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[BronkoMini]

Oh and dented the manifold

[sam-wkd]

Gave her a wash and took her for an MOT this morning - fingers crossed!!!

[Mini Manannán]

Scratchin' my head!

[sam-wkd]

Took her for her first outing of the year! YAY!

[rodandtom]

cut and shaped a patch for the inner wing, welded it in, ground down the welds and just smoothed it over with filler.

 

Its great to actually see things moving forward when you can step back and say "Done that - tick it off the list!"

 

Rod

[scaffers]

Swapped the the door locks, glass, winder etc from the bad doors to not-so-bad doors.

nightmare with them tiny c-clips



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[pusb]

Fitted some fancy new Chrome window winders and inside door handles.

 

And then grinded my gears twice on a little run out

[MiniGrin]

Screamed abuse at it for running on 3 most of the day and then fell in love with it again when it picked up the 4th and was great fun on little twisty roads.

[IainStallard]

Fitted a new down pipe, only to find it blows slightly at one of the welds

[78 CLUBBY]

Finally finished the rust repairs on the estate and then fitted the 998 I got with it, its jus resting in there, but at least it's progress. Need to havenit road legel for mini 7 race meet on thr 27th april.

[(philip)]

'fitted' new carpets. Very badly.

 

I shouldn't be allowed near a knife of any kind.

 

[rodandtom]

Today I patched the inner wing under where the bracket for the suspension strut goes. On the surface it was the smallest of holes in the paint and showed no rust whatsoever. I wondered why a hole might be there so an exploratory dig revealed a patch of rust I had to cut out about 3 inches by 4, right where the crossmember is joined to the inner wing.

 

With that welded in and ground down, I then put filler to smooth it off, etch primer, undercoat and then Chilli Red top coat

 

After that, I rubberised the rear subframe ready to go back in (hopefully soon).

 

Another step closer.

 

Rod

 

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[jpw1275]

Finished the passenger side bracing ready for surgery next week.......eeeeeek!!!!



Cheers james

[GrahamHill]

Fitted a new engine earth strap :)

[Udo]

Attempted to get her onto ramps to sort out why I cant get 4th, which due to it being so low I had to singlehanded push onto some bits of wood to even get the jack underneath and then ran out of lift to get the ramps under so had to lift the jack with some more wood, what a faff!

 

But I have found the problem so all good, closer to back on the road after far to many years!!!