Two days of nothing and another to come Up in Rocky visiting my son's family and helping them get ready for Beef Week. But then my wife is staying till Saturday to babysit and I'll be coming home by myself and won't have anyone looking over my shoulder and suggesting "other more important things to do"

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Did some panel work on the number 2 Morris 1100 (the auto car). It is a lovely ex-little old lady car so it is very clean inside and has bumps and scrapes down both sides.
I hate panel beating but I still persist in doing it all myself.

I have not been able to do much in the shed for a while after I got a bit of back pain at work but I am getting over it and trying to get a few jobs done before the winter freeze.

Reminds me of my old Austin 1300 - One old lady owner, 75,000, slow, badly maintained Km, every panel had a dent, but the inside was fantastic!

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speed costs....how fast do you want to go...

This car was very well maintained and fairly low milage, I got a folder with all the service receipts. It had a full brake rebuild (seals and hoses) every 8 years. It got serviced by the date and not by the milage. It is a pity that the old dear lost a bit of judgement in her declining years.
A young shiela got is as her first car but the forward clutch in the auto gave up before she could do much damage to the car.

My main 1100 is very similar, it was a little old lady car and then it was a young chicks car. Her daddy was into old Jags (mk4s) and he thought that a Morris 1100 would be the perfect thing for his daughter to drive as a first car, so he spent the money getting all the granny scratches removed and gave it to the girl to drive. She hated it and knocked every dent back into it.

Plyed silly buggers with the new motor in a carpark. very happy
Came home and replaced the starter motor....

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Went to a car show. Then let some lucas smoke out. Fried another solenoid

Finally got the back of the van down to a sane ride height. After the rear cones sagged, I decided to fit hi-lo's as well as the new cones, but the pins in the end of the struts were over an inch longer than they need to be. When installed at the lowest setting there was about 8" between wheel arch and wheel

Took an inch off the strut pins with ye olde angle grinder and she's sitting nice again, I don't feel like one of the Beverly Hillbillies any more

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

Finally fixed the number plate lamp.... after it managed to short out the red parking lights wire.

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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.

just finnished replacing the c.v boots on both sides. for my first time it was a pain in the arse.. i ve had fun doing it tho i need that big break that i had all afternoon tho. now just have to replace all the wheel cylinders tomorrow and bleed adj brakes then hopefully go for a cruise tomorrow night. I BET IT WON't HAPPEN,, but im a give it a good shot.

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PrOuDlY aSkInG qUeStIoNs FoR uR aMuEsMeNt

Fitted the passengers door trim, made trim sections to fit in the RH side of the cluster, made a divider to fit the front of the drivers door bin to keep the little bottle of valve oil upright, made a sexy polished alloy tip for the hydraulic handbrake and put the freshly (yesterday) painted flares in the sun to bake.

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Dean Hutton's first car was a Mini.

helping a mini owner shift a mini on my trailer today

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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

I actually did some work after about 12 months of nothing, although at the time it was only negative progress towards internal boot hinges. But I think some of that is because my bottom boot lip is slightly bent outwards (hitting the bootlid on opening with internal hinges)

I'm about to go and sand my new flares (from mini king) cos they are painted and ready to be polished
I might fit washer jets too.

As usual i will look upon my mini and say "it is good".

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Dean Hutton's first car was a Mini.

helping a mini owner shift a mini on my trailer today
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i know who's

Not a great deal, my engine for Elle' is coming along slowly. Heads being
played with as we speak, engine is a complete short motor and gear box
still to be rebuilt.... I pulled the battery out of the car and put it on charge to try
and save it from dying to tradgic death of no charge tonight, so i guess that
was something i've done today.....

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Jack of all trades, master of none......