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Morris 1100
PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2005 5:19 pm 
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Winter has hit Goulburn this week and every morning I have to scrape the ice off the windscreen before I leave to go to work.
Monday morning was about -2°c and the ice was thick on the windows and on the way to work every time I lifted the foot to change gear the throttle would stick.
The butterfly shafts were freezing up! They would stick a little then they would free up.

One thing I have noticed this year is how good the car starts when the temp is in the minuses now I have the pulsar dizzy.
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Took me TWO turns of the key to get mine started!
And a quick rev up to valve bounce once shes just started and she's ready to thrash all the way up to school.
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Morris 1100 wrote:
Winter has hit Goulburn this week and every morning I have to scrape the ice off the windscreen before I leave to go to work.
Monday morning was about -2°c and the ice was thick on the windows and on the way to work every time I lifted the foot to change gear the throttle would stick.
The butterfly shafts were freezing up! They would stick a little then they would free up.

One thing I have noticed this year is how good the car starts when the temp is in the minuses now I have the pulsar dizzy.


Morris.....have you tried leaving a flannelette sheet on overnight...I've seen a few people do that and they just lift the ice straight off the car.

I would tend to be blipping the throttle/dipping the clutch every opportunity to get all the linkages and things moving...dun no if that might help.

I know what would help....build yourself a garage!! :idea: :D

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Morris 1100
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1) The flannelette sheets are on the bed and they are staying there.
2) I could blip the throttle but I quite like the flat changes!
3) I have a four car garage and a two car carport but my car still ends up in the cold! If I got my arse into gear and finished painting my box trailer I could fit my car in the carport! :wink:
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Morris 1100 wrote:
1) The flannelette sheets are on the bed and they are staying there.

Thats an idea...get up after the sun is higher!

2) I could blip the throttle but I quite like the flat changes!

Well theres nuffin I can say more except....plumb in a de-icing fluid squirt system :oops:

3) I have a four car garage and a two car carport but my car still ends up in the cold! If I got my arse into gear and finished painting my box trailer I could fit my car in the carport! :wink:

Man! throw a tarp over the box trailer and leave it in the open so the Mini can keep warm under the Carport!!

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Location: Sydney - strangely, I am glad of the sight of hills!!
i remember driving up the coast from my parents one time where i had to scrape the ice off the inside of the windscreen as well as the outside. man that was cold. thats why i had to put a heater in for tassie - that's real cold every night in winter :)

i never even had the choke cable connected in tassie. i would just prop it open with the lid off a biro for the warmup and then close it. never got ice in the carby though, even with a ramflo :?

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Yeah, the cold snap has hit Cairns too, got down to 16*C last night! Damn cold. :D

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oh steve i feel for ya
put those singlets and thongs away

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justminis wrote:
Yeah, the cold snap has hit Cairns too, got down to 16*C last night! Damn cold. :D


that would be the same Cairns where one year we were all going out to the airport in open neck shirts and shorts in June and the lady cab driver had a big cardigan and the heater on ful bore....we nearly suffocated....it was about 16*C :!: :D

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justminis wrote:
Yeah, the cold snap has hit Cairns too, got down to 16*C last night! Damn cold. :D


Yep, gets real cold up there in winter......all three days of it.

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hey mate hows the water restrictions going ? looks fcuked

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Morris 1100 wrote:
Monday morning was about -2°c and the ice was thick on the windows and on the way to work every time I lifted the foot to change gear the throttle would stick.
The butterfly shafts were freezing up! They would stick a little then they would free up.


I remember driving to Hay from Sydney many years ago in a '74 Clubby Van. No heater and a Weber that kept freezing up.
Travelling through Yass was the coldest. We stopped and covered the inside of the grill with cardboard to stop the cold air, wrapped the carby in rags as well as cardboard to try and keep it warm. It helped a little.

What a trip - earplugs, driver and passenger wrapped in blankets and ski gloves on.

It was the last time I drove a Mini to Hay........

Julie...........

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c'mon julie it just aint the same unless you drive a mini to hay
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Every time I drive a Mini to Hay I break something. So I trailer it - problem solved.

BTW: Not going this year.

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