We are not quite sure when or how, as we sat at the Kaz border I noticed the trailer seemed to be sitting very low at the nose end.
OMG the trailer was ripping the back end off the defender.
Closer inspection revealed a bit of a horror show, with no option we dived into the first Kaz town we came across, got Toms pointer book out and started to find out how easy or hard this was going going to be.....
Actually after a fair bit of pointing and discussing with fingers and scibbles we found a welder at around six PM, he did some serious industrial welding on the back of the defender and a two AM we finally went to bed with the truck and trailer in back in one peice.
BEFORE anyone thinks the trailer is too heavy, the answer is no, the problem was the extension was too long on the NATO hook and it was creating a down force that the defender could not handle.
The extension is now gone, the defender has some serious weld action on its back side, and we are back on the road.
Tonight we are free camping in a field in the middle of nowhere.
I have changed the oil, the oil filter and the oil particle filter, fixed the spot light on the roof that got a clip at a road side checking station.
I replaced all the snapped rivets on the bonnet with bolts as the Kaz roads have popped the front rivets on the spare wheel holder.
Botched a fixed on the jockey wheel so it can rotate away from the ground, its grounded a couple of times....
It will need a new wheel at some point.
All in all, reasonably happy with things, a couple of niggles with the defender, but its working hard.
I will post what went wrong, what was replaced, and what held up nearer the end game.
The human element is doing OK, keeping clean and sane which all things considered is not bad going.
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