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Ordered some A008s for the track day. Just need adjustable suspension and im away. :lol: :lol:

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Took Boris to stretch his legs
Gets him some Km's up before Dyno Day :wink:
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If I wasn't at work all day I would have joined you for a drive to Bathurst. Have nowhere near enough K's for the dyno day - no dyno for Smokey. :( :(

Great pics. :D :D

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Thought about buying Hi-Los... :? Got quote for Hi-Los... :) Didn't like price... :( Thought I should double check car... :? Found car already has Hi-Los on the front! :o :D

Why did I think about buying Hi-Los? Because the front of the car is sitting higher than the rear. :? Previous owner put in new rubber springs (or so he claimed), but he didn't mention Hi-Los. And he didn't explain why the front was sitting so high. Why one would install Hi-Los and have the front (relatively) so high is beyond me (I like a little rake in a car's ride height). :roll: Rear has shiny standard trumpets, which is fine with me.

So, instead of buying Hi-Los, I bought a trolley jack (2000kg - no point in buying a jack if I can't lift the front of the 4WD off the ground, too), so I can adjust/shorten my existing Hi-Los. :D Eventually... :oops:
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4myego wrote:
Took Boris to stretch his legs
Gets him some Km's up before Dyno Day :wink:
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Geez Steve, you got him WET!!! :shock:

Mine has 11,000 miles up now, so it'll be interesting whether HP has gone up, or down...

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Thats Mt Panorama Bathurst rain Kev...it has to be allowed, it is like holy water :lol:

I had a bit of a look around the Rover to see what has to be done to remove complete air-con system...
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:shock: Motor Racing Museum & showroom.com.au are you getting paid for the advertisinging Steve :idea:
I had about 5 minutes worth of blinging Wish I could have played on the mountain...wouldn't care about the rain..just more fun..knowing after the second time around where they were watching

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Took a drive up to Ipswich to see Ken Nelson from Mini Automotive.

He gave "FAX" a good look over, grease and oil change fixed the front wheel bearings, adjusted the brakesand clutch, timing and carb adjustment and sent me on my way.

It was a 220km round trip and worth every cent as anything Ken doesn't know about Minis isn't worth knowing (I am sure the local Mini owners already know this).

Great guy, great job, great day!

Thanks again Ken.

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Took her bonnet off to make room for the Saturday engine removal, didnt think id be doin that so soon :shock:
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Stripped and cleaned the other front hub, greased the ball joints then repacked the wheel bearings with new Castrol HTB. Surprising how little grease there was left in there, after only a year or so.

Also fitted a new taper-roller to the left rear, which was binding up. Had a close look at the bearing cone which came off, it was in pretty poor condition given it's only been on for 6 months -- a fair amount of pitting evident. I suspect the Chinese are at work here...

Nearly ready for The Job, just a grease-n-oil change left to do 8)

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Heater back from the powder coaters :D
Had the current core it came with pressure tested, had leaks so ordered a new one from MiniSpares, should be here next week.

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Why so? What happened?

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Yeh me too.... Thought this had original dream K's on her.??? Did you redline her as soon as you got her and she didn't like it :cry:

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Received the call that my Mini is not ready to be picked up from the panel beaters. :?

So I fixed the drivers side window on the Rover.

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Gave mine a tubby... :P

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