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[Keith Grendahl]

Disassembled and cleaned inertia starter. Oil was practically dripping from the brushes. Had been turning over slowly with a fully charged battery. Turned over strongly and started right up after reassembly, after stood for 3 weeks.

[ADRay]

Rye, NH

[exuptoy]

Just got in after fixing my Autoplas Louver with the fitting kit, I must admit I like it a lot
 
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Man, how retro does that look?

[finch661]

stripped my mini down ready for some body repair and a paint job

 

Also finally took a photo of the a-panel i replaced!

[joyce1bro]

Engine out for a freshin up and some much needed power upgrades

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[RooBoonix]

So far... got a nice order from MiniSpares with the rest of the gear to get mine running again I'm so excited

Cam.

[BronkoMini]

Finally got round to sticking my new security sticker on thanks to sticky fingers.

[RooBoonix]

Finally got round to sticking my new security sticker on thanks to sticky fingers.
 

 

This is brilliant! 

[leeuk]

 

Just got in after fixing my Autoplas Louver with the fitting kit, I must admit I like it a lot
 
autoplas louver2.JPG
autoplas louver3.jpg

Man, how retro does that look?

 

 

Cheers mate, Hers a picture of the front of my Mini, A little more retro stylie lol

 

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[exuptoy]

Well, got a few deliveries this morn from mini spares (wings and A panels), Huddersfield (group 2's), Bilt Hamber (etchweld, deox gel and deox C) and some body work suppliers (gravitex stone chip and a schutz gun). Blooming well skint now!!

Made a start this evening ripping off the passenger side wing. Very surprised with how solid it all is!

S'got a touch of the Terminator about it now!



What rust!




More tomorrow!

[Mini Manannán]

Well, got a few deliveries this morn from mini spares (wings and A panels), Huddersfield (group 2's), Bilt Hamber (etchweld, deox gel and deox C) and some body work suppliers (gravitex stone chip and a schutz gun). Blooming well skint now!!

Made a start this evening ripping off the passenger side wing. Very surprised with how solid it all is!

S'got a touch of the Terminator about it now!



What rust!




More tomorrow!

 

Let us see some of that Deox gel in action!  Befores and afters please

[exuptoy]

Will do chap. I love pics!

[brownspeed]

last weekend; finished the doorstep welding, dressed back the welds, filled then primered.

Last night while i had the grinder handy i had a good idea; i'll clean some of the rust off the underside before i jet wash it and waxoyl.

 

OOOPS! ; while i checked the rear subframe when i bought the car i clearly didn't prod everywhere.

in the quest for bright metal i uncovered a rotten section where the longitudinal flanges meet the crossmember at the front.

and there was me thinking i'd be painting her in a week or so............. 

 

ahh well- may as well do it right first time.

[exuptoy]

Unpicked all the spot welds and tidied up the edges. I needed to make a few localised repairs then offered up the wing. Man it was poor. I ended up scoring the line of the bonnet to copy through other side then slit the wing and closed up the cut.i also burst a few spit welds and tried to reshape it!!!!!

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New with the scored mark. I needed to slit it then bring the edge back down.

 

In progress



Done (although I ground it too thin so it needs another repair!!!!!!)

 

A few localised repairs

 

 

How it stands tonight.

 

Didn't bother with the Deox as it was pretty good under there.

Edited by exuptoy, 09 September 2014 - 08:28 PM.

[RooBoonix]

Was rebuilding my cylinder head read to put it back on... tightening the thermostat housing bolts (which were tight due to rusty threads) and suddenly had a chip of my cylinder head come off... handy!

Luckily it's right on the edge and did no serious damage. Bit of chemical metal shoved and shaped and hopefully that should sort it! Next stop... washers

Cam.