I bought a dremel-type thingy from Aldi. Doesn't have any immediate relation to my mini today, but i'm sure it will some day...

I'm about to buy new pistons and shocks and knuckle joints and bits and pieces :)

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Practicing some electoplating (bright zinc) on the cover strip that goes around the starter motor. 'Cooking' at the moment.

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Cool, looking forward to seeing the results.

spent half an hour unbolting the 1100 in scrapper and putting the HIF for the 1275 motor back together and on the manifold. Ready to drop the 1275 back in this weekend.

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Put the new carpet in the matic, tidied up all the wiring, drove it halfway to pakenham, let it have a rest on someones naturestrip, put a new coil and leads and plugs on it, then put it on a trailer and sent it away to be fixed by someone who has the time. I also vacuumed the LS, put new tail light lenses on it and got chauffered around in it while I was sulking about my matic sitting on the side of the road.. All in all, great mini day!

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88 Rover 1.3i "Reggie"
99 Rover 1.3i “Grover”
12 Mini Cooper S "The shitter"
17 Mini Clubman JCW “Noddy”

nice life you have there, take one for a drive, it stops, so just grab another one!

I spent the day sulking

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

but then you have the days when 2 or 3 of them won't go...... multiply sulking x 3 - it's not pretty

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'62 Morris 850 (Marion)
'65 Mini Delux - sleeper 1275/S discs (Ms Plum)
'69 Vanden Plas Princess 1300
'71 Wolseley 1300
'74 Austin 1300 Countryman
'94 XJ6 Sport 3.2
'04 Rover 75 CDTi

Fitted up the proper number plate bracket to the front of the Mini, also put in a leatherwood bootliner and adjusted rear suspension to 1 degree camber with 0 degree toe out.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Adjusted the air/fuel mixture and drain the coolant in the radiator, I'll see tomorrow how she runs.

Put my heater back together after restoring it, will put it back in the car tomorrow and post some pics of the project.

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Flute - 68 MK I Cooper S
Member: VMCI #2474
Member: International Mini Model Collectors Club

Hot I would imagine, unless you top that coolant back up.

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Wire wheeled the extractors and then spray painted with some nice silver 1500deg heat proof paint. Dropped the brake and clutch master cylinders into the brake shop so they can be returned to being nice and shiny again.
Procrastinated over rubbing back the spotty paint around the master cylinders in preparation to touch up the damage done by the spilled brake fluid.

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1969 Cooper "S"
1967 Mini Deluxe
1973 Clubman Van (the fleet spare)
1978 ex 1275 LS ("Wizard" Eaton Supercharged)
2015 HSV GenF GTS(occasional drive & tow car)
2019 MINI F55 Cooper S

Where are the photo's Jim


I got some new leads on an old mini history research project , here we go again Got more info than I started with for the Mini-Trac and the last sighting was much more recent than the Mini-Trac ....

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So what is it?


I fixed the horn and the high beams. Both were just loose connections. The high beam i know what connection it was, but the horn, after about half an hour of trying to find it, I got frustrated, grabbed the wires, shook them in anger and then in frustration decided to try the horn one more time and to my surprise it worked.......BLOODY LUCAS!!!!

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Ryan Filippi
Minis In The Gong
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www.minisinthegong.com.au