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[miniman_7]

Looking good!
You are spurring me on as you know I'm only a few steps behind you to build essentially the same thing :)
Keep up the good work!

[Thorpsta]

Thanks for the comment Yeah I keep checking yours everytime theres an update :3 Every time you paint something or bolt something back on it feels like a HUGE accomplishment

[Thorpsta]

No real update, out of black paint

Wen't to see if we had any paint left over, so while we was there I grabbed a couple more pictures

The panel for the light came out well


And so did the roof :) But for some reason this camera cannot take a decent un-blurred picture








Also managed to get 2 good rear side windows with fairly decent chrome, I'll put a picture up when I take one

Edited by Thorpsta, 20 July 2012 - 03:55 PM.

[Thorpsta]

PAAAAAAAINNNNT!

PAAAAAAAINNNNT!









Only painted a few bits though Done some washers and left over pieces.

Soaked the washers in thinners to remove the grease and fingerprints and then laid them on a tray and painted 'em

[Thorpsta]

Smallish update, but an update :3

Put some shiney bit's on the subframe.







Then, got out the Vaseline and lubed up some rubbers...It didn't sound that bad in my head









Then flared the brake cables, messed them up though so they'll have to be re-done, still, SHINEY!

[Thorpsta]

[alex-95]

Look's great, It's coming along nicely

[Thorpsta]

Such a great feeling looking at it before and now, it's so unbelievable

[Thorpsta]

Well, progress is going to be slowing up slightly.. bought myself a moped so trying to get myself legal first


After 6 attempts of trying to flare the brake pipe, and then putting the bolts on the wrong way and flaring them, dad finally managed to get them done



We then went out and bought some various bits, shock absorbers, seals, gaskets etc





Only had time to fit the radius arm pins in though, I didn't take pictures as my hands where full, but we just knocked the old insert out, and put the new ones in

[Thorpsta]

Well, today was the first time the Mini saw sunlight sinec being put into a friend's paint shop, unfortunatly it had to come out due to the paint shop being used so we threw some sheets over it so it didn't scratch and with typical weather, it rained, but it looks cool-ish at certain angles, looks rallied. Of course it's a different story on the pictures, damnit







Anyway, yesterday we didn't get up to much, I cleaned some of the hand brake brackets that go onto the back radius arms

I'm unsure what paint is on this, but it's rubberised or something, and doesn't really come off.. just moves, I cleaned it up as best as I could




Dad was unsure wether there is supposed to be a bush on the end of this bolt..



So out came the gas torch! and a very rusty mark 1 boot in the back ground




And in the end, it did have a bush, but was rotten beyond any good, so we went and bought some new ones




We also took the rear loom to one of dad's friends to be refurbished and cleaned, sorry about the not so good picture, I had to take it while moving




And the only thing done today - for now, was reaming the bushes in

[Thorpsta]

Another update, last lot of things needing etch have been etched, well, all besides one bit that we don't have


Anyways, yesterday we finished adding a few bits to the subframe, and then took it out..

Dad managed to find some of this thick sticky foam tape stuff, I don't exactly know what it is. But instead of clips for the brake pipe we used this





Finally, I vaselined these up and added them to the other side



I finally had a non-cluttered work bench! For 5 minutes


Dad managed to find some brand new ball joints, albeit rusty, One was really covered in surface rust so I gave it a quick once over





And then I spent about 2 hours trying to get them to go on all the way, as dad said they needed to go tight and on all the way just by using my fingers



Anyway, today I had to clean some more bit's, but not for long.

Cleaned up the back plates that we missed




Next up was the steering wheel/collumn and boy, was that covered in cobwebs











We where a little unsure abot wether it was worn on one side or not, and how the wire went through, so we disected another one and made a good one out of the two




I then cleaned the shaft's up












And then dad etched them




Should be blacking the bits tomorrow, and building up the subframes! It's about time too, sick of the smell of etch/paint and cleaning bits Ah well, it's all worth it in the end


Thanks, Will.

[alex-95]

Look's great, I had to replace ball joint's the other week which they took age's to get right too.

[Thorpsta]

Look's great, I had to replace ball joint's the other week which they took age's to get right too.

Yeah they're a pain >.< One side was easy to do because you can clean all the way around it, the other has that handle like thing in the way >.< Spent ages just screwing them on, then screwing off, on off on off just to scrape the paint of so they'd do up, got there in the end though

[Thorpsta]

Fairly small progress again, mainly just etching and painting, only 3 or 4 bits left, then the painting is done till we start the engine, but that's pretty much all thats been done since the last update, except dad bought some chrome for the dash rail



So, I scotched some pieces down, steering column, bracket, back plate, seals and such











Also scotched down the radius arms, as they needed doing anyway, but they went dull and looked really rough






Aaaaaaand then we painted we had about a teaspoon of paint left in the gun so we did the side of the fuel tank, it came out quite well, even though it's gonna have to be scotched

[Thorpsta]

Well, the time has come for the front subframe to be worked on, and that, is such a pain, had a whole day spent on it and only done half of one side

But first, started by cleaning a bolt/pin for the pedal box, it looks dirty in the picture, I did go back and clean it afterwards, then we painted the end silver







Copper greased it..



And the finished product! Ignore the glove, was to stop the paint chipping




However, Dad did miss out a tiny bit when painting.. its only a tiny bit




And then took the paint of the studs and vaselined it up



Anyway, onto the front subframe, we set my grandads old workmate up, and put a board across it



and sat the subframe on it



Cleaned up the bump stops






and I bolted them on, and that was awkward, thank god for ratchet spanners Some reason though these arnt NF





Then vaselined some bottom arm bushes up and put them in



and then put the arms on - Sorry for the hassle of actually seeing whats happening





anyway, after ALOT of hassle we finaly got it one side built up