Dave's "S200KYS" Jimny 'laner Build...

Up-to-date Spec'

'54 plate soft-top Jimny, hiding under the "S200KYS" personal plate
Suzuki rear hardtop section (front soft-top section retained for the odd nice day we get!)
JimnyBits +4" Diesel front springs on the rear, Mercedes C180 Saloon Springs on the front ~5" lift
AVO adjustable +4" shock absorbers on the front, Trailmaster Combat shock absorbers on the rear.
Rockwatt Stainless Steel Adjustable Panhards
Zanfi +80mm rear panhard bracket
Rockwatt's Front and Rear Bump Stop spacers and poly bump stop cones
JimnyBits anti-rollbar disconnect system
Rockwatt Heavy Duty steering bars
Terrafirm Steering Damper on ZookBOB brackets
Rockwatt installed rear ARB Airlocker
Front diff currently 'open' as LSD is currently out, 26 spline converted
Front and Rear TrailGear HD Shafts (front 26 spline)
Rockwatt 4.87:1 Transfer Box (with two wheel drive low) and SPINED Bucket mount, with-
Speedo-ring to correct speedo for the-
Maxxis Trepador 31" x 10.5" tyres on JimnyBits 15" ET-30 offset Black Steel Modulars
Land Rover Defender +50mm wheel arches
Tyrex Free Wheel Hubs
JimnyBits (ABS) Battery Tray with Odyssey PC1200 winch battery fed by T-Max split charge system
ORA front winch bumper with Warrior 8,000lb "High Speed" Winch, Dyneema rope, dashboard and remote control
ORA rear bumper modified to fit round -
Rear Towbar adapted to take T-Max 9,500lb rear winch, Dyneema rope, dashboard and remote control
ORA 'flat-pack' roll hoop
ORA CAD-bent soft-top and rear fibreglass hard-top roof protection bars with -
Waffle Boards mounted on top (partly to protect the hard-top too)
My trusty old Cobra waterproof bucket seat
ARB compressor (for Airlocker) and tyre inflation line
JimnyBits rear disk brake (Renault Megane Calipes) conversion
ORA sill bars
JimnyBits front shock guards
ORA radius arm guards
JimnyBits fuel tank guard
(Genuine) Safari Snorkel adapted to sit inside bodyline with guard
BigJimny Breather Kit slightly modified to fit gearbox, transfer box and axles
Dash and handheld CBs
iPad with RAM mount running MemoryMap and TomTom SatNav (with Homer Simpsons voice!)
Front, Rear and inside work LED lights, all controlled from dash switch console
Hi-Lift Jack mounted across internal roll hoop
Ground Anchor behind driver's bucket seat
Zanfi bonnet net (for holding tree strop, etc)
Strops, Shackles, Bridles, Ropes behind passenger seat
Saw, Axe, Bolt Cutters, Rigid Tow Pole behind spare wheel mounted on rollhoop stays
Tools and Spares in two tote boxes behind the spare
Cordless Bosch 36v Chainsaw
Cordless Angle Grinder
First Aid Kit and Fire Extinguisher

Unfortunately, the Bits4Vits domain expired recently, and I won't be renewing it - all the remaining stock is on eBay (link below) so the website and email have expired... that also means that a lot of my historic photos in this - and other - threads have disappeared.

Recently though I've been using photos from the greenlaning.blog and hosted here on the BigJimny board, so recent posts will appear alright.

The end of an era

I'm still selling products both as Bits4Vits and ZookBOB on eBay though... links in my signature below

Off to Northumnerland for the weekend...

Not a place we've greenlaned before so all the 'lanes will be new to us, rather than going "over old ground"...

Riccy has planned and checked all the routes though, so although they're all new, they're all passable and legal!

Blog soon

We’re not that far East .... Hexham is as far as we go


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The blogs of this weekend's Northumberland Weekend are now up -

Saturday - greenlaning.blog/2018/09/11/northumberla...e-saturday-08-09-18/
Sunday - greenlaning.blog/2018/09/11/northumberla...two-sunday-09-09-18/

The weekend's route -





At the highest point on a greenlane in England







Chollerford Steps...



Probably the scariest 'lane I've ever driven... heart-in-mouth arse-clenching-seat !

Superb weekend guys, Thanks for the blog Dave, fantastic as always

That Tynehead lane has got to be on the most dangerous roads list surely! Wouldnt fancy that ford that pushes sideways in icy conditions

My S200KYS Jimny is due an MOT in early October, so it's time to make some preparations towards it...

The windscreen has had a couple of cracks in it for sometime, but it passed last year as they were out of the designated visibility zones dictated in the MOT, this year it has a couple more cracks and the old ones have spread a bit -



So on Wednesday of this week I rang the insurance company and after some questioning it's booked in for this coming Tuesday, so this morning I prepared it ready for the mobile windscreen replacement guy...



I made the front loop so that it could come off for things like this... so it's bolted to the back section with 10mm bolts on each side...



And fastened down under the front soft-top roof section on each side with four massive pop rivets...

So, un-bolt the bolts, drill out the rivets, and the ones that hold the snorkel guard to the snorkel, and then pop indoors and drag the youngest daughter's boyfriend off the sofa, and get him to work through his hangover and help me lift the front section off -





Having stuck it on the drive he then went back for more coffee and another nap The youth of today...



I then removed the wipers, the grill under the windscreen, got the snorkel out of the way with a block of wood, and then cleaned everything thoroughly so it's all ready for the windscreen guy to do his bit on Tuesday...

I didn't want him turning up and refusing to do it if the bars and snorkel where in the way...

Meanwhile, my electrical gremlin has been identified (it wouldn't start on the Northumberland weekend, but it would run... so we carried on for the two days trying not to stall anywhere as it would mean a jump start!)... turns out the battery is furbared and was only chucking out 11 volts, so a new one is on order and will turn up tomorrow, Monday...

Just needs a bad connection / earth sorting out on the offside brake light / indicator, and a popping out radius arm bush sorting, and then it's ready for it's MOT just after our next trip to the Lake District on the 7th of October... And then, no doubt, I'll probably have a list of things to sort out for the MOT?!