Re: Anton's build
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:49 am
progress is still progress.
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Re: Anton's build
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:38 pm
Yup. Slow progress right now, but progress is always good.
Re: Anton's build
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 5:29 pm
Well done slightly confuesed on what the new aim is now as the jago body is out the window.
Re: Anton's build
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:16 pm
The aim is just to get it going again in time for wagtail.
Beyond that, I have no concrete plans. I may even get another Jago body one day, but before I even think about that, I'll make sure I have no major work on (and ideally, I've already got a GRP floorpan ready).
I actually quite like the idea of making my own GRP body - maybe an LJ. I've always wanted an LJ.
But let's leave off even thinking about that until my health issues aren't kicking my ass and I have time/energy to work on the SJ earnestly.
Beyond that, I have no concrete plans. I may even get another Jago body one day, but before I even think about that, I'll make sure I have no major work on (and ideally, I've already got a GRP floorpan ready).
I actually quite like the idea of making my own GRP body - maybe an LJ. I've always wanted an LJ.
But let's leave off even thinking about that until my health issues aren't kicking my ass and I have time/energy to work on the SJ earnestly.
Re: Anton's build
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:47 pm
So does Mum have her garden back now?
Whats the serious list of things you're trying to achieve now? Is it running yet?
Whats the serious list of things you're trying to achieve now? Is it running yet?
Re: Anton's build
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:51 pm
think its mot.
Re: Anton's build
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:14 pm
Sorry to hear that bad health is keeping you out of the zook.... I had 16months 'out' of suzuki & the only thing I managed to do in that time was change the radio.....
Stick with it, the zook will be there when your feeling better! & its great to see you making progress!
Stick with it, the zook will be there when your feeling better! & its great to see you making progress!
Re: Anton's build
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:48 pm
Jordi - it runs (although it needs fresh petrol, it's been stagnating for a while) just lovely now it has a new battery in it. Stopping it from running (in an offroad only kinda way) is just the need for the calipers on the rear.
I could fit them as is, but I want to recon them properly first (new seals, rubber boots etc, and a coat of paint) which means getting the stubborn as hell pistons out of 'em.
I've made an air compressor adapter out of an old brass screw-in brake pipe fitting I had going spare. I tried using a foot pump, but the piston didn't budge *at all* - I think I need serious pressure. Scottie's got a compressor, gonna try that tomorrow (if I can find the time!).
Mum's not got her garden back *just* yet - Sunday should be the day when the Geep body vanishes.
And that's the front garden - her back garden is full of my tyres (there's 10 31's in her back garden - a set of 4 mud tyres, a set of 5 road radials, and a spare AT tyre. Then there's an old, worn set of BFG muds on the SJ, and a BFG AT on the spare rim inside - so I have 15 tyres for the SJ!!!)
Once the Geep body is gone on Sunday, she'll have the front garden back. Hopefully this week Scottie and I will get the BFG's off the steel rims, get the new MT's on, get the road radials onto my alloys, and then everything else can go on fleabay - so only 5 tyres need a home. I can keep that many at mine under the bed (I have a very big bed), so she can have both gardens back.
Tramp - thanks - sucks not being well enough to get stuff done, when you know you can do it! I have a tendency to push myself, and that could land me in hospital again. Gotta be careful right now!
I could fit them as is, but I want to recon them properly first (new seals, rubber boots etc, and a coat of paint) which means getting the stubborn as hell pistons out of 'em.
I've made an air compressor adapter out of an old brass screw-in brake pipe fitting I had going spare. I tried using a foot pump, but the piston didn't budge *at all* - I think I need serious pressure. Scottie's got a compressor, gonna try that tomorrow (if I can find the time!).
Mum's not got her garden back *just* yet - Sunday should be the day when the Geep body vanishes.
And that's the front garden - her back garden is full of my tyres (there's 10 31's in her back garden - a set of 4 mud tyres, a set of 5 road radials, and a spare AT tyre. Then there's an old, worn set of BFG muds on the SJ, and a BFG AT on the spare rim inside - so I have 15 tyres for the SJ!!!)
Once the Geep body is gone on Sunday, she'll have the front garden back. Hopefully this week Scottie and I will get the BFG's off the steel rims, get the new MT's on, get the road radials onto my alloys, and then everything else can go on fleabay - so only 5 tyres need a home. I can keep that many at mine under the bed (I have a very big bed), so she can have both gardens back.
Tramp - thanks - sucks not being well enough to get stuff done, when you know you can do it! I have a tendency to push myself, and that could land me in hospital again. Gotta be careful right now!
Re: Anton's build
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:54 pm
Yesterday the Jago body went, so the SJ is officially staying as an SJ.
Shame, but then again, probably for the best. I don't have the time/energy for that right now. After sorting out the parts bin a bit (and throwing out a LOT of stuff) I cleaned up mum's front garden a bit, so she can have some bbq's out there this summer.
Then I spent some time sorting out a few niggles - the windscreen wipers were siezed, so soaked them in WD. They're still not quite right, but they're getting there. Needed new washer jets (I have an extra washer bottle that I run 2 extra jets off of - so I have more windscreen washing POWER. The standard washers are a bit wimpy vs Surrey clay/mud) so I fitted those. Backwards at first...
Whoops... Lets try that again, shall we?
After that, I spent time getting the tyres swapped over, with some help from steam-powered scottie:
Getting the road tyres onto the ally's...
The compressor which actually did seat the beads on 9 31's - 4 mud terrains, 5 (inc the spare) road tyres...
BFG MT's off the steel rims, Kaiman Malatesta's on...
Scottie's mad valve tool...
Which works!
One of the mud tyres is on backwards. I will admit that, by that point in the day, I was very tired, and scottie and I had downed a bottle of voddie each, so I might have been a little bit brahms...
So I'll have to whip that off and put it back on the right way around at some point! I'm covered in bruises, and I whacked Scottie in the face with the tyre changing lever by accident - he was bleeding, but being a trooper, he just wiped it off and carried on.
So stuff is getting done! Feels good, lemmetellya.
Shame, but then again, probably for the best. I don't have the time/energy for that right now. After sorting out the parts bin a bit (and throwing out a LOT of stuff) I cleaned up mum's front garden a bit, so she can have some bbq's out there this summer.
Then I spent some time sorting out a few niggles - the windscreen wipers were siezed, so soaked them in WD. They're still not quite right, but they're getting there. Needed new washer jets (I have an extra washer bottle that I run 2 extra jets off of - so I have more windscreen washing POWER. The standard washers are a bit wimpy vs Surrey clay/mud) so I fitted those. Backwards at first...
Whoops... Lets try that again, shall we?
After that, I spent time getting the tyres swapped over, with some help from steam-powered scottie:
Getting the road tyres onto the ally's...
The compressor which actually did seat the beads on 9 31's - 4 mud terrains, 5 (inc the spare) road tyres...
BFG MT's off the steel rims, Kaiman Malatesta's on...
Scottie's mad valve tool...
Which works!
One of the mud tyres is on backwards. I will admit that, by that point in the day, I was very tired, and scottie and I had downed a bottle of voddie each, so I might have been a little bit brahms...
So I'll have to whip that off and put it back on the right way around at some point! I'm covered in bruises, and I whacked Scottie in the face with the tyre changing lever by accident - he was bleeding, but being a trooper, he just wiped it off and carried on.
So stuff is getting done! Feels good, lemmetellya.
Re: Anton's build
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:10 pm
Love how thats written! 