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[dobbin1999]

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removed the standard mini city stickers. the electric blue was clashing with the cranberry red !!! the start of a process to de-90's the car.
 
Looks great! Any handy tips for getting off the remaining glue left behind by the stickers? Took my Mayfair stripes off and they've left marks.

EDIT: OOOPS my quote didn't work :/

[dobbin1999]

White spirit will remove the old glue without damaging the paint.

[SuperDeLuxeNick]

Fitted new wheels.

 

Replaced beading on arches.

 

Next job is to finally set the ride heights all even and sort stance. Currently sitting way to high on one side!

[davej]

Took it for an MOT and it passed!! 

[Chris.Williams]

Carpeted my boot/rear of the seat and mounted my ampimage.jpeg
Then made a boot board, which I will carpet tomorrow all going wellimage.jpeg

I'll be the first to ask, got any drawings for the boot board? Looks good

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[Batmini]

Thanks buddy, think i'll have a go at one of these

[FAZ]

ground the valves in 

[Keith Piper]

Cut the floor out

[minifreek1]

Cut and retrimmed the centre console to add oil pressure and battery, but to also incoporate a cubby hole too (for somewhere to put my phone)...

 

I found some stickyback walnut effect vinyl Iv had for years and was just waiting for something to use it on...

[MacGyver]

Hammered my left headlight aperture and wing back in to shape and reshaped my arches.
Then my mum came along and said: You really made a pigs ear of that then...
That took the 'satisfaction of a job well done' smile right off my face. 😞
Will have to take it out on the boot floor... 😀

[Chris.Williams]

Started wiring my dash board ready for installation

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Bit hard to see but there are 4" speakers in the air vent holes.

[Chris.Williams]

Thanks buddy, think i'll have a go at one of these

Let me know how you get on.

[James_eaton_thewholething]

Cut, filed and hammered the exhaust hole to get it to fit up higher.

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[ukcooper]

[redboy]

Coolant flush after fitting new water pump.

wait how does that work? you stick it into the water pump, hose it down and it comes out the radiator? if that works for flushing all the coolant then that's mighty cool.

Sorry late reply. Yes works a treat. Need to take the thermostat out first and make sure your heater knob is pulled out fully. This back flushes the system and just keep going until it runs clear.
After that I blew back a little on the rad pipe which forces some water back out the thermostat housing just enough to put a litre of blue coolant in.
Thermostat and pipe back on. Job done.

I don't suppose u know what diameter pipe I would need to do that with. I'm guessing I would need to be a pretty flush fit as to not leak. Also when doing this do u need to drain the system before trying to remove the thermostat or do u just pop the top hose off a catch the little bit of over spill. Sorry for the all the Qs

The pipe was 22mm. The jubliee clip clamps the pipe. Don't worry about a bit of leakage.

No need to drain the system. A bit of water will come out when you take the thermostat housing off but not much.