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I'm currently doing this very job and I've experienced a bit of project creep :roll: It's pretty easy to drill out the spot weld in the backing panel to see what's behind, hopefully it will be better than what I found :-? https://i.imgur.com/0M6AHGY.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xez9VI6.jpg My car has be ...

Dash pot oil low maybe

AC Dodd is well respected in Mini circles with many happy customers. I think he's located in Cumbria.

Just to clarify, as I forgot to say - this is a Lucas 25D distributor, with a new cap from Distributor Doctor, new leads and spark plugs from Accuspark and a new Accuspark Stealth ignition module. I found I needed to turn the dizzy a lot (anti-clockwise) when I fitted the Stealth system, in fact I ...

Ah sorry I thought they might be the wrong way round but just check mine.

I was a great advocate of Osmo oil it seemed to work well at first but unfortunately the wood on my traveller suffered badly one winter when under a Stormforce cover for a couple of weeks. Maybe the rot was already there deep inside and the cover, certainly didn't help, but once I've replaced the wo...

Try swapping the towers side for side.

Would that mean you could start the engine with flashers running and ignition off?

I fitted these to my Commer campers, so far no problem but only used them to test. I've heard that you can blow the unit if you leave the indicators on at the same time but I tried it with no undue effects, wouldn't make a habit of it though. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HAZARD-WARNING-LIGHT-12-VOLT-1...

How about this lovely spring hanger repair, nicely finished off with a squish of filler





Plenty more where that came from

I usually use an old main bearing shell to lock the flywheel. With the starter motor removed the shell will sit nicely between two teeth on the ring gear and lock against the back plate.

Back to welding Ted the traveller. Rear wheel arch repair today.

The horn push assemblies are different so you'll need one of them too. Other than that it's a straight swap.

Usually called cat's eyes, an after market add on and used on many rods and customs.

Brilliant. I loved how you were reeling the Lambo in
Engine sounded sweet too

I just seemed to have repeated what philthehill said, note to self - must read post properly

This what I did and used a cut down bottom hose as the top hose was no longer suitable.

An unfortunate consequence of fitting a damper is that you loose the timing mark notch on the pulley as it's in a different place on the Mini version. So line up the timing marks with the original pulley, fit the damper, and transfer the mark onto it. A shallow hacksaw cut or chisel mark should be e...

Just to throw another (controversial) idea out there I found I needed around .020" to get the valve to block clearance measured without a head gasket. Looking at the exhaust valves I noticed the faces of the valves had loads of meat on them (for heat dispersal I believe.) so I actually reduced the t...

A Mini airbox with a K&N element flows well and is nice and quiet. You will need the carb inlet elbow as well to fit the Mini filter box. I would agree the AAM would be a good starting point. I have an AAA fitted to my traveller which has a 12G940 head, HS4 with a Minispares alloy inlet manifold and...