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[evemark4]

No new update !!!

What's on the list next

Looks amazing , great details

[big-jay]

No new update !!!
What's on the list next
Looks amazing , great details

Patience lad, patience .

I've put an order into Minispares today for a few bits so should have an update over the weekend my friend !

Going to get all the brake lines and clutch plumbed in and bled up next, then I'll start getting all the bits I need ready to turn the engine over.

Jay.

Edited by big-jay, 04 March 2015 - 08:12 PM.

[evemark4]

Ha ha

Excellent ,

Great job so I can only imagine the cost so far as mine wasn't cheap but haven't had respray yet so dreading the cost but just like u I have the mini I want and the way I want it

Looking forward to seeing this at the shows

[Guitardude124]

Hi Jay

Just wanted to say I've read your project and can't wait to see the next update, I have found your attention to detail really inspiring, I am doing bits and pieces to mine (where money permits) and really want to get the body up to a good standard then respray, I can see from your project that this is going to be a huge project and will take a long time, but looking at your car I am convinced it will be so worth it.
Keep up the good work, hopefully see your car at London to Brighton!
Max

[big-jay]

Hi Jay
Just wanted to say I've read your project and can't wait to see the next update, I have found your attention to detail really inspiring, I am doing bits and pieces to mine (where money permits) and really want to get the body up to a good standard then respray, I can see from your project that this is going to be a huge project and will take a long time, but looking at your car I am convinced it will be so worth it.
Keep up the good work, hopefully see your car at London to Brighton!
Max

Cheers Max,

I'm glad you enjoyed the read, it's all worth it in the end mate (that's what I keep telling myself anyway) !

On a side note, having problems with my iPad and photo-bucket at the moment, hence the reason for no updates. Will get it sorted over the weekend when I get some spare time !

Edited by big-jay, 13 March 2015 - 02:56 AM.

[big-jay]

Update,

A tad overdue !

Unfortunately, my iPad committed suicide and my phone decided to take a shower with me, so I've had no access to my pictures. (You can probably imagine how the rest of my day went ). Anyway, my phones now dried out (thankfully) and Ive bought a new iPad which means I can now update my build thread.

Ok, the brakes and clutch are now bled and fully working, and shes finally running and moving under her own steam in almost a year and a half !

I'll start with the purchased items as usual, brake fluid and a few other things -



Lumenition Leads -



Eezibleed kit, best money I've ever spent, brilliant bit of kit ! -



All the bits needed to crank the engine over -



I bought the 075 Peugeot turbo diesel battery as recommended on here. An absolute beast of a battery and more juice than the Mini will ever need -



And a quick close up of the Lumenition Coil -



Finally, took me a while to find this small rubber boot that fits onto the brake pedal shaft but Somerford Minis came up trumps. Quite expensive for what it is -



Now onto the progress, got that rubber boot fitted -



Next job was to bleed the clutch, what a nightmare ! I couldn't get it to bleed for the life of me, no matter how many times I tried I had no pressure when I pushed down on the clutch. I ended up taking off and stripping down the master cylinder and upon closer inspection of it I found a small score in the piston barrel which meant the fluid was just pushing past the seals. Damn !

So I borrowed the master cylinder of my dads mini and low and behold, the clutch bled up and worked perfectly. Here's a couple of pictures of the bleeding process using the Eezibleed kit -







Luckily one of the members on here who's only five minutes away from me had a brand new plastic body master cylinder in the for sale section on here so I popped down and had that of him. Was quite lucky with that and I saved myself some money which is always a good thing !

Anyway, here it is -



And then fitted to the car with a braided one piece hose -



Next job was to bleed the brakes, I cleaned and re-used my old brakes lines as they're in excellent condition. Here they are fitted into the compensator valve, I used a stainless bolt to secure it to the bulkhead -



Then it was just a case of bleeding the system using the Eezibleed kit, starting with the furthest bleed valve away from the master cylinder, which is the passenger rear wheel, and then working your way around the car.

That was Saturday's progress, now onto Sunday's. I stripped most of the ancillaries from my 998 engine, starter motor, coil, distributor, alternator and used these to start my 1275. I would have fitted the new alternatives but I'm planning to use electronic ignition but haven't had chance to wire that up yet and didn't want to create any new problems, so I used the points and condenser distributor as I know that works fine. Minispares also gave me an MPI alternator by mistake so obviously I couldn't use that.

Here's a picture of it all bolted on -



And here's a link to a video of it running, sounds beautiful and the exhaust note is excellent -

http://i854.photobuc...zpsvuaswzq1.mp4

Apart from a few small issues getting the timing right, it all went quite well.

Anyway, that's all the progress for now. I'm waiting for a few Smiffys bits to arrive and I'm going to swap the alternator over during the week as well as refurb the starter motor and what not.

More updates then

Edited by big-jay, 16 March 2015 - 09:44 PM.

[alex-95]

Great work mate, bet it feels good to have it running again.

[big-jay]

Great work mate, bet it feels good to have it running again.

Feels great mate, been a long, long wait for that moment !

[Ben_O]

Really pleased for you mate.

 

That engine sounds perfect!

 

So close now

[Jared Mk3]

Lovely  Sounds really nice too! 

[big-jay]

Really pleased for you mate.
 
That engine sounds perfect!
 
So close now

Thanks Ben

[big-jay]

Lovely  Sounds really nice too!

Cheers Jared

Edited by big-jay, 17 March 2015 - 11:27 AM.

[evansisgreat]

Its all downhill from here. I'm very jealous, well done!

[big-jay]

Its all downhill from here. I'm very jealous, well done!

, What could possibly go wrong !

Cheers bud

[evemark4]

Great exhaust note !