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[dannyg2325]

I applaud your work and determination! Very interesting read, though my heart bleeds for you with all the hick-ups.
but im sure when its all running sweet it will be a dream to drive!
Great work

[daveeeeee]

Good luck mate! I've not had the weather/time/motivation to sort mine either. I'm cheering for you =p

[AndyMiniMad.]

Well thats the engine out again and on the bench ready to be striped down. Ill bung on a few pics of the damage when i get it apart. Ive sent the spare gearbox cases and transfer case away to get cleaned and the fancy idler gear support pins to be pressed into them. Should get them back next week so will post some pics. Other than that its just been stripping the car down ready for the new paint job.

Oh and just in case anyones interested we were 56th overall in the snowman rally and 4th in class. We are dead chuffed with that considering the car was down on power for the last stage and had no clutch for the last two stages. Well done to Steve and Susan!! home safe and didnt stick it on its roof.

Edited by AndyMiniMad., 23 February 2011 - 09:35 PM.

[AndyMiniMad.]

Well Ive stripped it down again and guess what??? Its the same fault as before.. No surprise really as I thought it sounded like the same thing. Anyway the new roller bearing drop gears will solve the problem.. Here are the pics..

Gear box



Transfer case



This is the idler gear. I think its suposed to be 22.22mm. Is this my problem?



And the other side.



Here is a picture of Haggis. He is being stripped down ready for a respray.



A few pictures of the 1380 rally clubman before the Snowman Rally.







Ill keep you updated on the rebuild and will post a few pics of the drops going in.

[AndyMiniMad.]

Hello..I stripped the engine down. The gearbox case isnt back yet so cant start the rebuild yet.

Anyway just for fun we took the mini based buggy we have been building up to the old runway at tain. This was its first proper run so we were pleased it didnt go bang!! A couple of vids of us having fun.

Click on the pics to watch the vids.

Edited by AndyMiniMad., 05 March 2011 - 07:12 AM.

[AndyMiniMad.]

I got the gearbox cases and transfer case back today. They managed to reface the gearbox cases to remove the worn areas. Apparently it was a ridge that had been pushed up by the idler gear shim so they refaced it without having to remove any metal off the rest af the case..



The other box was cleaned up and the carrier for the roller idler gear was pressed in



The newly damaged box is at the back waiting for all the gears to be moved over.



And the transfer case has been cleaned and the support bit has been fitted.



Roller idler gear on the shaft.



It spins beautifully. No more shims to worry about.

Ive stripped the wide ratio gears from the damaged case and started to rebuild it all up in the new case. I wont bother to post any pics of the box build but will post a couple of pics of the drop gears once they go on.

Edited by AndyMiniMad., 08 March 2011 - 08:52 AM.

[daveeeeee]

good stuff!

mate have you guys not rolled that buggy yet? doesn't look like a wide wheel base!

D

[AndyMiniMad.]

good stuff!

mate have you guys not rolled that buggy yet? doesn't look like a wide wheel base!

D

Yeah. it looks rubbish at the moment! we had to have new flanges made up so we could use bigger wheels at the back, the camber is all wrong. Once we get the longer bottom arms it will look much better. Iv had it at 86mph and its remarkably stable. ive also had it in a 50mph power slide. Great fun untill it spun!! not the worlds best drifter!!

[daveeeeee]

awesome i'm getting better at drifting on GT5, but I don't know about a real car =p

[AndyMiniMad.]

Edited by AndyMiniMad., 08 March 2011 - 08:54 AM.

[AndyMiniMad.]

Ive been in the garage all day building up the engine, thats the crank, pistons, drops, and flywheel all sorted, I had a hell of a job getting the RE13 OT cam timed in. It didnt seem to matter how much I adjusted the duplex timing gear I couldnt get it bang on. Eventually I checked the DTI guage and discovered a bit of dirt in the top of the inlet push rod for No1 piston, It was giving false readings. Anyway thats it all done now, Ive set it at 102 deg ATDC. I decided to use the timing chain tensioner this time even though it dosent really fit properly on the duplex chain.



So thats it all fixed. I really hope this is the last rebuild for a while. Ill let you all know if the new drop gears do the trick.

[daveeeeee]

nice!

[AndyMiniMad.]

Ive stripped the car out today. just the subframes and glass to remove now. Soon be ready for paint..

[daveeeeee]

you could probably build a mini from scratch in the time it takes me to make fried eggs on toast

[sonikk4]

Got to admire your stamina with this gearbox problem. That would seriously do my head in and probably smashed it up with a very big hammer. I do hope this time its cured as if not i have a nice selection of large hammers you could use >