New SJ owner - couple of q’s

 Bit of progress to report! Struggled with the Aisin carb, blew it through with the airline. Replaced the vacuum hoses. Just could not find a stable idle. 

Ended up soldering up the loom behind the fuse box to sort the head lights out. 

Went for a Mot… failed… Excessive brake travel. Poor emissions, no side repeaters and head lamp aim. 

Got the garage to aim the lights. No surprise it was cross eyed. I’d made no effort to sort it.

Seats and harnesses put in, bit of a fiddle with some 25mm flat bar onto the original seat rails. 

Got up to 40mph on the way to the test. Brakes interesting. Badly lacking power. 

Tried 4lo down the track home. This is good! Seems to be able 1mph per 1000rpm. Crawls down dead slow, should be fine for our baby tyro trials! 

Lack of free wheel hubs means it’s seems easy to get locked up in 4wd with out rolling back to release the drive line.

So busy weekend this weekend found a colour tune and sorted the mix and idle.
Set the float heights, carb full of water… so drained and added fresh fuel!
Finalized with the bum Dyno up the track up the hill. It’s not exactly rapid! 

Hope to get a test tommorow and see if we can find 5th gear and 55mph. 

Oh yes and the final bit, laid down the graphics on the bonnet - loving it! 

       

Couldn’t bring myself to cut up the wings, so went for a custom option using aftermarket jeep units chosen mostly for being available on Amazon prime… 

May have also played with the letraset machine… we aren’t taking ourselves very seriously here 

     

We have a ticket! Now for a week of driving to shake it down before the NL4x4 event at the weekend where we might just get it a bit dirty

Great news!

It’s a bloody riot driving this thing  

Looks awesome!