Jimny with portal axles! Done in Russia!

By wandering through the Internet, I found a Russian blogger who installed portal axles to his Jimny.

Here are his blog posts:
malykh.blogspot.ba/2013/10/blog-post.html
malykh.blogspot.ba/2013/10/blog-post_19.html
malykh.blogspot.ba/2015/03/blog-post_30.html
malykh.blogspot.ba/2013/10/blog-post_4368.html

Chronology of his works on portal axles:
malykh.blogspot.ba/2015/01/blog-post_28.html

Pictures of his Jimny with portal axles:
malykh.com/album/kr/

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P.S.: After I stumbled on that Russian guy's blog this morning, I browsed through a LOT of his posts about fiddling with his Jimny. The guy has done some DEEP works and mods to his car, and wrote a lot of technical details about parts, and also a lot of original and aftermarket part numbers. He is definitely an emeritus for the Jimny.

Thats impressive. If i asked him nicely, do you think he would do mine next?

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I likey, are the portals diy or modded to fit from something else?

OllieNZ wrote: I likey, are the portals diy or modded to fit from something else?

Manufacturer : Victor Oleg (known as kraft, Voight, voit4x4 etc., now of "warrior 4x4", Bratislava)

A quick flick through the blogs shows that he had numerous failures and has now removed them.

There's a French company doing off-the-shelf portals for Jimnys, sure you'll find it with a quick Google search

I wonder how much extra stress they put on the radius arm axle mounts?

What the Ruskies can do when they put their minds to can be staggering.

I followed their engineering mods to a humble Makarov Co2 Pistol and their results never ceased to amaze.

It looks as though the units were u/s before they were blacksmithed onto the Jimny.....I'll wager it howled along!

Venter wrote: There's a French company doing off-the-shelf portals for Jimnys, sure you'll find it with a quick Google search

What's the name of the company? Where is it located? I did google it, but came up dry.... So spit it out ; ). Who' s making bolt on portals for Jimny axles???

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Hi ilten

I've just tried looking for it too, but couldn't find it. Maybe they've gone under or something. Pity, because they had some really nice Jimny-specific stuff. I think it may have been on of Renard83's threads on this site that I first saw the link to their website/shop.

Not that it matters any more, but it wasn't just a bolt-on portal hub they were selling, but the entire axle assembly with portals on the end. I never saw any reviews as to how good/reliable they were though.