TITLE: Flat SU(2) bundles over hyperbolic 3-manifolds
QUESTION [13 upvotes]: Can someone give me a non-trivial example of a flat SU(2)-connection over a compact orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold?
The literature on such bundles over 3-manifolds is huge and my naive searches don't seem to turn up specific examples. 
Roughly speaking, the Casson invariant counts flat bundles over 3-manifolds, so in principal I suppose I would be happy with an example of a hyperbolic 3-manifold with non-zero SU(2) Casson invariant (and surely such things are known). In practice, I would really like to see the non-trivial bundle (or corresponding representation) more-or-less explicitly.  
Finally, I would also be happy with just being told precisely where I should go and look in the literature!

REPLY [2 votes]: There is a huge literature on this. I second starting with Klassen's article. You should also go back to Riley's old article and then look at Burde for 2-bridge knots. But I suspect that noone knows an "explicit" description in the sense that "this loop goes to this matrix" in general the representations are given by the real points of a variety defined over Z.