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

kirkynut wrote: Looking good Dave. You'll be the man to go Laning with soon as it won't matter if members of your clan are in front or behind you, you'll still be able to recover them!

Me, Me, can I come Laning with you Mister.... pretty please

maverick wrote:

kirkynut wrote: Looking good Dave. You'll be the man to go Laning with soon as it won't matter if members of your clan are in front or behind you, you'll still be able to recover them!

Me, Me, can I come Laning with you Mister.... pretty please

How about we go out this Sunday Mav' ?

Jimny-Dave wrote: How about we go out this Sunday Mav' ?

Oooh, that sounds nice, thanks for inviting me!

Finished off the winch today...



Two 5 metre coils of 40mm² winch cable...



Down the driver's side of the chassis...



And the remote wired up first, and the (Dyneema Tom ) synthetic rope spooled onto the drum...



Then the rear winch aircraft isolator switch first, that has to be on before the winch rocker switch will work, were both wired up...



The wiring bridge across the engine bay... so, from right to left there is the isolator switch for the front winch, then a socket for a wander lead to control the front winch (must put the cap on that), then there's the recently installed isolator switch for the rear winch, then the isolator switch between that and the split charge relay pot is a manual link between the two batteries, so that I can over-ride the split charge system if I ever need to - to either winch with engine (alternator) power, or, if the engine battery is ever flat, I can "jump start" the engine using the winch battery. (The T-Max split charge system has a button to do this, but I found if the engine battery was completely dead there is no power to run the T-Max system and it won't manually link... but this big switch will).



Engine battery and Odyssey PC1200 winch battery, T-Max split charge system, and the manual link with a big isolator switch mentioned above and proper 40mm² cable again, if I need to winch with alternator/engine power if the Odyssey winch battery is ever depleted (last resort!).



ALL DONE! Twin winches... should be able to get out of anywhere now... IF it ever gets stuck... rear air locker and a front LSD and a Redacted Rocklobster box should mean it shouldn't ever really need the winches much, but they're there... just in case!

Only things left in the build blog I'd really like to do are -

* ORA Sill Bars still to assemble, powdercoat and fit
* Tree-slider-cum-roofrack to assemble when the component pieces arrive from the ORA
* Still got a JimnyBits fuel tank guard to fit

Then, maybe/sometime later -

* I've got a JimnyBits rear disc conversion kit to fit one day, when I collect together all the other parts
* I've got to add the gearbox breather hose when I can physically get to it...
* I would really like new tyres, rather than running remoulds... sometime...

SO, the build thread will slow down a bit now, and I'll stop bugging you all with constant updates

really nice jimny, top job and great thread

Thanks for the up-date Dave, almost there then ....

Jimny loses it's virginity... HENRYD!



From Brett's camera ^^



From my dash GoPro ^^

Chuffed!

Finished off the breathers today! Thanks to reading a post on here about fitting breathers... it inspired me to have another look at the gearbox breather...



Lying on my back in the garage I could spot the breather poking out in the transmission tunnel... Strange, as I'd always read that getting to the gearbox breather was a real chore?



Closeup... there's just a little bit of rubber pipe on the breather tube and then a small plastic cap on it...



So I reached up and pulled the cap off, and used that as a reference to order a reducer - 8mm internal pipe to 6mm plastic tube to match what is supplied in Martin's / BigJimny's excellent breather kit...



The reducer fitted perfectly into the end of the existing breather rubber tube, and the tube supplied with Martin's / BigJimny's breather kit fitted in perfectly...



And the other end of the tube plugs into the manifold blog I added to Martin's / BigJimny's breather kit (as my Redacted Rocklobster transfer box already had a 10mm elbow connected to it when I got it)

You may remember, the right hand 10mm black tube goes back to the transfer box, the 3 smaller 8mm tubes pointing down go to the front and rear axles, and now the gearbox breather, whilst the left one heads up to the snorkel's head -





And is neatly held to the genuine Safari snorkel with a couple of plastic P-Clips on the mounting bolts...

Breathers Complete!

Another job today... fix the "death wobble"... last time out greenlaning it was happening at all sorts of speeds, and lots of times... frustrating! So I vowed today to find out what was wrong! Armed with a list of things to check, and it what order, I soon discovered -



... that the panhard rod mounting holes have been elongated. I could hear metal on metal rattling last trip out, but I assumed the bushes had gone... I didn't think it would be this!



So I drilled some 6mm plate, to make a couple of new mounting plates...



And then thought I'd need one for the axle end too -



So I made a third one...





I then bolted them in place and then...



Welded them in place...

And then went for a test-drive........................... ALL SORTED!

Next job...

Recently, when pulling off in first, or when the engine is under-load offroading, I've heard a "fluttering" and suspected that the rear engine / gearbox mount had gone...

So, I ordered one from this very store - www.bigjimny.com/store/index.php?_a=product&product_id=215

Here it is -



And, when I took the old one out...



I was indeed right, the original one had delaminated, and the "fluttering" noise was the engine and gearbox moving on the mount when under load...

Jack under the gearbox, unbolt the old mount, pop in the new one...



And then tighten it all up -



Another test-drive, and we're all ready for another days 'laning this coming Sunday... the now traditional Christmas / New Year trip with Brett's Sausage Rolls and my wife's Mincemeat Roulades

I feel a blog coming on?

And here is that blog... another excellent days' 'laning with "our little group" -

www.bits4vits.co.uk/store/winching-and-w.../12/14/blog_294.html

Enjoy!

Here's a compilation of photos of my Jimny from the day













And my favourite photos from the day -





Taken with a "selfie-stick" !!!





Coming off the Wayfarer, and the valley below is full of mist...



Another, to the right of the photo before...

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