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[Ol timer]

That's interesting, a Morris badge and Austin Cooper grille! Nice colour by the way... looks like 'Maroon B'...?

it's certainly is a bitza. Unsure of colour it's sorta imbetween colours. It's not maroon B. . Had it tested and paint shop said it looks like a jaguar colour.

[surfblue]

Checked it over for its MOT tomorrow. Hardly done any miles in the last year with various head gasket issues. Ready to roll at 7 in the morning!

[Pops_Guild]

Got carried away refurbishing some SPI manifolds and then ended up making more replacement sets ?

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[surfblue]

Passed mot!
Beautiful early morning drive in the sunshine on way there with virtually no traffic.?

[WMU 211G]

 

That's interesting, a Morris badge and Austin Cooper grille! Nice colour by the way... looks like 'Maroon B'...?

it's certainly is a bitza. Unsure of colour it's sorta imbetween colours. It's not maroon B. . Had it tested and paint shop said it looks like a jaguar colour.

 

 

Would love to see more photos of it, is there a thread on it anywhere...?

[Gcal]

Got the cover off and got out the autoglym radiant wax polish and gave it a good clean, now nice and shiny

[Tallguysmallcar]

To celebrate the Mini's Birthday (which also was my personal deadline to finish the major part of , took her up a very steep Alpine Pass that was part of the Rallye Of Austria in 1966 (won by Hopkirk on you already know what) max. Gradient 16%. Had to shift back to first at times, but she handled it just fine.

 

Carb needle got a bit stuck going back, easily fixed on the road...

[Readers14]

Freed up the nearside seatbelt (was jammed).
Tightened up the fan belt tension, so that the alternator actually charges the battery!
Put the battery on charge, as it was reading 12.2v across the terminals. Suspect I’ll need a new battery at some point.

[Woolfie 640]

Finally got the last of the muck out of the moke from IMM. Wee motor looking a bit better now.

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[Cooperman]

I drove to Mini Spares at Potters Bar and bought a big load of stuff for my 1990 Cooper rally car restoration.

[Readers14]

Adjusted the offside rear brake.
The adjuster was seized, so Plus Gas & brute force was my friend.
A healthy dollop of copper grease applied after everything had freed up.

[JXC Mini GT]

Took the Mini for a drive to Eastbourne and it performed very well in the heat, other than the temperature gauge being a bit erratic, need to order a new sender unit.

[Chris.Williams]

Trial fit went well
This was a dummy head, fitted and torqued my actual head today after setting cam timing
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[Readers14]

Ordered new Varta 63Ah 610A battery from Tayna.

[ClassicAsh]

fitted New starter and new battery lets hope this cure the dreaded click click click of no starting. then drove it !