had a patch under the drivers seat that I have never been that happy with. It was only tacked on in one part. Hit a small piece of wood on the road the other week and it bent the corner down a bit. I started picking at it when I was working on the rear suspension the other day and before I knew it I removed it could see inside the car from under it. It was only small but I took it in on Thursday to a panel place near my work and they neatened it up, welded in a plate and cleaned it all up.

When I was looking at the suspension I get it all even at the back and noticed that the drivers side hilo was wound out a fair bit more than the other side and the car was level. This is also the side where the car rubs when hitting bumps. Had a look at the cone and it seems pretty rooted. Sucks as I only got it about 12 months ago as a "hardly used out of the rear of a japanese import" type deal. Got on the internet and emailed minitastic. Should have a set of springs and new hilo's (his springs need special hilo's) next Friday. Got quoted 1500 for the same thing from a place in melbourne and should have them landed here for 450ish. They said they would have to order them in for me from the same place so not sure where the other 1000 is going!

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Dont worry man, its Easter.
After the death comes the resurrection.

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Dog Food! Most kids like it more than Broccoli.

And the chocolate eggs.

Did more exploration of the horn, now that I know where the button is.

The noise it emitted was more of a death rattle than anything else. A bit of investigative tweaking only reduced the noise to a dull "boong", so a trip to Supercheap was undertaken to source a new horn.

After a late lunch, the next task will be to fit it & then see what happens.

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You're only supposed to blow the BLUDDY DOORS OFF!!

The stock horn can be tuned to give a nice note. (that is if it still has the stock horn)
You undo the big nut and fiddle with the screw while the neighbours applaud your efforts.

Fitted the gearbox onto the engine.
Now need to wait till wed to get an idler gear bearing before I can refit the primary cover.

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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

20% off at Supercheap means car service time was 500 klicks early.

Also picked up a can of the liquid moly additive to try out (why not, 20% off..). Way to make nice new oil look old! Looks like I'll be fanging the red Cooper up to Jervis bay in 6 weeks, the liquid moly might be useful on the highway after a few hours of hard running..

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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

Modified a spare Pulsar dizzy to go on the wife's van. Dizzy all good to go now, except the module in it is boogered...

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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.

how did you test that that its buggerd

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

Bench tested it with coil. No sparky when spun. But if I make/break 12V to coil, then I get spark- so coil is good.

[edit] All is now good, I had miswired my testbench...

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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.

not really on the mini but I did have to move two of them (and 3 ADO16's and a Triumph) - spent the day moving everything out of 4 old cupboards in my 6m x 15m garage and onto a bay of shelves along the back wall, sorted all the odds and ends into plastic boxes with lids as I went (yes I know what OCD looks like) - made room for another car plus now I only need to move one car to get anything out - before I had to move 2 to get to most of the cars

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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

went for a little drive was going to go to beveridge for club lunch run next month only to find the the place is shut

new plan so we went to kinglake for lunch

now will be going to Alexandra comecial hotel for lunch

date to be announced

After an Easter egg hunt in the back yard (competing with the kids and the dogs for eggs), followed by an afternoon of poorly fishing the local river and burning Coles snags to within an inch of their lives, I found time to give the Cooper S its two yearly brake fluid flush through.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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

decided to go back to bare metal on the boot. i think it looks perdy. but it does need work.





and primered





obviouslyyyyyy... it needs work. I have no idea as of yet, so might give it a go!

sounds stupid, but whats the go with primers, then etch primers and Hi-fill primers? whats the difference?

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1963 850 - laid up
1970 Morris mini K van - eating up the kms!

Almost ashamed to admit it, bought the first fuel on Saturday for Pooh since last September. Had charged up the battery, checked the fluid levels, lights and tire pressures...drove straight to Air Care for emissions testing...without doing anything else to check the tune (and with mostly old fuel into the pump).

Passed all but hydrocarbons on idle...so three months insurance to end of July...will get us to Mini Meet West at Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada then another long sleep while we tour Oz.

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Select a gear, bring up the revs and release the clutch...off you go!