Dave's Daily Driver Build Thread...

THANKS!

There's a few more things to do, and a few more Bits to arrive before I'll be happy with it though...

Keep on modding!

kirkynut wrote: It looks rather cool by the way! Kirkynut

just a shame its RED

kirkynut wrote: What's wrong with red?

It's not really a Green Laning colour, is it??

kirkynut wrote: What's wrong with red?

Kirkynut

Just a little bit too close to pink, without being pink

Bodylift almost complete today...





Will have to get that towbar off!

Only an inch, but makes more room for the nice big tyres...



Steering shaft is too short now though? Even after just a 1" lift?



More soon, run out of time today...

Just updated my build blog on my own site with the bodylift procedure if anyone is interested, I won't repeat it all here, but you can see it here - www.bits4vits.co.uk/store/daily-driver-jimny/blog_340.html

The steering spacers arrived this morning, usual excellent service from Rus and the gang at JimnyBits -



Angle grinder, vice, punch, hammer, swearing, spanners...and a few minutes later...







And then a quick spray of paint to tidy it all up and detract from the eye of the yearly inspection man!

As I say, lots more in the blog if you want to have a read...

Dave

I mentioned in the blog that one of the consequences of bodylifting a vehicle is having to raise the bumpers up to match the height of the repositioned body, as the bumpers are attached to the chassis...

Not a problem on my new build though, as new "bumpers" are going on...





A quick call to Darren at KAP - www.kapsuzuki4x4.co.uk / 01535 610840 and a front trim panel and rear corner trim panels are due to arrive next week...

These will also add to the minimal lift, by making it appear taller, and getting rid of the old bumpers that would have fouled on the big tyres, and made the Jim' look lower...

I rang KAP again today, as perusing their website for the above two photos, I noticed their adjustable panhards are only £114 (whereas - for instance - JimnyBits ones are £150... so quite a saving!)

So with my order for the bumpers not due to ship until Tuesday I asked them to add a pair of panhards to my order, be rude not to at that price... and standard ones are a bit flimsy!

It will look the business when done Dave
Going to look at the blog
are you going to do a blog on the wiring
for the lights as i will be doing the
rear corner mods

Jack

jackonlyjack wrote: It will look the business when done Dave
Going to look at the blog
are you going to do a blog on the wiring
for the lights as i will be doing the
rear corner mods

Jack

Yes, will do... tend to blog everything (too much?!)

It's just a matter of swapping the light fittings around, so that the indicators go where the reverse were, the brake and tail go where the fogs were (hence buying a left-hand-drive light cluster as it will have a fog hole at the bottom and not just a blank like ours), and then fit a new fog and reverse lower down (LED ones have come from eBay)... more on them soon...