Have not drove it a few years because I got sick, have had cancer 3 times and because of a tumor in my lower back I'm now in a wheelchair, I now have a paraplegia.

But I want to drive it again! I'm gonna make it an automatic. Already bought a motor and gearbox, a 1.6 8v and a Vitara 3 speed.

The motor donor:

And this is how I want to drive in the sami, this is my daily driver with (I don't know how you call it in English) hand control. The big handle is the brake and the one behind it is the throttle.

I'm just going to (sort of) copy the system.

This was the last time I drove it:

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How i build it:

After my first 4x4 event I had to have other tires, a lift and other t case gears.
So i did a body lift + other shackles, put bigger tyres on it and made my t case into a 4.16

But because of all the rust i cut the back end off.

After fixing up some sheetmetal we started on bending some pipes!

And after some painting.

 

I like it keep the pictures coming.

 

Thanks!

 

So after a long time of rehabilitation and all that stuff, I put the sami on the truck of a friend and brought it to the workshop where I work.

And at home we pullled the 1.6 out of the Vitara

Also the cable harness is out

And already have a automatic gearbox with an fitting plate so i can put the Sami t case behind it

At work i began with the fold up pedals, this is from my daily driver

And this is how i made it

 

nice work on the sami. good to see that you are still out there gettin it. don't let that wheelchair hold ya back man.

i'm a incomplete spinal cord injury patient myself going on 21 years.

 

Thanks! You also still drive? What kind of car? Pictures?

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convoi exceptional!

start of the hand control

But i vind the tollerance on the bushings (?) was too big so I let some new ones make on the lathe

To be continued!

 

in the meantime

I made the chassis a bit stronger

New tank holder

Bigger tires!

And added a bit of pipe

 

Very nice!

 

Congrats on serving cancer three times! Keep up the nice fab work.

 

glad to see some original fab work that would definitely help to encourage other people with similar situations to keep their hobby going. Glad to hear you made it through the cancer again. Keep the pictures coming. Post video of the controls in action when you are back from the trail.

 

Thanks! I'll post a video of the controls when it's all working.

 

Made some sort of rock sliders

100x100x3 mm

And I want to belong to the big boys and have a stinger!

 

Started on pulling out the 1.3 with gearbox and wire harness

Got everything tagged

Also the dash is out with the first part of the wire harness
That will someday be replaced by an alu dash I think

The new wire harness with only the necessary things

The engine is out!

Also bought a few leaf springs so i can do RUF someday, and the new tires!

 

Great progress. Keep up the good work and keep the pictures coming.

 

looking good man nice work

 

Thanks guys!

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Very cool! One of my good friends is paralyzed from the waist down at the age of 16 from a motorcycle accident a year ago. He always wanted a samurai, so I've been thinking about building him one with hand controls and an auto as well. This gives me some great ideas where I could start! Keep up the good work!

 

Thanks! Very nice to have such friends, there are only a few of! Together with my girlfriend I have a kind of foundation, it's called Take it Laesie, in the Netherlands a paraplegia is called a dwarslaesie, so it's take it easy with a 'dwarslaesie' Take it Leasie. We have a Facebook and Insta where we post everything we do in a wheelchair, I still ski, do roadtrips with our bmw 730i with V8 in it and much more. Maybe it's nice for him to look at it, we show that actually anything is possible when your paralyzed.

This is our car:

We always drive the park and party run, that is once a year, then everybody decorates the car as crazy as possible, there is an originality price you can win, and you have to do all kinds of assignments where you can win prizes.

One of the other cars, also a bmw:

We drive on the most beautiful roads, this was in Norway

And always at the end of the day we have a campsite where it of course is a big party every evening

 

I've done a lot on the Samurai this summer! but didn't do any posts at all

So from now on lot's of pic's!!

Fitting the 1.6

Moving the passenger motormount

And it's in!

Temporary gearbox support

 

new support in the making

Mounts that go on the chassis

 

And that's my new gearbox support!

Now an upgrade for the hand controls

Had some buses? made with 0,1mm play on them

Already welded the thick strip on the steering column a few months ago but had some thin round pipe welded on it, so grinded them off and welded these decent buses on

And this is going to be my brake handle

this pipe runs directly to the brake

 

Killer work dude. Keep it up!

 

I love this build. I been looking at a Samuri form afar lately. My only reservation is my height. How tall are you riders?

 

I am 6'5", long legs. I have Suzuki swift GTI seats which give me a little more leg room. The stock seats were super thin though, and I still had plenty of room with those as well. I get teased a lot, but I have way more room than I do in any side by side I've driven yet. If you can get a good deal on it, you can always just resell it if you don't like it.

 

Great build. Hope the Samurai is as tough and unstoppable as you.

 

Thanks everyone! [emoji16]

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but now continued with the hand controls

I reinforced the handle for the brake a bit

And then continued with the gas lever

The gas is with a cable

I made this but it didn't work

So I engineered this (And it works)

And this on the top