Does anyone know if these are available in Aus..? Its apparently visibly the same as the standard rack, but the lock to lock is reduced to the standard 2.75 turns to 2 turns.

Sounds like a good way to get more of a go-kart feel to the car...

Oh would this be legal to change also...?

Er.. you have an Oz Mini, it already has a 2.2 (approx) turns rack... unless you've fitted a UK MK2 one...

BTW if you fit a UK one you should change the steering arms too, as the geometry is now NBG with the Oz arms.

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will have to check the lock to lock... damn british published mini mod books...

Bluddy Haynes...

Best books for Oz cars are the Australian ones. Look for Scientific Publications/Gregorys #64 for roundnoses, or # 02 for Clubbies.
Dunno if still available new.

You can still get the Leyland Workshop Manual, 1976, NEW, from www.pitstop.net.au for arounf $70. It's a good book, but there are various typos in the specs sheets.

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Is that the one you bought off me?? I reckon it's a great manual, but yea, it did come from GB....

nah that one is great. I am talking about the Haynes Mini Performance Manual.

Got some good stuff in there, but I thought Oz minis would have been pretty much the same with things like steering racks (like why would they change them...??? ) so the idea of a go kart like steering sounded EXCELLENT.

The Doc fixed my suspension problem. 20 mins, a home made hydro pump and a whole lot of appreciation later (its nice to know people who help still exist out there) me and Mo were back on the road albeit an inch higher and oh so more comfortable.

The Oz and UK Mk1 racks were pretty much the same, but on the MK2 the Poms reduced the turning circle by fitting a longer rack with more teeth. This meant new Mk2 steering arms too. Turns went up to 2.75 or so.
Our cars never got the UK MK2 racks, but they have been sold here since.
Like I said, watch what arms you use with them. There is about 1/4" difference in the hole where the tierod end goes in.

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I new the doc would not be able to resist Himself How did you go with Carbby

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sheet GAF .. I forgot I need to get the details to Anton so he can see what his friend thinks. By the looks of it, I will need to modify the bonnet (anyone think that having a bling bling air filter sticking out of a mini bonet AKA like the old holley fords and holdens would look "different") or get a different air filter, or go for a different carby...

Project in motion. For now is a CV replacement and a new exhaust and a couple of cruises.

Good to see you got your suspension sorted. Mo had a bit of a lean to one side didn't he....

Lean..?? I think that the tower at Pisa leans less...

He is all flat and balanced out now.

<<insert pic of cheesy smile from 1970's colgate TV commercial>> THANKS DOC.



You boys going to be coming on either the "heading west" cruise on the 14th or the Canberra cruise on the 21st..??

We'll be on the heading west trip

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Saturday 20th Nov 04 for Canberra Show and Shine in front of the Canberra Centre in Civic (centre of Canberra)

Sunday 21st Nov 04 for Marques in the Park
(John Knight Park- Belconnen) just around thwe corner from Macca's.

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Mick I think they mean the shakedown cruise on the 14th, to Warragamba Dam, then wherever.. .

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crap the 14th We will miss this one also Do as the boss want's

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