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[mmmorris]

Hi Everyone

 

I am currently in the middle of replacing the rear subby on my Mini. I've followed advice from fellow owners and a few online pages, and the workshop manual, but I came across a part that I hadn't seen or heard of in any of these. I've attached the photos to illustrate bellow. These "caps" (I'll call them Caps because I don't know what they are) sit in the housinge for the cone and trumpet and have endured remarkably well compared to the rest for the frame. I just need to know what they are, how and if they come off, if they do come off are they transferable, and if they don't come out, do I need ones to go in the new frame and what are they called?

 

Preemptive than yous!

 

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[nicklouse]

I think they were added to later frames to stop crud getting in. Re use or not it is up to you. If you are using the key type hi-Los then you would need to remove them anyway.

[A-Cell]

They are bump stops. Added when the 12inch wheels were fitted to restrict full bump travel to prevent wheel rubbing on wheel arch lip.

[A-Cell]

...here is the part, but no longer available
http://www.minispare...ck to catalogue
The metal clip is 13H2176

Just swap them over. But note later subframes on Sportspack strengthened frames for 13 inch wheels do not have the hole.

[Spider]

What the factory claimed them to be, as the other guys have said, is a bump stop.

 

Nothing could be further from the truth!

 

They are in fact Trailing Arm Pin breakers, nothing more, nothing less.

 

Here's a pic of a Trailing Arm Pin that I caught in time

 

[nicklouse]

LOL that is just the result I would expect from a "Bump stop" there. Totally unsuitable.

[Spider]

LOL that is just the result I would expect from a "Bump stop" there. Totally unsuitable.

 

 

And totally stupid too.

[fenghuang]

They are in fact Trailing Arm Pin breakers, nothing more, nothing less.

Trailing Arm Pin = the shaft the radius arm rotates on, right?

[Spider]

 

They are in fact Trailing Arm Pin breakers, nothing more, nothing less.

Trailing Arm Pin = the shaft the radius arm rotates on, right?

 

 

Yeap, that's the one.