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| Simon Robinson |
| Posted on: April 11th, 2015, 13:08:25 |
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: April 11th, 2015, 13:17:55 |
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Thanks Simon - I might try and get the dash out tonight if the kids insist on watching Britain's Got Talent 
Just been out to turn the car around in the garage. Here's the main neg return prep'd to be fixed into position eventually:
With the car as far back in the garage as possible I've got about 4' between the front of the car and my workbench - this will be my engine build space:
The green box of bits will be gone and the table will be under the shell when I lift it over the engine. I'm looking to push the car as far forward as possible, chock the subframe, lift and reverse the shell back to the position it's at now.
With a bit of cleaning of the workbench I should be okay building an engine in this space this autumn, you think?
And a couple of photo's of the car in the sunshine:
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| Cedric_Malitte |
| Posted on: April 11th, 2015, 15:22:33 |
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Nice !
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: April 12th, 2015, 15:21:43 |
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So I took the dash out last night:
Hopefully this is the problem (indicator tell tale not working):
While lying under the dashboard I took the opportunity to take the glove box out. This is so I can line it with fabric. I did this on the mini after getting sick off listening to thing rattle about. Unfortunately I don't have enough material to complete it, but I'll get some this week and that can be next weeks job (and it'll be cheaper than getting the PCB! That'll have to wait until next month I think):
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| Simon Robinson |
| Posted on: April 12th, 2015, 19:02:22 |
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| mike brown |
| Posted on: April 12th, 2015, 19:59:08 |
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I have successfully soldered one of these. Iirc I scrapped off the coating carefully then soldered it up and covered with plastidip or tape.
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: April 26th, 2015, 16:10:40 |
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I got in contact with South Lakeland Minis - they weren't able to provide me with the PCB, but did direct me to somewhere that could. apparently I got the last PCB still listed on the 'Rover' parts database:
So if you see any of these it may be worth buying and putting on the shelf (Minispares don't have any left - I didn't try Somerfords). I've get the old one in case a future soldering repair is ever required.
Fitting it to the clocks was a bit of a faf, resulting in me having to take the clocks apart (the screws holding the PCB in place also holds the gauges in place - remove the screws and the gauges are free to move in the housing):
At least I was able to wipe away some of the dust that had accumulated.
I've also lined the glovebox. I've done this on my mini many years ago after getting sick of things rattling around on the hard plastic. Unfortunately I didn't have enough material left over to do another one. I really didn't think it would be so hard to find a supplier of this foam backed type material, but it was! I could only get a light grey material also, the minis material being black (and thicker).
When I took the glovebox off the car I found that it was damaged (the detent screws into the glovebox - on this one the holes had been damaged and the detent glued on. Taking it off would've broken the flimsy plastic):
I started by making a brown paper template of the rear of the glovebox which I then cut out of thicker card:
I then cut the material to suit, giving enough of an overlap to wrap around the edges:
Next was to try and make a template for the bottom/top/sides of the glovebox. This was made all the more difficult by the detent. On the mini, after removing the detent it was reasonably straight forward to make a paper template and then cut out the material, the join was also position top dead centre and then hidden by the detent being screwed back into position. On this I had to try and cut out around the detent (pig of a job!).
Anyway, after much trial fitting and cursing here's the finished result:
Not quite as neat as the minis (damned detent), although I think the black material hides the imperfections better also. You can see the spray glue has gone through the thinner material top left. The upper left and right corners which look as if they've been missed in the photo but are covered, the curved surface of the box has caused the material to ruck and cast shadows.
I'm not totally happy with the outcome - the mini's is better and the thicker material has a more 'luxury' feel, but it'll have to do until I can get my hands on a better glove box (so I can hide the join line) but at least things shouldn't jiggle around, and re-doing this is so far down the list of things to do!
I'll look to get the dash and box back in the car over this next week - I may be able to get the front subframe/engine out of the car this next bank holiday. I just need to save up for the engine bits now. |
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: May 4th, 2015, 16:15:43 |
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Well, the dash is back in, all lights now working.
And the glove box is installed:
I'm definitely not too happy with this. The quality of the foam isn't a patch on the stuff used in the mini but as mentioned before - I now know how relatively easy it is to remove the glove box so if I can get my hands on another good one I'll have another go.
This is the one in the mini:
Much better!
I've also disconnected the electrics in the engine bay, undone the steering arms, subframe mounts and tower bolts.
All I need now is some additional muscle and I can get the shell off of the engine and start attacking that |
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: May 9th, 2015, 14:55:43 |
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Muscle arrived, shell lifted:
Need to get the engine out of the subframe next, but full of cold so won't be today!
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: July 4th, 2015, 10:49:44 |
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Engine separated from subframe and loaded onto my home made dolly to ease movement:
Need to find a suitable stool/table on which to build the engine (the engine stand only works up to a point with the MPi block, learnt when I rebuilt the mini's engine):
And I've started gathering the bits I need. Clutch kit, thrust bearings, centre main strap (not sure this is needed for the spec I'll be building, but if I get the opportunity in the future to increase the rev limit with an aftermarket ecu it might prove useful), silicon rocker gasket (thought I'd give this a go):
Also noticed this cable - it's been put through one of the holes used by the engine steady (a lovely DSN item I've bought a while ago). There's no problem in unplugging and moving this - I'm looking to use the 'other' hole located right in the photo, but as I haven't drilled any of these holes, before I do use this, any ideas what this additional hole could be for? Don't want to use it and then discover I need to move it again!
Moving forward again... slowly! |
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| Allan Brown |
| Posted on: July 11th, 2015, 07:16:24 |
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| Are those hole for the master cylinders if you wanted to make the car left hand drive? Therefore you wont need them. |
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| mike brown |
| Posted on: July 12th, 2015, 16:57:48 |
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Unless he has an ultimate engine steady as that's where it bolts on.
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: July 19th, 2015, 15:03:38 |
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More bits arrived:
Only pistons to go, then engine strip down and rebuild. |
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: July 19th, 2015, 15:13:25 |
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Engine steady of choice Mike:
Part of the DSN range.
Also got a DSN 'standard' engine steady:
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| Graham Bichard |
| Posted on: July 25th, 2015, 16:31:07 |
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Attacked the engine last night and today. I get the impression that this engine might have had a bit of a harder life than my minis, based on the burnt oil smell of the old oil.
The main bearings are all this darker grey colour:
The con-rod bearings all looked good though and the crank journals all looked okay too:
Followers had some pitting (but will be replaced anyway of course) as did the camshaft.
Pistons will be replaced by 72.5mm items (giving 1342cc) which are lighter than the 'normal' +60 thou items I was going to use:
Lets hope I can get all of this back together:
Moving forward again at last |
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