Suzuki Club UK

Tidy job though

Have you reinforced the mounts if it's going to be used for recovery points?

No, I haven't reinforced the mounts, because the bar directly behind is not an empty tube anymore - it's stuffed with studding the width of the pipe. See the HUGE nut on the end? That bar is my recovery point.

This thing does get in the way of that a teeny bit, but it's only temporary anyway. I suppose I *could* just drill a hole through the bumper and have the recovery rope slip through that hole. But I think it might be a good place to mount the number plate...

Gonna round off the 5mm plate before I paint it, but those bits stick out on any SJ with bullbars like these ones (I think they're fairly standard issue bullbars, aren't they?) so I can't imagine it being a problem.

I have some lengths of grey plastic tubing lying about (for a mockup of the 6 point cage or exo cage when the bodies are swapped) and if it's problematic for mr MOT man, I'll just make a couple of bits into a bumper that goes over that lot.

As I say, it's temporary!

The bull bar will be fine for MOT. So long as there are no razor sharp edges.

I did notice the ends of the old bumper mount looked funny.

Be MOT'd by tuesday at this rate, lol.

Jordi - I'll just weld the ends up and dress the welds on the ends, then throw a coat of paint over it. I'm expecting to fail the MOT when I first try (there's always *something* you haven't thought of, eh?) so if it needs redoing, I'll just redo it.

Anyhew, today I did this. I still need to run some cable (they're not connected to anything right now!) but I've finally got around to moving the lights:



Not a difficult job, just FIDDLY.

Next up (probably), recondition the rear brake callipers. So close (and yet so far) from a completed rear disk conversion...

Nearly time to take it all apart again!

dan_2k_uk wrote:Nearly time to take it all apart again!

That's a perverse thing to say!!!




























...And absolutely true.

Got a new battery in there today. Took a while to get her to start, but when she did she ran lovely - apart from a sticky throttle cable that had her revving her nuts off.

Also, the throttle is more like an on/off switch - need to lengthen the arm on the SU to make it more of a progressive, smooth revving beast.

Also can't work out where my rear fog light went. And several bulbs need replacing. Ho-hum, the jobs list gets longer, the time I have to do it in gets shorter...

Oh, and the windscreen wipers have stopped working for some reason.

Interesting, I've just got the standard throttle lever on my HIF 44 and it works really well!
Combined with a standard throttle abutment plate off a mini I find it works well with the SJ throttle cable

Twiss - should probably have mentioned that my SU is very unusual. It isn't an HIF 44 - I think it's a knockoff.

And I don't have a throttle abutment plate - I have a DIY job holding the trottle cable. Trying to explain would be useless, so here's a pic or two:

I like the indicator and sidelight position. Looks like a 60s Ford/Chevy pickup.