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Author:  Gadgets mini [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Bl**dy thing sucking air
Just when i had it running beautifully :D
it started to run a bit rough then terriblly :( :(

i investigated couldnt see any reason then whilst running sprayefd a bit of "Start ya bastard" around the manifold and she reved up :(

started looking for the air leak ( carbie was re bushed 4 weeks ago)
still nothing obvious so i pulled the thing of thinking that one of the gaskets had gone
boy did i get a nasty suprise


look what i found :o :evil: :evil:

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no wonder it was sucking air :evil:

any way after sourcing a 2nd hand throttle body for $35 its up and running again :D
now i have all the mucking around getting the ratios right :(

i guess its all part of owning a Mini :lol:

cheers gadget
Author:  willy [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:49 pm ]
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Far out!
How the hell did you crack the throttle body like that? :shock:
Author:  czerial [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:50 pm ]
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that sucks man,, but btw i love your clubby, i was going to put chromed fatties on Vivian i have some under the house, but would need to get them re-chromed, so decided agaionst it....but your car loos preety schweet!
Author:  Gadgets mini [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:52 pm ]
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Buggered if know :?

maybe it couldnt handle the G forces :wink:

worst part is i had just had the thing rebuilt :twisted:

is alloy welding good these days is it worth doing or should i just write it off to bad luck??

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but btw i love your clubby, i was going to put chromed fatties on Vivian i have some under the house, but would need to get them re-chromed, so decided agaionst it....but your car loos preety schweet!


thanks czerial its still got a long way to go but its getting there when time and money permit and getting the two of them together at the same time

cheers
Gadget
Author:  68matic [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:00 pm ]
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dude is your new throttle body as shiny as your old one?
thats one beautiful carby
even the butterfly is polished
Author:  sg [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:39 pm ]
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Holy crap......................... :shock: . Bad luck right there, hope all is well again now, and you can dial the other one in again 8)
Author:  IwannaMini [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:31 pm ]
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czerial wrote:
that sucks man


Thats cause it was cracked...

:lol:

I am intrigued too though. How does something like that crack..? Was it dropped?
Author:  Gadgets mini [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:54 pm ]
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No to the best of my knowledge it hasnt been dropped the only thing i can think of is that I may of been a bit over zelous tightening the thing up or it wasnt dead flat not sure.

what i can't understand is why it didnt crack straight away it was fine for 4 weeks then all of a sudden it fails :? :?

any ideas?????
Author:  czerial [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:58 pm ]
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:shock: :shock: that shouldnt happen, was it the carby place that may have done
it, other than that its just weired
Author:  Morris 1100 [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:49 pm ]
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Could it be the steady bars on the engine are a bit sad and the engine has rocked back causing the carby to hit the firewall?
Author:  drmini in aust [ Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:42 pm ]
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Not hard to alloy TIG weld it, but it's only a bloody HS4... I'd just pull another off the pile in the corner... :lol:
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