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[emalee]

u know u'r doing good when u'r out running the spares orders!!

a couple of the items were out of stock so that delayed things a bit, but i'm hoping it will be here today or tomorrow.....

[paul6266]

project is lookin great, keep the pictures coming

[emalee]

pecker got loads of lovery parcels in the post today, inc all of the panels - and i realised half way thru the day i had forgot to put the front panel on the order!! DOH!!!, so that has now been brought from ebay

any way heelboard repair on the passenger side



and drivers



woo looking er crazy







LOL

she has spent all evening under the boot floor with the grinder cleaning it up - its almost ready to paint now

then i've spent the evening taking the passenger sill off





its not too bad under there - mainly surface rust!!!, jacking point is fine, and there is only one real repair to do on the inner sill!!!

and some dodgy repaired to sort out!!



and fonzy has been fitting a new clutch seal and put the transfer casing back on with its new gasket - he is happy because the mini spares order had quite a few engine parts from him to play with... he like playing with engines!!!!

[BoboGib]

Loving this. Whis I had the facilities to rebuild my mini in 7 weeks.

[danie garry]

nice work, liking the regular updates! keep em coming

[minimuk]

looking good, like yr style attacking from all fronts, nd sides. The spot welder does make it easyer, must get one!!

[emalee]

sorry that most of my pictures have died, i put too many on!! LOL

so set up a new account, and yesterdays update (after having wednesday off for the club meet, and thursday off because i was knacked!!!)

took the A panel off, as it wasn't spotwelded on..... which are from factory.......... and found this underneath



rather dodgy repair - i wasn't expecting the lip for the a panel to be rotton, as the A panel was fine... not rotted or pushed out where it fold round the lip......, so that wasn't on our panel list...

but luckly Fonzy actually remembered we have one of these panels in the spares department - i think he found it when he was tiding the engines... and knew exactly where it was (not in the panel dept, but the engine/suspension dept)

so new panel (well ish)



so i got on a cut a hole in the inner sill and repaired



then cut a hole in the inner finch





ready to repair today

and wooo has been cleaning up the bootfloor again

and fonzy found a clutch plate with hardly and wear and no oil!! and fitted it back onto the engine!!!

plan for today, repair the massive hole i cut, do some grinding and rewelding, fit the closing panels for the rear val, repair a couple of small holes on the doorstep where it meets the inner sill, then hopefully fit the outer sill and get the wooooo crew painting

[emalee]

right, REALLY productive day today

started off with fitting the rear valance closing panels

then reapired this RANDOM hole in the rear wheel arch - which is now known as the bullet hole....



and finished off a couple of bits of welding on the boot floor and rear quarter

then filled in the holes in the floor - clamping the new inner finch in place to get the line for the floor to end



then cut out 3 bits of small rust in the door step



and repaired



then spent about ages getting the sill lip off, and spotted on the new sill



they were the wide oversills, which i cut down to normal width to help save a few pennys on the build



i've started to weld the jacking point, but got board!! LOL

then welded up a few holes in the petrol tank



which was a bit of a fail, partly because i missed a couple of holes so i'll have to do some more welding on it, but also because the tank had a tiny bit of petrol left, so that kinda exploded 3 times!! LOL, the first was right next to my ear!! LOL, and the others i was quite far back!!!

then Fonzy, turned the engine from this,


to





all of woooo's crew were helping today aswell

Ben - whose 8.....



with the nut runner



and the torque wrench





using fonzy to push against!! LOL, he managed to torque the head up to the 2nd stage tightening it down!! anfd helped my with the spotwelder on the sill!!!!

and Tanya






not only painted her subframe



but also under the bootfloor and inside the boot



Then CJ gave the underneath and inside the boot a good coating of stone chip



just like new!!

[lewis]

thats looking great at such pace! wish i had a team to build me a mini for my first car... lol ahh well

what stonechip did you use? rattle cans or paint on

looking great, keep going clocks ticking!

Edited by lewis, 07 February 2010 - 11:59 AM.

[emalee]

thats looking great at such pace! wish i had a team to build me a mini for my first car... lol ahh well

what stonechip did you use? rattle cans or paint on

looking great, keep going clocks ticking!

stonechip is the litre tins that use a shucz gun(of how ever you spell it!!), i think we used about a litre and a half to do all underneath bootfloor and in the boot!

[emalee]

so todays update

finished off welding the passenger sill - fully seamed at the bottome edge and around the jacking point



then moved to the other side and cut off the old sill + millions of patches....



BIG HOLE



still more patches!!!

then looked at the damage underneath

jacking point!!



and end of the inner sill/suframe stiffener



then cut a bigger hole at the front





and trimmed down a front footwell panel to fit - they are shocking bad fittings!!!, but better than remaking the patterns in the footwell





then moved along the sill and did another repair



and finished off with finally cutting out the rust at the back of the inner sill



oh and this was the original sill enclosed in 2 layers of patches!!!



nice!!!

fonzy very skillfully removed the rusted doornuts on the drivers side, 2 i managed to undo, then one fonz managed with a socket, then the last got the grinder!!!

night off tomorrow - give my eyes a chance to recover!!, then repair the back of the inner sill, repair or remove the packing point, then tidy it up ready to weld the new sill on, on wednesday, ready to start on the front end repairs!!

[minimuk]

well done, doing a good job there, I did mention the sills a while back, didn't I. you certainly have the speed!! good luck on wednesday.

[emalee]

Thanks

it was always in the plan to do the sills, they aren't THAT bad tho!!! honest!!! and atleast it didn't have oversills on!!!,

we should get the sill on wednesday hopefully - i'm not likeing this cold weather tho!!! brrrrr

[MiniBonkerz]

Loved the sky project and this is also cool loving the speed from the pictures your enjoying it

[emalee]

Loved the sky project and this is also cool loving the speed from the pictures your enjoying it

Thank you

I'm soooooooooo pleased with me sky, and this one is on track to be done it time...