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Subject Topic: late 80`s early 90`s sprite
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25/6/2011 at 5:14pm
 Location: West Scotland
 Outfit: Fleetwood Garland and Almera
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folks dont suppose anyone out there knows of a supplier for a hitch damper on a late 80's/early 90's sprite musketeer, mate got one and the damper is cream crackered. IIRC sprite used a mix of alko and their own stuff on the chassis, hope a standard alko one will fit

also on a older van, if the wiring is uncertain and deffo a home made jobbie, would you just rip it all out and rewire, that is my thinking as the electrics dont fill me with confidence, thinking wire in a couple of 240v sockets, fridge and a transformer for 12v as opposed to using a battery as my mate will always be on ehu on site anyway



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25/6/2011 at 7:57pm
 Location: Cambs
 Outfit: Tin tent diddy tent BIG tent
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Around 1990 they were still using their own chassis with Knott and Albe parts. In about 1991/2 they changed to BPW chassis but as far as I know they never used Alko until they were taken over by Swift some years later.

The electrics of that era were fairly basic, not sure when they started to include battery lockers but many had TP2 boxes under the bunk and a very basic 240V system running through a consumer box with a couple of MCB's. I would be inclined to leave the 12V system alone and simply upgrade the 240V side to include RCD etc and get a second hand Zig or similar off eBay for a couple of quid to do the transformer and 12V fuse side of things.

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25/6/2011 at 8:00pm
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cheers mate

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25/6/2011 at 8:49pm
 Location: Great Yarmouth
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Just as a suggestion, I'm about to go to a trailer makers near to us to see if they can supply and fix a hitch damper, it would appear that going this route is much more economical than going the caravan (Leisure) supplier route.
Don't know if this will work out but worth a try.

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25/6/2011 at 11:26pm
 Location: Lancashire
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ask here

http://www.towitall.co.uk/trailer-spares/al-ko.aspx



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