Gaz's reasonably priced jimny..

Not much really been happening on the jimny front but thought id give a small update.

Couple of weeks ago i was invited on a days laning on another forum,i posted pics a couple weeks ago,(was quite a special day watch this space )the saturday before i gave the jim a quick once over and as expected the 4wd was playing up,i was getting slightly fed up with the vaccum hubs and thought this is all i needed,so id already replaced all the vac pipes under the vehicle,hubs cleaned and re-sealed a couple of times,also cleaned the little filters under the bonnet on the vac pumps themselfs,thought to myself it can only be now the vac pumps are old and tired 13 year old and 118000 miles,any way after a bit of a play about i found that the filter that goes between the inlet manifold and vac pump had a hairline crack in it so i had plenty of spare hose just put a new piece in without filter and click clack into 4wd ! it was working better but still very slow to drop in so after more fiddling i found a hose that runs off the top of the vac pump and heads off behind the air box and into behind the drivers wing,i know there is some sort of canister behind there from when i did my snorkel that this pipe goes too,for quickness and to try i just blanked it off with a bit of pipe and a screw and the 4wd has never worked better it was a temp fix as it was late on sat afternoon and i wanted the truck working for an early start sunday,but ive left it as is and i havnt had one problem with the hubs not dropping in or flashing 4wd light since,and ive been laning 2 more times since this without fault,i was all set to buy manual hubs but i like the idea of the vac hubs and now they are working fine they will stay,im guessing ive upped the pressure in the vac system with this bypass,i may try and source a little filter for the inlet pipe but over the moon,also ive fixed 2 other jims with this method and they are both over the moon,couple of pics this may also help out other people with similar 4wd issues !!

also the pipe that comes off that has been blanked i stuck a screw in that just incase.

also bought a ora rear diff guard ive got this to weld on at some point over the next week,other than that thats it for the time beign,just been enjoying the jimny and will do so for the next couple of months.winch is on the cards next once ive saved up a bit.

Thanks for the up-date Gaz, pleased your 'little mod' worked out for you ..............

Couple of small updates..................

Got my ora guard welded onto the rear diff

Had a small dilemer,my user name is a private plate ive had since i was 21 but its been on retention since 2007 after taking it off my clio cup,ive had it up for sale but no joy with it,i was due to re-new the retention again but thought stuff it i will put it on the jimny as im not planning on selling it any time soon,gets rid of the kox lol

Was out yesterday (16.3) with nel on the lanes too my pal with me who brought his dslr with him gives such a much better picture and he has a nice lens on it couple of the jimny in action

thanks for looking

nice pictures

Bought this today needless to say what im doing with it

My mates photos of the lanes i did the other day with another jimny and a rangy p38.all taken with a dslr

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