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

maverick wrote: so I need a noise suppressor...

Let me know what you get as I also have CB interference!!

Will do

Dave (still waiting for wife's Mokka to be serviced... thank god for iPads!)

Just pinched a still from Brett's Video of my little Jimny coming up Nibthwaite for my Avatar -



Thanks Brett!

I love your Jimny, your plans for it and your blogs Dave but those wheels do not look good. Are they temporary or are they staying?

Just my opinion. Tell me to wind my neck in if you want!

Kirkynut

kirkynut wrote: I love your Jimny, your plans for it and your blogs Dave but those wheels do not look good. Are they temporary or are they staying?

Just my opinion. Tell me to wind my neck in if you want!

Kirkynut

I've obviously missed something here... as you're not the first to say that...

I had these wheels on the "Zukhini" Vitara... they are alloys, strong, round and were fitted with the 235/75/15 tyres I wanted on the Jimny, and have the right offset...

They might be f'ugly, but they serve the purpose... that'll do me! LOL :laugh:

Ahhh... after 3 or 4 weeks of rehearsals and the eventual 6 shows / 4 days run of "Bugsy Malone", my wife and daughters came home, and life returned to "normal" (or as normal as it gets round here) and I got my usual Wednesday "day" off to work on the Jimny...

I started by clearing the garage out after re-building the Jimny as a 'laner, and then reversed it back in, intent on stripping the front axle to get the diff out to get it blended with the LSD to be stolen from the "Zukhini" Vitara...

But... I figured as it was raining, and the jimny was backed into the newly tidied garage, I might as well get the rear bumper sorted so that I can get it sent for powder coating in matching "silky silver" powdercoat...

So...



Off came the original silver plastic bumper...



And in went the ORA bumper brackets (these should mount with the same bolts as my tow-bar, which is to be redesigned as a rear winch tray)...



There, the ORA rear bumper is loosely bolted in place...



Nice and chunky!



Rear lights test fitted... I'll have to go and get some bar to weld over the joins in the light's sections to protect the lenses...



I then worked out that the winch needed 6.5" of room, which meant cutting 3.5" off the bottom edge of the bumper...



So I cut and bended back a tab of metal to keep the rigidity of the bumper, and then began cutting another oval slot...



To mount a (JimnyBits sourced) 6-LED spotlight array behind as an auxiliary reversing light, if needed...



Back on the Jimny again for test-fitting...



And test-fiting where the roofrack / tree slider bars will land...

More soon!