Had a great run up to Hawke's Nest motor fest as well. Great day, great cars. Had the pleasure of meeting "cooper19613" and other mini enthusiasts.
Car ran like a dream, except when just off the freeway, heard a loud metallic scraping sound. Thought the WRX next to me had dropped a gearbox or something. Turned out the vibrations from the freeway running had loosened one of the front number plate screws despite loctite being used. The number plate was scraping on the road........

No major damage to the plate, just a few scratches.....if that's the worst, I'm happy!

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Cooper S Mk2
Cooper S Mk1
ex Cooper S Mk2, various Morris 1100s, 1300s, 1500s, Leyland Sherpa!

Went looking for some acreage to buy had to drive it to look at it lol :0

Serviced Claude, the 970 Cooper. Oil, filters, tappets, plugs, points. Then fanged down to Dan Murphy's with him to get some beverages;-)
He just purred there and back....the long way.
Tomorrow clean and polish and then back into the man cave.

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1964 Cooper UK 970 S 'CZ 4289'

Tried to remove outrigger bearing rings from 2 flywheel housings by heating housing with my 500C hot air gun, then thumping down on some plywood.
Got them both 1/2 way out, have decided to make another puller like my recent idler bearing one, but BIGGER. Stay tuned..

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Looks like i caused some drama on the other mini forum over a virus i got trying to download a 7-zip program they suggest it puts malware and adware on your pc

Never seen a post go to 2 pages so quick over there less then 24 hours

Put a BMC sticker of the front windscreen and a "floats on Fluid" and a Australian Made" on the back window.

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1967 Mini Deluxe 1275 heaps of modifications
1969 Mini Matic 1100

finished fitting dashboard and back seat.

Looks good!

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

I collected my 78 ls form a panel beater who has given up on cars all together ... now the fun starts ...... learn how to do a bit of body work { sills, a panels, boot floor and stuff }

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120bhp with 450kg just fun waiting to happen

We were prob. drunk when we set it up last and thought this will be a good idea

Not a whole lot on the mini... cleaned the minis house catalogued all my un needed parts meet a felliw ausmini member tonykenibi. Nice felliw with a realky nice mini.

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The best part of fixing your mini is the test drive

Minis..

1976 van daily drive
1975 van
1968 deluxe in the shed
1967 deluxe high strung 1310
1959 austin healey sprite

Went to seven hills and got 2 oil filters packs micheal sells on ebay
http://m.ebay.com.au/itm?itemId=300906832596

and while i was there i got the clubman parts manual he had for sale to
http://m.ebay.com.au/itm?itemId=301109296680

Went on a nice drive yesterday with MITG

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Greetings All.

Had a PITA day on the 850. Oil chage. Such a simple job and everything that could, did!
It's a spin on filter. The only way I can get these off, is using a chain type gizmo.
Well, crushed the filter and its leaking oil. Damm.
Too late to stop, kept going and snapped the chain (Mmmmm.... I borrowed this!)
Took a long break.

Decided to unbolt the filter unit complete. Bit fiddly. Doh! tried to take the pipe off and twisted the bend.
Had to put it all in the vice to get the filter off! Unbelievable tight?

Anyhow had another pipe in the spares. All done. All cleaned up. Ready for work in the morning.

Alex.

K&N filter HP-1002 best things ever - they have a 'Wrench-off' feature - a nut on the bottom a 1 inch socket is all you need to remove the filter sooooooo easy

I took the mini out for a local run today to pick up the chilluns from skool. Poor old thing hasn't had a run in ages.
The twin 1.5s are still a revelation.

I noticed that MY MINI HAD SPRUNG AN OIL LEAK.

MY MINI HAD SPRUNG AN OIL LEAK.

MY MINI HAD SPRUNG AN OIL LEAK.

MY MINI HAD SPRUNG AN OIL LEAK.


Now this will not do I said.

I had a peer down the back of the engine and spotted two things.
1: the tappet cover center bolt had some oil leaking from the grommet (Changed it out, gashed my hand)
2. The main culprit was the flexible oil hose to oil pressure gauge connection at the firewall. I pulled apart the clip and rebent the clip back into shape it so it pulled up neatly. Gashed my hand again, luckily straight down the middle of the first one for maximum discomfort. Really drove that grease deep into the wound.

Now the oil leak is gone, normal viewing may resume.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.