Kirkynut's Jimny (aka Daddy's Tractor) - The Evolution continues...

I have replaced the rubber battery bracket that came with the Jimny Bits battery tray with a strap that I have successfully used on batteries before in my old SJ and when the battery was in the boot of the Jimny.

This strap relieves a problem that I was having with the bonnet stay not being able to be pushed past the rubber bracket too easily. I hadn't been happy with it since fitting it but once it was fitted I had had enough that day, so this morning I had another look at it and went with the strap.

I also had a look at the props to make sure there was enough spline on one end of each prop going into the other half and that they were not going to split under full articulation - which I've seen done before on Zooks. They're fine - otherwise I'd have needed prop spacers. I had not tested it on full articulation since fitting the castor correction arms and did not know how much they would effect it.

This came to mind when someone on the forum asked me asking if they needed prop spacers. I thought I'd tested mine with extreme articulation when I fitted my new springs and castor corrected arms but when I looked at the photos of this test I clearly had standard arms on!

I've not used my Jimny in anger for over a year and certainly not since putting the castor correcting arms on you see, so it's just had a pampered life over the last 18 months or so, with me getting everything just right.

We have a Lake District Greenlaning holiday booked in May 2014, so it will get a workout then! It will be the first time I have done that sort of Greenlaning with the Rocklobster in. The Rocklobster and the new springs, shocks, bushes and castor correction will hopefully make it a much nicer car to drive on the lanes and make it less taxing on the Jimny and it's clutch.

I also have a second hand Jimny Bits plastic snorkel in the post from Yuppybear. Now this is meant to mount to the A pillar, but of course I have my cage there. I shall therefore have to move it forward on the wing an inch or so. The airbox may have to move with it. This may or may not be doable - if not I shall have to sell it on but I am hoping it will be OK as I want a snorkel and one that doesn't look too home made. We shall have to wait and see!

Kirkynut

What size wheel and tyres Is this running in this photo, also do they catch on the inner wing/chassis

Thanks

kirkynut wrote: I also have a second hand Jimny Bits plastic snorkel in the post from Yuppybear. Now this is meant to mount to the A pillar, but of course I have my cage there. I shall therefore have to move it forward on the wing an inch or so. The airbox may have to move with it. This may or may not be doable - if not I shall have to sell it on but I am hoping it will be OK as I want a snorkel and one that doesn't look too home made. We shall have to wait and see!

Kirkynut

Can it not run up the tubing?

helijohn wrote:

kirkynut wrote: I also have a second hand Jimny Bits plastic snorkel in the post from Yuppybear. Now this is meant to mount to the A pillar, but of course I have my cage there. I shall therefore have to move it forward on the wing an inch or so. The airbox may have to move with it. This may or may not be doable - if not I shall have to sell it on but I am hoping it will be OK as I want a snorkel and one that doesn't look too home made. We shall have to wait and see!

Kirkynut

Can it not run up the tubing?

That was going to be the plan but the tosser conned me!

The issue with a standard snorkel is that the tube from the snorkel to the airbox goes through the wing in a certain place, so to use the snorkel it would be forward by a few inches to run down the cage and it would go through the wing in a different place, so the airbox would have to go forward & the inner wing cut.

But its academic now as it doesn't exist!

Kirkynut

I am thinking of getting one of my mates to make a proper stainless steel snorkel a little like the Defender TD5 one, he is the best Tig welder I have ever seen and has made bike exhausts for me in the past. Failing that its the one from Japan me and Stu Stu were looking at.

Decalwizard wrote: I am thinking of getting one of my mates to make a proper stainless steel snorkel a little like the Defender TD5 one, he is the best Tig welder I have ever seen and has made bike exhausts for me in the past. Failing that its the one from Japan me and Stu Stu were looking at.

Great minds... I was thinking of some 70mm id stainless and asking my mate to weld it and bend it. Or at least an elbow to come off the airbox at 90' through the wing. Then flexible pipe up the outside of the wing & up the cage. Or the whole thing in stainless.

We shall see.

That Jap one is on the wrong side as its for the 600cc turbo one.

Kirkynut