Dave's Daily Driver Build Thread...

Spent Wednesday working on the rear lights... You may remember I bought a European rear nearside (to us) light cluster, so the reverse lights are now the indicators, and the fog lights are now the tail and brake lights.

I'm adding a fog and reverse to each bottom edge (i.e. left and right) of the tailgate, and the number plate and light are going on the spare wheel cover...

No photos as it was just a bit of wiring and fiddling with bulb holders to make them fit, will take one at the end when it's all complete though

Still got it! Just not got time at the moment...

The blue one's on the garage at the moment awaiting some TLC after the Lakes weekend...

Oooh... thanks to ROCKWATT -



Rocklobster box and cradle to turn those 235/75's properly...

Fitted yesterday! -





Stick cut, bent and welded to the right shape...



2-High



4-Low

Finally mobile again...! Or not... I didn't have any oil "in stock" yesterday in the garage, and I wasn't paying Halford prices, so I waited for my oil suppliers to open this morning, filled the box and went for a test drive!



A nice quiet 'lobster box, speedo bang on, gearing fantastic, nice and nippy through the gears despite the 29"s (235/75/15s) fitted... Easily did 70mph on the the North Wales Expressway...! :whistle:

Just a few tidying up jobs to do now then... and fit the bucket seats, and rebuild the front axle and steering as the kingpins need doing, the previous owner supplied the bits for one side as he said it had a wobble (which I couldn't get it to do today?), and I've got a steering damper to fit too...

More soon then, now my mo-jo has mostly returned to normal

Lovely job Dave so jealous about the rock lobster if I knew some who could fit me one it would be next on my list

Well done looking nice

It's mostly just nuts'n'bolts Dan?

It's a shame that Rockwatt can't supply the transfer stick pre-bent ready... Although I understand they are all slightly different (mine has a 1" bodylift for instance), that's the only awkward bit about the install...

Dave

i see you've altered the front again
are those hooks i can see

Jack

Yes, didn't like the bumper / grill so gone back to basics...

The Jimny was a Cat-C damaged repaired, and the end of the chassis rails / bumper brackets were missing, so I tidied them up and fitted a pair of Warn recovery hooks I had lying around -

i like them

S200KYS wrote: It's mostly just nuts'n'bolts Dan?

It's a shame that Rockwatt can't supply the transfer stick pre-bent ready... Although I understand they are all slightly different (mine has a 1" bodylift for instance), that's the only awkward bit about the install...

Dave

what about my push buttons will i need manual hubs? and i will have to source a sj prop ? :blink:

I took a load of photos as I went along with the idea of writiing a fitting guide / blog...

As I had to let myself into the shop a couple of times to get some bits and nuts and bolts to fit it...

To fit a rocklobster / cradle kit, you also need -

A Samurai front propshaft to use on the rear of the Jimny
A Samurai intermediary prop from the gearbox to the transfer box

I needed to add -

4x 8mm x 25mm bolts and nylocs (rear prop to transfer box flange)
4x 10mm x 25mm bolts and nylocs (front prop to transfer box flange)
a 12mm / 15mm Prop Spacer and 8mm bolts and nylocs (for the intermediary prop to transfer box flange)
a set of 3 transfer box mounts (either original rubber bonded type of 'HD' bush and bolt stacks

And I needed to cut / weld / bend the transfer box stick to suit

What I didn't have was oil, and a piece of breather tube to fit into the transfer box breather elbow (comes fitted with one) whilst installing the box.

With your application (Dan) you'd have to re-open the hole in the transmission tunnel for the manual transfer box lever to stick through... The samurai box also has a '4x4 switch' on it which still sends the singal to the ECU to switch the vacuum free wheeling hubs on (if still fitted)...

I'll write it all up with photos soon

Brilliant Dave thanks that's handy being able to plug my hubs in and look forward to the write up I'm definitely swaying towards getting one sorted