Caesar the 1275 E - Diary of minor changes

[Vinay-RS]

I realised that I didn't update this thread for quite a while. This year I decided to give the Mini a break and not drive it to campus everyday. We also weren't great at organising any Mini meets/runs in the early part of the year. We did have a short run to a friend's estate for a Mini meet in late February. It was a lovely summer day and it was a relaxing drive out to his homestead.







Soon after that, lockdown arrived and the car pretty much sat for 3 months. I did remove the battery and left it plugged into a trickle charger in the house. I figured I'd use the time to do some jobs that I wanted to tackle. First up was the wheel refurbishing. I had seen that original D1s had a machined finish on the lips and webs, rather than the shiny diamond cut finish on the repros. So, I decided to try and replicate this. I worked on two wheels at a time. First the front two and then the rears. Bought a set of Dunlop R7s too, since the old tyres were really old and needed to be retired. Got some new centre caps for the two ones that were damaged too.





And with the new tyres.




During the lockdown, I also did a quick service. The Mini was running quite badly and I figured it was old fuel or perhaps blocked/unbalanced carbs. Drove it for a bit and couldn't pinpoint the source of the problem. Turned out to be a dead plug. Swapped it out and then rebalanced the carbs and the Mini was running well again.

Swapped out the bushes on one of the lower engine steadies with poly ones and then we bled the clutch this weekend. A couple of pics of my friend's Cooper and Cooper S because they are cool


Still to do, need to replace one engine steady bolt and the bush and then need to sort out a damaged bracket on the top steady firewall that needs replacing.

But the Mini is running well again and I am happy