1 careful lady owner

Until I got hold of it that is! My Jimny is a 51 plate soft top with 58,000 supermarket and school run miles on it. I bought it for a bargain price off my wifes friend for laning and the odd pay and play day here and there. On my first outing in the snow I needed a tow which resulted in one of the front towing eyes being ripped off, so I set about redoing them. I added an extra cross member on the front end and boxed in the crumple sections of the chassis rails, then made up some towing eyes out of 12mm flat and welded them to the rails and out through the bumper. I also made an attachment for my highlift jack that fits into the towing eye. Other than that, the only other mods are a set of mud tyres. It needs a lift desperately as although it will go anywhere, it does bottom out alot.

Anyway, a few pics of it in action...

A bolt on system would be good, I was at a bit of a loss on the best way to do mine because of the crumple zone parts of the rails, unsure whether they would be strong enough to tow on when propperly stuck. They seem to be holding up at the mo, but were a pain to do.
If you are going with a bolt on idea, do you plan on adding an extra cross member because the ends of the rails are unsupported?

hi rich
what size tyres have you got there? and what make ?
also is the car at standard hight with standard arches? and do they foul arches at all
greatful for any info
cheers
new jimny owner

They are 195's Greenway Diamonds. No rubbing and all standard height

can you put the full size on please. mine are 205/70/15 standard tyres . but i am wanting
a tyre that is the biggest i can get away with without lifting or cutting the arches out

mlines wrote:

Rich,

We are going through the process of trying to create a bolt on recovery point for the front and rear for those who are reluctant to weld. Too late for you but thought you might like to know.

Martin

Someone suggested to me to have a 1/2inch thread welded into the end of the chassis leg and to screw in a recovery eye when off road and remove it for normal road driving.

Any thoughts?

Haha, I put that because I couldn't remember the full size, I'll go and have a look...

195/80/15

Its an idea, but my main concern was the crumple zone on the end of the chassis is not that strong and is welded to the end of the leg. When I did mine I boxed it all in to give it more stregnth.

lol should i go for 205/80/15 ? did you origianally have 195 befor theese?

I can't remember what size was on there before, they were the original size road tyres if that helps

If you do have rubbing issues, you could always go for a small body lift to overcome it, cheaper than a suspension lift.