Suzuki Club UK

Haha that's cool!

Love it - it's going on the SJ?

At this rate you'll be making the Muddy Good Weekend in May.

So look what happened today? I got an hour or so so I changed the zook around so I can do the drivers side rear brake hose



'The kraken awakes'

I then delved into my hazard/indicator not working issue, I quickly narrowed it down to the hazard warning switch repeated operation had it working in a fashion, but no where near reliable enough to send it for an MOT so I pulled it out and started the strip,



Full of old dried up grease, I cleaned it out and put some Vaseline in to repleace the tar I removed (Vaseline because it's non conductive)



I was feeling rather smug as it all went back together, I refitted the switch and...... It didn't work, I thought I'd try swapping the direction of the carriage (as it has long nose on one side) I reassembled it and it only latches in one direction now, i think I may have lost a spring in the disassembly process,

So does anyone have a spare hazard warning switch?

Is it me or does the carriage look like a car :') anyway hope it all works out! Can't wait to see it on the road

Mine was the same. I filled it with electrical maintenance spray and rolled the dice. Must have worked for the MOT man as it passed.

Well Andy sent me a replacement switch, and we have success! Hazards and indicators both work,

So today, I got a couple of hours (same as always!) I replaced the drivers side wheel drum brake studs for new, it was easier than I thought, as I was anticipating pulling the half shaft again, but luckily I could do it all in situ,



I also replaced my drivers side rear copper brake hose, another job I wasn't looking forward to but was surprisingly easy.

Shiny!

It's coming along well bud.

Thanks, yeah!!! Not much left to do now,

I fitted my wheel on the back today so that's good now. I also had a look at my drivers seat, it really struggled to push backwards on its runners, I noticed that when the bolts were a tightened the rear of the runners were a little splayed indicating the runners were too far apart on the seat base, I removed the runners, opened up the bolt holes and reattached them, it was better but not perfect, so I got them off again



I noticed one of the plastic slides was damaged



Although you can't see it very well, has anyone got any spare seat runners (of this style) going spare?

So today this happened



I wanted to add some braces to the chassis where the calmini kit fastens to it, I intended to do this with some suitably sized bits of tube, a by product of this means I have plenty of bits to go to the powdercoaters,

This much stuff



The bumper had a couple of holes in which I filled with weld and ground back, hopefully it will be all smooth and virtually invisible after its paint,

I had to remove the bushes from my anti roll bar which was a pain



I guess I'll be looking for some new bushings for them then!

I was also a little worried about the ahackle,



It has more bushes in and I don't really want to replace them, I'll have to see if I can blast it with the bushes in situ and paint it so I don't have to replace them, this is a shame because if I sent it away with the other bits I would probably be able to get them galvanised too,