Aussie Jimny

Hi Guys, Thought i would share my jimny and our weekend shenanigans

thought i better update the thread.

have since fitted 15mm front coil spacers, trimmed my front bar, removed ARB and done plenty of 4 wheeling..

Havent updated this in a while, ive recently installed Jimny Bits arms, LED light bar, HID's, Rear speakers, Snorkel, Front Recovery Points.

Also the postman just dropped off a prop shaft spacer and shock relocation brackets...

got a dual battery system on the cards just gathering parts.

ill be heading to a local beach hopefully test out the new arms and get some pics.

ill throw some pics up of the latest mods too after the weekend....

Jimny_Aus wrote:

I am very interested in how you have done the recovery points. That is very similar to what I am thinking of doing.

Do you mind taking some more photos of them and brief run down on how they are attached?

yea no problems,

ive bent up the plate that the front bumper bolts to, drilled two holes in the bottom of the chassis rail, bolted the two 8000Kg Rated recovery hooks to and bent the plate back down.... im no engineer but im hopefull the bolts wont shear with a big 4x4 on the other end....

although im sure someone will be an expert on this and have something to say.. :laugh: :laugh:

hey guys I'm looking at setting up a second battery for the jim, i grabbed a battery tray of jimny bits, just wondering what battery and charge/isolator system everyone using....

i was thinking Yellow top D51R - T1 and a Red-Arc isolator..

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

so i had some fun getting my jimny ready for dual battery's.

Replaced the standard battery with the Optima and going to get a deep cycle battery this weekend and get it all hooked up..

Ran 3 power cables to the back of the car so i can run a fridge a camp light and something else (not sure what)

was a pretty easy install just need to mount the red-arc and the second 100amp breaker.

following week ill be fabing up a winch plate. about 90% finished with the design should be sweet as..

im looking as making a winch plate in the next week or so. any of you guys made your own ??

im thinking maybe 4-5mm plate and have it bolt through the chassis rail 4/m12's each side w/ crush tubes should be heaps what do you guys think??

I used 6mm plate for mine and bolted it with 3 M12 High Tensile. Pulled it with about 20 tonne of extra mud over 30m just fine.

I've not played/made a self made winch plate, sorry can't help!

What which rating are you getting? 9000lb? Might help with shear strength of bolts etc.

i got a 4000lb one to see how it holds up, but no doubt ill be upgrading it soon hahahaha.

i have a meeting with the fab guys to talk about how where going to tackle it.... ill let you guys know how i get on..