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[19rab82]

nice work

[sonikk4]

Many thanks for the comments guys I had to do something with the door gaps as they were utter rubbish with all of the effort that's going into Erm it would be a shame to have gaps you could get your fingers in.

Well today has had its up (only one up) and lots of downs, first the up.
The spit works well


But it then showed the downs, all of the pipe tags are well rotten and its spread to the floor, gutted i though the floor was fine but once the crud was off it showed its true colours

The worst one

and the rest



After all the effort i put into the front floor sections i really wished we had saved more money and bought a complete floor pan as it would have been worth it. However hindsight is a wonderful thing so two new rear floor sections are winging their way from minispares.
However Scott has thoroughly cleaned the floor ready for the next instalment. He also tried to get the flywheel off Erm's old engine but the bugger would not shift and we shagged our brand new puller by shearing off the the centre bolt head. BUGGER!!!!!!
So it would appear heat is needed so i have got a plumbers torch so hopefully when we get the replacement puller this will help the damned thing to shift.

Depending on when the replacement floors appear it will give me time to fit the outer sill and finish off all of the grinding and cleaning up ready for the big seal up. Then several tins of Tetra Schultz.

[bigsurfer]

Amazing project, your attention to detail deserves medals.

With regards the flywheel, try leaving it with pressure applied for a while. I snapped the center bolt in my last puller, went inside to cry and kick the cat. Suddenly heard a large thud, find flywheel on drive. I have since heard a few people recomend winding a good amount of tension on and leaving for a while for it to creep off. Have been toying with a fancy hydraulic puller, but they are pretty dear.

[sonikk4]

Amazing project, your attention to detail deserves medals.

With regards the flywheel, try leaving it with pressure applied for a while. I snapped the center bolt in my last puller, went inside to cry and kick the cat. Suddenly heard a large thud, find flywheel on drive. I have since heard a few people recomend winding a good amount of tension on and leaving for a while for it to creep off. Have been toying with a fancy hydraulic puller, but they are pretty dear.

Cheers for that, we have got a replacement puller now so we give the loading it up with tension a go then leaving it for a day and if that does not work then it will get a large dose of heat as well.

Some more welding today,

New sill drilled for plug welding and clamped in place

Plug welded

and ground down and polished



There are a few more plug welds to do on the rear quarter then that's it until the replacement the rear floor panels turn up.

[mini670]

Regarding the flywheel,
I have used one for the first time this week. I buggered it up by using the three bolts it came with; they were UNF i think and pulled straight out, 10mm worked though (verto).

At first it would not come off, so i slackened it off again, then gradually tightened and tapped the centre bolt every 1/8th turn. It still would not budge so I slackened again, and tourqed the 3 bolts up to the same ft/lb and repeated. Nothing. then suddenly a few minute later it went with a bang and it was off. I think getting the 3 bolts to the same torque helped alot.

Hope you get it off ok.

[sonikk4]

Not a lot of welding today just welding up some skin pin holes i missed when i fitted the boot floor, then etch primed and primed

[daveeeeee]

Looks tidy as always! Make sure you've taken the washer off the end when trying to get your flywheel off ^^

Edited by daveeeeee, 17 October 2010 - 04:43 PM.

[sonikk4]

Still no floor panels yet so spent the day tidying up welds and skimming some filler. There was a lot of rust under the centre seat belt mount so it had to come off.



I've cut out the old damage and fitted a new section which needs to be ground down then i can refit the mount. The scarey thing is it was only held on with 7 spot welds and not big ones at that so its going to get a lot more just for added strength.

Tomorrow there is a good chance my garage will be home to two mini's but we won't know until tomorrow evening. We shall see

[rick.spi]

im glad i came back on and seen this now, its looking better and better evry time i look. fab skills still dont cease to amaze me mate.

joined the 130mph smiths club i see haha

at this rate youll be showing me yours before im coming up and showing mine with the progress being made

best of luck with the rest of it.

[sonikk4]

im glad i came back on and seen this now, its looking better and better evry time i look. fab skills still dont cease to amaze me mate.

joined the 130mph smiths club i see haha

at this rate youll be showing me yours before im coming up and showing mine with the progress being made

best of luck with the rest of it.

Cheers mate, its not that far off from paint now but i am going over everything now to make sure its all covered. I have got to revisit the r/h door to sort out the window frame gap problem but after doing the l/h one it should be straight forward i hope.

[rick.spi]

im glad i came back on and seen this now, its looking better and better evry time i look. fab skills still dont cease to amaze me mate.

joined the 130mph smiths club i see haha

at this rate youll be showing me yours before im coming up and showing mine with the progress being made

best of luck with the rest of it.

Cheers mate, its not that far off from paint now but i am going over everything now to make sure its all covered. I have got to revisit the r/h door to sort out the window frame gap problem but after doing the l/h one it should be straight forward i hope.

good news then, picked a colour yet?... maybe l2b next year in both of ours

[sonikk4]

Scott's going for Tartan Red and a solid black roof. I'm not going to say when as the last time i said a month that got blown out of the water big time. There are so many little things to do its pointless to guess anymore so it will be ready when's its ready.

[sonikk4]

The seat belt mount repair is now sorted and has come up well plus i've put in more plug welds than the original seven and spaced them more evenly.
Repair section

Seat belt mount fitted

Cleaned up and primed


Then it was onto the rear floor replacement. The panels turned up today so first thing was to chop off the inner sill section, the front joggled section and the cut out area for the companion box.
That sorted then offered up a modified floor up to the old floor, marked out the cut line and zipped the old floor out


Hopefully will get the remaining rear lip off the rear heel board and then tack the new floor in place.

[myredmini]

coming along great, keep it up !!

Dan

[Ben10Raw]

DAY TWO

Stripping down time(for the car)

Alternator removed with radiator for clean up and paint





Interior out ,all looks good at the rear end bar some bad welds,handbrake cable snapped too



Heater matrix has been leaking so the front floor pan is corroded and needs to be replaced,centre console is a mess too,rev counter is at the bottom along with a push start,also vents aren't connected and theres some unknown cables











Boot looks ok bar some bad welds again



Radiator cover and alternator spindle sprayed now and since have been sprayed red.





Some new interior door handles i got for £20




Got a new dash off of ebay(bargin),has all the dials for £68

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...IT#ht_500wt_975


And going to order some new bits now too

And heres the superlites i am selling for £200 if anyone is interested



Also got two better chrome bumpers for £15 and a new grill for £10.Also going to pick up a half leather interior next weekend for £75

Have you sold your wheels yet? are they 13"/7" and 4x100 fitment?