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KevinNY
08-11-2007, 04:24 PM
I just purchased a Sankey trailer and need to find a NATO swiveling pintle hitch for it? Anyone seen one?

sayers
08-11-2007, 05:13 PM
Does not rovers north handle these ?

KevinNY
08-11-2007, 06:26 PM
NO.

archaeologistjen
08-12-2007, 04:46 AM
Kevin, I heard that someone on the 101 Forward Control Yahoo! list had offered one for sale recently. Hope this might help. Good luck...

JimCT
08-12-2007, 07:59 AM
Does the lunette on the Sankey trailer swivel? The one on our CDN M100 does, and if so your pintle hitch does not need to.

KevinNY
08-12-2007, 09:44 AM
Thats the issue, the sankey lunette does not rotate.

jabber
08-12-2007, 01:37 PM
Check out ebay... I see 'em on there ALL the time.

luckyjoe
08-13-2007, 07:59 AM
Kevin,

The Sankey lunette does rotate!!! I move my Sankey around the drive by hand, every week, and believe me, it does swivel. If your's doesn't, make sure that the surge brake piston is not frozen (properly lubed?). This applies to the standard Sankey - I have no experience with the wide-track version.

Also, the Sankey trailer was fitted with a rear swiveling pintle. These often get removed, so if you se a Sankey without one, the owner may have it in storage...

Regards,

Tom P.

singingcamel
08-13-2007, 09:08 AM
i may have one, i'll have to look around the shop. i have one ,can't think were it is...marc

KevinNY
08-13-2007, 09:34 AM
Thanks all, I found one. Early ones may have rotated but the widetrack I bought has a plate on top of the surgebrake/lunette housing alerting you to "Fixed eye, rotating hitch required" or something close to that.

yorker
08-21-2007, 06:04 PM
:thumb-up: http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l119/sepp45/Wide%20Track%20Sankey/WideTrackSankeynorotate.jpg