Suzuki Club UK

when i took mine apart, i wondered how the cab didnt blow away in the wind while bringing back on the trailer, there was so much rot round the mounts. never mind done now.

Ian

by the way is this sammy japanese

yeah 1990 Jap Samurai jx

just thinking becouse ive just noticed that the front looks a bit diffrent where the front shackles are.

That's the calmini shackle reversal kit (not standard shackles)

Its got a calmini shackle reversal kit fitted.

Dan

Right quick update had a busy weekend cutting big holes in the floorpan behind the rear seats and in the passenger footwell.
When I lifted the body off 2 of the body mount studs had rotted through and weren't attached to the body anymore, so I've had to plate the floorpan up and drill through and re insert the studs then tack them in place before plating over the top on the inside.
Only got a couple of pictures (i'l take some more tomorrow and post up) as I've been cracking on making the best of the nice weather this weekend.
Thanks to dan_2k for his help/piss taking

Same here, it's been to nice not do do any work on the sj, I had to do all the mounts on mine, rotted away, all of them

Ian

so a few pics of of body off ready for cutting and welding










close ups of the rusty tin, it had been plated over from the inside.. but without doing anything about the rot underneath the previous owner had receipts from a garage for welding repairs over the last 3 years... whoever did them is a if your gonna do a job and charge someone £500 at least do it properly ffs! my welding isn't the best but talk about pigeon shit





this is one of 2 body mounts that should be attached to the body not still on the chassis after the body has come off





it should be in place here somewhere..



ok i forgot to take pics off it all cut out doh! but never mind i was on a roll and got this welded up in passenger footwell then plated over the outside of where the mount is on underneath of truck






and these are the finished plates with body studs re-drilled through and tacked in place





to make sure i drilled the holes for the studs in the right place i used a piece off wood as a template, placing it on the chassis and drilling through the chassis into the wood from underneath and voila i have a template with the exact bolt positions







the rest are of plates finished inside and then painted with hammerite














these are after i've taken the checquer plate off the sills brushed all the crap off and covered in a liberal dose of hammerite.





and lastly a pic of what my front room looks like currently

almost forgot, I've also made a petrol tank guard that will be bolted on to stop me denting it. As usual the standard tank guard was made of chocolate and battered beyond any real use so in the bin it went and after finding this

it was on difflock that i came across it.

anyway i made a cardboard version to see how it would fit under the truck







it seemed to fit ok so i went ahead and made on from 3mm steel plate (bit thicker than i wanted but was all i could find at the time)



then decided i should of put some drain holes in the bottom panel before i welded it all up so after a bit of i bolted it down to the bed of a mill and changed my mind from the circles i was originally going to cut out to just drilling 2 holes then milling a slot between them


















fingers crossed it should work a treat if a little overkill in the weight/strength department