Irish Mini Owners Club

antodeco wrote:The both of you are only 10 minutes from me!

Must meet up with you also lad and have a look at what you've got


Mike,
Yea no problem giving ya some advice but even I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time

Ah good stuff glad you got sorted with the tow truck I must pop down and take a look at what you got and sure if you ever need a hand with anything give me a shout, I'll pm you my number.
Andy

Hi Mike did you get a tow truck sorted? I have a guy who tows my cars for me decent price.

Im in palmerstown myself Woodfarm Acres. where abouts are you?

did it run well after the rebuild but before you went to oz? trying to eliminate issues due to standing still a while.- octane, perished rubber, nesting creatures... :shock: I'm in Blackrock and i can pop round to you if only to get you as far as Bert's Thanks for the offer Keith but the car was ju...

Cheers Bert will call you soon,

Thanks woody, I've been trying to sort this for quite some time now and I've put lots of fresh fuel in everytime.

It's very difficult to pinpoint the problem because nearly everything has been replaced.

Hi thanks for the replies, I tried disconnecting the crank case hose on the side of the carb and blocking it off but no change also tried with the vacuum advance hose on the front of the carb, I made up a crude smoke tester a while back to check for leaks and the smoke was coming from each end of th...

Hi need some help car won't start without choke and runs very rough. I refreshed the engine 3 years ago when a synchro went in the gearbox, so new oil pump, water pump got some work done on the head by Paul Hickey. New clutch and changed the primary gear rear bush. I left the car at home when I went...

Ok I don't have those head bolts but at least I know the thread size now, Thanks Dougal

I lost the 3 bolts that thread into the flywheel for the puller, did a search online to find the sizes and I can only find the center bolt size. It's a verto so I assume they are metric?? Anybody know the size and the thread type??? Thanks

No I'm still in oz living the dream my mini is still at home and still needs a lot of work I will be finishing that off when I return but I'd love to bring some of the minis here back home like this one I've seen some cracking little minis over here I just wanna bring them all home. http://i1201.pho...

Spotted this video on YouTube not sure if anyone has posted it on here already but I thought I'd share it anyway, enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUferyK ... ata_player

I've been thinking about doing that to my project aswell, I think it looks good and if put on by an expert will last a few years but the only problem with a vinyl wrap on a mini is rust if the body has not been prepared properly then a panel starts to rust the vinyl will bubble up and that area will...

Bought one a while back, mini Sport was the cheapest I could find at £46.98, but I find it can take a couple of weeks to receive stuff from them, or perhaps I was just unlucky. No minisport are just useless I ordered a clutch kit from them and I was waiting 5 weeks after countless phonecalls and em...

I hope that's what the problem is Macker
Paul I sent you a pm

Thanks for all the advice lads I'll give that a try woody and see how I get on but I'll most likely have to pull it all out again and check those thrust washers.

I put the engine back together so it wasn't done by a professional I guess the problem must be those trust washers I must have put it back in the wrong way round or something. I should have just given you that bloody engine in the first place paul

Yea it said the throw out adjustment should be 6.5mm from the clutch housing and that's what I have it at, maybe I should try play around with the adjustments because I can't think of anything else wrong ??

Hi macker thanks for the reply it's a brand new clutch kit got a new release bearing aswell, it's a turbo clutch not just a standard verto clutch and it's pretty much the first clutch I've ever had to change in my life. It must be a much heavier clutch the pedal is no easy job to press and the secon...

Was reaching the end of my first mini project and had just put my rebuilt engine back into the car eventually got it running and wanted to bring it on a test drive but when I pressed the clutch pedal I could hear the clutch make a god awful squealing sound and the engine just cut out immediately. It...

Thanks for all the advice lads yea that bungee tank idea sounds good I'll give that a go and I'll pick up a fuel filter somewhere, cheers

Appreciate the help Ian I know what I've got to do now, oh and I got those braided hoses I ordered from you very good quality set compared to the kits I've gotten before thanks again

Hi Ian thanks for the reply yea ha ha I wouldn't want my steering putting me in a ditch but it's defo the lower plastic bushing on the outer column sorry I just said it was in the pinch bolt area, the splines are ok on the pinion shaft I checked them just to be sure. Yea so does the bushing just sli...

Hey, Anybody know What's the best way to clean rust and gunk out of the inside of a petrol tank ? Secondly the lower bush on my steering column must be gone cause the column is very loose down at the pinch bolt just not sure how I get the new one on can anybody tell me how it's done ?? Any help is a...

Hi davey I remember Reading on another forum if the housings your swopping are both A or A+ it should be ok but one of the lads on here would know for sure. I did the exact same damage as you but not as severe as for buying one somerford mini should have them, doubt they'd be cheap though

Ah cool thanks again TMG.