Halfords Dog-Taxi

What luxury that would be. Flick a switch for 4x4 and another for suspension adjustment.

Rhinoman wrote:

Halford wrote: now if only there was someway to attach stepper motors to the knobs to facilitate controlling the settings from inside the car

Voice coils are the most common actuator for active ride shocks - I'm still looking for some that are long enough for a Jimny.

playing with the shocks and for future ref the optimal tarmac settings for a standard weight Jimny is front = 9 / rear = 6 for best cornering/ ride comfort compromise.

couple of pics showing the stance

That looks the dogs danglies!!!!!! Guess I'm
Saving for new shocks then lol.

Looking good Mike .........

Top job mate.
Will have to start saving some pennies now ive seen this.

rear door strut update .............

they sent me a replacement end today



it seams obvious that this is what sould have be supplied with the strut .. but hey-ho

alls well that ends well



sorted

Good news for sure .....

Glad you got that strut sorted. The jimny is looking more like a monster truck every time you post.

Glad you're it sorted mate

met up with Gaz in his reasonably priced jimny today

changed some soft squidgy cracked bits for some new stiff ones





feels so much stiffer now, but have yet to get used to it

weird driving it as it's supposed to feel

Are these the transferbox mounts? I checked mine recently and all seems okay but like a lot of things you dont know until you have removed them. How has it helped halford?

with the old ones you can squash the corners of metal plates together slightly, compressing the rubber (with its cracks and minor splits) , bit like a squidgy mallow biscuit.

with the new ones there's practically no give at all.

now I am not a dentist spanner monkey, but it feels to me that this minor increase in rigidity had a major increase in car rigidity, driving on the road the car feel much tighter and more responsive, to try and explain the feeling it's like it used to go around a roundabout like a bus, lethargically yet controlled, whereas now it goes around like a mini - point and shoot, much easier to get the back end out



also re; the rear engine (gearbox) mount - the stick doesn't jump about so much and gear selection is easier as before, infrequently I'd miss a gear, but I'd put that down to the body lift and stick realignement, but it wasn't