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Vehicle & Technical => Military => Topic started by: Pete90 on August 21, 2006, 19:15:44

Title: Sankey Trailer Parts
Post by: Pete90 on August 21, 2006, 19:15:44

:?Does any one know where I can find parts for sankey trailers :?

Title: Sankey Trailer Parts
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on August 21, 2006, 20:19:26

Such as??

Title: Sankey Trailer Parts
Post by: Pete90 on August 22, 2006, 08:58:09

hiya the parts i am looking for is the linkage between hand-brake and the pivot on the axle, for a wide track trailer. Contacted most of the ex-mod sale places but with no joy, not sure even if the manufacture is still in bussiness.

Title: Sankey Trailer Parts
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on August 22, 2006, 10:57:24

The parent company is GKN.
Sankey is/was just essentially a pressings (truck cabs, etc...) division

What about the ex-military vehicle clubs?, or even your local fabricators/BlackSmith??

Title: Sankey Trailer Parts
Post by: Range Rover Blues on August 25, 2006, 14:56:15

You need to start with the sankey trailer parts manual so check on e-blag for someone selling copies on CD.

Most surplus supliers don't know what some of the parts they are getting are for without a part number.  A good manual will also tell you what threads atc are used if you need to get a part made.  I think you'd be surprised how many parts got fabricated by the REME rather than ordered in.

Title: Sankey Trailer Parts
Post by: hobbit on August 25, 2006, 21:34:16

Looking at the parts if you need the rods they should be able to be made up with some threaded bar and welding the necessary joints on with nuts fastened to them for adjustment

(The parts manual was not for the wide track just the normal older sankey), but I'm presuming the the linkeage is the same, as RR says they can be constructed by the REME lads as ordering the pieces in can take forever, and they cant afford to let the trailer sit idle cause it has no brakes, especially if its in the field on exercise

Does this pic look familiar to your setup?

Title: Sankey Trailer Parts
Post by: Range Rover Blues on August 26, 2006, 15:54:40

The newer Sankeys get a bit interesting.  I've only seen a couple and only one close up but the later 'Wolf' trailer has disk brakes and a higher capacity.  I presume we are talking about the slightly older wide track though, I think these had an over-centre handbrake (easy to add a breakaway cable) and rod/cable brakes.  In which case I'd try trailer suppliers too like Towsure for parts.

Title: Sankey Trailer Parts
Post by: Wombat Mike on September 10, 2006, 11:30:21

Then there's Sodbury sort out, usually a couple of ex military stalls with sankey bits amongst the other stuff. Larger one on the lower lane invariably has quite a few bits. Some of mine have come from there.

Wombat Mike