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[jaapio1984]

What is the name of this set? And where can i order it?

Jaapio

[maurais]

looking really good mate, gives me a bit of an insite as to what i will be dealing with soon.....ish.

[Daveuk]

cheers guys, yer it's a case of you really have to think things through before you even consider getting a mini........... like i said bought with my heart and not my head

Dave

[Ro8bieg]

This thread is really handy as I am doing something like this! Well done mate, looks ace!!

Robbie

[Daveuk]

learn from my mistakes more like!!!!!

think im going to have to rip the whole passenger side floor out and replace it with a complete one piece floor!

anyway yesterday i mangaged to get back out to the garage bascially i had to force myself and what better time when i just finished work (sunday overtime ) come home in me messy gear and just walk into the garage and start on the car again, but it was only for a few hours just to get me into it again, and all the tools neatly laid out as they were when i left her before xmas

well......... lets say there's no sill now.............

the "orange" bits are fibre glass showing through the holes in the sill...... one of the previous owners has seemed to just fibre glass the sill and let it rot!

i knew it was bad but not that much

this gave me a hint......


anyway off to think about that panels i need now and weighing up the pro's and con's of wether to buy a full floor or each side as one piece and also other bulkhead panels.........

the more i repair each panel another 2 or 3 rusty panels show up! ah well thats mini for ya

Dave

[Daveuk]

ok so pulled my figure out and decided i need to get the shell sorting out! i now know what route i going to take i just need advice on the door check panels which i have posted a help in the general mini chat...... still waiting to hear from people.....


right so basically i want to raise the car off the deck, so this ment tidying the garage up sort my tools out and sweep the floor,

i then set about to make some stands (which by the end were useless!!! will sort out tommorow)

this is the height i was wanting and got......



by hanging the mini from the roof........



and also jacking the middle up so i could get my stand into the suspension bolts





but i was a waste of time......



now the garage is like this



two straps hanging the mini from the roof beams....... i'll find out tommorrow if they hold...........

oh and my drivers side A panel was held on with one tack weld...... it ripped off in my hands!



more ing rust!

Dave

Edited by Daveuk, 27 April 2008 - 11:05 PM.

[dezshearer]

I had the same thing happen to both my old a panels! I literally just gave them a tug!

Looks like you'll need new flitch panels! Maybe even door post?

[Daveuk]

thats what i thought and didn't want to hear lol

well nothing done today was going to take the van from work and drop the engine off at me mates house only to find out i wasn't covered so i couldn't do that, gonna have to take me drivers licence in to work and get put on the books

Dave

[Daveuk]

ok so on friday i decided to do abit more.....

ripped the frame i made up on monday and now it's going to be this



will be much stronger. not welded together yet and only one made up.

also i thought i'd tidy the bulk head up seen as i can't cut or weld much panels dues to insufficient funds



doesn't look good!



today i've done sod all as i'm abit hung over and the ears are ringing

thats all folks

[Ro8bieg]

u never know, u could end up with a convertable tomoro good work

[Daveuk]

ok back again

monday was a bad day. thought i damaged the welder only to find out i just blew a fuse and also i need a new welding tip.

so yesterday went to town to get a new tip only to find the differnt sizes for different wires! doh! anyway dad off tommorow to change it for the correct on.

so now i can't weld or replace and panels.... so i went onto paint stripping







then i thought ah not a good idea. take all the paint off and let the rust start to appear so i stoppped that lol

so on to today i got the hoover out and went over the car cleanning all the dust from sanding i did then primed the scuttle panel and roof.



thinking what i could do next was clean the bulkhead, dad's gonna get me some nitromors to help me out with that so i started to remove the wiring loom only to realise the whole lot from the back is gonna have to come out!



i tied a piece of shoe lace to the end of the wire so when i need to put the loom back i've got an easy way to pull it through

rust showing again



so out the pedal box comes! and this is where i got side tracked.....

strip and get the wire brush onto it



rusty!



shiney shiney







Primed



shine





notice the bolt missing. the threads were knackered and need to be replaced... so they needed to be cut out,



and after a long day i cleaned up, who say the rear parcel shelf isn't useful

[Daveuk]

oh this got a hammering!



enjoy

[mighty mini jack]

So whats in the secret box then ??

Getting there dude, still along way though, like me!!

[Daveuk]

well if i said what was in it, it wouldn't be a secret box.... lol

just seen ya post good luck with the new mini

[Daveuk]

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