Dave’s long-term Lil’Bugga Buggy Build

Baloo i'm running mk1 Honda CRV rear coils on my Jimny
These are quite soft and cheap 
~around 3" lifted above standard 

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Baloo i'm running mk1 Honda CRV rear coils on my Jimny
These are quite soft and cheap 
~around 3" lifted above standard 

Hi     thats the  sort of info i need,  i want longer than stock but softer rate as i think my buggy will be half the weight of a  standard jimny    thanks Jack

 

with both my Zooks off the road, this project hasn't started yet

Hoping to get back to it late October... depending on how the Boogie head repairs, and now my NGeeVee road car repairs go

Run of bad luck at the moment... I've now been recovered five times this year...

Made a start today!

Here's the blog page -  lilbugga.wordpress.com/2021/10/20/making-a-start-axles/

Stripped and rebuilt the rear (front) diff to convert it from 22 spline to 26 spline to suit the TG HD shafts -

 

And then cleaned the axle up ready for cutting soon -

 

 

Unlike my rich friend Baloo on here I couldn't afford to send them for media blasting... I had a wire brush attachment in my angle grinder!

So the axle tube needs 13" / 33cm cut out here'ish -

 

Lots more photos in the blog linked above...

More soon...!

Excellent work that man. Didn't think you'd be long out of the garage with the new boogie!

Bit more today...

There's lots more photos and blurb in the blog -  lilbugga.wordpress.com/2021/10/24/narrowing-the-rear-axle/ - and on facebook too, but here's a summary!...



Full width front axle, starting point...



Committed now (or I should be! :lol: )



Ooops, the anglegrinder won't fit into the radius arm mount?!



Hand job it is then!



:lol: Awww, look at that bless it!



Looks better with the shafts in though, gives you a better idea of the final (50") track... (The Boogie is 65")



Bevelled up and ready to weld up...

I’ve ordered a length of M12 studding to insert through the axle and bolt it up with big washers on the end to keep everything in place and aligned for welding up. Something a "friend in the industry" suggested, and what I’ve seem done similar on “Texax Metal” on the Discovery Channel.



Some thick wall box section based gussets will be added like this, and the -

 

Ball gussets (also from a friend in the industry) under the axle too...

More soon!