I took the 850 to James at Wilson Automotive in glenorchy. He fixed my leaking fuel tank, replaced my stuffed brake light switch and fixed my sticking accelarator cable. The man is a mini god! not trying to suck up but I am rapt with what he did to my car and his customer service is awesome! highly reccomended for any mini troubles in tassy

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88 Rover 1.3i "Reggie"
99 Rover 1.3i “Grover”
12 Mini Cooper S "The shitter"
17 Mini Clubman JCW “Noddy”

got some worn 008's to go on some widened steelies for some fast runs.... hehehe

finished grinding out my intake manifold and matched it with the new head ill be putting on, reduced the thickness of the flange so it sits flush with the extractors...

replaced top steady bushes with some nice urethene mini sports products... tie rod bushes are next....

waiting for Karcraft to call me to say pick up the hi flow pump so i can grind out the block if need be...

got my radiator back from charlie out in blacktown, top bloke, great work and still $90 hehehe

trying to put everything together very quickly so i can get the moke over to the sailmakers to get a cover put on it.... woooooooo!

bumped into grieg malure.... who just laughed at me when he saw me... (how the hell do these people find out about wheels falling off!!! its just bizzare!! damn small mini world!!!)

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Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...



“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.” - Jeremy Clarkson

installed the H4s ive had sitting in the garage for a few weeks.

Did you put them on relays? Do it, the difference in lighting is unbelievable

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

Put in a 88 degree thermostat. The engine was running too cool with a low temp thermostat.

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

Today I fitted a long range Fuel tank and an eye level stop light and I also fitted a switch to override the Thermo fan switch manually. Fitting this tank will save me fitting the RH tank which I will be fitting to My Mini K instead, when I do it.

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"Let us remove your "SHORTS"

The last couple evenings I've worked on the cage in the Travelle"R". I have built the last of the tubes and welded all of them in except the door tubes. I'm currently mounting the seats where I want them and then I'll fine tune the door bars and weld them in. I've also done some more welding on the car and I've been organizing my huge pile of Mini parts.

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67 Traveller - Needs restoration
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yeah put onto a relay at the same time so cant really tell which made the most difference.

Well I'm having a night off Mini's tonight.. might play some poker instead.

Tomorrow I might install the shiny new indicator arm in the van which arrived today, thanks Tony

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

I gave the van a good clean inside and out then took it to get some photos taken by the local newspaper for their auto section.
Now it's sitting in the shed waiting for me to find where all the bloody oil is leaking from, why the radio now goes static when the engine is running and why high beam has gone AWOL

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'72 English Van...'72 Export Moke ...63' 850...KZ 750E1...'74 P76

Replaced a broken accelerator cable on one of the fleet, which had unfortunately broken in peak hour traffic at the top of Oxford St.

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1969 Cooper "S"
1967 Mini Deluxe
1973 Clubman Van (the fleet spare)
1978 ex 1275 LS ("Wizard" Eaton Supercharged)
2015 HSV GenF GTS(occasional drive & tow car)
2019 MINI F55 Cooper S

I reckon this thread has the potential to be the loooooonnnngggest running in the history of ausmini ....

In the words of Ali G, "let's make it appen" Foreal.

When all other threads have withered and died, we'll still be fixing sh!t on our Mini's so this thread will be alive and well

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

I hope you didn't jump out, open the bonnet and bend over the engine....

last night I did the wheel alignment, put some more fluid in the hydro and changed the oil

tonight I adjusted my back brakes, and replaced the left rear wheel bearing

ready for tomorrow, so now I'm off to bed

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

More blinging but least im onto the 240grit with 400 to go and polishing on the GR Manifold

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