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[Tomf]

Yea i know what your saying about the wheels, but as i have said they are being changed to 10" wellers today so they will fill the arches alot beter, also iv got to fit my rear hi-lows, the front is adjusted havent fitted the rears yet. if i get a chance ill fit my rear hi-lows and adjustable shocks today whilst im changing the wheels

[miniallsort]

great tom i bet your well chuffed mate got wait to c it in the flesh!!

[B-shaw]

Looks sooooo class all put together!
Very jealous lol

[Boab]

Mutts nuts Tom. Those arches look mint Agree with miniboo about the exhaust though, but it could be because it is sitting high at the back. IMHO a single centre pipe might do the trick. Could do you a swap

[miniboo]

ahhh didnt realise it was going onto 10's. that will look better

[Dog]

Blooming 'ell!!

Not looked at this project for a while, and I must say, what a change! - but a good change

Does look good, looks like Ade's boogie, back need tweaking What 10's you getting? keeping the exhaust?

[Tomf]

Change of plan i went to put the 10"'s on but they wouldnt fit under the arches so iv stuck some 12" minilights on for the minute, iv put a small spacer on the front to make the front wheels fill the arches better, i know these might not be a good idea, but its just untill i sort some new wheels. the rear wheels are still not spaced yet, so they dont fill the arches, but ill try and see what happens, im kind of in a major rush to get it ready, so thats how it is atm...

Soz it thats a bit confusing.

Ill get some pics up later.

Oh yea and to let you know the problem i had yesterday, was i didnt do my front wheel nuts up properly, and i heard a thudding noise, go out and checked and found that one of the nuts had come off, one bolt had sheered off and the other two bolts were just finger tight, so that was very very stupid of me, so i went over the whole car today and checked everything to make sure its all safe

[Dom]

Here's a summary of the last few days.

Friday evening. Drove over to Tom's to jump start the Mini. Started first time. We drove over to the chap who Tom helped respray the car. He was impressed.





We then drove through the surrounding country roads and pulled over as Tom heard a knocking noise. Two of the wheel nuts had sheered off! IWe didn't have any spare nuts or tools so rang AA who came out within half hour. He found that all the nuts were finger tight. He tightened them up and put one of the nuts from the other front wheel on the missing wheel and we crawled back to Tom's.









Arrived back safely.



Saturday

Plan was to fit the wheels, wash the Minis and then go out and take some nice pics... didn't quite go to plan.

Got to Tom's about 11 ish with my Jack. We raised the Mini and took off the front wheels....













Couldn't get the 10s to fit so went for the 12s





They were wide enough. Fitted the fronts.





Fitted the rears

[Dom]

Tom made sure he had all the tools he needed...



Went for a ride to see Tom's new house.



Then headed to halfords to buy a couple of items but they were closed. Tom thought the nuts were loose so we jacked it up again.





Drove over to my house as Tom's window mechanism had broken. Tried to fix that but the glass had become wedged and it was dark so was pretty hopeless.

And to finish positively here are some interesting pics...

[Tomf]

Thanks for the pics Dom

everything is sorted now, the window is back in place, i went and brought another jakc as the valves had gone on mine, and iv not got the 10"s on just been out for a drive and everything is going great

Ill get some pics up in a min, iv still got to fit the rear hi-lows, but everything is a bit hectic atm as im moving house...

[miniboo]

looking great.

and yowza that house!!!! sorry i mean mansion lol

[Tomf]

lol yea it is a bit of a big house isnt it but the one thing i need it doesnt have yet is a garage

Heres a pic of mine and Doms minis from out one of the windows.



Continuing on from what dom was saying, we also fitted up the door cards and a few other bits and Dom very kindly fitted my rear view mirror and Dom helped me out with alot of other things through the day, well you got alot of nice prezies for the help

Well today i went out and brought a trolley jack as the seals on my big ruddy heavy one had gone.

Anyway, when i got back with the back i got cracking on fitting up the 10s they seemed to go on well and the handling is noticeably better





also as the wheels are wider they actually fill the arches properly now, as you can kind of see from this pic lol



A few pics with the mini outside, and OMG we finally got some sun today




Now all i have to do is work out how to wire the sunroof in lol.

[roofless]

looking great.

and yowza that house!!!! sorry i mean mansion lol

thats not a big house - its a small village !!!!!

[Dom]

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Looks quality mate. Fills the arches nicely.

Sunroof can't be too hard.

[miniallsort]

nice one mate nice house to