Should have started not just popped, it sounds like your dizzy is 180° out.
If you line up the timing marks, then fit the dizzy driveshaft in as per the manual's picture, it is 180° out.
Why?
Because when the timing dots are aligned, yes it is at TDC, but firing on #4, not #1.
Every A series is like this- you need to turn the motor over 1 turn before fitting the dizzy shaft.

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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.

Ahhhhh so hypothetically, if I put the timing marks on the flywheel to 5 degrees BTDC and then advanced the cam clockwise until the No 1 Inlet valve just started to open would the Dizzy shaft be in the correct position then as the Manual shows?

no - that's not what you want...



TDC on the compression stroke is when the piston is at the top of the bore, and both valves are completely shut

The 2 valves on #4 cylinder then will be both partly open (ie rockers tight).
Basically like I said, rotate the engine 1 full turn from when the timing marks are aligned. Then fit the dizzy driveshaft as per the book.

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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.

Masked and painted cylinder head.

sanded and repainted the timing cover as the finish was not quite right.

sorted through more bolts and nuts, located where they go and began pre-assembly.

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'66 BRG Morris Mini Deluxe 60HP ATW

I removed the Bling MED balancer from the 1412 stroker, to Loctite it to the crank nose.
When I removed the pulley bolt I found that with a belt drive cam kit (which moves the pulley out 3mm), there is only about 4 threads of the bolt engaged....
I better get a longer (competition) C-AHT147 bolt/washer, or failing that machine 3mm off the underside of the bolt head.

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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.

well after 3 months of whinging and bitching about the door/windows rubbers, i finally got the glass back in both doors now !

A little bit dodgy looking in spots (they were a bastard to line up in the passenger side!) but as long as people ignore it when they see it, I'm good !

Now to fix 10 mm gap in passenger door when closed...................... !

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Cheers, Kim
**purple '68 deluxe!**


***FINALLY wearing number plates----yeaaaaaah baby! ***

did some more cutting and welding in my traveller...

Much to my delight I got Hetty Started this evening when I came home from work.. Many thanks for the help guys... Cheers!

Did all the brake lines in the back end of the Van to the T piece at the front.
Fitted the push button starter & also the Bonnet

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

I did an oil and filter change and discovered the guys at motor traders would sell me 6 x Z418's for $32
The oil came out black as expected but still opaque, so things are clean in there.

There was however a paper thin bit of steel stuck to the magnet, bout 3 X 8 mm .....

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Dean Hutton's first car was a Mini.

Pulled apart the dash in the deluxe for the umpteenth time. The previous owner put a clubby loom in so I ended up putting a triple gauge cluster in as well and most of it worked. That was until I decided to go somewhere at night and I realised the dash lights weren't working.

Anyway, pulled the custom dash apart to take out the cluster. Swapped a few bulbs out (one definitely blown) but still no go, although the oil light now works. Disconnect everyhting, take the printed circuit off and clean all the contacts and refit. Still no go. Realise that none of the wiring diagrams match reality so slowly work my way through the dash connecter tracing everything (and annotating the diagram s I go) . Eventually discover the correct wire for the lights, trace it back and find that it is the wrong colour and not connected to anything. Poke around and find the correct colour wire, also not connected to anything. Both wires have female connecters. Replace connecter with male connecter, join them up and bingo! Everything now works.

Now that the dash is apart I'll do some more work prettying it up but that can wait for tomorrow.

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66 Deluxe, 07 Cooper

ordered my megajolt lite jr, and EDAS4 kit from the states.. just need to get the trigger wheel etc off of 92, and bye bye dissy!

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tim
68 Deluxe 1293, HIF44, megajolt/EDIS4, daihatsu alternator..

'a mini is for life, not just for christmas!'

Spent the first half of the day knocking up a lifting frame out of scrap that was left behind by the previous owner of our house.

Then proceeded to lift the engine out (the HARD way) of my '63 without a block and tackle - got it out

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'72 Clubman Van - 1022cc, 295 head, 731 cam - Daily Driver
'69 Morris 1100 S - Dinged by a bus, in shed under repair
'64 Morris 1100 - Early 1100, long term project

woo hoo!