Footbrake Air Valve

I stripped down the foot-brake air valve.

Inside it looks like this

There are air two chambers one of which was quite clean and the other was full of white powder. The cylinder bore seemed good but then I noticed that it was cracked

so I ordered a new part. Came across one of those strange bits of pricing. A rebuild kit which by me reckoning contains a handful of o-rings and a filter is UKP128. The bit you see in the lower pictures is called a foot-brake 'portion' and is UKP 230 complete with all the internal bits and the entire valve which includes the angle bracket that you see in the first picture is UKP403

It seems that the portion is by far the best buy so I ordered one of those.

Start reassembly

Steering box, steering arm and power steering ram back in place. The power steering ram is non-standard I think; maybe from a Bedford coach. The power steering parts I have seen advertised for TKs have the hydraulic bits built into a larger steering box and no separate ram. Also, the bracket between the ram and the chassis looks fabricated.

Compressor unloader valve.

Rolling again

With the chassis painted I was keen to get it all rolling again and move it all under cover for the winter.

The axles had a good wash and went back on. I thought about painting them too but there is really no point. A lot of travelling here in NZ's South Island is on un-sealed roads and everything just gets filthy. I have no intention of climbing under the truck to clean it. The chassis needed a coat of paint to protect it; the axles and springs are not about to rust away.

Rear spring eye bolts are straight into a threaded forging with some loctite and 190 lb/ft torque. Fitting the rear axle was not has difficult as I expected; I used to chocks of wood and simply 'walked' it into place until it all lined up.

The tractor and loader can just pick up one end of the chassis so you can trundle it about like a giant wheel barrow. All safely in the barn for the winter.