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I’ve been there with a bull that decided to do that. Worst I’ve ever experienced was sheep decks collapsing in back of trailer with a load of big ewes on. Dad was driving, trailer was up on 2 wheels and how it didn’t go right over I’ll never know. Trailer tyre marks were on the road for days...

It’s a ta510, 14ft twin axle with wheels at the side. I didn’t want to go bigger as I thought a 16ft triaxle would be well over 3.5t if you filled it. When empty or with an even loaded inanimate load it’s stable as. Always check tyre pressure whenever I’m doing a long run and the shocks are new...

Been looking at bulldog thing. Might be worth a try if it’ll fit my Ifor.

Got a big tractor trailer that’ll take 10 as well but not going long distance with that.

Ne we heard of helper springs. Have been looking at sway control devices tonight, that might be a bit of a help.

Na, that would be a bad idea, plus they would destroy the bales in minutes.

Is a twin axle 14ft TA510 with the wheels at the side. Had one with the wheels under before and it was way worse. Had a right old one before that with the hard forklift tyres and it was actually all right. I have an extra partition door to move them as far forward as I can. Worst thing ever is...

Ah I didn’t notice you had a disco. Yeah lot more room there. Would be cool having one of them but maybe a bit fancy for the ol girl I’ve got!

That’s a serious but if kit you’ve bought there. Where are you going to fit that? Would have thought you’d be struggling for space! Yeah I think an extra instrument cluster with a temp gauge, exhaust gas temp gauge and a boost gauge might be an idea. I don’t want my engine failing on me!

Sorry it’s a defender 90. I am running 235/85/16 so I do have bigger tyres. If fitting a replacement engine temp temp gauge would I just remove the original gauge and put the replacement in the same spot in the dash using the same wiring?

Have tried searching a different way and it seems it might be a faulty yellow relay under the seat or perhaps a bad earth between the engine management and seat box. Anyone agree with this?

Hi I was doing a long run with the trailer today and something a bit odd happened. Took a heavy load one way and no problems. Was coming home empty and you come up a long hil for a couple of miles. I did have my foot planted in 5th the whole way as I was passing people, doing about 60ish...

Hi I don’t tow a huge amount with my 90 td5 but when I do it’s usualy heavy loads as I am carting cattle and I can often be over 3t. Dunno how many of you cart cattle but the main problem isn’t so much the weight but that they can move around a lot leading the weight shifting all over the place...

Have a video on iPhone but can’t get it to upload because it says it is the wrong type of file. Pulled over because of burning smell, van behind me thought it was them on fire! Seems cow **** burns quite well when hot.

No white smoke. Sometimes get a bit of black smoke in higher gears before turbo fully kicks in but just figured this was a bit of unburnt diesel as Issued to have a remapped golf diesel that smoked like hell under full throttle.

Yeah well there is quite a lot of black sludge around the engine. Maybe a steam clean would be an idea to see if that helps identify the leaks.

Yeah I can see the logic to this as I will find out if I have a problem.

hi Have remapped my defender td5 with dynachip and deegr'd it and decatted it. Massive improvement in every way but I might have an issue. I have noticed that there is a hot sort of burning smell under the bonnet that you can smell in the cabin now and again, particularly when towing. It may...

Hi Sorry don't know the answer to this. I just have standard springs on. I go over rough stuff a lot with a lot of axle articulation and never had any issues but dunno if they would deal with an extra 2 inches lift height.

Tried that and double clutching and doesn't make much difference.