What did you do to your jimny today?

j999pre wrote: Took gearbox out and cat, replaced clutch, pressure plate and release bearing and gearbox mount. All on a 55 plate. Working on the floor on my back took about 3hrs. Just got to put it back together now.

I reckon it took me about 20 hours all in to do the same job :O:O

Collected my Jimjam from my father in law's workshop as he rebuilt the starter for me (that's what he does for a living - rebuilds starters and alternators and fits them for people). It had been sticking on for a second when I released the key and then started to whir but not turn the car over.

There were two issues, the first was the mud inside it stopping it from disengaging when I released the key - I guessed that one - the second was a busted drive, which has been replaced with a new one, so now it's like new and starts it lovely!

He had it for just over a week as real customers take priority - I missed not having it around, but at least the old thing starts nicely now!

Kirkynut

mine was reasonably quick but had loads of already checking it over, I done a mk3 golf clutch last night in about 2 hours but I think clutches are easy when you have done one on that car before. one thing I found with the jimny was that I couldn't see a way that the gearbox would come out and done the clutch through the gap which will happen again if I have to do any more

idiotmobil wrote: mine was reasonably quick but had loads of already checking it over, I done a mk3 golf clutch last night in about 2 hours but I think clutches are easy when you have done one on that car before. one thing I found with the jimny was that I couldn't see a way that the gearbox would come out and done the clutch through the gap which will happen again if I have to do any more

Yeah I had never done one before, didn't have all the right tools so had to improvise.

The other problem is that I only had my lunch hour to unpack my tools from the shed, do stuff then pack all away again in my lunch hour, which meant I could not really get going.

sure it would be a lot easyer next time and if you lift the jimny up on big wheels and suspension makes it even easyer had mine on 4 car ramps and I can sit under it with loads of room to move around with every car was like that

idiotmobil wrote: sure it would be a lot easyer next time and if you lift the jimny up on big wheels and suspension makes it even easyer had mine on 4 car ramps and I can sit under it with loads of room to move around with every car was like that

I had mine up on four ramps. Luxury!

The vvt gearbox is shorter so can come out easier. The 17mm bolts on these vvts are super tight though. Normal m13a's seem easier to undo. Weird !

I found there was ample room with just sliding back wasted quite abit of time trying to get it out

Stuck on a vinyl front number plate on the bonnet.

GuardianAngel wrote: Stuck on a vinyl front number plate on the bonnet.

And do you like it better?

Bought another one to tinker about with on my days off from work. Very tempted to cut the back off it and build something with a few friends help :laugh:

helijohn wrote:

GuardianAngel wrote: Stuck on a vinyl front number plate on the bonnet.

And do you like it better?

I smashed my plate off hitting a deep stream so figured this would be a better idea, but yes I think it looks a bit cooler and meaner