Played with the toy car today:- Fitted the new fuel balance pipe and associated braided hoses. Didn't go straight in as I hoped, but luckily had the original (very ill) available to check angles... Fitted new fuel pump and hoses.... Fitted "T bolt" - it is responsible for canceling the indicators - all good.

Getting there, slowly slowly....Plenty of time....Don't you worry about that....

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No decision is incorrect when made - but it does become apparent in retrospect...

refitted Sues Exhaust but it will need to be replaced
other than a few thing I also layed the carpet in the Van..I don't think My old man had Carpet In his Vans

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

Finish off heaps of stuff - replaced all clevis pins and clutch arm, bled clutch and refreshed fluid.

Oil change after a quick run to Repco for the LAST oil filter in stock - lucky me.

Tried to balance the carbs and the frigging Carbalancer doesn't fit over the carby as the air filter housing bolt too long, so adapted a funnel to give clearance. THEN found the ball in the air tube was missing...... , so made a couple of epoxy stick putty and got it working. Then hit it with the colourtune and had to lean it right out as was so rich......

Took it for a test drive,...sweeet! Gears very rarely crunch now, and the car wants to go so much faster! Also noticed no smoke at all during normal driving and start-up, and reduced on the over-run.....

Now to fit Wombat's voltage regulator........

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Cooper S Mk2
Cooper S Mk1
ex Cooper S Mk2, various Morris 1100s, 1300s, 1500s, Leyland Sherpa!

gave it it's yearly bath

Made up a jigger to let me check idler gear endfloat with both the engine and flywheel housing on..

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Stripped the paint and glue from around inside the roof of the 1275LS project and then etch primed. Stripped the paint and glue from the rear side bins. Stripped the paint off the new bonnet. Stripped the paint off the new guards and front apron.
Getting closer to the paint shop.......

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1969 Cooper "S"
1967 Mini Deluxe
1973 Clubman Van (the fleet spare)
1978 ex 1275 LS ("Wizard" Eaton Supercharged)
2015 HSV GenF GTS(occasional drive & tow car)
2019 MINI F55 Cooper S

Carpet In
Seats In
Stereo In
Seat Belts On
Door Card On
Binnical On
Volt Meter sorted:roll:
Grill On
Bonnet On
Maybe 5 thing left and she'll be On the road...Not Perfect but thats the adjustments afterwards

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

Got a set of Yoke A008's,
removed the drivers side calliper, rotor, hub and drive shaft,
cleaned the grease out of the CV,
broke the cir-clip on the end of the drive shaft,
Gave up and went out for a drive in the P76.

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

new top radiator hose (Tuesday, after dad split it on the drive home from the PO's Place).
Played with the timing a little and mixture.
pulled apart distributors and then put them back together.
Drove it to the beach.
thought about tyres and wheel combo's.
went hunting through books and boxes to see what I needed for my project.

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MINE:
1976 Clubby 1100, 266 Kent cam, slightly worked head. (awaiting paint)
1978 1275LS Hi-Ho Silver with a Camtech 619 cam and some strange looking rockers

i ordered $1800 clams worth of paint. at TRADE price

this van better look pretty

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-jamie-
1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

replaced my blown coil with a gt40 one and have neatened up the wiring in the engine bay with split conduit

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-Motor mechanic - Proud owner of a '76 Clubman S and a Ford ef xr6 manual

Ported the head for the Cooper's new engine.
I used Vizard's book and a little of Des Hammil for reference, motive power provided by supercrap and sutton tools .
Today was the ports, tomorrow I'll do the chambers.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Don't do much at all to those chambers, just de-dag em. These 295 ones are too damned big to begin with. 998 Cooper had D top pistons to fill em up a bit. Even with flat top pistons in a 998 with this head (stock thickness), C/R is too low.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Yeah, thats pretty much what I had in mind. I will skim it a little however if required to get the compression ratio where I want it. Even Vizard touches the chambers only marginally.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Continued fabricating a new skin for my door from scratch - just too many dents in the old one, some brass in there too! I love my TAFE teacher - he knows old school techniques

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