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[Midas Mk1]

Stripped the carb, manifolds, radiator and all other anciallaries from the engine bay, ready for taking the engine out tomorrow

[nibzy]

Put the battery on to charge at 8 this morning, topped up the oil and coolant, tanked it with fuel, loaded up the chocolate cake and went off for a drive in the Yorkshire Dales for sunday Lunch at the Tan Hill. Even managed good weather, if a little on the chilly side. Good times

[mk1 mini 1963]

Stripped all the interior,windows, locks, lights ,bumpers, lots of bits of the engine. Ready to go to the garage for his restoration in a few months.

[Pigeonto]

Fitted Minispares 770 ally inlet manifold. Took out the complete 3 pod instrument panel which was vibrating and driving me insane (er). Tightened all the mounting screws and that helped NOT.Took it all out again and made a bracket to support the metal frame work down to the steering column mounting bracket.RESULT.Rolls Royce would be proud

[mars red mike]

Fixed the squealing heater motor (thank god for that!), flushed the matrix out, replaced the crumbling foam pieces, re-routed some wiring to behind the heater and finally replaced the blown bulb in the cigar lighter socket.

[benb12]

Blew the cobwebs off it...

[RayBoogs]

I pop riveted my arches on, washed and polished her, and fixed my squeaky fan belt! yay!

Edited by RayBoogs, 24 October 2010 - 04:55 PM.

[POWER5LAVE]

fitted my subs back in to my rear bench then decided to change my discs. took the wheel off couldn't be bothered and then snapped a stud when putting the wheel back on DOH so had to change the disc and flange anyway.

Edited by POWER5LAVE, 24 October 2010 - 05:54 PM.

[james962]

over the weekend, sorted out the passenger side inner sill, welded it up, welded a genuine outer sill on, took both door skins off and trial fitted the new aluminium skins

And finally made a big "to buy" shopping list

[afoggo]

over the weekend, i wired up the amp and 6x9's finally have some music

also, sorted a squeaky fan belt and a blowly exhaust

all in all a not bad weekend and didnt want to shout and swear ( kind of )

[Midas Mk1]

Got the garage sorted to begin the engine swap tomorrow!!

[wolfie]

did a dummy build of the new plenum

[olds_kool_lews]

stuck it on ebay lol

[maggies_minder]

tried to put a sticker on the boot and failed.

[Dolly 89]

started to clear the garage out so i can take the subframes off and start some body work but got board and just left it till tomorrow lol