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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: dipmaker on March 25, 2012, 01:32:16 PM
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G'day everybody,
I am doing a trip from Brisbane to the Kimberley and back via the Tanami track and Broome in July/August this year and was wondering what spares most people carry for their camper trailers.
I have a Vacationer camper trailer which has Outback leaf springs and electric brakes.
So far I am taking a complete spare spring, wheel bearings and two brand new spare wheels, is there a need for anything else? If anybody has had trailer breakages involving other items I would love to hear about them and also any bush repairs would be interesting as well.
Cheers
Steve.
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Hi dipmaker (Steve),
Have a read through the link supplied from the 2012 Cape trip thread. Some is over the top but there may be something in there that grabs you attention. Not all of this is needed but it may help you with what you need or dont need.
cheers duggie
http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=14833.0 (http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=14833.0)
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This is the spares kit we carry in the camper in two small plastic tool boxes,
CAMPER SPARES
• ANDERSON PLUG X 1
• SWING ARM BUSHES X 3 SETS
• WHEEL BEARING GREASE X 2 TUBES
• SMALL D SHACKLE X 1
• 7 PIN ROUND PLUG MALE X 1
• 7 PIN PLUG ROUND FEMALE X 1
• WAX STICK X 1, WATER PROOFING SPRAY
• 2 X SETS OF WHEEL BEARINGS....... PACKED AND BAGED
• 2 X AXLE SEALS
• 1 X SET OF WHEEL STUDS & NUTS = 6 of each
• AXLE WASHER & NUT x 2
• DUST CAPS X 3
• FUSES.......assorted
• MSA RUBBISH BAG FOR REAR TYRE
Hope that's of some help,
Cheers
jk
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Hi jk,
I noticed you did not mention your spare part list for the old toyota. ;D
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That list takes up a page by itself ;D and I didn't want to bore the poor readers :-* ha ha
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That list takes up a page by itself ;D and I didn't want to bore the poor readers :-* ha ha
You won't bore this poor reader...bring it on.
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I did the Melbourne to Alice, up the Tanami to Broome, Cape Leveque, Mitchell Falls, Gibb River, Kunnunura, Mataranka, Kidman Way to Cairns back to Melbourne. No trailer, just a trusty Toyota and the spares were fuses, hoses and belts. :laugh: donuts
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Thanks heaps for the replies fellas, one thing I noticed mentioned was wheel studs and nuts, I have been thinking about getting some, has anybody had the need to replace the studs?, are they a common failure on camper trailers?
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I've never broken any but have seen it happen to a Landcruiser on a Cape trip, I'd rather have them and not need them as apposed to needing them and not having them. They don't take up much room anyway. ;D
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Hi jk,
I noticed you did not mention your spare part list for the old toyota. ;D
That's coz it's a toyota, and they don't break down ::)
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All i can say is that be prepared for the worst and expect the best and that the part that lets you down, is the only 50C part lying on the bench in the work shop.
Personally i carry;
1 front shock car
1 rear shock car
1 shock for camper
2 bearing sets greased and packed
1 new belt for the paj, it only has one
1 spare air filter
lots of nuts and bolts, all sizes, metric for all my stuff
lots of spare engine hoses, loose bag i have obtained over the years
lots of fuses, wiring, connectors ect ect , once again, years of hording here
All the tools and bits i need, soldering iron, spring compressors, bearing pullers, ect ect.
An oil filter for the truck, oil engine, gearbox, diff and transfer, Paj takes 4 different kinds. CRC, metho ect ect
I basically carry parts which i would need to have in order to repair the car enough to get me to a major work shop to do proper repairs, plus having the car and camper under warranty still helps.
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Decades ago, coming home from a weekend of camping along the Murray, my father was driving his relatively new Holden XT station wagon, towing a Hartley half cabin boat. The wheel nuts on the right hand side of the trailer were not tightened properly and eventually fell off one by one. When the last one fell off, the wheel was flung off the hub with such force that the wheel overtook the car while we were still doing about 50-55 mph. If you can imagine, there was an instant where everyone in the car was looking out the driver side windows thinking WTF where did that wheel come from, before the grinding, swerving, @rse clenching ride came to an end.
By the time my father managed to stop the car, the u-bolts had been completely ground down on the road to the spring plate and the axle was now floating above the leaf springs. Out in the middle of nowhere, you immediate thought is 'How in the hell are we going to get the boat home?'. No brakes on the trailer, so the hub and spring plate were pretty well both level with each other if you take into account the axle saddle, which meant with no wheel on the axle the nuts on the spring plate came into direct contact with the road.
Well, my father, who is a bit of a lateral thinker, quickly looked to see if the coast was clear before cutting about 3 yards of wire from the rural fence on the side of the road, jacked up the trailer, wrapped wired around the leaf spring and axle, pinched a wheel nut from each wheel on the car to replace those that fell off, and had us on the road again within about an hour.
Now I'm not advocating stealing fence wire, but since that day, my tool kit has always included a roll of 16 gauge wire. This has proved handy for purposes such as temporary hose clamps, feeding wire through the chassis on my trailer and numerous other jobs. I think if you put to imagination to work, a roll of wire could potentially make any number of emergency repairs.
Cheers Marschy
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Yep wire is always a good spare and you need to be a bit of a Macgyver but i have never seen a Holden xt station wagon ;D (Falcon maybe) :cheers:
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Yep wire is always a good spare and you need to be a bit of a Macgyver but i have never seen a Holden xt station wagon ;D (Falcon maybe) :cheers:
oops, try ht