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[yeti21586]

Right managed to get the shafts out of the cv's with the help of a copper mallet yay, and also stripped the head down and also started to do remove the rust from the ports and then we can polish them as well. I also found out that my head is not a 12g295 head but a12g206 head

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[yeti21586]

Me and my dad got the pistons back in and attached to the crank shaft and block reatached to the gear box. one thing i did find when removing the diff casing was that the bits that hold the ball bearings in have perished so i need new ones. grrrrr






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Edited by yeti21586, 04 April 2011 - 08:10 PM.

[yeti21586]

well tonight i was fiddling with the gear slector box (the bit that normally goes in the exhaust tunnel) becuase i wont to mount it in the cabin freeing up room for the exhaust in the tunnel. so i was taking both the rods out of the box one was sooooo easy as its held on by one bolt and is the steady bar arm thing, the other is more difficult (although i thought it was going to be easy) and involves driffting a roll pin out from inside the selctor boxey bit.

so i was trying to drift it out and had the shaft clamped so it didnt swivel sideways when i tried to drift out the pin, but the pin didnt wont to come out, so i sprayed some GT85 on it and left it for a bit then went back to it and hit it a couple more times and then this happened.............



so no i need to buy what ever that bit is called!!!! grrrrrrr

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[yeti21586]

i had a delivery today yay!!!! i will try and get pics tomorrow of what arrived lets just say lots of boxes of things, and not everything that i ordered on wednesday has arived yet!!!

its like christmas


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[yeti21586]

Seats


silicone houses


i also got a megajolt kit and a distributor blanking plug

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[yeti21586]

More stuff arrived today yay!!!!!, i shall let the pics do the talking.

my tyres


One of the Drift 52mm gauges (fuel gauge)


oil cooler


oil temp sender thingy


some cotton reel mount thingys


and gues what came in this box/ pile of card board, and it was only one thing





























































it was this, my rear window


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[yeti21586]

my other dials arrived!!!! yay!!!!

speedo, revs, oil temp, oil pressure, water temp, volts and vaccum.



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Edited by yeti21586, 12 April 2011 - 05:52 PM.

[leadly]

Wow, some very nice shiney things you have there, thing you have just increased my want list by a few hundred pounds now, lol!

[Gazwold_uk]

my other dials arrived!!!! yay!!!!

speedo, revs, oil temp, oil pressure, water temp, volts and vaccum.



YetI

Oh my god! I need them guages in my life!!
can you actually use the speedo one in the Mini? i'm guessing you can seeing as you have got one, but how on earth do you hook it all up to run, and then how do you over come the miles on the clock? or are you not going that route of matching the miles up?

looks like quite the early Christmas!

[liirge]

Nice collection of gauges!! everyone loves a good gauge or 12!!

[yeti21586]

my other dials arrived!!!! yay!!!!

speedo, revs, oil temp, oil pressure, water temp, volts and vaccum.



YetI

Oh my god! I need them guages in my life!!
can you actually use the speedo one in the Mini? i'm guessing you can seeing as you have got one, but how on earth do you hook it all up to run, and then how do you over come the miles on the clock? or are you not going that route of matching the miles up?

looks like quite the early Christmas!

i havent got a clue of what the actuall miles on the clock are as the speedo didnt work when i got the car and then i changed the clocks etc to try and solve it but then realised it was the fact that the inner bit of the speedo cable was broken, basicaly to make the speedo work you need a digital sender thing, the one ive got is one that you put the speedo cable in (i shall try and get a pic) and it converts it into a digital pulse type shin dig lol

and yes it feels like christmas lol

YetI

[yeti21586]

Nice collection of gauges!! everyone loves a good gauge or 12!!

yep i love gauges and i love digital and technology, soooooooo i thought i would mix classic outer styling (and yes you can call force split exactons classic lol) with a modern upto date interior, to make Vini.

thanks for all the comments and encouragement and i do appologise for making people lust over MY parts hehehehe

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[yeti21586]

My radiator arrived yay

my aluminium thermex rad




hmmmm no max temp lol

YetI

Edited by yeti21586, 15 April 2011 - 01:43 PM.

[yeti21586]

Tomorrow should be good im (with dads help) removing a dash from another more modern car, so that i can trim it down and fit it to Vini, and then modifiy it fit all of my lovely dials yay


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[sonikk4]

Lots of nice bits, if its not a rude question how much did the radiator cost you??