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[mighty mini jack]

Nice work there mate, look forward to the next update.

Also look forward to my own update, it's been so long!

[Deathrow]

Bit more work done this evening:


Dirty second hand superfin I sourced a while back.


Cleaned up a bit, they'll be painted eventually anyway.


Radius arm now clean and etched.


Painted up with rustoleoum.

Then guess what I did, yeah, I spilt rustoleoum on the cream carpet in my Uni bedroom, seeing my £250 deposit evaporate in front of me, I grabbed a can of choke and carb cleaner and fired away, oddly enough, you can't even tell I ever spilt anything there now! Go me!

[carboy001]

Cracking work mate, all progress. Good save on the carpet also, £250 is 2 minispares orders!

I reckon you should leave the superfins though and not paint them, look perfect just as they are

[Deathrow]

Cracking work mate, all progress. Good save on the carpet also, £250 is 2 minispares orders!

I reckon you should leave the superfins though and not paint them, look perfect just as they are

Hehe, or one moderate order!

We'll see, they're not getting painted yet anyway as it's something that isn't hard to take off and do later.

[Deathrow]

Well my Mini Spares order has arrived:



New copper brake pipes for the whole system.
New copper pipe for the clutch.
New brake cylinder (I already had one new one at home).
Both boot floor to wheel arch reinforcing brackets.
New valance closing panels.

[project mini chris]

Elliot is coming along nicely, keepup the good work

[tedmcedd]

nice to see some updates!

i remember refurbing in my uni room, lol! had a steering rack in there at one point! hahaa!

keep it up chap! ill be joining you soon!

[Deathrow]

nice to see some updates!

i remember refurbing in my uni room, lol! had a steering rack in there at one point! hahaa!

keep it up chap! ill be joining you soon!

I've a month off Uni now so I'm hoping I can translate that in to an almost road worthy Elliot .

Can't wait to see the Bean being brought back .

[tedmcedd]

nice to see some updates!

i remember refurbing in my uni room, lol! had a steering rack in there at one point! hahaa!

keep it up chap! ill be joining you soon!

I've a month off Uni now so I'm hoping I can translate that in to an almost road worthy Elliot .

Can't wait to see the Bean being brought back .

ooo! exciting!! bet you cant wait to get her on the road!

i can't wait to start on the bean again!!

[Deathrow]

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to getting behind the wheel of her again . Lets hope I do everything right and nothing drops off!

Well here is a small update. I got up too late in the day to be going to the garage but I decided I wanted to make some head way on the Mini anyway so I set about starting on some bits I can do at home.


Driver side radius arm outside all dirty.


Back inside after having a quick scrub and a going over with the pressure washer.


One to start and one part way through.


Gear selector will be getting similar treatment to the radius arms, stripped to component parts, cleaned, painted, greased and reassembled. Maybe even polish it a little hehe.

I'll probably update again later this evening if I start to strip that arm down, which I believe I probably will, although I already know that the screw holding the drum on is seized, grrr.

Thanks for looking .

[minimaff]

keep it up,

[Saxo-Fiesta-Mini]

nice towel hahahaha so u finally taken some mini bits to uni then

[Deathrow]

keep it up,

I will certainly do my best .

I'm going to put my scruffs on and do some work now I think.

nice towel hahahaha so u finally taken some mini bits to uni then

Haha, I like it .

Nah that's my room at home . I have had stuff in my Uni room though hehe.

[JordanRaisbeck]

i just read from agessss back! this is amazing work! love everything you have done! im sure that guy with the holes in his valance was for the exhaust? not sure tho! good luck with completing this car man!

[danny2009]

great work mate. been following from the start keep it up, looking great