put in a ciggy lighter socket,so i can run my radar detecter,thought i could drive faster because of it,turns out it is really sensitive,so makes me drive to too the speed limit,all good im thinking

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First you get the money,then you get the power,then you get the Mini.

Put my mini on a tow truck this morning and sent her to town ! Shes goin in for her overhaul ( gettin ridda rust, new paint, the worx at the mo !) Am very excited! Will post as progress happens!

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Cheers, Kim
**purple '68 deluxe!**


***FINALLY wearing number plates----yeaaaaaah baby! ***

Had to make mine look respectable as we might have mini visitors on the weekend

And why arn't you still out thier

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

Its Vert cold Gamf, Very Very cold, foggy an down right nasty, but the two girls are clean, happy an warm in their lil blankys

Picked it up from its post-electronic-ignition tune. Very happy that the new road near my place has cut 15 minutes of travel time off the trip to Mini Auto. Makes it a very, very short trip. Even shorter picking it up, because it's running very nicely.

since collecting my 'new' wheels last week i have found every reason under the sun to take it out for a blast.....

Pic's of the new wheels Please

Started to Bling the 1 1/2 carb

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

Finished off the bottom rail of the drivers door frame and gave it a coat of cold gal paint

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

will hopefully get to pick it up today and drive it for the first time in 2 months!

gtbbh.

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tim
68 Deluxe 1293, HIF44, megajolt/EDIS4, daihatsu alternator..

'a mini is for life, not just for christmas!'

Welcome back

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

have to replace a bearing.... again....

i guess it will give me a chance to take off the old drums put some new ones on with new pads, lines and maybe springs?

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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

New rear wheel bearing

New knuckle joints even though they werent as bad as I was told

Look and look and look for stupid brake creaking noise that went away anyhow

New Hydro pump up to a nice level with no air this time

Best its ever driven

Welded on my van... sheetmetal welding for the first time ever. Pleased with my efforts.

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Etch primed the drivers door frame around the edge where the skin will go.

Tackled the passenger door bog. The door had at some stage been bent back on the hinges and points of the hinges had made big dents in the door skin. The bog around the bottom hinge was so deep I was able to chisel it off with a hammer and screw driver - 1/8" to 1/4" thick. The top hinge was nearly the same but not as big an area.

Took all of 5 minutes to knock out the top hinge dent and get it 99% smooth (one bit about the size of a 10c piece I can't get behind cause the frame is in the way.)

Bottom took a bit longer got most of it out but for a bit about the size of a 20c bit just to the rear of the inner most hinge bolt hole - it's over the frame piece and there is a spot weld right in the middle - I can't get behind it with a hammer because the door pocket is in the way.

I'll try the heat then freeze technique on it and see what that does - if that doesn't work then may have to put up with a little bit of bog.

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!