Rapidly pushed the mini back into the garage before the hail got to her.., then went back inside. Three minutes later and OH crap The Range Rover. Put that around the back under the verandah.

Couple of hail damaged Kitties though however they are on the mend and not so much soggy moggies anymore.

Garage was awash with water since the level outside the doors was 4" deep. Those plastic seals on roller door account for squat!! Good time to spray paint though, the dust on the floor is nonexistant..

Regreased the rear wheel bearings, again. A couple of long freeway runs has one or the other side starting to groan at around 80 km/h, although by the time I get to 100 I can't hear it

These tapered bearings (not Timken) are only about 6 months old, so something ain't quite right here somewhere...

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The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

finding that a lot - the proload on them is wrong, either too tight (needs a shim) or too loose (needs machining down)

The genuine Timkens now (in the Unipart kit) have 1/2 a `spacer' thickness on each bearing cone, and no separate spacer.
I hope they are right (well, they ARE Timkens), as being HARD, you can't machine them like you can the old spacers. Would need to be surface ground if wrong.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Soaked me and the gearbox in diesel. Still isn't 100% clean... Well - it's clean enough for a rebuild so I leave it as it is.

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No speakers, no bodykits, no six-inch spacers, no spak filler, no bullshit

Painted 2 x 21A1874 rear displacers for my S, stenciling tonite. Added a single blue band to the hoses on the front ones (21A1872).

Al

Put petrol in it and drove it On the way home I had a haemorrhoid nissan pulsar sss with all the go fast bit he could bolt on, so I took the opportunity to remove it with ease

Disclaimer:- Please dont not read to much into the above information, if you think it was because i was travelling above the speed limit in the state of tasmania you may or may not have read the above statement correctly but if you think it was because of the minis superior handling characteristics then you may or may not be correct in your assumtion of the information above, if you think it was because I actually had a haemorroid and it was shaped the same as a nissan pulsar sss attached to my person of which I took the opportunity to remove whilst travelling home you may or may not have the correct information as the information supplied above may or may not be a fantasy and you may or may not be reading this as it may orr may not be actually here for your pleasure or possibly to cause you to have wasted a couple of minutes opening this small text up after you have possibly or possibly not hit the quote button to the text here is at a normal easy to read size so you dont have to squint or try and read it like brail of which you know you cant through a computer screen no matter how much you try. Have you spotted any spelling mistakes through out this total and utterly useless information that you have just spent the past 5 or 10 minutes reading for no other reason than you thought it may or may not contain something of value . . . hi Mum

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMkVq1jRGU

Started the Rover....let it run for a bit to warm up
Checked the tarp on the deluxe....
Took Rover for a quick blat....
Parked Rover


Oh and your mum says Hi Scott lol

Got my offset cam key selection in from Minispares.
£5 each and I have 2,4,6,8 &9° offset ones.

Now I can finish fitting the Triger belt drive kit to the stroker.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Thanks for specs on the spacer. I've found someone who will make me one up next week, should be pretty easy appaerntly

More like what I've done in the past three days. Put the reconditioned steering rack in 'Project S', then the rear and front subframes, added all the suspension bits (hydrolastic), connected up all the hydro hoses and rear brake lines, installed some shock absorber mounts in the front and put some shockies in (upper control arms modded to take the 9/16" larger bolt). Re-arranged the rolling support for the the shell on account of the subframes being installed. Spent the afternoon constructing a suspension pump. Next task will be to update the project with some pictures in the "Members Mini Gallery".

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1964 998 Cooper , 1968 Morris 1100

Driven my Cooper S and orgainsed the new Cooper S plate, and washed and waxed my Leyland mini

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PM sent.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

removed drivers door for strip back, prep, paint and rebuild. Also took out steering rack for rebuild and clean up.

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Chuck Norris is the only person alive who can kick you in the back of the face!!
mooo, I'm a pig!

brail is spelt braille

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busier than a 0ne legged man in a butt kicking competion