Gaz's reasonably priced jimny..

Mine was badly deteriorated hal and I had a bit of a noise when turning.

Halford wrote: so that's what creaks ?

Nice...... So what your saying is you won't miss that creeking noise???? :woohoo:

Have to give me a listen some time hal.

Nothing really happening on the jimny, in use nie on every day, had a couple of trips out on the lanes past couple of months, developed a missfire so changed the plugs for piece of mind and changed the plug leads part of the ignition side coil packs are ok seems to be sorted now.

had a bit of use this week shifting a fair bit of wood about also removed a tree for someone amd kept the wood for my dad for his open fire.

bit of weight in the back end pulled no problem.

been cleaning up the 1.6 throttle body from the liana I kept going to have a shot at fitting it will swap iac tps from the 1.3 body see if it works makes a difference. Will update with results

Mot after Christmas may need a couple of small bits of welding if it passes will still sort it anyway supprises me how solid it is for 15 years of age.

So I fitted the m16 throttle body, made a new gasket swapped tps and idle sensors over after a run up the road and a small tweak of the tickover screw it ticked over fine after a couple of days driving it has a noticable on lighter throttle much more responsive but id noticed the higher up the revs it felt a bit strangled sort of 4k + granted I dont spend alot of time at them revs id also noticed it was using a bit more fuel.ive put this down to the size difference of the body to manifold there was a fair old step lip this is no good as it will affect the airflow/swirl in an ideal world the manifold wants porting out to match the body I mite get hold of another manifold and do this but ive cleaned and refitted the 1.3 body for the time been so yes you can use the m16 throttle body but imo the manifold needs matching. Few pics

So the jimny was parked up beginning of the week in the garage whilst Im using a car ive got im selling on.me dad noticed a drip underneath it popped the bonnet and low and behold

just what I need as im broke at the min.but supposed to be out laning boxing day as Its a bit of a thing me and me mates do now.not wanting to miss out I had a search on the net seeing if there was any one local breaking one to tie me over a lad had one but the condition was as bad as mine so a lad I use for parts got me one the same day today for 55 quid cant moan ben so close to Christmas etc.cheapest off ebay was 40 quid but goodness knows when id get that.i also changed the powersteering tensioner for a spare I had whilst I was on as mine was noisey easy job really.new rad in with coolant blead up job sorted and ready to go.