Oh yeah 9YaTaH, you must have gone on Skyline Blvd/ Highway 9 down to Santa Cruz.

Morris has done that trip before, and it's great for a Mini. I live about 3 hours North of Santa Cruz, in Santa Rosa and this is probably one of the best places in the country for Mini driving. Thousands of miles of twisty 2 lane back roads that stay in excellent condition because we don't get snow and it never gets too hot either.

Fun fun fun!

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Oh but best memory is the Halibut Steaks on Fishermans wharf at the bottom of the hill

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Hey all...

I'm Pete, from Canberra. I've just bought my first mini - a '76 panel van, with a mildly worked 1100 in it. trying to find parts and so on for it brought me in here... hope to see some of you around once I get her on the road!

Welcome Pete. Vans are getting fairly sought after now.
Hope you find the bits you are after

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Too many cars, and too little time.

springs to replace the rubber cones are the first thing... I've found em o/s, but not locally yet...

still battling with the sump plug right now - the thing was garraged for 10 years, so things are quite tight and gunked up

thanks for the welcome tho!

Do a search here for those spring replacements mate....the concensus seems to be that they do not last long at all

Check out the ACTMCC website Uncy and come visit sometime

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the mini club is on my list of "to join"

I had a better look at the suspension on the weekend, and it actually seems to be in reasonable nick. add to that that the previous owner had hilo's fitted means i.l probably stick ith whats there, for now at least.

The Sump plug won its fight, so its getting drilled and re-tapped today... after that, i've just got to find an assortment of bolts and screws to fix everything back in with (anyone suggst a good place to get some?), and then get some rust fixed up and she will be back on the road...

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Legend! Thanks mate.

Had Alex from Capital Thread Repair come out and fix up the sump plug. Extremely impressed with the job, his service and the cost - $100 to drill and grind the old plug out, clean out the bottom of the sump and tap and fit a new plug.

Guess I should create a new thread to document my mini journey huh

Yes!..you should! here! \/ \/ \/

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=3

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hi,

i'm Klas from Hamburg, Germany.

as i've found very nice minis here from you i will show you some of mine, hope you like it

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75021268@N00/159364686/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75021268@N00/159370482/

there are more photos to come, maybe

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Rover 214 atm ....

Welcome KLAS more photos please.

steve

Hi,

I'm from Hamburg, Germany too.

Klas told me about the AWD Subaru Moke, the moke looks really nice..

here are some pics from my Mini(s)

at the moment it's "build one out of two"

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mpi/tank1.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mpi/tank4.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mpi/loch004.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mpi/loch010.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mini/turbo005.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mini/llk/llk021.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mini/llk/llk022.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/Leyland/IMGP0979.JPG

http://people.freenet.de/Leyland/IMGP1243.JPG

http://people.freenet.de/Leyland/fast1.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/Leyland/fast2.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/Leyland/motor_mini.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/Leyland/motor_halb.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/mini-speedster/gestell7.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/1300er/efi/efi02.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/1300er/efi/efi04.jpg



http://people.freenet.de/mini-speedster/dzm-tacho.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/mini-speedster/ohnelicht.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/Leyland/2/brett23.jpg

so, that are some pics its still a lot to do and the pics aren't sorted

so enjoy them

jo Suki, any progress with your project?


BTW, some pictures added
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75021268@N00/
and more to come

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yes, i got my finally decision how the gauges come into the dashboard.

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mpi/brett3.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/turbo-mpi/brett4.jpg

the 2 big ones are the speedo (right side) und the rev meter (left one)

he six gauges are all 52mm and got a new design (the needle stands downwards and the scale is printet on overhead projektor foil and backlighted with EL-Foil)

the alu plate (the lower left quater) is the groundplate for the switches and controll LEDs (look at the picture above, there is the rev meter and the speedo too.

the gauges:
above (from left to right): voltmeter / amperemeter / oil pressure / oil temp
beneath (f.l.t.r): boost / water temp