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Nice one. So is the pump where the power pack is or is that near the battery. I will follow the wire tomorrow but just trying to get it in my head. battery/startermotor - Fuse - isolator - up down button - pump There is an odd looking button opposite the cigarette lighter which is not on my non-tipper version. Could this be the isolator?

Old thread but just adding a tip. I pay someone who isn't registered to CIS and liable for the full 30% deduction. I tell him to do his invoices as 80%materials 20%labour. It's obviously not the real split, but then he only gets stopped 30% of 20%. like 6% if my maths are right?! Its probably not kosher, but as long as he pays his tax in full at the end of the year then there is no problem, everything ends up the same. Just helps his cash flow and stops him the aggro of having to register. Good tip if you don't mind skirting the law!

Regarding the 30% dock. It will come out in the wash on your return for the year. You probably know this already but just worth saying your not getting stopped 30% and never seeing any back

I am but on these old dogs the lights are connected to the bodies, not on a light board!

Thanks. I'll have a look tomorrow and see if I can get my head around it. Hopefully the fuse and fuse socket will just come off with the existing wire rather than into the trucks main fuse board. So you think the rear lights wire will have some kind of socket arrangement? The front indicators are on a socket because I had to change one a few months ago.

Leicester. I've pulled up a few diagrams online. They seem to show that there will be 2 wires to the battery. One from the switch and one from the tipping pump separately. I'll have to get underneath and try and see whats going to tomorrow. Would the fuse be in the normal fuse location, near the battery or on the side of the pump do you think?

So if I disconnect the body from the chassis my plan is to leave all these wires intact and just disconnect at the switch in the cab. Pull this wire back out through the hole of the cab. There wouldn't be any wire connected to the chassis? I've read that the earth made by being bolted to the chassis? On the other side of the switch (going to the battery) will this wire run via the fuse board?

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I have resurrected this thread as after months of searching I have finally found the impossible. The same truck with an ally tipper on. To the extent that every bracket and nut is in the exact same position on both trucks. Hallelujah I was looking for some advice when I change the bodies next week. At the minute the nuts on both just seem to be steel. Is there any point upgrading to stainless when changing? The main question is to do with electrics. There seems to be some good info online for re-wiring a tipper. I am however hoping to just disconnect the wires going into each side of the switch (in the cab) then pulling these back out. Obviously one goes back to the motor and pump, the other will go to the battery am i right? Would these go into a fuse anywhere? The lights on both trucks are connected to the bodies, so it seems best to just swap these to. Is the wiring to these likely to be on a socket before it gets to the body? My backup plan here is at worst, to disconnect the wires out of the actual light unit, unscrew/bolt the light unit and I can split the wiring here. Thanks in advance for any help, electrics not my strong point!

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Have knocked that one on the head as had too much steel I wanted alloy. Thanks for confirming width. I'm tempted to buy anyway just for the ram and motor but my body would need too much work to convert. Need a replacenent

Thanks for replies Ldv 200 quite narrow. Floor is knackered and ideal time to convert to tipper I'm not too fussed on practicality as I only usually do about a 3 mile round trip. Did about 2k last year. More the legality I was concerned about?

Hi all. New poster thought I'd ask the question here as you lot seem to own/convert quite a few trucks into tippers. At the min my flatbed projects 70mm past sides of cab. I'm looking at an alloy second hand one which is aprrox 200mm wider. That will be 170mm ea side. Quite a narrow cab. My mirrors are approx 200mm and I've heard than as long as they are within this size. However info seems hard to come by. Any advice here? Thanks in advance