Ulysses

I haven't updated this thread in a while. Been busy with selling house and all that. Still not moved house yet but have a rest from the packing and sorting out at least. Ulysses is still slowly rusting away. I've had to repair one of the chassis crossmembers this month and a long patch in the passenger side chassis rail by the front radius arm mounting. How much patching is too much?!   Its solid enough now and isnt rattling or driving funny so maybe that will have to do. At least for now anyway. Its just a toy really so never gets used much and currently is living in a fairly damp garage. I guess a less rusty car at the start would have been a wiser choice maybe 

Enough doom and gloom though. Ive been checking out some lanes near where I am hoping to move to and managed to find one that just wouldn't have it going uphill when wet. I think I took the top layer off and exposed clay type mud. I could have reversed out of it, but there was a handy tree and I had a winch to make it the last 50mtrs. A short and sweet lane that nobody ever uses (except me)...         

Might be rusty Ricky but its going very well. 

Little laning jaunt out yesterday with CamoJimny and Paul & John in their silver Jimny. Poor weather for it unfortunately but we still had a good trek about the place. Too wet for some of the lanes so we avoided them but the ones we did were good. Some epic water splashes on the Westgate H lanes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GOPR3270 Unthank


GOPR3271 Westcowburn Head nr Slayley Hall


GOPR3272 Highclear


GOPR3273 Slayley forest 1


GOPR3274 Slayley forest 2


GOPR3275 Blanchland moor 1


GP013275 Blanchland moor 2


GOPR3276 Westgate H down East to middle


GOPR3277 Westgate H middle section


GOPR3278 Westgate H up west from middle


GOPR3279 Westgate H down west side


GOPR3280 Huntshield ford


GOPR3281 Coldberry end 1


GOPR3282 Coldberry end 2


GOPR3283 Hartside down


GOPR3284 Viol Moor


GOPR3285 Hazel rigg


 

Project update. Its been a while and I have a moment to do it.

I have been moving house so the laning has been on hold for a while. All of my garage stuff is in storage boxes and there is no space to work on the car at the moment. Brett is in the same boat so we decided to postpone most of this years trips due to garage and storage issues, as well as the general stress of moving. I have beaten him to it this week and moved but he isnt far behind. 

I did make it to the Bigjimny north meet and had lots of fun exploring parkwood/tong. Excellent day out and well worth the 3hr each way drive to get to it. I bailed early before it got messy to get home for the move. Ulysses performed well though there was a lot of CV clicking noises. I went down some of the harder lines but decided better of trying them back up. They even got a few cracking photos of Ulysses..

 

 

 

 

Thanks Martin and DrRobin for those excellent pics  

I have moved this week but it will be a while before I get a proper garage built so poor Ulysses is sitting out in the weather at the moment. A nice new garage is planned and hoping to be water tight by the winter. We shall see how long that takes to get done. 
 

Riccy, thanks for providing such a great show. I enjoy driving the easy stuff, but seeing you and the other guys tackle some of the hard slopes and muddy holes makes the event for me. It is truly amazing to watch some of things you can get down or up in a Jimny, even if it has been much modified.

If you want any shots in higher resolution, just PM me with an email address, or I will put them on Flickr for you.

Robin