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Excellent news. Another year of happy modification awaits.

The rear limit straps are on but the fronts will have to wait until next Tuesday as I had asked the guys at ICE4x4 to sort a prop change (courtesy of Jackonlyjack) and some squeaks had developed at the back end.....



Shows how limited the downward travel is on my road biased suspension...... The squeaks were traced to a loose shock top mount bolt and a Panhard bolt that was loose also.

All quiet on the way home....

sniper

Has the rear prop click gone now matey ?
Get yourself a paint pen and put some witness marks on the now tight bolts
So at a glance you can see if they've moved

jackonlyjack wrote: Has the rear prop click gone now matey ?
Get yourself a paint pen and put some witness marks on the now tight bolts
So at a glance you can see if they've moved

Spot on thanks mate, I have new UJ's to rebuild the other one. I had noticed all your witness marks and it made me smile. The first time I saw them I was only a small boy, on a victorian pump house engine that I visited on a school trip. Rally teams always had a white under belly and red witness marks when I grew a little older. Got to love good engineering practice....

sniper

First day out since the refurb, a gentle trundle around the Peaks with Andy Atkinson, another member of the "Jimny Jaunts" group. He kindly prepared the route and we met in Buxton....

No car problems and all went well, we had time to stop for a pint and a sandwich....



sniper

As previously mentioned, I had to strike a deal with the finance fhurer to get the funds for the truck cab conversion. That meant that there was no money for laning trips for the rest of this year.... Covid came along and that put the kibosh on trips with the jimny jaunts group who lead most of my driving trips. This lessened the pain somewhat, at least I did not have to watch my mates go out whilst I couldn't....

With the group cancelling trips until next April now, the pain of being skint might be continued for a few months more......

Whilst investigating a possible gearbox swap to a Mazda MX5 box, a friend who had visited a sports car manufacturer suggest I contact them. They are a local firm so I popped along and was greeted by Richard one of the gaffers who showed me around. Long story short (separate post), the box swap can be done but it was going to be next year.....

Whilst there I was told about some ITB's which is another thing I want to do....



As you can just see, the ITB set up which is made in-house is attached to a Ford 2ltr Zetec unit with MX gearbox attached, it's kitted to fit the company's Lotus 7 style cars but looks a treat. I fell in love with the set up.....

So the plan is to fit a 2 litre Ford Zetec on ITB's with MX5 gearbox, early next year.... Only about 40 kg heavier than the current set up with somewhere around 180 bhp and 150nm of torque.

In the meantime, the car is going in to ICE4x4 in Bolsover on the 19th for an R7ME gearbox and manual transfer swap, this will let me run 29-30" tyres...

Lots happening and lots to look forward to....

sniper