If so you can have your own thread in this section.
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Dave's la(te)st buggy build...
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X8GGY wrote: I gave myself the day off yesterday
It's been busy in the shop, and I've been working every Wednesday and Sunday on the buggy, so this Sunday I had a nice lie-in, cooked family breakfast, a nice long walk with the dogs, and then caught up with some other things in life, before having a nice steak tea, a few beers and a family movie night...
Back to it on Wednesday though!
Contrary to popular belief it's entirely appropriate to take care of yourself every so often.
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I started "quite quiet" Wednesday by cutting a 3" (75mm?) piece off the end off the snorkel steel 2.5" tube and sanded it nice, and then inserted that into the elbow in the airbox I fitted last week, and then mastic'ed and bolted it in place again...
I then added some more triangulation and some perforated steel plate, this will house the battery lead connectors - must order them!
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The battery link cables are here though, so I laid them along the chassis rails front to back and ty-wrapped them in place...
Whilst lying under the buggy doing the cables, I remembered I hadn't fitted these yet... I've had them a while but not got round to them, but that's another "quite quiet job"
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Front on, bit fiddly to get the radius arm bolts through, but nice fit...
And the rear... good job there's no oil in the "lunchbox" and TG HD shafts equipped rear axle yet!
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Some debate on these on the forum lately, but these came up at a good price via James Priestly, who often sells JimnyBits parts, so I snapped them up, so almost a full set of JB guards now... front and rear shock guards and radius arm mount guards, fuel tank guard, repeater guards yet to be fitted, and now diff guards too... The buggy is running 30" tyres with just a bit (~1.5") of a suspension lift, so guards, lunchbox in the rear and pick my line well when following the bigger Jimnys in the group... lightness and that should get me through, if not the winch comes out to play
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I then finished up tacking all the rear together and then heaved it out into the sunshine to weld it all up...
Not bad considering my failing eyesight!
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And all ready for a nice noisy Sunday with the grinder tidying it all up
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Chuffed!
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Soon be out and about?
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I keep thinking progress looks great, but then I remember I have still got the other side to do as well, i.e. the half-door, the back of the body tub and the bonnet / wing / A-pillar tubes, etc, so still plenty to keep me going whilst we (Wales) are still in lockdown...
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A small length of stainless steel seamless tube just turned up in the post... it’s 22mm OD and 19mm ID and is to be used to stop a potential rattle (one for Lambert then?)
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Any ideas?
Answer tomorrow’s day in the garage... after I’ve cut it to get two ~30mm lengths of it...
Hmmm...?
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Soeley wrote: Is it to sleeve the shackle pins, to stop the rattling in the recovery points?
Laddies and Gentlemen... we have a winner!
Clue was in the background of the photo!
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Yes, they are a loose rattle fit, and I always leave the shackles in recovery points and done up real tight with pliers to stop them getting nicked! So no problem having a sleeve in there, and being stainless they won’t rust...
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Perfect!
Bit of waterproof grease inside the silencer sleeve and tighten the pin so no-one can steal the shackles!
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So, if that helps anyone... it's seamless stainless steel tube readily available reasonably on eBay, and it's 22mm OD (outside diameter) and 19mm ID (internal diameter), such a snug fit that it needs tapping into the holes in the JimnyBits front recovery points...
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