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[minbin 69]

Great project ! wouldn't mind a van someday

Thanks Rocket..this one will be for sale a little while after it's done

[Rocket.]

 

Great project ! wouldn't mind a van someday

Thanks Rocket..this one will be for sale a little while after it's done

 

I've got a while to save up then

[minbin 69]

 

 

Great project ! wouldn't mind a van someday

Thanks Rocket..this one will be for sale a little while after it's done

 

I've got a while to save up then

 

CHEEKY!!! it'll be finished..some day

[Rocket.]

 

 

Great project ! wouldn't mind a van someday

Thanks Rocket..this one will be for sale a little while after it's done
 

I've got a while to save up then
 

CHEEKY!!! it'll be finished..some day

It's all good fun ! Got to have something to keep you busy

[minbin 69]

Exactly..keeps me out of trouble lol

[SAL 821X]

Looking good mate, at least your further one than I am....!!! 

 

It'll be a travesty if I make it to IMM and you don't that's for sure. 

[minbin 69]

Looking good mate, at least your further one than I am....!!! 

 

It'll be a travesty if I make it to IMM and you don't that's for sure. 

it does when your in Leicester..it's when your right next to it it don't

 

think we both need to get busy and make sure we're done in time..gonna see how far i've got in another 2 months before i start working on plan B

[SAL 821X]

I'm aiming to have the floor painted by the May bank hols as I've got a 4 day weekend to get it on the floor.

 

Then worry about getting the body painted somehow over the next 2 and a half months.

[minbin 69]

Time for a bit of an update being as theres actually some progress you can see..i have been working on getting the paint right but theres no point posting

 

pics of the same door being painted over and over again..anyhow finally gettting the paint to look a bit more like it..

 

hopefully gonna get the van back on it wheels by the weekend and get on the outside painted..

 

 

new ball joints fitted..

 

 

being as i'm doing it on my own i went for fitting the subframe and then building it on the car..an hour or so and a whole lot of swearing later i'd managed to get all 8 bolts in   all was well in my little world right up till the last 2 bolts on the radius arm brackets..had to be the 2 that are inside the subframe that broke off so off came the subframe couldn't get anything in the hole to hold them so plan b came into force...angle grinder

 

 

just big enough to weld the nuts back on..

 

 

no one will ever know

 

got it on again and the brake and fuel pipes are on(only on plastic clips) though i'm still waiting for my metal p clips to turn up..

 

 

now if i can just find the box with the castle nuts in i can finish off the back end tomorrow...

[java gt]

Not a nice one to find after you put the subframe on,I always fit mine fully built up with the Mini on axle stands.I use a piece of 3x2 timber underneath the subframe and balance it on a trolley jack and wheel it under the Mini.Once it is up near the Mini it is easy enough to get into position.Having said that it took 2 hours to get the bolts into my Clubman Estate last month.

[minbin 69]

Not a nice one to find after you put the subframe on,I always fit mine fully built up with the Mini on axle stands.I use a piece of 3x2 timber underneath the subframe and balance it on a trolley jack and wheel it under the Mini.Once it is up near the Mini it is easy enough to get into position.Having said that it took 2 hours to get the bolts into my Clubman Estate last month.

have to say really not sure why i didn't do it that way

[Covert]

Nice project matey, just read through it all, bad luck with the paint, hopefully you have it all sorted now, keep up the good work.
Looking forward to more pictures....

[java gt]

I only do it that way as I have no help,at least you are getting the paint the way you want.

[minbin 69]

well despite having to work most of the weekend and the crap weather today i've managed to get her back on her wheels well 3 of them

 

all was going well this morning with getting the outside of the paint done was just waiting for it to dry ready for a rub down before the clear went on when

 

some idiot manged to lean against the pilliar oh yes that idiot was me so 3 sides are painted..3 sides..3 wheels..hmmm

 

 

 

 

[Rocket.]

Colour looks great !