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[minimuk]

nice colour sheme the engine bay, fire him up soon........engine mounts always take time specially when they are new, not 'settled' in yet hence not lining up immediately......all part of the fun...by the way the mini could do with a good run, it will do you good too, at first I did not feel at ease to drive more then 30 miles away from base, but after MITP 2012, I went on my Euro trip 6 days and 1700 miles, piece of cake, and a croissant in Paris, Bratwurst in Germany and cheese in A'dam. Now going to IMM in Florence in May to get some pasta.....MUK loves it and I feel great, a bit like ... 'when machine and man become one''.....MITP is the LOURDES for a mini

Edited by minimuk, 10 February 2013 - 04:47 AM.

[racingenglishcars]

Yeeeaaaa!!! Engine in. 2 years 3 months... uhh that's faster than mine.

by the way, I think there's an extensive thread recently about that motor mount, complete with a couple suggestions that are supposed to work.

[grahama]

Bloody hell Hugh, sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow down !!

Looking great, when's the test fire??


Graham

[minimikej]

Awesome! Nearly there Hugh!

[jagman.2003]

Looking good Hugh, test drive in no time.

[Croker]

Just spent over an hour reading your journal. Epic stuff. Well done!

[hughJ]

Andrew, Tom, Kylie Anne, minimuk, Don, Graham, minimikej, jagman.2003 and Croker thanks for the comment.

I shouldn't really put this up - very boring.

Drive shafts in





Was going to fit exhaust but my sealing paste had set solid in the tube! Fitted the gear linkage and then had to take it back out as it needs a gearbox rod gaitor - sent off for it.

Than started to strip the alternator and couldn't budge one of the brushes cover bolts. These things wind you up. So went onto something silly.





So many little things to do.

Easing along, Hugh

[tractor]

Hey Hugh I've been following for a while

Can I ask a question do the drive shafts just pop in place? Is there anything that holds them there or just the hub assembly is enough to hold the inner part in place?

The only reason. Ask is because I was planning on putting mine back in over the weekend

Trac

[hughJ]

Hi Trac

Thanks for your interest. As for the driveshafts

It depends how you removed the driveshafts. If you removed the pot joints - the wide round bits with the gaiters over them - in my photo - you would have had to drive them out by getting the edge of a chisel or a big screwdriver between them and the gearbox housing. They need a bit of a push and a wiggle to get over the splines - there is a circlip at the end of the splines that locks the pot joint in place. If you removed the gaiter and slid out the spider from the pot joint then it will slide in again easily. Nothing holds it in place. It has to have some back and fore movement as your suspension bounces up and down. I removed both. It makes it easy to put the engine back in with the drive shafts in place and not jacked up if the pot joints are off the shafts. But it does give you hours of fun lying on your back trying to get the pot joints in, then the spiders , and then get the gaiters on and the fastener in place!! Hope that helps.

Hugh

[minimuk]

Just don't try and hit the gearbox.......and use wood between chisel and gearbox... and be patient

[tractor]

Hey Hugh I had a look tonight and for reasons better known to the god of luck I must have left the "pot joints" in place so I guess I just need to wiggle the "spiders" in place and then fit the gaiter over the top,

i thought it was just another case of it'll be strong enough for the mini, but you make a lot of sense when you say there needs to be a bit of travel to make up for the suspension movement


Good luck with the rest of your build Hugh your nearly there, all the hard works done now


Trac

Edited by tractor, 16 February 2013 - 01:27 AM.

[hughJ]

Hey Trac that's great. The job's a breeze, then. minimuk you are getting to know me - Mr Impatient!

I'm just plastering away with little things

Connected fuel pump to fuel line



Fitted gear linkages and sealed exhaust to manifold - impossible to show





Cleaning up the clutch slave cylinder - I did this before 8 years ago! You'd hardly know









I was going to strip the alternator but can't budge one of the brush cover bolts. So tighten up what I took off and start to give it a clean up. It works anyway.







And etch the coil



Look at the ballast resistor - will clean up next week



And you wonder what's the point. The callipers were painted just about a year ago. Well rusty. You guys that really restore I wish you the best



Creeping along, Hugh

[grahama]

Plodding along nicely Hugh.

As for rust, looked under my covers yesterday, ooooo !!! Surface rust coming through the primer nicely, lot of work to do before paint, damn this wet country !!

[Minidarren83]

Hi Hugh looking great moving along nicely. That resister is the dim dip resister I believe I could be wrong though

Keep it up Darren

[tractor]

Hey Hugh I used hammerite smooth on my calipers, a thick coat of that should keep the rust at bay for a while


Trac