Took it to a car show in Taree...won a trophy for "Best Other make"

Pulled a blown front hydro bag out of the mini k this weekend. The rubber bag itself had ruptured, so no chance of a repair. It must have been the original bag as it took a fair amount of persuasion and cursing to come out. Fitted up another one and now will have to find the time to get it pumped up. If only somebody out there manufactured new ones. I fear the end is nigh and i'll eventually have to do a conversion when all the spares run out...

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1970 mini k1100

DRMINI,

EN24 clutch plunger so we are good.

Hunter2

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Select a gear, bring up the revs and release the clutch...off you go!

File it to test anyway, they were selling some soft ones over here as `EN24". But they were not.
It should be VERY hard to file a corner. If it files like butter, it's chinese cheese.

Even the `good' EN24 ones sold now are nowhere near as hard as the originals were.

[edit] taken from the clutch plunger thread in mini chat:

"OK the hardness numbers are now in...
As I said above, Kc's cheap ones were only HRC1-2.
Kc's new ones (EN24T) measured HRC23-24. I would have expected harder, I doubt it has been heat treated in any way.
An original BMC one GR has measured HRC50. Tested again today, same result.
One of my silver steel bushes (hardened then quenched in sump oil, not tempered) measured HRC61. Which is possibly a bit hard but once pressed in, it can't go anywhere.

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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.

On Saturday I brought my mini home. Havent touched it since I left home in 2012. Will have to check the members area but I think I've had it 10 years now. Cant wait to get back into it.

Pushed it around the shed

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I have an Addiction just not the time.......
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1968 Morris 1100 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=101555

Put my new wheels on

Need to find wider arches now !!

What are the tyres?

P.S. Mini looks great

Cheers they are 165/55R12 Yokohama A048R

Nice tyres and rims!

I got stuck into work on my new (to me) clubman shell tonight.
Bit of a vacuum out and check over door locks and whatever else caught my attention.

Discovered the hit it has taken in the rear drivers side might be worse than I first thought
Started to beat it back into shape and can hopefully get it all straight enough.

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Why did i buy a flip front......anyone want a race car shell?

Fitted a pulsar dizzy new leads coil plugs and tuned the new carb, very good.
no more points and good acceleration
still playing with type of oil in the su damper.

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It's easy once you know how.

Re-programmed the Accuspark black box to reduce advance @ 2000-2500 rpm by 1 degree.
Pinging has gone now, I love how this time machine box works.

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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.

Kevin,

Got the Mini rolling and out for a drive...close to perfect on the adj. trumpets.

But getting back to clutch plungers, taking the new item to heat treaters tomorrow a.m. and will have Rockwell checked.

Will report on test result.

Rick

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Select a gear, bring up the revs and release the clutch...off you go!

Operations Manager at Vancouver Heat Treat took the "new" clutch plunger into the lab. Prepped the nose and the tail of the plunger for Rockwell Hardness test - tail 5.8, nose 6.4, clearly not EN24...and may never find out what crap the piece is made off...necessary before knowing whether anything can be done.

Likely just junk.

Have alerted seller of new bits so he can try and go upstream to source...will likely face flim flam.

Appreciate the alert I got here from dr mini!

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Select a gear, bring up the revs and release the clutch...off you go!

This is my "soft" carrier after only 18 months, it wore so much the arm eventually jammed and snapped, I wondered why I had to keep adjusting the clutch. The last shot shows a new soft one after surgery by Dr. Mini with a hardened insert. (Thanks again Kevin)







Threads here.... http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83099&hilit=clutch+plunger

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68 Morris Cooper S Mk1 (*ex 78 1275 LS 4th last built, 70 Morris 1500 OHC & 70 MiniMatic)