What did you do to your jimny today?

Wired in the new horns I fitted a couple of nights ago. I had thought I'd done something wrong at first till I checked the relay (came with the horns) and found dry solder joints. So I fixed those and tested the relay worked. I got everything connected, fitted the fuse and gave it a try and it worked quite well. I then heard a shout from an upstairs window, it was my other half saying I'd scared the crap out of her cat so badly it now had hiccoughs. :lol:

Good work :evil: :evil: :whistle:

Today I replaced my off side kingpin bearings. What a mess. Bottom bearing inner race was in about 7 pieces and the rollers were almost spherical, the cv was essentially bereft of grease and had to be thoroughly cleaned as I suspect it had bits of bearing in it. And yet not a hint of death wobble which is odd, probably a mixture of settled springs and good dampers altering the castor angle and making it more neutral? Anyway all back together and ready for the trip to the head gasket place next week.

Oh and thanks to Martin for the prompt service with the bearings, ordered Monday fitted Thursday.

So today I finished off adding all the goodies I had purchased over the last few week.

I installed my replacement dash cam in its proper location, pleased I can no longer see it.

New drivers view of dash cam.


How it looks behind the mirror. Nice unit (ddpia mini2) very easy to use with supplied app.


Could not get my STEBEL NAUTILUS "cOMPaCT" in the location of the old horn, so got the welder out and over engineered a new bracket.


All installed, very loud, just what I wanted.


Finally installed the QC30 in place of the lighter, easy to fit and no need to disassemble the fascia as I had believed.

Nice to have the battery voltage on display, easy to see if things are going wrong.

Next job is to route dash cam supply to rear door, intend to mount old Nextbase facing rear. Sorry it's all mundane stuff, but that's what's happens if it's your daily transportation and a road Princess.
Mike

Well that was a lot easier than I expected. Now have hardwired feed to my rear door mounted dash cam. Managed to find a switched 15A live feed to the wiper motor which keeps all the wiring internal to the rear door. Fused Dash cam hardwire kit a £6 from eBay, fully bench tested by me before installation, can't fault it. If anyone is thinking of doing the same it's the Yellow / blue/ silver band wire to the wiper, it's a ignition switched +12v feed.
Smile, your are on camera..