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Oct 23, 2021 18:45:25 GMT
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Very last last show of year …. Before hibernation Section 59 fundraiser at Herrington park Late afternoon show ( cold and windy) Good crack , friends and family … plus bonus of winning second prize best car in show . Won a professional photo shoot for car Back from show … last time outside for a while  |
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Oct 24, 2021 13:19:21 GMT
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Feel free to sing a spandau ballet song …  Through the barricades ….. No Spandau Ballet here, that looks like something out of NASA's workshops. Instead, a bit of Ol' Blue Eyes- Fly me to the moon... |
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Last Edit: Oct 24, 2021 13:19:52 GMT by PhilA
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Oct 25, 2021 21:08:16 GMT
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Late with photo 1st place - bagged rs 2nd place - me ( literally robbed🤣) 3rd place - very cool old school beemer  Have a soft spot for anything 70’s and 80’s |
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Oct 30, 2021 20:31:34 GMT
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Change of plan - going down different route so selling spoiler Ad in for sale section forum.retro-rides.org/thread/220139/classic-mini-clubman-st-spoilerAm still going to ‘add’ to styling but a different style …. Keep watching and I’ll pop up a picture of next instalment soon . Also Got a few bits and bobs to order from mini spares for 2-3 winter jobs |
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Nov 12, 2021 18:17:48 GMT
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A couple of jobs ticked off …. Including wiring up omex shift lights ( only took a year) Wired up An override switch for electric fan so can trigger it before thermostat switches in / or keep it on longer A few things bought ready to fit    Bought this … then made this …   Boring service bits  Then this ‘area’ …… before  After …. When bits decide to turn up - keep watching Oh then went out in metro and 2 new jobs raised their heads ….. typical |
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Nov 13, 2021 20:20:29 GMT
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Dismantle … datmantle  Found this hiding in bazillion photos on phone Friend and neighbours mint van provided the canvas  |
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Nov 16, 2021 21:17:37 GMT
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Stripped back … uncovered/ discovered a few little tweaks / questionable build quality / choices  Pumped !!!!!!!!  Now we need to get sender out of block And then clean up before reassembly |
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Nov 17, 2021 21:03:35 GMT
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Heat gun and brave pills …..
Got old water temp sender out and new one in
That’s a win …. But trying to get headlamp out of metro is another story …. Can it be that difficult ? … seemingly so
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Nov 24, 2021 19:27:20 GMT
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Before and after  Complete favourite job of all time …., not squashing fins while squashing rad into place ! Had to take off electric fan to get rad in then Will try and refit once all in ., oh and bottom hose …. Fave job just got even better  |
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Got several jobs on the go ….. While replacing all cooling system , spotted old silver heat mat on bulkhead … replaced with left over gold from bonnet   Rad, electric fan , water pump , sender all back in … just waiting for new fan thermostat sender for bottom of rad  Anyone got a spare bulkhead plate - ( large plate behind carb) ? |
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Let’s start off easy …. Got a new one of these ….. couple of reasons 1 - new design has locating pin part of collar - old design used existing bolt from old collar and after this hardened pin fought against the alloy during its hard and short life it opened up the hole which in turn left me with twisting movement on gear lever when in gear ! 2- the top threaded section of gear lever snapped clean off ( gear knob in hand … vicar) while at a junction  Sorting out problem 2 The gear extension was the problem here …. All the pressure was on chamfered section due to threaded section on gear lever being too long for ‘box section on extension ‘ See the problem … waiting around the corner … waiting until I was at a busy junction …   How it sat  How I needed it to sit - mounting point spread along thickest part of shaft ( stop it!) and on threaded section  Drilled through box section and washer and bolt from top ( sorry no pic… will do when in situ) Then drilled out thread of inner mounting collar ( as of course the thread was never going to be the same was it ?) then chamfered to fit profile of lever    Have fitted new lever in , just waiting on some bits then will put all back together and take some pics…… Plus other jobs to follow |
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Last Edit: Jan 3, 2022 2:52:55 GMT by rob1380
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Spot ….. 2 differences   |
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Last Edit: Jan 9, 2022 18:26:35 GMT by rob1380
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Jan 10, 2022 20:52:08 GMT
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So all the eagle eyed watchers will have spotted it’s not the same rad ( fletcher ) I fitted . It is now a mini spares upgraded rad - you can see differences in size/ volume/ cooling efficiency.   With correct mounting thread for sender ( not running adapter now - which actually backed up with silt / detritus which impeded the efficiency of temp monitor)  The cowling however, was too tight now and needed …… tweaking ….. to get enough room to get bottom hose on .  This is how it sat on old rad  All in now , with sender kicking in fan at 88-90 and an override switch , just in case . |
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Jan 22, 2022 20:31:41 GMT
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Ok, sorted gear lever mount ….. much tighter with no lateral movement when in gear    And while it was all in bits … got sidetracked with another ‘improvement ‘ ….. |
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Jan 23, 2022 10:09:04 GMT
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Would a chromed / domed nut look better ?
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Jan 23, 2022 20:43:11 GMT
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Would a chromed / domed nut look better ? Yes probably …. Will drop a bit of black paint on rod top. Was the only nut I had that matched thread at tine |
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Jan 23, 2022 21:07:33 GMT
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Spot ….. 2 differences Here was me trying to spot differences between those two pictures, not those and earlier pictures! What was the second change? |
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Jan 23, 2022 21:17:01 GMT
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Spot ….. 2 differences Here was me trying to spot differences between those two pictures, not those and earlier pictures! What was the second change? Yeah … I wasn’t completely thinking that through Different rad , again Alloy fascia on wiper motor |
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Jan 24, 2022 10:11:13 GMT
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Would a chromed / domed nut look better ? Yes probably …. Will drop a bit of black paint on rod top. Was the only nut I had that matched thread at tine or how about one of these :- link |
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Jan 30, 2022 17:54:30 GMT
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