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[Bean]

think the next one is the Rolling Road...?

kinda need it sorted before then though, but ta!!


What kind of bracket should fit there?

[mini93]

u have the rubber block on which is good, mine has a D clamp around the exhaust (like which holds the different sections together) but then a metal tab which is twisted and shaped to fit to the rubber block

[*Raz*]

Seems that no amount of guys crawling around on the floor

Poor Reggie!

He is still bloomin hot tho!!

yum yum x

[Bean]

aaahh gotcha

I've got a D clamp thing, just no twisty bit of metal

will find one! Ta

[mini93]

the guys have mainly been mike, stiggy and i did 1 or 2 things :S and wolfy maybe...mind u that might be saying hes fixed his own car 1st

[Bean]

Seems that no amount of guys crawling around on the floor

makes you want to break cars more often!

[wolfys_mini]

the guys have mainly been mike, stiggy and i did 1 or 2 things :S and wolfy maybe...mind u that might be saying hes fixed his own car 1st

i travellled, with mike, to g fix an exhaust! i helped!

[Bean]

Alrighty then!


I've had a proper look at each joint and bracket, in turn... so I can see where exactly it's leaking.

The front of the y-piece was leaking, but not too much... so I undid those two clasps, and re-positioned them over the slots... as it was leaking from there, a tad. But as I say, not really that much.

But this is where it was leaking before and then came apart. So it seems that joint is almost sorted, thanks to the new y-piece (thanks stiggy ).

So did that and turned it back on and there's a VERY small little leak out of the actual join, but verrrry small.



My main problem though, is the join behind that one... the back of the y-piece.

The slots in the link pipe itself are leaking... the join seems to be OK, in that it's quite a good fit and is quite snug! But at the bottom, there is a slot on the actual pipe which is just throwing everything out!

How do I fix that though? Because the pipes are connected as well as the possibly can be! (because I didn't do it, lol )

[Bean]

Damn cars.

Reggie's now sitting 15 minutes from my house, in a layby.




Was on my way home from the NEC and Reggie had been spluttering, so I stopped at the service station. Set off again and he starts spluttering again, but worse.

Meet the junction of the M42/M5 and the accelerator pedal gets stuck on the floor, so i have to pull into the hard shoulder, take it out of gear and slam the brakes on. I switched it off.

Kicked the pedal back up and started it up. But it died straight away again. kept starting then dying etc.

So I rang the RAC (didn't go through) and so i rang mum.

But I had hardly any battery life, so needed to conserve it just in case.


But then Reggie sprang to life and i set off again.

Was coughing and choking all the way down the M5 to worcester.


Was just out of worcester, at a little town and there was a flood across the road which i would have never got through. so I stopped, phoned dad to ask if they knew of another way around.

meanwhile, there was another guy across the other side of the road who had broken down. he had a flat battery. He was only in a little rover, so i offered to help him. so we tried to jump the car, but then Reggie died.

reg's electrics then went absolutely nuts. the immobiliser set and wouldn't stop beeping, the radio went nuts, the lights didnt work. and reg wouldnt start at all.

So i rang mike and he told me what to do and i got reg started again...

so i then set off on my way, reggie's running OK


get a coupla minutes down the road and he splutters and then backfires, splutters and backfires. then my lights went all dim, my radio went nuts and then died, my dash lights died.

got through the next village, out the other side and he coughs, splutters and all the lights inside die.

pull into a layby and he idles fine and all the lights work.


turned him off to talk to dad and get him to come pick me up

try to turn him on and nothing happens. nothing works. electrics are completely dead.


then i get out of the car to get into dad's and the damn thing starts beeping again.





so i've disconnected the battery and left him in the layby.


fun fun fun



we know what it is though.... so that's a bonus, i suppose.


I'm so fed up of something breaking every time I go out in this weather. He runs like utter carp in the wet.



I dunno how much longer I can do it... every single journey I do, I'm so tense. I'm so stressed every time it rains, because I know i'll end up visiting the hard shoulder.

I don't trust him in the wet, I want to... but I really don't. I just worry and feel paranoid every single time I take him out.

[Sleepy Stu]

Poor Reggie you must worried about him. Can i ask what kind of protection you have against the wet electrics wise (like one of those screens perhaps or just an old Marigold? Only ask cause i want to avoid similar problems when i get mine up and runnning.

Where about is he broke down half way between Hereford and Worcester i take it?

Edited by Stewart_GT, 11 January 2008 - 11:18 PM.

[Teapot]

we know what it is though.... so that's a bonus, i suppose.

???

Terminal or curable?

Not nice weather to be out in a dodgy mini. Not at all confidence-inspiring.

[Bean]

I've got one of those little plastic boxes which is screwed to the front panel, and I've got a full weathershield (one of those huge plastic ones, with the brackets off the rocker cover)


The flood was in Bransford... But he's currently sat the Hereford side of Leigh Sinton.

[Bean]

we know what it is though.... so that's a bonus, i suppose.

???

Terminal or curable?

Not nice weather to be out in a dodgy mini. Not at all confidence-inspiring.

"blown the regulator in the alternator" <---- I'm sure that makes sense to some people!

[Sleepy Stu]

I've got one of those little plastic boxes which is screwed to the front panel, and I've got a full weathershield (one of those huge plastic ones, with the brackets off the rocker cover)


The flood was in Bransford... But he's currently sat the Hereford side of Leigh Sinton.

Ah yeah those roads out past Malvern way are always prone to flooding and it has been raining solidly for like 14 hours still raining now i believe.! Hope Reggie gets better soon!

[Bean]

It had been raining/snowing all the way down from Birmingham... guess its just kinda lucky that I got so far, so I don't have to leave him too far away.


I'm seriously considering taking him off the road for the rest of the winter ...