Hi Miniac
This is the car.
Or well it looked like this after most of the rebuild had been completed.
The nice condition of one of the pistons during the strip down.
What happens when keep driving a mini without worrying about crank end float and setting clutch return stop correctly.
The poor crank.
Just to clarify the difference between 1098 piston and 1275 piston and their wrist pin vs height.
The beautifully worn rod-eye, that was replaced with a new one.
No wonder the brakes did not work, all the slave cylinders was rusted virtually solid, and the latest method to run mini brakes correctly is to fill AFT into the brake master cylinder and hope for the best, NOT.
The layshaft during the gearbox teardown.
Yes it was replaced with the bearings etc.
22G1040 Close ratio gearset. Nice
Dropping the white painted front-subframe. It was resprayed and rebuilt with new rubber cones, lower control arm bushes and tie bar bushes and top it all off a brand new steering rack was fitted just for kicks.
Old steering rack VS the new one.
Two flat front rubber cones and their rusted aluminium cones, new rubber cones was fitted with a set of adjustable hi-los.
All fixed up and back in the body.
This is the car.
Or well it looked like this after most of the rebuild had been completed.
The nice condition of one of the pistons during the strip down.
What happens when keep driving a mini without worrying about crank end float and setting clutch return stop correctly.
The poor crank.
Just to clarify the difference between 1098 piston and 1275 piston and their wrist pin vs height.
The beautifully worn rod-eye, that was replaced with a new one.
No wonder the brakes did not work, all the slave cylinders was rusted virtually solid, and the latest method to run mini brakes correctly is to fill AFT into the brake master cylinder and hope for the best, NOT.
The layshaft during the gearbox teardown.
Yes it was replaced with the bearings etc.
22G1040 Close ratio gearset. Nice
Dropping the white painted front-subframe. It was resprayed and rebuilt with new rubber cones, lower control arm bushes and tie bar bushes and top it all off a brand new steering rack was fitted just for kicks.
Old steering rack VS the new one.
Two flat front rubber cones and their rusted aluminium cones, new rubber cones was fitted with a set of adjustable hi-los.
All fixed up and back in the body.
Own some minis, break them, fix them, improve them, test them to the limit....
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