My mini is dead (well, dead enough). I have checked the whole 2 things i know to check (water and oil) and both are OK. It's making like a put-put noise and all vibrating and smells like oil (well, what i think oil smells like). it does go.. though very slowly, and has only about 1/4 the power. drove to my parent's house from work at about 40km/h..
so i am sad don't know how i'll get to work tomorrow either..

Runs on 4?
Dropped valve?
Head gasket?
****ed the crank?

Tell us more!

But

prob distributor cap yet doesn't explain the smell other than that check that first

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that's the whole problem. i can't tell you more, due to being a girl and not yet being educated in these things. which, at times like these, sucks.
so if i'm being told to check things, i'll have to be told what i'm looking for on them...

Check your spark plugs, if they're fouled up the car will run like dog crap and it'll vibrate under acceleration. Rings could be gone letting oil into the cylinders (hence the oil burning smell) and therefore fouling up the sparks..

Thats cool.
My advice: Get it to a mechanic!
Or get ya ex-boyfriend around to come check it out, maybe he's good with cars

he is, he just happens to live about an hour and a half away... :S
i am going to have another look now. and see if i can break it more. and then if i do, i can just get it towed somewhere tomorrow..
*nods*
thanks for the ideas so far!

Have you mixed up the spark plug leads by any chance when you checked the plugs????

1-3-4-2 is the firing order and the lead to #1 is around the 4 o'clock position on the distributor. The next lead - somewhere about the 1 o'clock position - goes to spark plug #3 and so on.

Try that and see how you go - good luck

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before today i hadn't checked the plugs? and i only took one off at a time today.. too dark (and too many mozzies) to check it's all good now.. will have to look tomorrow after work.
i looked at 2 of them though and they are black and sooty. which, i am guessing, is not a good thing.

Black and sooty isn't as bad as black and shiny... sooty is just mixture too rich.. So it could be your problem.. hopefully after a clean of the plugs and lean the mixture a bit should fix things up

i'm free tomorrow arvo if you want me to come have a look at it for you.

ps: i saw you parked in front of the group home on saturday i think it was, or friday. on terry st i think, figtree.

could be simply the choke stuck on & fouling & smokey because of it,,,hopefully

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

that could be good ryan.. i'll see whether i can get a temporary fix to get up that way though... i'm stuck in albion park rail right now
and yeah, i worked a doubler on saturday at terrie ave

well i cleaned 3 of the spark plugs (couldn't get the third one out) and replaced my fuel filter, coz dad said the other day that it needed doing.
runs slightly better now.. no vibrating, just still only goes about 40km/h.
so i dunno *shrugs*

head gasket??

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