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[woodenman23]

Thanks guys, I'm giving it my all.

Nice work, that scuttle to wing gap looks brilliant.

Spent way to long trying to get the gap right, I'm getting really anal about gaps and stuff.
My dad came out one day to lend a hand and he was getting a little annoyed by how obsessed I was over the gaps.

Nice build mate, all looks really neat and well detailed. How's your daily getting on?

The Mini Flame has off the road at the moment tax ran out not that long ago, and can't really afford the run costs whilst in the process of rebuilding of this one. Plus it could do with have the head off and having a go over.

Liam

[westview1]

Nice one Woodenman. Can I confirm that you are indeed, anal. Even by my standards. Oh, by the way, I've spent more than lend a hand and when can I have my garage back?
........Woodenmans Dad

All of that said -you're doing an excellent job.

[java gt]

Excellent build thread and good to see you are making progress.Love the colour of your estate,hard to beat an early Clubman estate with BL colours on reverse rims.Keep up the good work.

[woodenman23]

Another two steps forward today.....
I'm finding setting targets and writing daily lists of things I should aim to do is really helping with motivation and progress.

I got the T-shirt for christmas.



Dressed the welds down on the stiffener webs. Note the three plug welds I couldn't reach, I will have to attack them with the dremel.





Preparing the scuttle and front panel, drilled some holes and zinc primed. I decided to get a new heritage scuttle as I wasn't happy with how the other one fitted, it was almost 10mm out on each side and had a mssive twist in it. To be fair I might of put the distortion in it when I welded up the unused wiper holes. Still doesn't explain why it was to too short, maybe thats why it was on eBay?



This is the kind of fit I have with the new scuttle to A pillar, not perfect but sooooo much better than the other scuttle.



Welded in,



and front panel welded in,





Liam

[minimuk]

like yr style, systimatic perfect repairs. good work keep it going

[woodenman23]

Not much of a update as I didn't do too much today. Just started the endless task of dressing welds.







Still have a lot to do on the scuttle



Liam

[mini danny]

Hiya looking good could you just do me one favour sloooow down hahahah your making my.project look like it not.moving hahahah

[woodenman23]

Sorry Danny not a chance, need to get as much done as possible whilst I can.

Yours is moving forward....although you must of been gutted when blasting revealed more areas that need work.

[mini danny]

Ya was very gutted i just wish i had more time on mine i have 3 jobs and collage

[woodenman23]

Sorry Danny another update

Using a meter long ruler and the other Mini I got a better idea of the body line.
You can see from the picture below and that the ruler sits pretty flush against the door and A panel.......



However here you can easly see that the A panel on Toad flairs out.
This was sorted with a little work and is now pretty much the same as the pic above.





Tonnes of seam sealant which is also used to bond panels on as well.



All welded in.







Now I have even more welds to dress back.... Happy days.

Liam

[mini danny]

Omg lol this isn't fair Haha your steaming ahead looks like im gonna have to get my arse into gear and get mine done


Danny

[woodenman23]

Ground off the studs from the bonnet hinges as they were screwed.



Nuts done up to hold the bolt in straight.



Then welded.



Preparing surfaces for the wing.



Welded in.







comments welcome,

Liam

[bcjames]

Top work again, you're really getting through this!

[woodenman23]

Top work again, you're really getting through this!

Thanks man,
Stage 1 almost complete (front end), apart from a shed load of grinding of welds to do.
Stage 2 the floor

[minifcd]

Stunning work there. You've got some skills mate.

What type of bolts did you use for the accelerator pedal repair at the bottom of bulkhead? I had the same issue. The originals have a round flat head to clear the subframe. I experimented with all sorts but in the end just made use of the originals as they weren't too bad. Also did you have to swap the tube from the old panel, that holds heater air pipe, on the right hand inner wing, or did you make a new one? Mine was too bad to reuse so I made my own as the inner wing doesn't come with one. See my Leyland Mini 1000 thread and towards the bottom of page 3 to see what I mean.

Anyway great work and an extremely interesting read.