Okkher, so today about 5 seconds after i got home from work, i had the mini's bonnet open, and i began hacking away at it.
Im not quite sure why or what i was looking for? But i just did it.
Forever in my owning existance of mini, it has never idled properly. The bloke who sold it to me, said, it doesnt run/idle properly, Its way too high, and he had a fair bit of mech knowledge, he couldnt fix it. A mechanic i took it to, he also couldnt figure out why it does idle so high/ run too rich? whatever. At work on Monday when i took it, Going home, the choke cable got stuck as it sometimes do, and it wouldnt go back in, so i was sitting there running with the choke all out for a long time, trying to get it back in, from in the cabin.
So bloke i work with, he knows nothing about a mini, but he had a fiddle, and he make it go back in, fiddling with something on carby.
But he says when i take off, it blows real rich black soot/smoke, and it runs extra too rich, But no one can fix it, not cables or screws can really alter it, to anything that sounds/smells right.
The mini will not idle for more than 5 seconds without me tapping the accelerator, be in after 2 minutes after start up, a 20min drive, an hour drive, or a 2 hour drive, It doesnt idle at all.
Anyways that the problem, so i had a fiddle. Looking at bits off my old wreck
Right so here is the carby attatch manifold thing off the wrecked clubman. It has 2 tupe things as you can see.
More about this cars setup, here are these things off it,
and here
is the 2" pipe thing that starts at the join of the above 3 tubes. Mine is only 1.25".
Now This is my carby now.
this is this part of it, the same part as the other part of the wrecked one.
Mine has 3 tubes there, as you can see.
That middle one is not part of the exhaust pipe system as far as i know, but the other one only had 2 tubes.
Mine also has that big bolt in there, and a small rubbery lenght of tube with a screw in the top of it where my finger is.
The other piece didnt have any of these.
So i didnt know what i was fiddling with, but i yanked off the carby (id done that before), but i undid that big bolt on my manifold, it was sealed in with some rubbery red sticky sealant of sorts, So obviously i cracked through it and undid the bolt.?
But then i decided Okkher so ill have ago at pulling the little carby manifold off also, So i undid 4 bolts that 3 are visible in the picture, but i thought id then be able to yank it off. But it doesnt come off? Is it welded on or something? Its not moving. But the other bit come off the other mini without much force?
Actually i remembered i was going to get a fatter carby on. I have seen a bigger one of Austin Kimberly, and some stupid geeky name (cheers simon) explained to me 'porting' and how i would whack on a bigger carby on my 1.5" manifold thing! But then he said that because i dont have extractors it prolly will be too hard/not worth it. But then he said go and have a fiddle, So a fiddle i did.
But with a different carby on, id be able to see if it is infact the carby at fault, not something else, So it all fun and games.
The bloke at work said he thought it wasnt a problem with cables/screws or stuff, it was a more internal thing, and he said maybe you need a carby kit for it. He explained about one he had done of his V8 HQ, but i didnt take any notice.
But a different carby might be fun,
and can someone explain the differences in the car parts between the 2 clubmans. why does me have 3 tubes? not 2? why is there a bug chunky bolt there, but not on the other one?
Does it all mean something, or am i just reading too much into an un-interesting subject?
All i know is i had fun, unscrewing all screws and bolts that looked like they wanted to be turned, being an idiot.
But i now have super filthy hands, Not too happy about that.
All the grease and oil and fuel and other stuffs, got into my deep open stab wound that i inflicted on me at work, playing with old rusty barbed wire, so thats probably not a good prize.
please explain to me, anything that which i have asked that is a problem or a question,
Thankyou. And happy Birthday to me ^_^
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" Due to the insane idling and fuel buring of the mini 
there is the Wilsons in Hobart, that is all 
YAY a 7 hour return trip 
how fun 
no good 
but i didnt stop and eventually i got the mini up on the ramps
