Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Gets a like from me Dave.........

Looks like it'll be ready very soon (IISY)

I love this bit of a build. It all starts to come together

Paul_sterling wrote: Gets a like from me Dave.........

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Thanks Paul

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maverick wrote: Looks like it'll be ready very soon (IISY)

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Riccy wrote: I love this bit of a build. It all starts to come together

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Ypu'd think so, but then, back in the shop from six 'til eight tonight, I wrote a list of jobs outstanding!



So, Sunday - paint the whole body tub blue inside and out, then my list reads ("in no particular order" apart from my brain) -

'Tar' painting - round the sills and the back of the body tub (around the bottom of the fuel tank area)
Fix Wiper Motor Wires - I caught them with the angle grinder
Fit the Snorkel and finish the convoluted hose to the air filter box
Fit Mirror Guards - ten minute job, just stainless bolts into the riv-nuts
Fix & Fit Seats - the driver's slides but doesn't lock, I've got my spare bucket seat in the shed to steal bits
Door Pull Handles - 'just' need bars mounting on the inner door skin to attach the plastic handles to, in the...
Door Cards - I have a cardboard template ready to check and then cut and fold the aluminium chequer plate
Re-fit Bonnet Vents / Pie-Box - Just need bolting into the bonnet when it's had it's final coat of paint
Re-fit Seat Belts / Tidy Apertures - I still have the internal plastics and hope to butcher them to fit
Brake Pipes Front - as the wings have been removed the front copper brake lines need tidying and terminating
Oil in Diiffs . Transfer Box - no explanation needed!
Windscreen - just need to book them and pay for a new windscreen to be fitted after body tub is painted
Wiper Arms - should have had them on the black paint list!
Door / Panel edging - just some rubber push-fit edging to tidy the door aperture edges, ordered...
Replace -
Radiator - got
Belts - got
Plugs - got
Clutch - got, may have to pay labour to fit it (bearing is noisy, so figured replace it!)
Wiring -
Rear Lights - got Samurai lights and guards to fit in the boxes that have been formed on the rear
Fog light - got an LED light to fit under the right hand Samurai light
High Level Brake Light - got another LED light to go on the bracket on the 'halo hoop'
JCB Headlights - bolt-on, but have to get round the weird Jimny electrics* Note below
Light Bar - wired via a relay to come on with main beam
Side Repeaters - plug in, but they've been relocated to the edge of the re-shaped bonnet
Reversing Alarm? - might fit one during the wiring (switched for sensitive areas)
Eneine Battery / Switch - the cables are there, just need wiring via a cutoff switch
Battery Earth - cable is there, also needs bolting to the body too
Windscreen Washer - should be lug in if the wiring is still there?! LOL
Storage -
Behind Seats - need to fit in tools and spares somewhere? Tow rope / strop?
To the right of the rope tube - in the front passenger footwell, there is some space available there?
(Need to store personal stuff somewhere too - meds for me, food, spare clothes?...!)
Dash -
Stereo ? - not sure if we'll be able to hear it anyway? Speakers in the recycled rear plastic panels too?
iPad Mount - need my trusty GPS Memory Mapping in there!
CB Mount - I plan on using my handheld with an earpiece / microphone, need somewhere to mount it...

MOT
Registration
Insurance
Plate Change - need to transfer X 8GGY on to it...
Shakedown - a couple of local trips to test it...

LANING!
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So, some stuff to keep me busy through the cold winter months, secreted in the garage

:woohoo:

Headlights...

As the Jimny has weird negative switching headlight wiring I have bought a "kit-car" switch which will give me off / side / main with new wiring (via a fuse of course), and high beam will still be triggered by the original wiring and indicator stalk using an earth switched relay as done a few times in the past...

The LED light bar in it's pod on the bonnet will also work on the high beam relay, but will have an isolating switch to turn it off coming on with high-beam for road use and the MOT of course

It's one of those things though, you make a list and it looks daunting but in reality much of that is 10 and 15 minute jobs so not actually all that bad to do.