Not today, and not myself, but over the weekend 3 of us:

- finished vacuuming the 30 plus years of crud and dust off the car exterior
- quickly gave the paint job a clean with fast glass- it's getting a respray eventually so not worth doing any more to it
- removed front seats, part of the rear bench seat, carpets (one carpet involved a lot of swearing at stupidly long bolts holding it in) and underlay to give us a bare interior
- vacuumed 30 plus years of mouse, rat, cockroach and other pest crud out of the poor little car
- tried to remove the dash to remove the crud behind that- spent a while looking at it and swearing, and gave up- next weekend job...
- put a lot of blood, sweat and tears (and scrubbing) into the seats and carpets to try and revive them- surprisingly good results!

First "proper" weekend we've had to spend on our Cooper- think at the moment the fun of getting stuff out and cleaning easy bits is a good intro. Have some more to do next weekend, but think we will be organising/starting on the "real" work soon hopefully.

Well not so much as what I did well I looked at it [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH AND TIGHTLY-CLOSED EYES] but spoke to mini man Matt will be organising my Ne block and crank in the next week or so and so it begins sorting see what I will keep and what will be sold. And make room in the shed to start the process of strip and rebuild


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Body filler sand 90% body filler sand 90% its all a learning curve i guess hopefully gard work pays off



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Got the electric brake switch installed today - had to make up a bracket to get it to fit.. it's so nice to have brake lights again! The other switches I've used (old and new) have died so quickly.

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Topped up oil on steering rack only to discover that the lower control arm was loose at the front! Bloody nolathane bushes! they had perished in less than 1500 miles of driving. Took them all off and replaced them with good old rubber bushes. Grumble grumble

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I'm with you on those pressure switches. I got my last one from Colin Dodds from Sprite club and he said he had tested whole batches that were bad or something like that. Anyway the one he sold me was a good one thankfully.

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

Received my space lock nut key today, from http://stores.ebay.com.au/LUGNUT-KING great bloke to deal with.

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Nick

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=86675

Went for a coffee run in the sunshine....

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....you just lost him his insurance bonus!

997

[Picture of mini]

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Current: 1970 Mini K 2014 Focus ST
Past: 93 Rover, 64 850, 97 Rover, 66 Deluxe, 66 Moke
81 Austin Estate, 2006 R53MCS, 66 Deluxe, 1978 Clubbie
2014 Land Rover Defender 90

Water tested my welded up 12G940 head with ye olde garden hose. Didn't leak, so I will get the seats recut next week.

McGyver test rig-

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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.

That's ingenious Doc. Never seen it done this way before but I suppose you experts do it all the time.

Sent the 12G940 to HM Gem Engines for hardened valve seats and a clean up. Also started to pull down the gearbox.

Simple job turned nasty
Customer wants a digital speedo and has supplied a unit with a sensor device that replaces the speedo cable and screws onto the speedo drive take-off at the gearbox. Removing a Mini's speedo cable is not fun at the best of times, but after removing heater hoses and the bottom radiator hose I could just about fit my giant mitt down behind the engine into the greasetrap that accumulates around the speedo drive to painfully undo the knurled nut on the cable. The cable then came out, but the end was all twisted, frayed and broken off (no wonder his speedo wasn't working) - the short length of square shaft was still in the drive gear and stuck good 'n proper
Of course that meant the drive gear needed to come out, so after about another hour of more pain with blood dripping from torn flesh, the 7/16" bolt was removed and the drive gear eventually freed. The broken cable was well and truly stuck in place, but eventually removed. Then to my delight I notice the square shaft on the digital sensor seemed much smaller than the end of the old cable I'd just removed - and when test fitted into the drive gear, it was so loose that it would spin inside the square housing. Measurements showed the old cable to be about 3.15mm square, the new device was 2.5mm



That meant modifying the drive gear's square housing to allow it to turn the smaller square shaft. In a way I'm glad I pulled the drive gear out of the gearbox when I did, because if I'd just fitted the new speedo sensor in situ, I'd never have picked up the fact that it was too small a diameter to be turned by the drive gear. So ...... 4-hours later and there's no light left to wire it up

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'64 Cooper 'S' (Group Nb spec)
'67 Mini Marcos GT www.mm7056.wordpress.com

So...did you put a sleeve around the smaller square drive Curl?

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That was the first thing I tried, but wasn't happy with the result as the square drive was slightly rounded and inconsistent in size down the shaft, leaving me a little apprehensive about the longevity of such a repair. In the end I placed a blunt cold chisel, pointy end up in the vise, sat the square drive on top of that and used another blunt cold chisel to put a crease in each of the four sides of the square drive. That worked really well and made for a good fit on the smaller cable end.
I haven't been able to get back to it today, but I hope to spend some time wiring it up tomorrow.

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'64 Cooper 'S' (Group Nb spec)
'67 Mini Marcos GT www.mm7056.wordpress.com