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[Steve220]

It looks excellent inside the cabin and the smell is absolutely amazing, like a Mini that's just rolled of the production line at Longbride !

 

That's rubbish - Yours is MUCH better than when it came off the production line! I love that interior. Where'd you get it from?

[big-jay]

Just perfect, especially that last picture! I need a set of those wheels in my life 

Cheers Jared,

I think they're one of my best purchases thus far !

[big-jay]

It looks excellent inside the cabin and the smell is absolutely amazing, like a Mini that's just rolled of the production line at Longbride !

 
That's rubbish - Yours is MUCH better than when it came off the production line! I love that interior. Where'd you get it from?

Haha, Cheers Steve.

I had my old cooper seats recovered by a company on here, JCS Custom Trim. Felt a bit sacrallidge recovering original cooper seats but the fronts were beyond saving any way.

[big-jay]

Update,

I've spent the day refurbishing the gear selector, here's a run down of what I did.

I degreased and wire wheeled the alloy housing first, the old grease inside was a pig to clean out as it had turned into what resembled cheese string. Here it is -



Next I wire wheeled and zinc primed the two arms -



I also painted these gloss black but didn't take a picture. After leaving those to dry for a while I started to assemble the selector. I fitted the lower arm back into the casing and knocked in the roll pin that connects it to the 'yolk'. Then packed it full of fresh grease -



Happy with that I closed it off with the plate I had powder coated, I also replaced the screws with stainless allen head bolts -



Next to go on was the upper arm, the other powder coated bits and new rubber bobbins. All bolts have been replaced with stainless ones -



I got a Moto-Lita gear knob for Christmas, it's new old stock and was quite expensive, but will tie in nicely with my other Burr furniture -







So I got that fitted along with the sponge and rubber boot, here's the finished thing ready to go in the car -



Will probably get that in tomorrow.

[RossKnight]

Outstanding work. If only I had the same amount of patience!

[Jared Mk3]

Outstanding work. If only I had the same amount of patience!

 

What he said 

[big-jay]

Outstanding work. If only I had the same amount of patience!

Cheers Ross,

Was dreading this job to be honest, been delaying it for weeks.

Still, worth it in the end though !

[big-jay]

Outstanding work. If only I had the same amount of patience!

 
What he said 

Cheers Jared

[!3UMBLEBEE]

Still amazing. I hope ir doing London 2 Brighton. Id love to see this finished in person!!

[big-jay]

Still amazing. I hope ir doing London 2 Brighton. Id love to see this finished in person!!

Cheers bud,

It's definitely something I'd like to do, will have to see if I can get it finished in time !

[Anthony30]

Very nice car. Well done!

[big-jay]

Very nice car. Well done!

Cheers mate !

[Jimbob98]

Hi, really enjoying this thread, great work. I'm just cleaning up my gear selector where did you get the new rubber mounts from, are they the same as the exhaust rubbers?
Cheers jim

[big-jay]

Hi, really enjoying this thread, great work. I'm just cleaning up my gear selector where did you get the new rubber mounts from, are they the same as the exhaust rubbers?
Cheers jim

Hi jim,

Good to hear you enjoying the thread. I got the gear selector bobbins from here - http://m.ebay.co.uk/...8700?nav=SEARCH

There not the same as the exhaust bobbins, the gear selector bobbins are bigger.

Hope that helps,

Jay.

[Gillybobs]

Great build! love this car.