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How are you getting on with the diff Dan [?]

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"You,re only supposed to blow the bloody SLIDING doors off"
 
The diff is still in peaces :-( need to find a supplier for the bearings and some money to pay for them lol.
In the mean time of doing that, I came across a few Commer spares. I didn't really need any of it but thought I best have it to save it from being scrapped.

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So the engine spins over easily and seems ok :) I take it tht is just a standard engine and nothing special?

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I have also not seen bump stops like this before, anyone shed a bit of light on why they are there? Is it because the axle may have been from a highwaymans or another big couch built camper.

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A rather nifty looking SU conversion, looks similar to the one on Paul Cloke's Dolly. Spring assisters on the axle, may have been off a coachbuilt, is the diff any good - save you rebuilding the other one.

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well spotted john :) it is in fact exactly the same su conversion but with a differant air cleaner that dolly had. was this the bits i was gonna bid on on ebay? spring assisters sound like a good idea to me :)

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Dolly Commer Is Here http://66.129.69.181/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6833
 
yes they were on ebay, only 10 miles up the road from me, so it would have been rude for me not to pick them up.


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They hadn't come off a missing Paralanian had they [?][:(!] I do the diff bearings, listed on my site;)

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http://www.yorkshireclassiccampers.co.uk/
 
I thought exactly the same but didn't like to say anything !

Commer Dandy by Dandy Caravans
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they may have well have. The guy had the van in a field for some time and then dragged it out and cut it up. He had know real knowledge of it but told me it had a big aluminum body on the back. He had got it as an insurance right off. As a business they deal in scrap tractors and have been for many many years.
Any more than that I cant tell you :-/


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If that's the case then maybe not the elusive Paralanian, that was not an insurance write-off but allegedly rotten as a pear:I
It could have been one of various coachbuilts, many where ally bodied.

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What other bits did he have? We may be able to see if he's got the rear windows and interior bits and bobs ?

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he had nothing else, I had the lot. All that you see in the pic is all that was there. He told me there was nothing else worth keeping :-/


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So, no one told me that the diff in the heaver axle is exactly the same as the diff in the smaller axle. I have now striped the smaller axle and I'm putting that diff in the heaver axle as it is a rather good diff. Only needs new seals and there on there way :) I thought red would be a good colour for it.

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Front towing eye bolted onto what would be the left hand drive steering box mounting:)

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Not that I can remember but I was weighing up the same thing a while ago, it seems the obvious place to fix it - better than the bumper mounts;)

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I made it because I can't really find anything that I would class as safe to put a rope/bar on to move the van around until I fit the engine. Anything that you can find to put a rope around will end up in damaging the front valences. Mine are new I don't want them damaged :-0

So what is the correct towing point on the front of a Commer?


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