used him as a ladder...

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Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...



“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.” - Jeremy Clarkson

Fixed the leaky fuel line. The hose had started to perish and split where it fitted onto the filter. Fortunately there was enough length to play with, so just cut the daggy section off, reconnected the filter & away we go.

I also reckon the slam panel had been squashed a bit at some stage - the bonnet often popped up by itself, usually when the engine fired - and a close examination revealed quite a big panel gap at the front corners, but none under the centre of the bonnet edge. So I placed a small hydraulic jack on the front of the subframe & carefully jacked up the slam panel a few millimetres.

Of course I needed to take the grille off to do that, and it had never sat properly 'cos it was a bit bent (the ends sat higher than the middle), so I gave that a tweak too. Stood it over a tool box which is the right width to sit between the vertical braces & leaned on the ends to push them down. Takes a bit of effort to bend all seven bars at once! Finished off by replacing a few broken rivets in the slats, and then ran out of light, so I'll refit it to the car tomorrow.

(The grille isn't as munted as it looks in my avatar, that was just photobucket messing around with the resolution when I shrunk it to fit).

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

Well it moved today, sadly on jacks but it moved which means process

Put my yellow ramflo filter on .Chrome rocker wing nuts and chrome head nuts.

Finished polishing the Clubman and put it up for sale.

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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

Touched up Alice's engine bay with some touch up paint while inbetween motors Rattle can gambier turquoise is actually quiet similar to the proper 2pak job. Put new pads in my discs. Speedo cable caught on back of the diff housing when lifted and managed to mangle itself Was fixable though cleaned up the back of the shed at home with dad and found some pretty rare items which is always a good thing.

Last couple of days played with the rear adjusters - got the camber from +2.8 ish to -0.5. Now to work out the toe in.

Straightened the corner of the door that had been reskined then knocked off its hook in the ceiling and landed on the corner. Taken me 12 months to get around to it.

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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!

I sand blasted two flywheel assemblies, two sets of extractors, an inlet manifold and a 12G940 head.

Having clean parts is such a satisfying part of the process.

If the rain holds off the extractors will get paint this afternoon.

M

Sandblasting is downright therapeutic!

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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

Washed it and then took it for a nice long drive.

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"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you'll suck forever" Brian Wilson

Saw michaelb's mini on eBay, thought about bidding but I wanted to live...... My fiance would kill me... Why do we need a 3rd mini !!!,

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Went to paint the extractors then thought I'd improve them a bit first. So I linished the mounting faces flat and as parallel as I could get them. Then I used a die grinder to smooth out the weld dags inside the flanges and then I welded and ground down some 1/2 washers on the flanges so they match the thickness of the alloy inlet manifold. I am sick of dropping 1/2 washers when trying to install these and also sick of blowing gaskets.

After all that I sand blasted the new welds and painted them in high temp paint. They look great but I doubt this paint will last any better than the last lot.

While I had the sand blaster out I did the inlet manifold and thermostat housing. Lovely!

Took the cluch arm and stuff apart from the wok and found too much wear on the pin and the end of the lever. More parts to order.

I didn't get to take the drop gear/clutch housing off to get the end floats sorted. Maybe that can be a nighttime job since it doesn't involve the welder, angle grinder, belt sander, die grinder, air compressor and sand blaster like today's jobs. I AM the neighbour from hell today.

M

what has really annoyed me is, they have recently released Universal Silver.. In High Temp for Extractors etc.. I had to paint mine in a silver, that looks more greyish

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Started the engine for the first time with the Supercharger fitted
Seems to rev a lot easier now
Just need to move all of the other cars out of the way so I can take it for its first "Supercharged" drive
Maybe tommorrow

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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

Finished stripping down a rusted out 1976 mini S.

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.