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[E.L.M.O]

at least there not LED washer jets LOL. I think if you bought them id refuse to fit them, luckily I know you have better taste than that

[Hannioli]

you can get led ones?!? ohh dear!

I want to fit them, I never get to do any of the jobs on Freddie! How am I supposed to learn!!!

[Hannioli]

god damn Freddie! I was giving him a good old clean on Sunday, hoovering his carpets and under his carpets of course, only to find that the floor pan in the rear on the drivers' side was sopping wet Then yesterday, I went for the chewing gum that I have stored on his dash (or lack of) and found it was all gooey and damp felt the dash cover and it was really wet too GOD DAMN HIM!!! Grr! Got to find out where this water is coming from...luckily there's no sign of rusting (so far) on the floor, though I know the scuttle is mainly filler and probably not a little amount of rust

Put on his clear indicator lenses on Sat and my, he looks purdy looks a little odd with the orange side repeaters still on but I couldn't find where I'd put my new smoked ones...will probably pop them on this weekend.

I didn't have time to do an oil change on Sat and then was busy all day Sun and Mon but Freddie does have new oil waiting for him in a can and a nice purple bowl to use as his bedpan

Neil's got to go to minispares today so he's picking me up some new cones, finally!! Been meaning to get these for ages, soon he'll be sitting properly on the front

Thinking about making my own boot liner kit might steal Neil's one to get a template

[Pie]

NOoooooooooo

Freddie wet his pants.

[Hannioli]

yep he's developed a mystery leak!

He's wet himself before but for some reason that leak seems to have disappeared silly mini...

[Hannioli]

I thought I'd try putting Freddie's new side repeater lenses on today but didn't have a screw driver so kinda gave up on that in the end

Anywho, I did however, manage to put his E.L.M.O club stickers up

Here's the side sticker:


And the rear window one too



When I was in the back of Freddie doing the stickers I noticed the carpet was a bit wet so did some investigating...lots of rain over the past few days and a leaky mini do not go well together

It's a bit blurry, but here's where I pulled up the carpet and water was just dripping out of the sound proofing


I mopped up all the water, took the sound proofing out and now it's dripping off my balcony

I noticed this kinda dent in the floor which also has cracks all over it...could this be a source of the water??


And more cracks...



Not sure if you can see this very well in the pic, but there's an odd hole in the floor, which has a bit of rust around it's opening as well as being damp no matter how many times I wiped the water off. Thinking maybe the water's coming in here?


Well after that, I thought I'd see how shiney Freddie would get using the polish we got in the l2b run pack and did a little shine up of his driver door and some of his scuttle as I got bored and liked the shineyness There's not much point in shining up Freddie seeing as most of the green paint is flaking off to show the old paint, the previous owner really got a great paint job done on him

Not sure if you can see the difference in shineyness between the door and the rest of the body but oh well!


And his now half shiney scuttle!

Edited by Hannioli, 30 May 2008 - 05:46 PM.

[Dog]

ooo where did u get them stickies made?

I want some done for Shatrats

[Hannioli]

Ooooh! Thanks for reminding me Dog!

They were made by Ron Bones with help from Sazal Great quality, great to deal with and they were very fast making them up and posting them to us I'd recommend them to anyone!

Here's a linky to Ron's site ---> Clicky

[Hannioli]

Reeeet over the weekend some work was done to Freddie

We found an auxillary socket thing for Freddie so he can charge things up now Got it from Maplins, think it was a fiver



Del fabricated a plate for it and attached it next to the heater switch panel and wired it in to the ignition I'll have to get some piccies up of it.

Then on sunday we finally got round to changing the front suspension cones (well Neil did!), only thing was that like most of the other bolts on Freddie the ones that needed undoing had rusted over and seized and bits just didn't want to come off Took quite a while to get the old one out and we almost had a broken finger when it finally came time to putting the new one in

The cone somehow worked loose of the compressor tool and expanded with such force that it shot the nipple bit (yeah, technical term I know ) right down on to Del's hand and made me jump off the floor where I'd been sitting playing with oil due to this crazy loud bang when the nipple bit it Del's hand, bounced off the jack and on to the floor Luckily it's not a broken finger, just badly bruised. Bad Freddie for hurting Del

So, only one cone was changed...on the side that was fine but we thought we might as well change both if we were changing one. The ride is noticeably harsher now

Whilst Neil was doing the cone, I made tea, changed Freddie's side repeaters (with a little help as I couldn't get the old units out ) His new smoked ones look so much better than the old standard orange ones

Also emptied Freddie out of his old 10w40 oil and filled him up with his new, green 20w50 stuff with his new oil filter It's got to be said, there's something so satisfying and relaxing about playing with oil!!!

Oh yeah...think I must have put the screw into a wire or something when I put the ignition barrel casing thing back on drove back to mine with my dash telling me I had my high beams on, both green lights for the indicators were permanently on, apparently Freddie kept overheating, my rev counter went a bit crazy and I had 3/4 of a tank more fuel than I'd had earlier without filling up hmm...actually, thinking about it that might be from when I put the casing back on over the wiper motor area hmm...will investigate at the weekend and maybe spray the panel that my cigarette lighter thing is on black whilst Neil either instructs me on how to change the other cone, or he does it whilst I pass him tools

[sazal]

Ooooh! Thanks for reminding me Dog!

They were made by Ron Bones with help from Sazal Great quality, great to deal with and they were very fast making them up and posting them to us I'd recommend them to anyone!

Here's a linky to Ron's site ---> Clicky

Hehe! Thanks Han!

Lily has those funny cracks in her floor too, but I think there suppose to be like that! Dont think its anything to worry about

[Hannioli]

Reeeet, had a busy couple of weekends with Freddie

Last weekend we took out my old suspension cones and trumpets as when we'd changed one of the cones it'd moved and driving 20 miles on it hadn't helped things We'd noticed that it sat much lower than it should on a new cone and was making some odd noises whilst driving, so after investigation we found the cone had moved so much we couldn't even see the hole in it and there was no way the cone compressor tool was going in!!

The trumpet wasn't coming out at all as it'd moved slightly too, so a chisel and a hammer soon had that flying out in pieces

Decided that I might as well get hi-los now and fit them all round as well as replacing all of the cones.

The brand new cone that was buggered!



So last weekend was spent taking out the old front cones and trumpet and putting the new cones in and fitting the hi-los.

This weekend, we took out the old cones and trumpets from the rear and fittied the hi-los with the new cones He's sitting a tiny bit lopsided and a tad high at the moment (lopsided as we can't be bothered to readjust the fronts ones just yet, so passenger side is higher), waiting for it to settle before readjusting on Friday before SMD

Oh yeah, finally got a picture of my cigarette lighter. Took it out this weekend and sprayed the plate black but forgot to take an 'after' photo silly me


Bought a new set of front seats as Neil keps complaining about standard seats giving him backache plus they were cheap and did look comfy, they happen to fit in with the rest of Freddie's interior at the moment as well Going to eventually get new covers for the seats in line with the new interior, yup!

See the difference between the new and old seats


Went to Buckingham and back on Sat via minispares to pick up a few things, Neil fitted the new seats in.

Mid-way through the job


And both seats are in


They're quite grubby and a little tatty but they're going to be re-covered at some point anyway, they're going to get a good steam cleaning when I get a chance to go home and do it. They're really nice and comfy You do sit a bit lower in the mini in them though. The old seats are currently being us as chairs to use whilst we work on the minis!

[Hannioli]

Oh yeah, when we did get round to finally getting Freddie's front suspension sorted and he came off the axle stands for the first time in a few weeks, I noticed his exhaust has started to blow grrr think it's leaking too as we're getting fumes, yum!

Neil doesn't think the idiot who put the stage 1 kit on Freddie sealed the exhaust when he did it So another job we've got to do before SMD, bought some gum stuff to use but didn't get round to doing it today. For anyone who reads this, I would not recommend using DC motors...If you want to know my reasons why then feel free to pm me and I'll let you know. Suffice to say, you're best off taking your mini and your money elsewhere.


Oil keeps leaking too, probably because the washer for the sump plug was a bit buggered when I did an oil change last month

Got a new washer and sump plug, but the washer ended up on Neil's today as his was a bit buggered not surprised seeing as whoever did the oil change on that mini last tightened the sump plug and oil filter on so tight that it took aaaaaages to get both of them off

I've somehow managed to lose the chrome washer jets I bought at London to Brighton grrrrr We fitted Neil's new ones on over the weekend and they look so good!

[Hannioli]

Freddie's mot is up today

Hmm...gonna see if he goes through an mot, if he does I'll keep him on the road, if not then I'm going to garage him for about 6 months or so. Poor Freddie

[Juju]

Freddie's mot is up today

Hmm...gonna see if he goes through an mot, if he does I'll keep him on the road, if not then I'm going to garage him for about 6 months or so. Poor Freddie

Good luck Han & Freddie! Although a winter indoors may be good for him?

[Hannioli]

Thank you JuJu Not sure when I'm going to have time to get him mot'd...hopefully this weekend! I can't think of anything that he'd fail on...except maybe the crack on his inner wing

But yeah, a winter indoors might do him good as his rust is getting quite bad out in this weather Only thing is that Freddie hates not being driven, even for a week or two!!