39 replies to this topic

[robtheplod]

yes it is a jacking point, and yes if you want you can cover it up - I welded a plate over mine as i never used the perilous mini jack anyway!!

[samsfern]

ive got two oversills, yes two, covering up an old rusty original sill, it will be having new floorpans, sills, etc at the end of the year. why cant people do things properly?

[myredmini]

i know them axle stands they are heath robinson aint they ?

[grahama]

Ok thanks for the advice, sort of thought that that was the case really just thought i'd check.

Several beers today have softened the blow

Graham

[Rich.]

ive got two oversills, yes two, covering up an old rusty original sill, it will be having new floorpans, sills, etc at the end of the year. why cant people do things properly?

Because it costs more, apparently even safety isnt worth a few bob these days!

[Senile Old Git]

Dear God!!

Please please please please invest in some stands, thats utterly daft!!!

I so miss the good olde days, we used to use bricks from the bomb sites, to jack up our Austin A30's !!

[Shifty]

I'll be a bit contraverial here and defend oversills!!!

They've saved hundreds of minis from scrap yards over the years, if the owners(who couldn't afford to get em done properly) hadn't fitted them then that would have been the end of the mini.

[samsfern]

you have got a good point there shifty... same goes for filler?

[Senile Old Git]

If the original sill is removed, and rust treated they have a use in life, but regretably that is not always the case!

[Senile Old Git]

I'll be a bit contraverial here and defend oversills!!!

Call them extended sill panels .. it sounds better!

[Shifty]

All I know is that I've fitted loads of the dammed things!!

Some of the younger members who only know the mini as a classic probably don't remember the time when you could get a knackered mini for £75, nail some oversills on, weld up the frame and stick some isopon in it and get 12 months motoring.

[samsfern]

period bodges eh.. i work with classics, and have seen all sorts of bodges, mainly misuse of filler or fiberglass and plates over rust! but if it werent done these cars would be a small cube of metal...

Edited by samsernie, 23 May 2010 - 08:53 PM.

[Senile Old Git]

All I know is that I've fitted loads of the dammed things!!

Some of the younger members who only know the mini as a classic probably don't remember the time when you could get a knackered mini for £75

£75 ?? ..... £30 was the going rate in my day! ....... we used to get up at the crack of dawn on a Thursday to get Exchange and Mart, look through the ads and travel the country, I remember buying a genuine 1968 Cooper for £300, with MOT!

Those were the days !!

[Shifty]

All I know is that I've fitted loads of the dammed things!!

Some of the younger members who only know the mini as a classic probably don't remember the time when you could get a knackered mini for £75

£75 ?? ..... £30 was the going rate in my day! ....... we used to get up at the crack of dawn on a Thursday to get Exchange and Mart, look through the ads and travel the country, I remember buying a genuine 1968 Cooper for £300, with MOT!

Those were the days !!

And I bet you paid with white £5 notes!!!

[Scallywag630]

All I know is that I've fitted loads of the dammed things!!

Some of the younger members who only know the mini as a classic probably don't remember the time when you could get a knackered mini for £75

£75 ?? ..... £30 was the going rate in my day! ....... we used to get up at the crack of dawn on a Thursday to get Exchange and Mart, look through the ads and travel the country, I remember buying a genuine 1968 Cooper for £300, with MOT!

Those were the days !!

Now who is showing their age David........and Shifty, whats this about welding? Back then it was Isopon all the way!!!!