Dave's "S200KYS" Jimny 'laner Build...

mc_nebula wrote: Dave, do you make modification parts for Jimnys? Do you have an online shop or parts list somewhere? discs are something I've considered before...

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mc_nebula wrote: Dave, do you make modification parts for Jimnys? Do you have an online shop or parts list somewhere? discs are something I've considered before...

Cheers.

Ooh, yes, I sell the odd modification part for Jimnys -

www.bits4vits.co.uk/store/jimny/cat_17.html

Oh, hang on, you meant the other Dave? :laugh:

Umm did you property investigate the failure Dave as the hand brake is purely mechanical ! And the only way it would fail is if the pad came out and subsequently the piston , or the worm gear failed but i think the most likely reason is the self adjuster was seized and this wouldn't show until you lost pressure and the caliper backed off and the hand brake didn't have enough travel to engage the brake.

the same thing can happen with drums ! Brakes need more regular service if they are dipped in different flavours of the brown stuff.

Dunno Rich' I'd just come off a greenlane, so it's possible a pad may have been dislodged on a rock or something...

All I know for sure is... twenty years of abusing little Suzukis, I've never had such a catastrophic complete brake failure when using drums... only disks, so I'll stick to my drums...

it was very scary and I was just watching. To get him to tarmac, we had one pulling, and one holding back and one going ahead opening and closing gates ... and then we had to wait 3-4hrs for various recovery trucks!! The worst recovery was Dave being pulled by an AA van with metal rod from Sadgill to Watchgate (Cumbria) along a very long and twisty C-road!!

Enough of brakes... this is my build thread! And today... some more building -



Started building the rear suspension... ORA rear radius arm with poly bushes in...

To borrow the Irn-Bru tag line - "Made in Hailsham from Girders" !!!



On!



ORA Radius Arm Guards



The reason I went for ORA arms in the end... they have all the mounts ready for handbrake cables, and very important to me - ABS lines that run down 3 of the 4 arms...



Rear done!



JimnyBits Springs, (ProComp) Shocks, Shock Guards, Panhard Rod...

Front on Sunday hopefully...

Idea is to get the Jimny mobile again, to get it into the garage, and the buggy out and on the drive under a tarpaulin... then at least I can crack on with the Jimny in all weathers...