1987 Road Legal Track Mini

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:14 pm

stuart wrote:Still making good progress though mate...........this is the second weekend on the bounce I have walked away from working on the GTi

Cheers Stuart!

what's up with the gti? :?

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:19 pm

Lots of little niggles. Nothing a bit of motivation and cash can't sort.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:26 pm

stuart wrote:Lots of little niggles. Nothing a bit of motivation and cash can't sort.

ah good

for a moment i thought there were some right serious issues like the engine, you'll get back into it in no time Stu

we've had plenty of moments like that with the mini.

i take it that you have a thread on it?

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:39 pm

http://www.bigpower.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4543

Nothing elaborate mate. About to get a thorough overhaul and I'll update when relevant.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:50 pm

nah there's nothing wrong with that, i think it's a lovely un molestered example

and the mods are very tasteful 8)

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:16 pm

So, the wheel bearings have been changed

i've put the car back together now, but forgot to take a photo :roll:

but i do have a photo here of when the hub was taken off.

and we have another development too, i'm getting a 1275 :ph43r: and going to rebuild that with some 'additional' parts :whistle: such as a stage 2 kit, weber carb, straight cut gears e.t.c.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:11 pm

today i made yet another big decision with the mini... it's going to be a permanent single seater

which might be a problem if someone wants a lift :? :roll: but sod it!

here's what's left of the two old wheel bearings;

as you can see, they've pretty much had it.

mmmm, look at those wheels

and that lovely oil leak :x

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:25 pm

well on saturday i was greeted by another loud banging/scraping noise :?

so, i jack the car up again and take the wheel off. and i notice that there was a gap between the castelated nut and the hub plus the fact that my split pin had sheared made me first think that i didn't torque it up enough

but, upon close inspection the nut had acutally stripped itself on the stub shaft where it's been on and off and smacked about. so i've had to order another nut, i just hope that the stub shaft's okay since that looked a bit chewed, might have to run a die over it to make sure :roll: but for now, i put it all back together;

oh and i recieved another email from demon-tweeks with regards to my OMP TRS+ seat, it's being delayed 'till the 21st from it's original date of the 16th :roll:

but it's not all doom and gloom

*really?*

yes really, i had a new quote today for the car

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:09 pm

Today we managed to get the driveshaft hub done up and brakes blead, so it now stops on a sixpence

however, dad had a trial run after i did (to have a go of the brakes) he then came round the top of our road very very slowly and i saw something bouncing about underneath :? and when he got closer i saw that the two rear exhaust brackets had sheared off :? but not at the rubber mounts, oh no, it was the metal plates

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:00 pm

So today i replaced the exhaust brackets for the new 'unsnapped' ones :roll:

how the hell did that happen?

solid mounted engine, solid mounted exhaust, yet it sheared? :?

that's better

Bigpower

1987 Road Legal Track Mini

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