Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Hello,

A great build! Your diagram shows the electric consumption part. For the charging I installed a Cyrix battery combiner. This works nicely so far and makes sure that the starting battery is charged first and after the starting battery is charged, then both batteries are connected and both are charged.

All the best from Vienna!

Thanks RainerK!

Yes, I ran a T-Max Split Charge on my last Jimny project, but wanted everything as simple as possible on this build

Cheers!
Dave

Just after lunch today a courier turned up...



...with my new Hi-Lift Jack... I let the old one go with the Jimny formerly known as S200KYS...

One of our members of staff that had been off sick for two weeks was due in at two, and I therefore wasn't due back until six, so I thought I'd have a few hours pottering in the garage...



I had a rummage through the metal box (in the corner of the garage under the bench) and surfaced with a round piece of 4mm steel plate that I'd bought a few of to make a ZookBOB product but never got round to, so I up-cycled it... I sat the foot of the H-Lift on it and drew around it... marked the position of the three holes in the foot, and where the middle of the main shaft sat, I marked a centreline and then a semi-circle to be hole-sawed out...



Hole-sawed, bent, drilled, and three cut-off bolts slipped through the holes as pegs to hold the base / foot of the jack...



The underside, the heads of the bolts welded on the back, along with a strengthening gusset...



So the pegs fit through the base / foot of the jack...



Welded around the X-brace diagonal...



And at the top the other half of one of the cut off bolts is welded into a drilled hole in the same diagonal brace, and then a plain nut threaded on and tacked underneath as a spacer... the shaft of the jack can then be clamped to it's top mount, with a nut for now whilst I wait for the wing nuts to arrive...



Mounted behind the seats, it's then just a matter of un-doing the wing nut and pulling the jack off it's mounts and out of the passenger-side half-door, easy access...

It needs a locking mechanism yet, I'll sort that when the padlocks arrive,,,



Still some time left in the afternoon...



So (being as the welder was out and running) I fitted my pool balls! The guy who bought the Jimny formerly known as S200KYS didn't like them?! So I gave him the gear knob from the buggy and ordered a SJ/Samurai transfer from an Indian supplier on eBay, as Maritu still produce them over there, and so I had my balls back... the gear knob (5 gears) simply screwed on to replace the one I'd sent him, but as the transfer box is a standard Jimny t-box but sat in a full cradle, the (4x4) transfer box pool ball wouldn't fit So I went into the stores and came out with a 12mm metric fine bolt and cut the thread off it and welded it to the top of the transfer box lever... Sorted!

I do like having my balls in my hands... :woohoo:

I finished the afternoon...



... by welding up the spare wheel / tyre mounting tray, including the mount for the ratchet Y-strap, and then ground and sanded it to perfection...

That's most of the back bits ready for assembly? I'll have a good ponder tomorrow before starting... some bits are under other bits, so they need doing in some kind of order...

Isn't it technically a 6 speed, it having reverse? :laugh:

Lambert wrote: Isn't it technically a 6 speed, it having reverse? :laugh:

:lol:

"New balls please!" :woohoo:

Another day, another weird creation, and another teaser...

What's this then?...



Dave