Putting the wiper wheel boxes and tubes in the plenum
what a pain in the rectum sitting in the engine bay with your heel up your ass
edited for Phil850
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| Author: | slacko [ Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
Putting the wiper wheel boxes and tubes in the plenum what a pain in the rectum sitting in the engine bay with your heel up your ass edited for Phil850
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| Author: | Phil 850 [ Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
slacko wrote: Putting the wiper wheel boxes and tubes in what a pain in the rectum Your obviously fitting them in the wrong place 
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| Author: | AEG163job [ Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
Yeah, you can sure stick that job up your arse! 
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| Author: | The Duckmeister [ Sun Aug 06, 2017 12:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
Replacing front brake lines. I was told it could not be done witrh the engine in. I did it. |
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| Author: | BBY755 [ Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
These may help for the clevis pins on the master cylinders - hope so as I have to put them both back in soon! Bought from VG Autopaints for $4 today - just need a little clean up.... |
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| Author: | 8700s14 [ Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
BBY755 wrote: These may help for the clevis pins on the master cylinders - hope so as I have to put them both back in soon! Bought from VG Autopaints for $4 today - just need a little clean up.... Just use a dinner fork: |
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| Author: | winabbey [ Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:41 pm ] |
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BBY755 wrote: These may help for the clevis pins on the master cylinders - hope so as I have to put them both back in soon! Bought from VG Autopaints for $4 today - just need a little clean up.... Nice looking tool. Similar to the one used by Hawkeye Pearce to suture wounded soldiers at MASH 4077'th in Korea. I used a smaller version last week to remove the split pins in both my master cylinders. It was dead easy so I don't know what everyone is complaining about. It may have helped that whoever installed the split pins last didn't bother to bend the ends, so they just slipped out with minimal fuss.
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| Author: | Irish Yobbo [ Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:43 pm ] |
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8700s14 wrote: BBY755 wrote: These may help for the clevis pins on the master cylinders - hope so as I have to put them both back in soon! Bought from VG Autopaints for $4 today - just need a little clean up.... Just use a dinner fork: Genius. |
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| Author: | BBY755 [ Mon Aug 14, 2017 5:37 pm ] |
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These pliers are longer so don't have to contort as much........ |
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| Author: | peterb [ Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:38 pm ] |
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Those pliers are so long the handles will foul on seat........the rear one. "Forking good idea!" |
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| Author: | Silobin [ Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
Replacing the top inner door hinge brackets... omg, kill me!! |
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| Author: | Stibbsy [ Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
I found that replacing the water pump by-pass hose was not easy. When I was an apprentice at the local BMC Dealership, we had a pommie workshop foreman. He was always keen to show you a little trick. With the by-pass hose it went like this. " Now son go up to spares and ask for the whole box of bypass hoses and pick out the softest one. Now put the hose between thumb and index finger and squeeze the ends together and put the hose in position and let go and the hose will go on" Now here's the best bit. "Look, I'll show you". And sure enough it worked. After thanking him and saying. "Thanks Jack, that's really appreciated" or words to that effect, the old bugger removes it and says "now you have a go" A couple hours later, I think I got it on. |
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| Author: | Irish Yobbo [ Mon Aug 28, 2017 8:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hardest ever job that I did on my mini. |
Stibbsy wrote: I found that replacing the water pump by-pass hose was not easy. When I was an apprentice at the local BMC Dealership, we had a pommie workshop foreman. He was always keen to show you a little trick. With the by-pass hose it went like this. " Now son go up to spares and ask for the whole box of bypass hoses and pick out the softest one. Now put the hose between thumb and index finger and squeeze the ends together and put the hose in position and let go and the hose will go on" Now here's the best bit. "Look, I'll show you". And sure enough it worked. After thanking him and saying. "Thanks Jack, that's really appreciated" or words to that effect, the old bugger removes it and says "now you have a go" A couple hours later, I think I got it on. My local mini mechanic gave similar advice. I asked if they had one of the accordion bypass hoses in stock, and they said that they didn't because they gave up on them years ago. So they cut me a short length of hose, and told me to pinch it with a pair of needle nose pliers, slide it onto the top outlet and the bottom one will follow. It worked. |
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| Author: | simon k [ Mon Aug 28, 2017 11:02 am ] |
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Irish Yobbo wrote: Stibbsy wrote: I found that replacing the water pump by-pass hose was not easy. When I was an apprentice at the local BMC Dealership, we had a pommie workshop foreman. He was always keen to show you a little trick. With the by-pass hose it went like this. " Now son go up to spares and ask for the whole box of bypass hoses and pick out the softest one. Now put the hose between thumb and index finger and squeeze the ends together and put the hose in position and let go and the hose will go on" Now here's the best bit. "Look, I'll show you". And sure enough it worked. After thanking him and saying. "Thanks Jack, that's really appreciated" or words to that effect, the old bugger removes it and says "now you have a go" A couple hours later, I think I got it on. My local mini mechanic gave similar advice. I asked if they had one of the accordion bypass hoses in stock, and they said that they didn't because they gave up on them years ago. So they cut me a short length of hose, and told me to pinch it with a pair of needle nose pliers, slide it onto the top outlet and the bottom one will follow. It worked. *cough*blockitoffcompletely*cough* |
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| Author: | diecast [ Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:05 pm ] |
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Yep, the fork idea for the clevis pin - absolute genius |
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