Dave's Daily Driver Build Thread...

i like so many others are thankful that your blogs are so detailed :blush:
as us mortals need all the help we can get

....keep the blogs coming..... :woohoo:

Jack

Have fun fitting the rear corners mine took a bit of playing to get right.
Where did you pick up your lhd cluster? I just dremeled out the blank to fit the bulb holder but it doesn't have the metal reflector just silver paint.

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationeBay... .com rather than .co.uk



Being a LHD cluster it has a fog light hole in the bottom, with reflector...

Mine is a new aftermarket part from a seller in Italy -



£38.04 + £16.04 shipping

But there are european breakers on eBay for secondhand ones too...

OllieNZ wrote: Have fun fitting the rear corners mine took a bit of playing to get right.

Have you got a photo of yours fitted OllieNZ ?

And how do they attach? Do I need to keep any fixings off the old bumper?

silly question is soft top same light as hard top ?

Jack

No question is a silly question...

God, I hope so! LOL :lol:

I'm new to this too, I assumed they were all the same?!

Anyone? Put us out of our misery?

Same. Phew!

S200KYS wrote:

OllieNZ wrote: Have fun fitting the rear corners mine took a bit of playing to get right.

Have you got a photo of yours fitted OllieNZ ?

And how do they attach? Do I need to keep any fixings off the old bumper?

I'll stick a closer pic up later but there should be a couple in my Jimny thread. The only fixings I reused were a couple of the arch screws.

Pretty self explanatory really. The screw through the side goes straight into the body. The 2 in the arch go into the existing captive nuts. I did have to grind/bend/tweak the metal arch extension to suit. A standard slitting disc works well on the fiberglass if you need to trim the corners themselves.

Thanks Ollie!

S200KYS wrote: Thanks Ollie!

No worries

Bit more today!

Finished the bodylift off... First the steering shaft went back in, then...



Everything else was refitted...

And then drove the Jim out to clean the garage floor... lots of mud had fallen off!





Looking better!





Transfer Box out, ready for the Rockwatt Rocklobster to go in, and I'd sold the old mounts through the for sale section of this fine board



Whipped the rear quarterlight windows out, drew round them and cut them out of the same tinted perspex that is going in the rear window of the fastback hardtop...



And then cut the rear window hole out!



Following the lines of the fastback as it narrows to the roofline...



Good rear visibility!

More in my own blog...