Hi everyone , first off , I DID do a search , but got kinda bewildered by the sheer volume of info here! I'm still looking for that elusive pick-up for my dad , but in the meanwhile , I've got to checkover a good mates Cooper . It's a carb'd car , stock SU on it , one of the last of them , about 1992-93 I think? The car was left in a shed for storage for about 5 years
After a poke around under it all looks in very good shape , no real rust , so obvious play in the bushings/suspension .
We're going to change ;
Oil/ oil filter (20w50 Castrol best for the engine and box?)
Air filter
Fuel filter - where is it?
Plugs (what do stock ones run best on , on 95 RON?) and - do they have contact points? I forgot to look!
All brake/clutch flexi lines and fluid
Coolant (thermostat?)
2nd last exhaust hanger
Fanbelt
Also going to check the brakes , that the pads and pistons are free , and the wheel cylinders are ok. The Steel brake lines all look good.
The car starts easily , idles quite smoothly and pulls quite cleanly . The only niggles seem to be a kind of "wooden" feel to the brakes , which I hope to sort , a bit of a pull to the left , (alignment?) , and a bit of a squeak in the suspension when driving slowly around the yard , It sounds somewhere around the top mounts.
So , after all that , what am I missing , oh ye gurus of Issigoni's marvel?
I'm in no way familiar with working on Minis , but I am a mechanic by trade .
TIA , Tristan