Some progress

Our last post we mentioned we are still after some tyres for our SJ. After getting tired of hunting around for bargain tyres that don't exist we splashed out on a set of all terrain General Grabber AT2 tyres. These are excellent tyres for giving us a balance of both road use on tarmac and off road use. They should do wonders for our fuel economy and power while giving us the off road traction we need (except perhaps in mud).

So the tyres went on without much trouble at all, we removed the spacers that were on the car, but we still have all of our wheels offset which gives us a wider track for more stability.

Tyres were done and we decided to take a break from the mechanical work and look at the electrics. We revealed a can of worms in the electric system. Bad earth connections were making the car light up like a Christmas tree, hit the breaks and the indicators come on, that kind of thing. After spending half a day with it, we tracked (by sheer luck and fortune) the bad earth, so we now have rear lights, brake lights, full beam and indicators. We still lack rear fog lights, reverse lights and side lights. We spent a number of hours working on these, but we can that we're still going to have to invest more time to sort it all out.

We did have some success with wiring in some new front fog lights, they look pretty good on our bumper, a photo of them will follow.

For now, here is a picture of the car (taken in the dark) with our new tyres.

We also have a problem with our hand brake. It doesn't work because the cable snapped. We did make an attempt to fit this today, it involved removing the rear prop shaft, which wasn't too bad, but we didn't get much further than that. So all in all, some progress, but we've also revealed some additional work!