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[lucas1amps]

 

Loving this metro 
Off to ebay to look for an early metro...(AGAIN)

Cheers mate I love my mini but there is something special about a metro only seen one other in bristol love the retro look haha

 

haven't seen mine yet then :)   

[creakyjaws5533]

Well had atleast 3 successful days driving and then things went downhill unfortunately :/ went to pick up my bucket seats from Cheltenham which in theory was a good idea haha started off okay went to pick my mate up and as we went to leave it overheated and spat some water out. I didn't think much of it then so we filled up got some extra water and set off. Got to Cheltenham okay temperature stayed about mid range so wasnt any concern. So started driving home went through a few windy roads and handling got a bit shakey so we pulled over to have a look and I had managed to shear a wheel stud on the front passenger side I think a combination of a lose wheel nut and mad potholes so we found a someone in a garage who had a car jack and wheel brace so we took the wheel off had a look and it seemed okay so we put it back on and tighted back up. Took it really steady on the way back and made it back to bristol okay. So I went to moss to get a new stud from them. Got it to a bit of traffic and the temp gauge was rising rather quickly. So I was turning the engine off when we were sitting still then went to pull off and steam was spitting out of the bonnet so I stopped and checked what was wrong and the expansion cap hax blown off again so I pushed the car off the duel garage way which was rather slow traffic so no risk. Then whilst I was looking for the cap lucas1amps turned up and gave me a hand finding it and refilling the water system which had an airlock in the bottom hose as it was stone cold and also the fan doesnt look to be working properly which wouldn't help as moss was literally round the corner I drove off and made it about 100 metres and it did it again so quick phone call to dad and he arrived with plenty of water so topped up and played about with it and started to get a lot of foam out of the expansion bottle so we assumed the head gasket so went to moss got a new headgasket and the wheel stud and limped home without the cap on and stopped a few times for a water top up. So today I striped the head off and unfortunately the head gasket was in a good condition with no breaks a quick level check and a bit of coke removal and all good
Thats about it for now
Jack

Edited by creakyjaws5533, 21 April 2014 - 08:00 PM.

[creakyjaws5533]

Before I left

Back in Bristol

New gasket

head off

The head

Cokey cylinder



The gasket

[creakyjaws5533]

Well its been a good week took the car the wales on Friday for a beautiful drive no problems got to 90mph as well which wad pretty good didnt stay there long but was good to see it could get there. Anyway had to do some thinking about what to keep mini/metro unfortunately Val will be leaving ill be advertising next weekend if any one 9n here wants it let me know and if anyone could give a valuation that would help
Cheers Jack

[dennismini93]

i wonder if you could fit a rear brace like that to a mini, over the shocks, and if it would make a difference?

 

 

[creakyjaws5533]

I doubt it would do much if the rear seat panel was still in place as that would be good enough also an ally fuel tank would need to be fitted so it fits

[dennismini93]

ahh yeah didnt really think about that did i :/

[lucas1amps]

Jb fabricaton do rear braces like that for minis check them out on Facebook mates got one in his clubby