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[aavayro]

Hi, is there any chance of  showing a pic of the unipart gaw 122' on, i have a set and worndering what they look like. Might put them on my 75 GT i am doing up.

 

also with the huge offset do the tyres scrff at all as i was thinking of maybe putting 165 tyres on them ?

 

Thanks. 

[72clubman]

Hi,



That's with unprofiled Firestone tyres that are god knows how old. And a 5mm spacer. that clears everything including the shock absorber. That's pretty much level with the body work. If i was to fit them properly id do 165 tyres and spacer them out a little. Doing that I reckon they'd look brilliant.

I'll see if I can find anymore pics.

Joe

[aavayro]

Cheers, any pics would be great, will have to get some spacers then.  

[72clubman]

Holy thread revival Batman! 

 

 

Well the temptation finally became too much. 

 

With 6 weeks remaining on it's MOT and my new car needing a major service, I decided to give the old girl one last run.

 

Spent Sunday prepping, bleeding brakes and just getting used to her again. All seemed good.

 

 

 

Then set off back to where I'm currently living. 

 

Even took some pictures. 

 

 

 

Got 95% of the way home and stopped for petrol. Walking back to the car i noticed an oil drip, I pulled straight off the forecourt and popped the bonnet. 

 

That's when i twigged something had gone wrong...

 

I was confronted with an oily mess. It was everywhere! 

 

All I could do was try to stem the flow and top it up so it didn't run dry and limp the last bit of the journey very slowly. 

 

To say I'm disappointed would have been an understatement I was hoping for a lovely week back in my mini, not have it grenade itself on the first outing! 

 

I'd managed to track down the leak to the oil filter head when i got back, rolling around on the floor in the dark, and did my best to reseal it with sealant.  

 

I'd managed to stem the flow considerably, and decided it was safe to limp it to work this morning where I knew I could fix it. But fearing it was going to be something else that I couldn't fix.

 

Took and extended lunchbreak and popped one of these on. It seemed to be leaking from that entire area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When removing the old one I could see it had blown the gasket out underneath the filter head. So was effectively pumping out oil.

 

 

 

Its a couple of hours later and it's not dropped anything yet, but I'm now very tentative in having to use it for the next week! Must have been a protest to not being used! 

 

 

 

Joe

Edited by 72clubman, 17 August 2015 - 07:44 PM.

[keefr22]

That's a shame Joe. Hope you've got it fixed & can enjoy driving her for the rest of the week! We've got two big leaks on ours that need sorting. She's still off the road & I have to top it up every week before I can start her! I've got a sand filled drip tray underneath, but am thinking of replacing it with a catch can so I can just pour it back in!

Keith

[Rocket.]

Glad to see you're using this again !

such an awesome car

[Ben_O]

Oh well, it's a good excuse to fit more shiny bits 

[Steely]

First time I've looked at this thread in half a year!

[72clubman]

Thought I should update this!

Well it survived its week use, but barely!


So replacing the filter head completely sorted the oil leak and then she ran ok for a day.

The running then got gradually worse, it got really bad. I feared it wouldn't get me to work, and really had no confidence in it making the 130 miles back home!

I tried adjusting the fueling and timing, and checking everything but couldn't get it to run right.


I managed to chug it home last Friday and on a 190 mile detour! 300 miles in one go!
With the problems it was having that was incredibly stupid, but I wasn't let down.

But the old girl wasn't happy, had to remove the vac advance just to make it run. It wouldn't pull, and chugged under 2k rpm, it just sounded awful.

I've since rebuilt the distributor and reset the timing (ruined it by filling it with oil from the leaking filter head, and then ruined the timing when replacing the head!

I was hoping to find broken flyweights in the distributor, but alas no, just oil.

So the ignition side is now again spot on.

Sadly this hasnt sorted a horrible chugging at low revs, as soon as you get though this, around 2k rpm it'll pull like a train. Next step is to pull and rebuild the carb!

I hate to say it but climbing back into my freshly serviced daily driver was heaven.
Also doesn't help the minis case that I collected a mod I'd always wanted to do for it that weekend.



I still haven't ruled out Stanford Hall though...



Joe

Edited by 72clubman, 03 September 2015 - 06:47 PM.

[72clubman]

So I couldn't just leave the poor girl running so badly, so I put my best fault finding hat on and went digging.

I know the mini engine has simeased ports, but I'm pretty sure it's not meant to share combustion chambers...




Also gives me a chance to repaint my head. When I had the unleaded inserts done they offered to paint it, and did a terrible job. It rusted within a few weeks!

Joe

[keefr22]

3 cylinder engines all the rage now, aren't they?!

[72clubman]

It's been a while since I've updated this.

Head got stripped entirely back of its terrible paint job.



Then freshly painted.




They're big bloody valves as well! Doesn't half go well!



I managed to get it all bolted back together for Stanford Hall and had a lovely day, drove beautifully.






Even got in mini world!



If anyone was wondering who bought the clubman bonnet and bootlid in Asral Blue, I couldn't help myself!




There's where she sits now, MOT expired and declared SORN.

Oh and with a new bumper.



She won't be back on the road wearing green again!
Hopefully in a few weeks she'll get a new garaged home. And then the strip down will begin!

Joe

Edited by 72clubman, 11 October 2015 - 04:43 PM.

[keefr22]

And then the strip down will begin!

Joe

Looking forward to following along Joe!

keith

[Rocket.]

going to be awesome in blue !

[Jared Mk3]

Can't wait!