What did you do to your jimny today?

Took my Jimny for a 200 mile round trip to see my Mum on her 90th birthday. Drove over the North Yorkshire moors in glorious sunshine, both ways, it doesn’t get much better unless you are off the black stuff and on the very soft stuff.

I could really feel the difference of replacing the kingpin bearings and even the engine seem happy to rev and pull, we made the trip in a record time [for a Jimny].

Today I have been mostly reorganising the wheel change tools which live permanently in the car from under the passenger seat to the front of the plywood liner to improve access and more importantly minimise rattle. I also added a pair of support legs into the footwells to see if it helps with the creaking while I continue to research the expanding foam idea. Also lubricated the door hinges and hand brake lever. Quite productive for me recently.

Hand throttle instal.
I used a Shimano 6 speed shifter and a Shimano gear cable. 
mounted on gear stick, cable through gaters and up above gear box, up and into engine bay.  Cable tie or wire twist on to lifting ring on top of bell housing.
Drilled hole in tab where accelerator cable cover ends and finished hand throttle cable in the same way with bike fittings.
Drilled and tapped hole into metal  tab on black plastic spring thingy that the accelerator cable ends on.
Mounted a standard old fashioned brake wire clamp bolt into tapped hole for adjustment.
The shifter then operates the throttle exactly the same as the stock accelerator cable running parralel to it and causing no interference. Looks factory too.
£20 for bits, and a hour of my time. 

Computer illiterate so no pics. You get the idea tho.


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Played with tension, 1 click 1200 RVs 2 clicks 2500rvs that's with reduction years and 30s in 1st. 
 

 
Getting my MOT today. Wich explains the ridicoulus 195 tires on 1985 SJ wheels. Max 5% deviation on the tires so these are ok so my non mot'able 235 BFG is off to be balanced. 

Cleaned the drum brakes, disabled the muddy fog lights, removed too many front parking lights, fixed the auto drl relay and put silicone spray on Seat belts so they return like lightning. Hoping there is not much more. 
Results later

Good luck

Thanks Lambert
MOT was Ok with no remarks.