What did you do to your jimny today?

So I have a list of problems with the jimny building up, many of them recurring, admitadly a lot of the faults are due to the treatment it receives off roading, but none the less my love for the jimny is beginning to wear thin.

Anyway, brakes are leaving a lot to be desired, I found the rear axle has decided to leak its oil into the drum so new bearing kit ordered. Also have a creak from the front that needs investigating, kingpins still to do on one side, and now an oil leak from the side that I already did, and a new oil leak from the engine that appears to be coming from the rear main seal

Hopefully il have chance to take it off the road for a few weeks in the summer and give it some proper attention. But at the moment I need to use it and it's getting annoying.

Oh well. Give it a week until the works all done and I'm sure il love it again. Just all comes at once, my bike has a misfire aswell so it's back to leg power for a while grrr.

Wiltec17 wrote: So I have a list of problems with the jimny building up, many of them recurring,

Anyway, brakes are leaving a lot to be desired,
Also have a creak from the front that needs investigating,
kingpins still to do on one side,
now an oil leak from the side that I already did,
and a new oil leak from the engine that appears to be coming from the rear main seal
it's getting annoying.

You have my sympathy. I know that yonking off road hurts these things but they should really stand up to more!

In the jimnys defence after canewdon I'm just glad I didn't break anything on the day :laugh: woke up to a completely flat tyre the other day which wasn't cool.

At least the suns out, il crack on with it and get it right up to scratch before long. Hopefully when it's all sorted it will be a nice little runabout for the summer without much going wrong.
Must do a cambelt aswell as I don't know when that was last done :silly:

idiotmobil wrote: Is that a standered panhard if so I plead with you to not make a adjustable one fron a standered on they are so week it needs to be upgraded I bent my old one with just my hands and they have been known to give out on roundabouts etc and your roll over. Just will be a bit of waste of money for you not to buy some 25mm cds tube and weld the old ends on and have some proper ones if thats what you have done then scrap yhis whole comment lol

I agree.. looks like you have butt-welded your threaded sections onto the end of the tube also.. take a look at any of the Heavy duty aftermarket ones and they all have an insert that goes inside the tubing which clearly provides more support.. I'd be reluctant to take this on the road being honest because you have weakened an already weak part. good idea though:)

Yellostreak wrote:

idiotmobil wrote: Is that a standered panhard if so I plead with you to not make a adjustable one fron a standered on they are so week it needs to be upgraded I bent my old one with just my hands and they have been known to give out on roundabouts etc and your roll over. Just will be a bit of waste of money for you not to buy some 25mm cds tube and weld the old ends on and have some proper ones if thats what you have done then scrap yhis whole comment lol

I agree.. looks like you have butt-welded your threaded sections onto the end of the tube also.. take a look at any of the Heavy duty aftermarket ones and they all have an insert that goes inside the tubing which clearly provides more support.. I'd be reluctant to take this on the road being honest because you have weakened an already weak part. good idea though:)

+1 any reasonably strong bloke can bend a stock panhard by hand!!

Yep very week ive just made uprated obes and went abit overkill with 25mm 3mm wall cds I tryed bending one by juming up and down on it theres no chance but the old one well see these pic and this is just by hand

got my new MOT today

brake pipe corrosion advisory

slight play on steering pivot points advisory (kinpins - what a surprise)

happy days

Had a race with another jimny..............almost travelled forward in time;)

jonesyba420 wrote: Had a race with another jimny..............almost travelled forward in time;)

Who won??? :laugh:

My friend's 'Jimny, fitted a 2" seat lift for him on Tuesday then enjoyed a ride along the coast & up in the mountains to the 'Green Line' Turkish Border yesterday .......

Very nice Tadpole!!

Tadpole wrote: My friend's 'Jimny, fitted a 2" seat lift for him on Tuesday then enjoyed a ride along the coast & up in the mountains to the 'Green Line' Turkish Border yesterday .......

Looks nice. How was the seat lift??