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My Jimny is standard, with the exception of ATs. What would the collective advise as first upgrade ?
I'm thinking of (in no particular order):
New alloys with road wheels for general use (to be swapped with steel rims/ATs for pay and play/green lanes)
Snorkel (getting stuck in rather deep water at Slindon was a bit of a worry)
Welded recovery points.
I don't wish to stick my nose up at your AT tyres but I would consider those as my road tyres and make my first upgrade a suspension lift with a view of a further upgrading the tyres to larger MT's.
Then will come the winch bumper and winch and .........
As for a snorkel, you don't have to drive through water and you'll soon get sick of the maintenance it causes! Can't think of any water at Slindonia that needs a snorkel. The money saved on not buying a snorkel could buy most of a set of 3" lifting springs and shocks - maybe from Martin soon by the sounds of it!
If you are addicted to water though, as it does draw some people to it as much as it makes me avoid it, a snorkel is cheaper than a bent con rod after the engine has hydrauliced!
Some river/Ford crossings on greenlanes can need one in winter but again I wouldn't do the crossing.
Kirkynut
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win - Edgar Watson Howe.
Hi mate and welcome,
as the others have advised, get yourself a lift kit and some A/T tyres and it will go almost any where then the rest will come in time.
There are a few people on here with 4.5" lifts who I think are happy with them and use them on the road. The only thing is, the higher you go, the wider you need to go to maintain stability.
Then you need to make your arches wider to cover your tyres and do some body cutting to stop them catching.
I wonder what a lift that high is like on a side slope?
I considered it but will be sticking with 3".
Kirkynut
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win - Edgar Watson Howe.
kirkynut wrote: There are a few people on here with 4.5" lifts who I think are happy with them and use them on the road. The only thing is, the higher you go, the wider you need to go to maintain stability.
I wonder what a lift that high is like on a side slope?
Isn't generally a rule that for every inch you go up you should go the same in width?
Therefore on a 4.5 inch you'd need 10inch wide rims.........technically? But then you would also be running taller tyres.....................................
All that considered i'd want a cage!! Surely it would have a propensity to fall over?
myers647 wrote: if you want some good strong heavy duty recovery points that you weld on i can get you some made for £22 including P&P. just let me know.
Hi mate i have them on the front of mine they are very strong thick steel that i had welded onto the original towing eyes i cut my bumper a little so they look very neat and tidy..
myers647 wrote: if you want some good strong heavy duty recovery points that you weld on i can get you some made for £22 including P&P. just let me know.
thanks
james
Very interested, got any pics so I can see what they look like ?
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