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[Minisniper]

Haven't done anything on Molly today as it's been too wet so I drove her down the shop instead.

Oh and dried up abit more water!!

[redhotmini]

so far this week i have chopped the fairly bashed up front end off, trimmed the inner wings, painted and waxoyled the arches, sills, and floor, fitted some brace bars, trimmed up and trial fitted a fibreglass 2 piece front end, made some hinges and brackets for it, changed 2 front hi los (didnt know they can bend so easily - its got coil springs fitted and it looks like they have virtually no travel in them and driving down rough country lanes every day doesnt help), changed the brake pads. today i changed the rear arches for some nice group 2's, stripped and rebuilt the rear brakes and bled the brake lines. also modified the throttle body by trimming the metal stop down a bit so it now opens all the way, should make a small difference.
tomorrow ive got to fit the front end properly, wire up the lights, fit the group 2 arches to the front and give it a clean. and then take it for a spin, and realise ive forgotten to do something!

[sweetser]

Looked at it, wishing it wouldnt keep going wrong

[Minisniper]

Looked at it, wishing it wouldnt keep going wrong

I know the feeling!!!

[M44K TS]

Soundproofed the bulkhead a bit, then went for some petrol, scratched my head for about 15mins wondering why it was running like a bag of hammers, turns out i'd knocked one of the vacum/breather pipes off the carb when re-fitting the airbox, gave the car a quick once over too.

[Frog]

Nothing on mine but !! I have strpped a 998 for my mate & cleaned all the components in my parts wash. Ready for the rebuild.

[me madjoe 90]

I set about finding out how to get my sidelights to work as they kept poping fuse's found that some one had tryed soldering a relay and it was shorting where they had done a bodge job of it. I then put everything as they were other than the relay. and gave it a wash but wasnt verry good i mised a few bits

[Asphalt]

- Fixed broken fuel pipe
- Tuned carb
- Set ignition timing
- Bleed clutch
- Took her for a ride
--> No power and 'lawn mower sound'
- Found out why it's runing poor and has no power
- Replaced all sparkplugs and n°4 ignition lead
- And took her for a longer ride.
- Installed bonnet
- Found coolant leak on manifold
- Bought new hose clamps
- Decided to fix it tomorrow beacause is was so dam* hot...

Minis rock!

Edited by Asphalt, 21 July 2009 - 08:07 PM.

[j0-rdan]

Made a new speaker board to go under my back seat. Just got to cover it 2moz a put it in.

Same, had to make 3 as they kept snapping on the thinnist point!

[newdawn1st]

Rejoiced at new park switch loom arriving in the post, prep' all ready to go in. In interim took car for a few errands, rain falls, wipers on and working, wipers stop working, get home, strip wiper bits, found wiper rack decided to destroy itself Mini has something against me

[dickster]

Finished fitting my KADs and the BWAs that I've had sitting around for 18 months and found that one of the manifold heater pipes is rotten.

Also ripped open the flexi on my exhaust driving out of work so now it sounds like a tractor >

[ricky_mini]

*yesterday now*

made up a repair panel for my heel board and cleaned up the skuttle and inner wings with an electric file.

[Minisniper]

Fitted my new steering wheel and then decided it didn't look right!!!

[Mr Joshua]

Cleaned out the garage and added some stopper almost ready for paint

[newdawn1st]

Put the first coat of topcoat in my passenger footwell, wait a few hours and i'll go out and do a second coat

edit: and now second coat done driver footwell next, once i've got some more paint.

Edited by newdawn1st, 23 July 2009 - 03:56 PM.