Pulled the motor and box out today and stripped the engine bay back to bare metal, cleaned and painted just about everything i could find.
Now to make some room so i can pull out the subframe and refurb it completly.
I have all parts now to fully rebuild the front and upgrade to cooper s discs with PBR booster, Just need to find about 12 more hours in every day.
no pics cause I'm too damn exhausted to upload them.

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If its got tits or wheels its gonna cost you

1973 Solid side Leyland Mini Panelvan 1100 in Hairy Lime(Elma)
1976 Clubby project in progress
1966 Morris Mini Deluxe in need of a full resto
1971 Mini K Garden Art

Started to get the engine ready to test run. Head, carby, extractors, dizzy and finally wiring then fuel.

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Visited it in storage, started it up and turned it over, wrapped it back up and went on a long hawkesbury drive in the daily

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Basil - 1978 Leyland Mini, Brooklands Green, bit of a bitsa, and a park brick in the boot.

gave it, its first oil change (wow after 10 year not running the sludge that came out.....) new oil filter (remind me to convert to a spin on!) and some points, plugs seemed ok, last guy put platinum plugs in.

Next i got to work out why the clutch is jammed, no movement of the pedal at all so I think it is time to refurbish the hydraulics......

Is the clutch jammed in or out? It might be the hydraulic hose stopping the fluid from returning.

Is jammed out, no movement of the pedal at all. Wishing I still had all the bits and pieces i had last time I had a Mini Starting from fresh has knobs on it...

Plus side I did go and buy some new tools

Finished assembling my `now portable' Innovate MTX-L A/F ratio meter.
It's in the car and cabled up, with go zoom-zoom in the morning and see how far out of whack my Dellorto's jetting is.

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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.

Went for a drive in he moke, saw another moke for sale near the Wentworth hotel in home bush, standard 79' big wheeler, squashed front donuts, still running smog gear, drums all 4 etc nothing special, asking price? $19000, I laughed and blasted away, then stopped at Edward Lee's who currently has 3 rovers for sale, all great condition, regular rover price, one of the blokes informed me that they can import any rover from japan in 6 weeks, u tell them what you want, they'll find it, send pics, bring it over, comply it and even give a warranty! Good blokes actually

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Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...



“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.” - Jeremy Clarkson

Went for a cruise to Warriewood beach.
Filled up with petrol before the next price hike.
Averaged 32mpg for the past 2 months of trips around Sydney

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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

Saw an Electric Moke! in North Curl Curl

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More body work on the van. Roof and Engine bay finished and primed.

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Spoke with the engine shop today told them to slow down until i can get my balancer and flywheel to them for balancing.. never had to worry about an engine shop wanting to rush things, took to the engine bay again with the wire wheel to finish up a couple of crappy sections before i undercoat it ready for paint, Options for top coat as i told my wife you can have black in 3 forms gloss, satin or matt. looks like its gloss this time around..
Plans for tomorrow remove the front subframe and start on that too..
bring on daylight savings i need more light in my day

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If its got tits or wheels its gonna cost you

1973 Solid side Leyland Mini Panelvan 1100 in Hairy Lime(Elma)
1976 Clubby project in progress
1966 Morris Mini Deluxe in need of a full resto
1971 Mini K Garden Art

Installed 2 new fusion 6 inch speakers on the parcel shelf.. And put my fusion 4 inch speakers in the front..
Sounding better now now but needs a sub..
So ill install my Hertz mini sub and amp tomorrow..

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2000 Holden Rodeo TD - The Daily
1998 JDM Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V -The Weekender
1977 Leyland Mini 998cc, 1293cc in the works - The project
1977 Leyland Mini Van - Sold
1966 Morris Mini Deluxe - Sold
2004 MINI Cooper S Chilli - Sold

tried to fix things, swore, tried more, swore more!

drove well tho with (apart from no indicators) a full load of sand and compost and other garden goodies from bunnings

I looked at mine. But couldn't be bothered taking the car cover and pool cover off. Poor thing

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1963 850 - laid up
1970 Morris mini K van - eating up the kms!