Just wondering if anyone owns/has pics of a Mini subframed trailer.
I know it's a fairly common thing to do (or was at least!), so was seeing what varieties are out there.
Whether box trailer, motorbike trailer - whatever!
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| Author: | willy [ Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:49 pm ] |
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Just wondering if anyone owns/has pics of a Mini subframed trailer. I know it's a fairly common thing to do (or was at least!), so was seeing what varieties are out there. Whether box trailer, motorbike trailer - whatever!
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| Author: | Curly [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:25 pm ] |
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We rural dwellers who use bottled gas either have the bottles delivered regularly (at a cost) or swap the empties over for full ones at our local distributer. Rules state that the bottles must be transported standing up so if you don't have a ute, a trailer is often the easiest way to take them into town. This is a cut down (narrowed) dry mini subframe with an awfully short draw bar the does the job admirably - so long as you don't need to reverse it !! 
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| Author: | bnicho [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:42 pm ] |
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I looked at building a trailer using a Mini subframe, but they are heavy compared to a live axle and a couple of leaf springs. So I used the lazy rear axle out of a Daihatsu Handivan instead. Although a Mini subframed trailer would handle better. 
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| Author: | IwannaMini [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:54 pm ] |
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Curly wrote: We rural dwellers who use bottled gas either have the bottles delivered regularly (at a cost) or swap the empties over for full ones at our local distributer. .....
thats pretty ingenious. I have always wanted a trailer something like that as a Salvage Trailer (basically a cut down trailer that lifts the front wheels of a Mini up off the ground if its broken down). |
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| Author: | paul_ewins [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:41 pm ] |
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Love the mudguards on that. |
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| Author: | simon k [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:21 pm ] |
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here you go... 5'6" x 3'6" - beautiful little thing to tow. Has a standard dry subframe under it, mounted by the original mounts. It doesn't have any dampers, so bounces a bit when it's empty, but otherwise great 
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| Author: | willy [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:10 pm ] |
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Excellent! that is one thing that concerns me a bit - the issue of not running any dampers/shock absorbers on it. |
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| Author: | Morris 1100 [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:35 pm ] |
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willy wrote: Excellent! that is one thing that concerns me a bit - the issue of not running any dampers/shock absorbers on it.
Rubber springs are supposed to be fairly self damping or at least more self damping than leaf springs and a lot more than coil springs. You can fit dampers if you make the box narrower or you could use lever arm dampers from a Sprite or Morris Minor and mount them under the floor of the trailer. I had a car trailer for a Formula Vee that was made from a Mini rear sub-frame that had been cut down the centre and widened. It was a horrible thing! 
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| Author: | bnicho [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:40 pm ] |
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You could use a Hydro subframe with each bag blanked off so it's independant. No damper issues then.
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| Author: | simon k [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:05 pm ] |
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Morris 1100 wrote: you could use lever arm dampers from a Sprite or Morris Minor and mount them under the floor of the trailer.
yep - after you suggested Minor dampers I got dad to bring me some of his spares.... 4 years later they're still waiting to be fitted, but should work quite well Hydro would work, I'd use chains instead of helper springs... |
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| Author: | Monaco [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:27 pm ] |
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Curly wrote: so long as you don't need to reverse it !!
OR get rear ended!!!!!! 
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| Author: | Harley [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:13 pm ] |
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I've wondered for my trailer about running rubber cones and hydro helper springs. I've got 13" wheels for so the trailer itself won't weigh much compared to the suspension.
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| Author: | Irish Yobbo [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:19 pm ] |
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There are some of these around: www.japp.co.uk/mini/trailer/index.htm A bit more than the subframe, but I think they look quite good. There are better examples than this, but I'm on dialup at the moment and can't be bothered finding them... |
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| Author: | Morris 1100 [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:24 pm ] |
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Irish Yobbo wrote: There are some of these around:
www.japp.co.uk/mini/trailer/index.htm A bit more than the subframe, but I think they look quite good. There are better examples than this, but I'm on dialup at the moment and can't be bothered finding them... Ideal for the Mini owner that is sick of having things that wont fit in the boot of his Mini. Now he can have two boots that it won't fit into.
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| Author: | Timbo [ Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:34 am ] |
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I have the back half of a Moke, that I've almost finished converting into a trailer. I left the standard suspension in due to laziness. Tim |
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