Caesar the 1275 E - Diary of minor changes

[Vinay-RS]

Minor update. I have been keen to try and sort out at least one of the oil leaks from the car (the one at the rod selector seal). I borrowed a set of ramps from a friend and they successfully fitted inside the Mini with the passenger seat removed.


Gave me enough height to get under the car and make a start at removing the roll pins and the collar.



I was an idiot and snapped the new reverse light switch inside the selector housing... :\ will sort this out later.

In the meantime, I really struggled to get the roll pins out. In the end, we decided to cut off the collar with an angle grinder. Extreme, I know, but I had the quick release kit thing from Minispares and got that fitted afterwards.

I had picked up the anti-leak kit from Minispares too. When we pulled out the seal from the gearbox, we noticed that it already had the metal sleeve inside. I'm not sure how to pull that out, so we greased up and fitted the new seal for now. Unfortunately, it looks like there is still a leak from the same place. I also fitted the selector bias barrel. I messed up the position of this on Sunday and thus I was really struggling to find gears on our first Mini meet/run since February. It was a good turnout and the Mini did run smoothly.


I've adjusted the position of the bias barrel now and the selector does feel a lot tighter.