Maybe they have heard that QLDers like things bent?? Bananas etc

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I am behind the times with My website, I have ben trying to build this myself but I did not
get it Done, However with some outside help good news is around The corner
I have sold Out of the Catalogues, We are now trying reprint them

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" A Hundred Years From Now It will not Matter what my Bank Acount Was,
The Sort Of House I Lived in, Or The Kind Of Car I drove ... But The World May Be A Better Place
Because I was Once Important In The Life Of A Child"

John whilst you have always been extremely helpful whenever I have rung a website will bring you untold new business. I often do my mini shopping of an evening when all the shops are closed.

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1965 Riley Elf
1974 Ex Army Moke
1997 Rover Cooper
2002 JCW Cooper
2003 JCW Cooper S

Thanks John

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A member on here just got a new set of 1.5:1 Mini****** roller tip rockers from UK this week.
6 of the 8 adjusters were bent (like my recent forged/cast ones were) and the nuts all loose as buggery on the threads (ditto).
I gave him a set of s/h A+ adjusters and nuts, all seems good now.

Talk about spoiling their ship for a pennyworth of tar... these things are not that cheap! (but they should be, seeing as where they are made now).

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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.

Bought 8 new long brass nuts for the exhaust manifold.
All 8 needed a tap put through them so they would screw on with fingers.
And this was after I chased all the stud threads with a dienut.

It's a good thing I'm a machinist...

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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.

Yeah...otherwise you'd be screwed

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I tend to regret it every time I fail to do this when putting twins on with tight extractors.

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

add the new not made made in china cv joints to the list also
tested 2 that were bought in australia and they are too long in the shaft so the drive flanges wont locate properly,the rest will be going back to the supplier

Not ony car parts I'm afraid.

Won a 1Kg bag of mini easter eggs in a raffle last week. Wow! I thought, how good is this.

But they tasted like dog-sh!t

Looked at the label on the bag. You guessed it - Made In China

FFS

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

Rofl , best to stick to Genuine Caburys " from a reputable dealer " .

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can't beat australian made chocolate try Heritage made in melbourne can buy straight from factory

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65 panel van Sprog
73 panel van Iggy

Nutz included??

or Whittakers from Nu Zuuland...great stuff

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I love their peanut slabs " damn addictive

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Thread revival.

With my large box full of small parts I started putting bits onto the 850 today. I thought I would start with the doors. First parts on are the rubber drain tubes from the window slider area down to the bottom of the doors. I had bought a brand new set from the UK.

They are cut to length and one end is swaged out to a larger diameter so I though they would fit... Wrong... The bottom end is meant to slide inside a steel tube but they are way too large to go in. I had to use the belt sander on them to make them fit.



That wasn't too bad, just dusty and time consuming.

Then I went to put the handles together and found that the inside handle that is meant to clamp onto the 1/4 inch square rod that goes from the outside handle to the latch mechanism is way too big. It has a screw in it that is meant to allow it to be tightened over the square rod but there is no way that little screw is closing a gap that big. So the new handles are going to float around and rattle. Great.

I expect I am about to have a fight with my Newton Commercial door trims from what I have read over the last few weeks on here.

Why is it so hard to use new parts??

M