What did you do to your jimny today?

Fitting king pin bearings. It is officially one of my least favourite things to do. Not because it is difficult, it isn't. What it is is messy. And greasy. And I'm getting too old for that! Blergh.

Took my Jimny to RedMetal Fabrication for some more "upgrading"

Installed a new horn and fog lights, finaly.

Been hunting the cause of a worrying shake and rattle sound from the driveline today. I was almost convinced the transfer box bearings were gone so started pulling the props off. Feeling the box as i turned the various inputs/outputs and listening it all sounded ok. Did the same with the gearbox. Checked the oils. No problem found

Looked further back and found the rear panhard rod adjuster nut was stuck up from where it should be and the rod rattled on the thread. [strike]Took it off[/strike] cut it off (bolt cold-welded itself to the bush insert ). Lots of play in it so pinched the new one destined for Ulysses and fitted that. Need to weld this one to fix it i think, but needs length set first for Ulysses.



Test drive and no difference to the noise :evil:

Another look around under and realised there were some wheel studs missing from the passenger side rear :woohoo: :blink:



Pinched some from an old shaft and welded the buggers in this time :laugh:



Test drive and Yay! its fixed the mystery worrying noises

This goes to prove that the cause of a noise, wobble or vibration can be far from the obvious thing sometimes. Just glad I dont have to rebuild the transfer box!

Hi JimnyStu,

This looks interesting! Does this mean you may have a decent 3D model of the Jimny double-DIN aperture? My to-do list includes making some form of surround to neaten up the aperture around the 8" display I have in mine at the moment. Nothing fancy - just to cover non-display parts and match it to the centre stack bezel.

If you do have a 3D model, is it something you may be willing to share...?

Nick

Fitted a pair of Suzuki wind deflectors and finally got round to fitting the Jimnybits roof rack. I put the brackets on a week ago but had to wait for my brother-in-law to crop up and help me lift the rack up there. Damn thing weighs a metaphorical ton.

I had a perfectly good bar-mounted rack on it before but I'm in the middle of a two-stage house move and I'm going to have to get some pretty heavy items up there. I was concerned that the plastic feet on the stock roof rails wouldn't take the punishment, so I got this.