Cheers mate, yep that one got the heart racing for sure. Glad you’re enjoying it, and thanks for the comment

Salty Pretzel hey.... so.... I do the same thing with my 99 Toyota RAV4!... vide posted on my channel.

The Jimny surprises me every time I take it out. I was always of the bigger is better camp but As always with 4wding each track caters to a different vehicle

Fantastic, there will be more to come soon

Cheers Craig... You'll love it, hopefully you don't need to wait too much longer

Good to hear, it’s well worth the wait

Cheers, good to hear. I’m planning on doing a lot more video with fellow Jimny drivers

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Thank you mate, cheers

Thanks I appreciate it

Nice hope you’re enjoying it

Watagans are on the cards for after lockdown, would love to get some more Jinnys in the line up

@@BillyGoatJim sounds good, would love another crack at 5Way.

Thank you very much

Sure was!

hahaha... It's definitely in the pipe line.

@@BillyGoatJim Should be in before the roof rack lol

Very true, love it!👍

That’s very nice to hear, thank you... I was basically deciding between ARB and building my own. Any slider you choose will take up some clearance but it probably still won’t be the lowest point of the car intern of ramp over angle. Besides if you come down hard like I did or on a fallen tree or something, you would prefer to have your car sitting on sliders than on the body work. The only reason I’m thinking of building my own is that I can beef up the mounting points and also include some square tube directly under the sill, however mounting to the chassis isn’t so easy on the Jimny. So may be forced to go with ARB. I’ve been assured by ARB that it is a proper slider and not just a glorified step, and from the pictures I’ve seen of other people’s install they look quite strong. Hope this helps

Thanks, I haven’t worked on gears yet. I completely agree with you about 1st and 2nd gear. I will be looking for crawler gears down the track

Nice... 235s should be fine. Anything bigger will put a lot of extra strain on the drive train

The ARB suspension makes it better on and off road... it takes out the jelly like wobble you get with the original suspension.

Hey mate I’m not 100% but I believe the traction control is still on the car, but it is not on when in 4 low. I’d have to look into that a bit more

Cheers

I must admit I e been a bit slack with upgrading the protection, which I now regret. Jimnybits has a good selection with regards to protection. I’ll be giving them a go soon

I got all the protection from jimnubits UK. They are solid strong and awesome. They are heavy tho, especially the transfer gaurd.

Good to know cheers

I have a 2” old man emu kit. Although it’s a little higher now the suspension has made it much more stable as it’s not as jelly like. Hopefully you don’t have to wait too long for your Jimny

@@BillyGoatJim Thanks for the reply, new suspension/lift it is then. How do you find the performance on the motorway after changing the rims & tires? I should be getting my Jimny in 6-7 months hopefully, I'm ok with the wait as it gives me time to sell my old Jeep. Thanks again for your videos, you and Roam are the goto guys for using Jimny's what they are built for.

The motorway is no problem, but it would benefit from some lower gearing to get it up those long hills. I appreciate you putting me in the same basket as ROAM he’s got some amazing content.

Cheers mate, it’s a warn zeon 8 (8000lb)

Thank you. I hope to see some of your videos soon

@@BillyGoatJim i'll show you the channel, wait

@@BillyGoatJim here it is my good channel, hope you like my longbody samurai

Nice 👍

Cheers

Yep, serves me right for being indecisive on which sliders to go for

Good to know, I am leaning toward the arb ones

This is the manual model, I would have liked an auto but I wasn’t happy with a 4spd gear box on such an underpowered car. Many people are happy with the autos and I haven’t driven one off-road but I am happy with the decision to go manual

@@BillyGoatJim sorry for the ignorance mate & love your vids by the way but does that mean you just stay in first gear most of the time off road? Never driven manual off road. Thanks man!

Most the time I’m between 1st and 2nd gear in 4L if it’s a large hill, or difficult terrain where you want to go nice and slow. When you’re on a dirt road or fire trail, you may be in 4H in 3rd or 4th gear. You drive to the conditions. Think of it as being stuck in traffic, generally you don’t get out of 1st or 2nd gear because you’re not going fast enough

Cheers, yes both front and back diffs are locked. The ARB lockers are completely manual. I did enquire about an auto locker however this wasn’t an option as it would have destroyed the traction control system for on road driving

@@BillyGoatJim Great! you block the diffs from the inside of the car? can you share a video showing how its work? saludos From Chile!

Hey mate, there are 2 switches inside the car that activate the lockers, that’s pretty much all there is to it

@@BillyGoatJim Thanks!! very nice videos, go ahead with your videos!!

Hi, I took mine to ARB to install. It's a pretty complicated thing to do and you also need specific tools.

Thanks, I’d love to go hit the tracks up there, it’s on the cards for sure.

@@BillyGoatJim great stuff, my old man and I both have well set up zooks (seirra & jimny) and would be more than happy to show you some cool tracks around coffs

That’s fantastic, I’ll keep that in mind.

Well you can order one and have plenty of time to think about it with the wait time

Yes, front and back

No, this one is a manual.

Was definitely a little closer than I would have liked... The colour is Jungle Green

I’ve got the 40mm OME lift on there

@@BillyGoatJim thanks, ride safe😊😊😊

@@BillyGoatJim In addition to the OME suspension, did you mount any other accessories for the Panhard bar, brake extension kit or caster kit? Thanks for your kindness.

I did get the brake line extension, and also a castor kit

Will do, once this isolation stuff is over. We’ll be hitting the tracks again

Cheers, good to know... once this is all over

I believe they are 0 offset

Billy Goat Jim do you feel theres much benefit in the additional track width or did you swap mainly because you wanted steelies?

I mainly wanted steel rims and a wider rim to allow for the wider tyres. The slight addition in track width isn’t noticeable in my opinion

Billy Goat Jim what tyres btw? 215 or 235?

235/75 r15

Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback. Audio has been difficult for me to sort out, but I have slowly been adding better microphones and am learning how to use them. Cheers

Might need to replace it with an tube exoskeleton 😉