Changed from pot joints to rubber unis.... Oil stoned my Block and head surface. Finished my seatbelt install. Drivers side inertia reel was sticky so i had to pull it all apart and lube up the mechanism. Started to remove right hand tank. Cleaned up my calipers and rotors ready for re install. Worked out the guy with the factory opposite ours has just bought a new big arse sandblasting machine im sure that will come in handy Pretty basic day going down after work with dad to do my front end install now that he finnaly has time Got hi los and some other goodied to put in aswell. Cant wait for hay

Finished getting all the black crap off my underbody. Cut out some rust. Bought supplies for what comes next.

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So... I'm Seifer

On sunday i fitted the new clutch master cylinder and got the clutch working.

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2000 Holden Rodeo TD - The Daily
1998 JDM Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V -The Weekender
1977 Leyland Mini 998cc, 1293cc in the works - The project
1977 Leyland Mini Van - Sold
1966 Morris Mini Deluxe - Sold
2004 MINI Cooper S Chilli - Sold

Painted 2 hydro front subbies with Aldi's gloss black enamel. It's good stuff, brushes on great, is cheap too.
`paints directly over rust' they said. I did wire brush then rust convert it first...

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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.

Sold a sh1t load of parts on ebay and got WAY more than I was expecting for them.

I needed a Moke grill and was going to bid but forgot! Would have paid more than $26 too . . .

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Dave K.
1979 Moke Californian + 1981 'Coke' Moke

Got a good one here Dave, PM me.

[edit] What did I do today? Made up some tooling so I can hold Hypatec pistons in the lathe (without the chuck) to machine their tops for strokers. Then did 4 to prove it works.

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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.

parked it safely (wheel chocks n all!) in the garage finally home after nearly two weeks in the workshop.

Can't wait to go for a run somewhere, anywhere round the Gong tomorrow on my day off

Changed the temperature gauge out with a better unit (Thanks Morris) and took her for a spin up in the hills near here.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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

Finished off the central locking.

Bled the clutch and replaced 2 of the clevis pins and discovered that the previous owner has drilled out the clutch housing to fit a bigger bolt instead of the right size pin. So at some stage I guess I will be replacing the housing and arm but it is still fairly tight so should be okay for now. Clutch is now worse then it was before I replaced the pins.

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My '78 Leyland Mini on flickr

That L wheel went for a pretty penny. Was watching from my phone.

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1978 Leyland Clubman

Yes, I couldn't believe the wheel went so high. The grille was cheaper than I expected though.

Today I replaced by steering rack in the Moke. Not too hard since the engine is out and it is already on stands but still took a bit of swearing. With the new lower column bush also fitted it is so much better. I took out a 10 year old but only about 2000km quick rack that had gone sloppy.

Thanks Kev!

An I also dropped my flywheel/clutch assembly off at the Miniman's place to get set up and balanced.

Just a few more jobs and the engine can go back into the moke.

M

I refitted a rebuilt forward clutch assembly (thanks, Greig!) to a Morris 1100S automatic.
It's a fun job to align the pipes and valve linkage, but it's back in the box OK after a few goes..

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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.

My brother pulled down an old 1100 engine and box for me on Friday. Crank has blue paint and yellow dots on it. Also one end seems to have had some grinding..

Anyone got any clues fron the photo below???

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1968 Morris Mini Deluxe - members gallery
1970 Morris Cooper S - members gallery
Mini's I grew up with
Slot car couch

Its Rusty

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