Broken Lateral Bar Bracket...

I was turning round at a friends yesterday when I heard a clunk! At first I thought nothing of it as I was hard over on full lock so thought maybe a bearing had given way. I set off and all of a sudden thought I was on a boat... The body roll was unbelievable! I managed to make it to a petrol station where I checked the wheels, all seemed fine?.. I thought I could try limp the 2 miles home along a back lane that sees little in the way of traffic. I made it back home doing no more than 20mph and parked up. I then had a good look round the truck and found this:





It seems the bracket or whatever it is that holds the drivers side of the lateral rod in place has snapped.

I've looked but can't seem to find any new ones but wasn't sure whether this is part of the chassis or not. Would it be a difficult job fabricating something to do the job. I did wonder whether a panhard rod relocation bracket would be able to be used?

its the panhard rod chassis mount,

to my knowledge it will be a fab job as its a part of the chassis or at least welded to it in the factory, and isnt a replaceable part as such,

the idea of the panhard relocation bracket could potentially work if welded to the chassis but would it not be as easy to make one up

I thought that would be the case...

Next job is to head down to the 4x4 specialists to see how much this is going to cost me... I need it sorting as soon as possible as I use the truck every day for work so can't afford it to be off the road.

That looks nice and rotten, it should just be a case of cutting back the rotten stuff and welding in some new steel to replace the bracket thats snapped off, but the cost is gonna depend on how much they have to cut it back as it looks fairly corroded and the remaining metal could be quite weak.

Also, if the Jimny is used as your daily drive, perhaps you should pay a bit more attention to it's underside, to prevent the rest of the suspension parts from rotting.

TomDK wrote: Also, if the Jimny is used as your daily drive, perhaps you should pay a bit more attention to it's underside, to prevent the rest of the suspension parts from rotting.

i was thinking the same thing mines used mainly for offroad and looks new compeared to this, looks like if you dont other things are going to come along shortly