Ulysses

Thanks Dan, thats close but the place I was thinking of had more choice and was an aliexpress seller possibly.

Danst have been in touch... The throttle bodies are being made as I type and hes got a solution that will let me keep a snorkel, albeit a large one (4" was suggested - not sure how a drainpipe will look going up the car?!)

I can't wait to see the ITB set up....... Come on DanST....

sniper

More gadgetry...

With having the spare wheel mounted on top of the load bed cover it was getting a bit heavy to work by hand. I was going to source some gas struts and use them, but have gone for linear actuators in the end. This was for two reasons; 1) to automate it electrically and 2) security as when its down theres no lifting it up by hand. The actuators themselves worked out cheaper than the gas struts, but more expensive by the time I added in the control kit (by about £60).





control kit:


Ive messed about mounting them up today and strengthened the hinge mounts as they were poor. Working well even with the weight of the spare tyre, if a little slowly (that could be the old alarm battery im using to test it however). Just need to wire it in permanently and put the spare wheel back on. There are also some steel flat bars over the sides of the tarpaulin now to stop it being lifted off easily. The wireless control kit needs to go in the cab somewhere as its not waterproof and I want to wire in a backup manual switch incase of remote control failure.

The other wireless thing that the postie landed with was a new set of remotes to go on the winch...

Winchmax wanted about £45 for a new remote and reciever. This came from amazon for £12.99. Obviously its not as sexy to look at as the winchmax ones, but will do for my needs happily enough

Oh, and the ITBs are due to be done by end of next week :evil:

ITB's can't wait......

As for the struts.... can't tell your a sparky.....

As ever, top stuff.

sniper

I have those winch remotes. Other than there being a very slight delay in operation from pressing the button, they're great.

I can live with that and you get 2 in case one breaks or gets a flat battery.

Kirkynut

I have those winch remotes. Other than there being a very slight delay in operation from pressing the button, they're great.

I can live with that and you get 2 in case one breaks or gets a flat battery.

Kirkynut

Having got them wired in now, I see what you mean. Slight delay to go and it seems to go for a minimum of 1 second, which is sometimes more than you want. However I have the dash switch if precision is needed. They were easy to wire in and I put the reciever part in the dash behind the switch previously fitted to keep it dry.

In other news... I was finding that I had a huge amount of slop in the driveline. Fiddled about taking props on and off and discovered that it was the manual hubs fitted on the rear Ended up fitting some original suzuki vac hubs instead (with a bolt inside to keep them permanently 'on' as recommended by Andrey the Russian supplier of floating rear kits). That sorted the slack out nicely, but at the cost of easily disengaging the rear drive.
Also replaced the front output bearing and seal on the Rocklobster transfer box as there was an oil leak and play in the bearing, not that it made any difference when in 2wd, but its nice to know its all good and fresh oils

After that it was putting stuff together and finishing off the rear load cover. I had been slowly applying a coat a day of paint to the bits of metal getting bolted onto the cover, put it all together and pretty pleased with it:





and finally...

Still waiting on DanST for the throttle bodies. Lucky I wasnt in a rush :dry: