What did you do to your jimny today?

idiotmobil wrote:

GuardianAngel wrote: Went laning tonight with another Jimnyer in Hampshire. Water Lane was "special" :laugh:

water lanes great di you do the one over by fourmarks as well and the ones north of there also around frenshum pond is quite good as there sand

Unfortunately I don't know them by name but there were a few really rutted and muddy ones. One lane in particular was really thick, reddy/orange mud that started by a farm.

Top radiator hose decided to pop and split, spewing antifreeze . Been weeping for weeks, replacement still not arrived, had to resort to making one from Grecato-super-flexible-hose , worked a treat, back on and off the road :woohoo: . Luckily no other damage, spotted steam and stopped the engine. Phew.

Cool, would pay good money to have ecu flashed!

Mart

Wired the rear speakers in (factory mounts) it sounds better.

Planning a drawer system. Because i use it for hunting and fishing itll be good to have somewhere to put wet waders and jackets away without getting everything else wet. I am thinking two vertical drawers on one side and a box on the other for a dog box. Anyone have any ideas?

Installed a cb radio today with the aerial mounted on the boot. Im picking up pretty bad alternator whine tho so Im going to run power directly from the battery instead of from the radio.

irishguy123 wrote: Installed a cb radio today with the aerial mounted on the boot. Im picking up pretty bad alternator whine tho so Im going to run power directly from the battery instead of from the radio.

Shouldn't you fit a suppressor to the alternator??

irishguy123 wrote: Fitted my wheel spacers which make it look a lot better even when it's still on the original size tyres. Also took delivery of a CB, mounting kit and antenna and 5 hankook dynapro's atm from camskill.

I'd be interested how you get on with dynapros, I'm considering them as my next AT tyre.

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helijohn wrote:

irishguy123 wrote: Installed a cb radio today with the aerial mounted on the boot. Im picking up pretty bad alternator whine tho so Im going to run power directly from the battery instead of from the radio.

Shouldn't you fit a suppressor to the alternator??

Im hoping I wont have to with a direct feed, but yeah that will probably be the next step!

Big_Sam wrote:

irishguy123 wrote: Fitted my wheel spacers which make it look a lot better even when it's still on the original size tyres. Also took delivery of a CB, mounting kit and antenna and 5 hankook dynapro's atm from camskill.

I'd be interested how you get on with dynapros, I'm considering them as my next AT tyre.

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I've already ran a set for 50'000 miles on a grand vitara before I bought the Jimny, and I reckon when I sold it there was another 15000 miles easy on the tyres! My off-road experience with them was minimal- nothing more than a few wet grassy fields, but during the particularly bad snow we got a few years back they were fantastic and when you consider how cheap the are (£50 from camskill) I cant think of a better choice of tyre.

GuardianAngel wrote:

idiotmobil wrote:

GuardianAngel wrote: Went laning tonight with another Jimnyer in Hampshire. Water Lane was "special" :laugh:

water lanes great di you do the one over by fourmarks as well and the ones north of there also around frenshum pond is quite good as there sand

Unfortunately I don't know them by name but there were a few really rutted and muddy ones. One lane in particular was really thick, reddy/orange mud that started by a farm.

in by a farm round to the left then a long muddy straight lane, sounds like the one im on about

parriehunter wrote: Wired the rear speakers in (factory mounts) it sounds better.

Planning a drawer system. Because i use it for hunting and fishing itll be good to have somewhere to put wet waders and jackets away without getting everything else wet. I am thinking two vertical drawers on one side and a box on the other for a dog box. Anyone have any ideas?

loads of idea's at Loading a Jimny - SA 4x4 Community Forum

Fiiddled about with the CB some more today, when I wired it up I took the power feed of the ignition switched power line to the radio but this resulted in a lot of interference, so I tried it from the permanent power line instead and its actually a lot better. Don't have to bother running a line to the battery now!

Then I removed the Jimny badge from the rear, and moved the rhino badge over to replace it. I also removed the spare wheel cover and I think it looks a lot better!