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[buddylove]

keep it up At your rate you should be done, soonish

[emalee]

no, i'm back to work tomorrow, so its back to slow progress again!!!!

ok, pics from yesterday







today i spent a couple of hours tackling the drivers door

started like this





and ended like this





they are actually quite easy to repair the bottom of the doors, this took me 2-3 hours, still got a bit of grinding down to do, but next week i hopefully should get the doorskin on and the doorbar welded in (i only have a dayish to do it tho because of a mini club run )

i also fixed the annoying squeak from my green minis brakes and covered the sky up under his tarp!!!

poor mini!!!!

[mini1.3]

found the door cards out the garage today ill try and get them wrapped up and ill pm you for your details

[emalee]

found the door cards out the garage today ill try and get them wrapped up and ill pm you for your details

wicked, mine a abit mouldly LOL!!!!

pm sent

[emalee]

ok this weeks updates, back to slow progress

but not to worrys things still got done,!!!

Drivers door

fully repaired and strengening bar welded in and painted



then my dad very kindly fitted the doorskin for me (i haven't got any pics)

i might have a try at the other door, it doesn't look too hard to do!! hopefully!!

painted all the underneath of the floors white (and my hair)







finished tiding up the patch in the rear quarter etc and painted white



then stripped the passenger door down which was made much easier by the glass only being on one runnner, but i have no idea where the other runner has gone its completely dissapeared!!!!

and i found a date stamped on the door, of the 10.2.89 Love it, i should check the other door and see that date!!

the passenger door skin is mostly off aswell



this door doesn't look as bad as the drivers, but it is a mini and we should never trust what it first looks like!!

the only odd thing about this door (apart from the missing runner) is that around the exterior handle there is quite a bit of filler and marks where it has been resprayed, poor mini, it must of lead a rougher life than what i thought!!!

so thats is for the body work for this week, but i have brought a big box of parts we have taken off to clean up and get ready to go back on

next week i will repair and reskin the passenger door, and possibly cut the front off!!!!

[emalee]

ok, i didn't think i had done very much this weekend till i looked at the pics!! LOL

quick update on the 'other' minis:

green one, snapped the air filter bracket (again)!!, so welded that up and tightened the fan belt

the silver mayfair, is now on ebay, as we await the new arrival!!! (more on that when we actually get it, but its green again, this could get confusing now, should of been blue, but the red one was blue before and yellow before that....)


ok back to the sky:

right i started on on saturday by finish taking off the door skin:



lovely rusty bottom



it wasn't as bad as the other side, but i still had to replace the whole bottom lip...



oh and welded a lovely big fat strengening bar in, does nothing for weight saving, but excellent protection!!!!

and helped one of the tractor drivers fix his car, what else are girls for, other than to help blokes fix their cars!! LOL

so sunday

painted the inside of the door frame and skin, and also finished cleaning up the driver door and painted it:





spray putty:


dent in the new skin (it was made in 2003!!!)



and painted



then welded my airfilter up



let that bracket just try to get off now!!!! GRRRRR

i love this pic, it kinda somes my day up


oh, so painted in the inside of the floors white



dropped the rear sub again, ready to start stripping down and re furbing the parts

and lets me repaint the heel board which melted when i welded the sill etc



then (when waiting for my dad to come to the garage) tackled the rear window



although it hadn;t actually holed, well it wasn't pretty and i am much happier now there is fresh metal in there!!!



and then my dad reskinned the other door for me, i'm not brave enough to do it myself yet!!!



so thats that, another weekend gone!!,

next week we are heading up to bingley for the day on sunday, so saturday will be the only 'working' day, and sunday the buying day!!!

so on saturday, i want to finish the rear window off, get the doors on a lined up )bent into place LOL), get the new mini, cut the front end off and straighten the inner wing!!!, hopefully

[emalee]

i haven;t got that much done this weekend due to faffing about with the other minis, then bingley hall tomorrow,

but the good new for the project is that i'm currently 'inbetween jobs' so i have loads of time to work on the sky, just risk running out of money, hopefully i'll get a new job in a week or two, but in the mean time, i'll make the most of doing as much as poss to the sky (and also refurb my dads wheels for the morris)

ok so faffing about

we sold this mini on ebay



and the buyers came down from northampton to get it, so i had to swap the wheels around so the back ones were alright to be towed upto northampton!!!!!!, and in the process temporary lost the keys for it!!!, they had fallen out of my pocket and onto the floor of my mums metro!!!!

then this afternoon we went to collect the new mini, which is gonna be know as the yellow one untill it gets named, even tho its green.......




then covered it in wax oil!!




good times!!!

so back to the sky,

finished preping the passenger door







then put the driver door back on the car to line it up, after we have to take some metal off the doorhinge to get it to line up with the holes for the door!!!, it looks like it has been done before, it just needed a little extra to get it in line!!



my dad bent it to shape to stop the bottom sticking out, the strengthen bar made it but more differcult tho!!!



it still needs a bit of work, but this will mainly done but shimming out the door, as it needs it go back at the front of the door at the top hinge, and down at the bottom, so hopefully a shim or ten will bring it all back in line!!!

tomorrow i'm off to bingley hall to get some more parts, then during the week i'll try shimming out the door to get everything to line up, then once this is finished i can cut the front end off on the drivers side and repair everything underneath!!!!

finish off the rear window repair, and reapir the roof gutter, with my shiney new air die grinder!!! ooooooh and start on building up the new rear subby!!!!

[edi57]

All of your pics seem to feature such muddy areas! Do you cope ok? You must finish working on your car looking like a mud monster.

[Sir Cheat]

So who's Mini is the green/yellow one then? The sky looks to be comming along nicely. You must love welding

[emalee]

All of your pics seem to feature such muddy areas! Do you cope ok? You must finish working on your car looking like a mud monster.

yeah its a bit muddy!!! its not too bad, just a bit slippy when its wet!!!

[emalee]

So who's Mini is the green/yellow one then? The sky looks to be comming along nicely. You must love welding

its my project in waiting!!!, the silver one came along at the right price, so i brought that with the intention of restoring it in a year or 2, then the green/yellow one (now called jack, becuase its apple jack) came along at a better price in a better condition, so this one will be fully restored in a year or two, then i will sell it on. i just gotta decide on a theme for it!!! LOL

and yeah i love welding!!!! its a good job with rusty minis

[mini1.3]

So who's Mini is the green/yellow one then? The sky looks to be comming along nicely. You must love welding

its my project in waiting!!!, the silver one came along at the right price, so i brought that with the intention of restoring it in a year or 2, then the green/yellow one (now called jack, becuase its apple jack) came along at a better price in a better condition, so this one will be fully restored in a year or two, then i will sell it on. i just gotta decide on a theme for it!!! LOL

and yeah i love welding!!!! its a good job with rusty minis

don worry i am trying to sort them door cards ouyt honestly i am:d trying to think of a way of parceling them up

[emalee]

So who's Mini is the green/yellow one then? The sky looks to be comming along nicely. You must love welding

its my project in waiting!!!, the silver one came along at the right price, so i brought that with the intention of restoring it in a year or 2, then the green/yellow one (now called jack, becuase its apple jack) came along at a better price in a better condition, so this one will be fully restored in a year or two, then i will sell it on. i just gotta decide on a theme for it!!! LOL

and yeah i love welding!!!! its a good job with rusty minis

don worry i am trying to sort them door cards ouyt honestly i am:d trying to think of a way of parceling them up

they will probably be alright just wrapped up in a bag and parcel paper!!!

[emalee]

ok, so start of unemployment/ full time mini project!!!

stripped some spare rose seats, and put them in the washing machine, for my custom interior, i know this is back to orignal spec, but god those seats are uncomfortable!!!!

then went to go to the garage and turn the key................ nothing!!!

slucking mini from not going on the 400 mile round trip yesterday, it was the soldnoid, i know because i get through about 2 a year!!!!, and this one has been slowing dieing over the past few months, so i SHOULD of changed it earier, to avoid this hassle!!!, so rob my mums metro and drive off (forgeting that i had put my washer bottle on the bonnet of the metro, DOH)

so gets the soldnoid, comes home find the washer bottle have way down the road, quick change over (MUST remember to disconnect the battery, else big sparks!!!!) and my lovely mini starts first time , its my fault for not maintening him propery, i've had a fair few months warning!!!

so eventall get to the garage at 3.30!!!, then spent 2 hours working on the sky,

lined up the door, bit of learning, and doing it by myself really wasn't that bad,

so how the door started on original shims,



quite a bit high, dad said on saturday it would probably be 2 extra shims, so that was the first move



it was so high, i really couldn't believe something so small would change the door sooo much, it wouldn't even shut!!!



so next was 1 new shim and 1 original shim



getting better but still a bit high, so i was thinking i need a tiny tiny thin shim to get it spot on, then i realised the original shim was thinner than the new ones, so out came the original shim, and in with the 2 new ones



which is near enough spot on!!!



it still needs twisting a bit more to get the bottom in, but i'm really happy with it, and kinda proud, i think!!! and so glad i wont have to do it when its all painted up!!!!

i then got my shiney new air die grinder out and ground down the welds on the rear side window





the lip is a bit messy, but its just so hard to get in there without ripping everything else apart!!!!, so thats today done

tomorrow, i'm gonna clean up my original seats, then erm probably finish stripping the bulkhead down, then start cleaning up and painting the new subframe

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

not to sound sexist but your the first girl i know of that can weld lol im impressed seems like great progress

good work *thumbs up*

you probs better than me at welding too lol