ...

Hi Rob and welcome to CMN nice machine you have there.

Jeremy

A quick update here; I worked with Andrew a couple of weeks back to try and get the broken studs out, despite our best efforts every time a nut was welded to the broken stud it simply snapped a bit more off. :wtf: To cut a long story short one of Andrew's lads knew somebody who removes broken studs ...