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[1984mini25]

Someone once told me that the hardest part of restoring a mini is removing that split pin so everything else should be a breeze......

 

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the brake pedal is fitted in the same way so i'm afraid you will be contorting yourself again.

 

Unless you happen to be luckily enough to have an 89 onwards mini with the servo, Then you only have the clutch split pin to worry about and the brake ones are in the engine bay.

[Tommyboy12]

 

Bad time to say I took mine out last weekend and it took about 20 minutes (which included the removal of the seat)?

I spent double that trying to wriggle the pin out! Thank god for metal fatigue as it gave up before I did.

Did that include the brake pedal?

If you live near me - i can offer a sausage sandwich and a cup of tea in payment :)

 

 

I didnt touch the brake pedal. It didnt need to come out. The really heavy wear on my clevis pin and master cylinder plunger might have had something to do with the ease of the job but I just spun the pin round so the split pin head was facing me then pulled the pin really hard with pliers until it came out. Putting it back in might prove fiddly but I have small hands so that might help!

[henri1972]

mine had the R clips in place on both brake and clutch when i took them out i am going to put them back in

[MrBounce]

Is it bad if I tell you that my Midas has a completely flat floor so it's more comfortable to "assume the position"???  They were also fitted with R clips - one of the many bodges I found.

 

I am of course, looking forward to refitting...

[Ben_O]

 

Someone once told me that the hardest part of restoring a mini is removing that split pin so everything else should be a breeze......

 

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the brake pedal is fitted in the same way so i'm afraid you will be contorting yourself again.

 

Unless you happen to be luckily enough to have an 89 onwards mini with the servo, Then you only have the clutch split pin to worry about and the brake ones are in the engine bay.

 

That s true.

I just assumed it was an earlier car

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[Miniminx71]

No car ever built looks as happy as a Frogeye.

[mk1leg]

 

 

a tip for re fitting the split pin dont......use a R clips instead much quicker and no fiddleing upsidedown.......

 

a tip for re fitting the split pin dont......use a R clips instead much quicker and no fiddleing upsidedown.......

Thanks a great tip - will be doing this

Sorry to contradict but that is not good advice, it's dangerous please don't take it. Rover fitted R clips instead of split pins for a while in the '80s and it was the subject of a service replacement bulletin and just short of a full product recall as the pins can quite easily work their own way out in use. Do not do this, no matter how many people tell you they do it and it's fine. Those people who don't get away with it are probably not around to tell you how bad an idea it is. I don't like scaremongering but this one is important.

To remove the pins easily (well a bit more easily at least) use some end cutters and cut the heads off rather than cutting the legs or trying to bend them, then use bent snipe nose pliers to pull the legs out. For refitting the clevis pin there is a special tool available from Mini Mine and others that makes it very straightforward.

 

I have fitted them on all the minis that I have owned and as far as I know they have never fallen out IF you use the right size.......But you pays your money you takes your chances...........

Edited by mk1leg, 19 May 2014 - 07:31 PM.

[xrocketengineer]

I bought a set of these for next incursion:

http://www.craftsman.../p-00929319000P