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[Tim1970]

Hi James yeah love both sets of lights would be good to complete the mk1 look.
Yeah fan belt is done took a bit longer than expected though.

Yeah Mark still works down here on Saturdays while he's on his year in industry at MINI.
I'm guessing you know him from uni? or just him coming into halfords up there?

Cheers mate

Edited by Tim1970, 05 March 2010 - 11:06 PM.

[james962]

Hi James yeah love both sets of lights would be good to complete the mk1 look.
Yeah fan belt is done took a bit longer than expected though.

Yeah Mark still works down here on Saturdays while he's on his year in industry at MINI.
I'm guessing you know him from uni? or just him coming into halfords up there?

Cheers mate

Good stuff

Yeah i know him as he was on my uni course, he was one of the lucky people managing to get on a placement this year

[Tim1970]

Yeah he seems to be having a wail of a time up there.

This morning i got a bit done on blending the paint in and gave him a good clean.
Got my geometry set up and corner weighting tomorrow.
Really looking forward to the results. Will try and get some good photos after it's been done

[leaky]

Sounds good mate. I think you need to update the picture under your name.

[Tim1970]

Yeah definitely with you there, was waiting till i get a proper picture of him as he is now.
Definitely a lot different to the picture now
Hopefully get one tomorrow on the way home if not i should be able to get some monday.

[gregh55]

long time no see (again) i love the look of your mini now!! the white wheels really finish it off

greg

[Tim1970]

Cheers greg will have some better pictures very soon.
Some pictures of todays corner weighting and geometry set up antics to follow.

[Tim1970]

Right well it's been an eventful couple of days,
Yesterday I went to northampton to see Dave 'Icklemini' to get my corner weighting and geometry set up.
Left home at six in the morning, three hours and a tank of fuel later and i arrived at Daves garage.
Firstly we lifted hime up and set the rear a bit higher as it was sitting rather low compared to the fronts.
This turned out to be a good decision as when we put the car down on the scales it was reading pretty much spot on.
A bit of settling and some calulations and it turned out it needed no adjustment which was really surprising, but saved a lot of time. Next we started on the rears setting the toe and camber each side. Unfortunately this brought up a fairly nasty surprise as both of the rear wheels were still toeing out at the end of their adjustment. Dave thought this was probably down to the radius arms rather than anything else, so a new set of radius arms are on the agenda. Anyway Dave set the toe on each wheel to the end of its adjustment and dialed in 0.5 degrees of camber. With the rears done he moved on to the fronts setting the caster and camber angles to get to good values for both with the wheel sitting in the arch a bit better. Happy days. Next was four wheel allignment where the front toe gets set. After that it was out for a quick test drive which was great even with uneven rears the result Dave has got is fantastic. Can't recommend his work highly enough, top bloke.
Then it was off home another three hours one stop and some fun roundabouts later and i got home.
Just as i arrived back my lights stopped working, which typically was the connections at the fusebox and easily sorted.
Here are some pictures from the day.

Up in the air







Down on the scales















And the 4 wheel alignment guages







And a couple of the underneath





As i said i'm very happy with the results. Bit gutted about the radius arms, am really considering putting a new genuine subby on too as i think mine is a pattern affair. Reason being I'm worried that i'll replace the radius arms and end up with the problem still persisting. Although that will come out of money that i was going to spend on other things, I think it's probably worth doing though.

On to today then, had a bit of a tinker this morning as my high beam and flasher stalk has lost ony spring and keeps putting the high beam on on its own turns out the plastic that latch has broken so will have to order a new one. The indicator works still and if insulated the connection to stop the high beam coming on all of the time. After this i decided to go out for a drive, then met up with some friends and went and took a couple of photos. Soon after the two brackets holding my back box on decided to break, and rip off simultaneously leaving the exhaust behind. So after a rather loud crawl home i did a bit of inspection, and no wonder they came off, it looked like the previous owner had mooved them and "welded" them back on in different places, one bracket had a large unneccesary hole throught it aswell. So i got rid of the remnants of the old bracket and made a new one, fitted the exhaust, tacked the brackets in the right places, took the exhaust back off welded the brackets on properly and gave them a lick of paint, should be ready to pop back on tomorrow morning before uni.

Anyway here are a couple of pictures.





And one of the exhaust brackets that sheared





Enjoy

Edited by Tim1970, 09 March 2010 - 01:05 AM.

[icklemini]

Good pictures, and a nice write up

Was good to meet you on sunday Tim!

All the best,
Dave

Edited by icklemini, 09 March 2010 - 11:41 AM.

[Tim1970]

Cheers Dave, think a load of the pictures i took went missing which was a bit odd.
Good to meet you too mate and thanks again for the awesome job you've done , chuffed to bits.

[Heather&Henrietta]

Wow pictures of Healy in the sunset came out nice! He's looking lovely Tim, you must be really pleased

[Tim1970]

Thanks Heather just happened to be in the right place at the right time
I am so happy that he's all back together looking and driving like he should.

[Heather&Henrietta]

Hehe well worth waiting for though What shows can I expect to meet him at then?

[Tim1970]

Yes definitely.
Well i'll be at brooklands but i think you said you weren't going to make it,
Then i'm really hoping that i can get work off for riv run, not sure i'm going to be able to do L2B as i still haven't got a ticket and i'm not sure if there's any left. Definitely be at beaulieu, looking through what's on i'll be trying to get to everything within a reasonable enough distance so lots of opportunities
How's Henny, any news?

Edited by Tim1970, 09 March 2010 - 12:10 PM.

[Heather&Henrietta]

Yes definitely.
Well i'll be at brooklands but i think you said you weren't going to make it,
Then i'm really hoping that i can get work off for riv run, not sure i'm going to be able to do L2B as i still haven't got a ticket and i'm not sure if there's any left. Definitely be at beaulieu, looking through what's on i'll be trying to get to everything within a reasonable enough distance so lots of opportunities
How's Henny, any news?

Nope, can't get the day off for Brooklands I'm doing the Rivi Run as you know Can't afford L2B as well as Rivi, so my aim is for L2B next year Powderum Castle, SMD and MITP, and possibly winter Malvern

Henny was planned to have an MOT today so I know exactly what needs doing to get her past an MOT, then work work work! Need her for the Rivi, am supposed to be taking 2 passengers!