What did you do to your jimny today?

Daniel30 wrote: Welcome to the grabber club they look very nice, do they feel better??

Bloody typical always something to do after splashing out on the jimny :blink:

They feel a lot better than the standard bridgestones, on road at least, not worried about wet roundabouts now, LOL, also no noisier and gone up to 205/75/15 which i think gives a better ride

Nice one, I'm pleased you are finding the Grabbers an improvement too. It reassures me that I'm not just imaging the improvements as I feel much lore confident driving jimny, haven't noticed any more noise and I'm sure the ride is much more comfortable (not that I found it horrendous before, it's just better now. I think I'm the only one in my street that is looking forward to some bad weather this winter

Replace the king pins bearings on the off-side wheel with the kit I received from big-jimny-shop followed the how to on this site and had no problems carrying out the work. Used my stick welder to blob the races one at 10 o'clock the other at 2 o'clock came out with a few sharp blows using a punch and club hammer.

Gave the brake a clean and lub while as was at it. Took me 7 hours needed lots of tea-breaks.

Nice work well done

Thanks Daniel,,,

There were three points I discovered, which might be helpful to others doing this on a 2009 model.
There's no need to remove the four bolts holding the disc backplate, as these are prone to be rusted a did round one off and had to cut the head off, but as I say it wasn't required, so wasted some effort there (unless I'm missing something) Also the seal for the drive shaft I tried all tools to get it out, It a tight space and slippery too, finally a pair of pump grips just nipped it and it pop out in a second (I used to call them footprints). One other thing on the end of the drive shaft there is a m8 threaded hole I used this to screw in a temporary bolt then pulling on it, brought the shaft to the right position to clip in the circlip.

BGBrit.

Well done BGBrit, just had my kingpins done and used waterproof grease to hopefully help them last a little longer. It has definitely tightened up the steering. I hope you get your vacuum pipes sorted im guessing the terrain where you live needs it.

BGBrit wrote: Thanks Daniel,,,

There were three points I discovered, which might be helpful to others doing this on a 2009 model.
There's no need to remove the four bolts holding the disc backplate, as these are prone to be rusted a did round one off and had to cut the head off, but as I say it wasn't required, so wasted some effort there (unless I'm missing something) Also the seal for the drive shaft I tried all tools to get it out, It a tight space and slippery too, finally a pair of pump grips just nipped it and it pop out in a second (I used to call them footprints). One other thing on the end of the drive shaft there is a m8 threaded hole I used this to screw in a temporary bolt then pulling on it, brought the shaft to the right position to clip in the circlip.

BGBrit.

BGBrit wrote: Thanks Daniel,,,

There were three points I discovered, which might be helpful to others doing this on a 2009 model.
There's no need to remove the four bolts holding the disc backplate, as these are prone to be rusted a did round one off and had to cut the head off, but as I say it wasn't required, so wasted some effort there (unless I'm missing something) Also the seal for the drive shaft I tried all tools to get it out, It a tight space and slippery too, finally a pair of pump grips just nipped it and it pop out in a second (I used to call them footprints). One other thing on the end of the drive shaft there is a m8 threaded hole I used this to screw in a temporary bolt then pulling on it, brought the shaft to the right position to clip in the circlip.


Hi BG, did you have to disconnect the abs, going to do mine next week
Cheers, Ian

Hi there wombat,,,No, I didn't disconnect abs.. I followed the how to on this site, I've listed my three observations, which could help you, bearing in mind yours maybe slightly different, mine's a 2009 mod.. It has abs but I didn't do any thing in that area, drove it for about 20 miles today on tarmac and lanes all seems ok and no leaks from the seals.

Let me know how you get on. good luck.

Any problems let me know too, I'll help with advice if I can. I'm a novice though, just thought I'd have a go, and with the help of this site it worked out well.

BGBrit wrote: Took me 7 hours needed lots of tea-breaks.

Nice one. It is a longish job.

Yes, hellijohn i made a seat using the wheel and three inches of foam rubber and an old bit of carpet made it comfortable enough, but the old 62 yo back moaned a bit though. I think if I did it again maybe 6.45 hours HaHa. Good idea it use waterproof grease though Jim, hadn't thought of that..

BGBrit wrote: Yes, hellijohn i made a seat using the wheel and three inches of foam rubber and an old bit of carpet made it comfortable enough, but the old 62 yo back moaned a bit though. I think if I did it again maybe 6.45 hours HaHa. Good idea it use waterproof grease though Jim, hadn't thought of that..

As long as there's grease they'll be fine and I think no grease is truly waterproof maybe just more heavy duty. Next time you check your king pins for wear top it up with Lucas heavy duty grease or the stuff in the big jimny shop.

Sort of done to the wife's Jimny, bought 2 chipped keys for it from Timpson £60 both work fine.