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[Edgar Branco]

Thanks

[Edgar Branco]

Hello

The rhythm of my restoratiom is slow, but here it is.

PHOTOS

Stering wheel

before

 

During

 

After

 

It's all hand and home made inclunding the covering and the seam, when I finish the restoration I will pay a professional upholsterer to made a new one.

 

 

 

Montei o apoio do motor com a borracha nova

 

And that's all for now

Greetings from Portugal

 

 

 

[Edgar Branco]

Hello

New photos from my MINIno.

Body work

Rotten batery box:

 

Welding test. Frist time welding and a fluxcore machine, not bad in my opinion

 

Clutch cylinder, just missing repair kit:

 

Gear selector, not finished 

 

And me at work

[pdaykin]

Keep up the good work

[Vinay-RS]

Master cylinder and gear selector look great. Nicely done. 

[Edgar Branco]

Cheer mates-

This weekend and some spare times and went to my garage taking care of my Cluby

Engine :

 

Speed selector:

 

Rotten on the rear windows.

 

And the patch just tack not weld yet: 

[neon1991]

nice work! wish we had your weather

[Simon998]

You're not getting enough love on here for the effort being put in to this! Fantastic job, keep it up!

[Edgar Branco]

Thanks mates .

My biggest satisfactions  is put one more CLUBY on the road again.

[Edgar Branco]

Another visit to my Cluby

Finish welding on the back in the window:

 

New rotten hole, new patch weld in place:

Dificult area to work because of the curve.

 

Engine compartement plate finish:

 

Speed selector finish:

 

Rigth side inner door rotten:

 

Left side to:

 

Thats all for now, stay tune

[Vinay-RS]

Wow! Seriously impressive work with the gear selector! Looks better than new. I recently got a refurbished/rebuilt unit as well and I'm looking forward to getting it fitted and seeing the difference in the gear change. 

[Edgar Branco]

Hi there  MINI fans.

The little $$ time €€ have delayed the restoration but they have not stopped it so I show the last photos:

 

 

Clutch pump already with the repair kit.

The brake pump has also been restored but I had a problem in the repair kit (I damaged it when mounting) and I have to buy another one;

 

 

 

Tunel removed and ready for recovery;

On the side to start working on the outer casing which was left out despite not having photos, and as expected a lot of dirt and light rust.

 

I started to work on the engine to give it a general overhaul and to paint before working and to get to know my MINI heart better

 

 

 

Now a little help. I want to know better the engine of my Clubman and noticed that the engine has several numbers and I would like to know how to interpret them for what I ask for your help:

 

 

That is:

A- (symbol letter "L")

B- engine behind (J5177)

C- engine behind (WFM 1026)

D- engine head (24H2)

E- engine block (98H962P 172838)

F - engineblock (28D2 DV)

 

Thank you in advance for your help and for following this restoration.

 

[MacGyver]

Nice car there! 😁

A is for Leyland (British Leyland)

I'll let other more experienced people answer the rest... 🙄