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[jagman.2003]

Awesome, where did you get the chrome tanks from?

Cheers

Louis

The master cylinders are just the standard steel ones from minispares. I think they have a zinc coating. It's not perfect like chrome but a quick polish makes them look ok for the photo's.

[jagman.2003]

Rebuilt the heater this week. Stripped, cleaned, quick coat of paint, new matrix & rebuild. Hopefully it will be alot more effective than all the old mini heaters I have used in the past.

[liirge]

Rebuilt the heater this week. Stripped, cleaned, quick coat of paint, new matrix & rebuild. Hopefully it will be alot more effective than all the old mini heaters I have used in the past.

Ahh A job I've been putting off for a while! good job

[jagman.2003]

Weekend update. Wired some of the loom into the engine bay. I reduced the amount of cables running underneath the skuttle by coming through the bulkhead on the drivers side. Got the wiper motor, fuse box & solenoid plummed in. Next I put the roof aerial in & made my first attempt at the head lining. It's not going to be an easy job. There's alot of excess material. It's going to need to come out again. But If I'm patient & keep doing careful trims I should be able to get it done in the evenings this week. Might get a second pair of hands to help clip the rods in next time. Any tips welcome from readers.

[minimuk]

the famous headlining, good luck, you know what you are doing,...........

Edited by minimuk, 27 November 2011 - 08:05 PM.

[smtaylor3]

stunning you have done a brilliant job looks like its just rolled out of the factory another mini saved!

[jpw1275]

Just read from start to finish, absolutely awesome work buddy!!!!! I'm just in the middle of doing my mk3.... Just about to drop the rear subframe and refurb it

Keep up the good work

Cheers James

[joshspragg]

WOW!!! its people like you who keep mini alive! very impressed.

[TheOriginalMiniator]

just spent i dunno how long reading through that - inspirational for myself!

Ive a Mk3 '72 saloon, was once a pearl blue zeemax kitted boy racer machine - seen the light, and am trying to get it back to how it would have looked back in the day.

awesome mate, absolutely awesome. a credit to you doesn't even come close!

[jagman.2003]

Just read from start to finish, absolutely awesome work buddy!!!!! I'm just in the middle of doing my mk3.... Just about to drop the rear subframe and refurb it

Keep up the good work

Cheers James

Thanks, good luck with the subframe, I'm hoping to put mine back in the next week or so, hopefully nice & shiny..!

[jagman.2003]

just spent i dunno how long reading through that - inspirational for myself!

Ive a Mk3 '72 saloon, was once a pearl blue zeemax kitted boy racer machine - seen the light, and am trying to get it back to how it would have looked back in the day.

awesome mate, absolutely awesome. a credit to you doesn't even come close!

Thanks, good luck with the mk3.

[jagman.2003]

WOW!!! its people like you who keep mini alive! very impressed.

I was just too tight to buy another really & felt bad for ignoring this one for so long. But thanks..!

[JustSteve]

You really do deserve a medal... your work is fantastic, very impressed!

[jagman.2003]

Rear suspension build this week. I pressed in the beaings & bushes. I was going to ream the bush myself, but couldn't get a satisfactory setup on the pillar drill. So both were done by a local machine shop/mini specialist. Arms painted in eastwood chassis black. Brakes before:

Part built:

Brakes & wheel bearings built:

[jagman.2003]

You really do deserve a medal... your work is fantastic, very impressed!

Thanks. all encouragement gratefully received.