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this is mini city, got it few months ago was just ashell.its an english car, came from there start of last year ithink.
it need new drivers wing a pannel an small patch on the floor. it had abody kit fited but the previous owner took an angle grinder to it and cut it off, igot it an pieced it back togelther on the car, got an engine from an 86mayfair, its fitted to the car now just needs wired up. have the wing a pannel and the floor all welded up. the body kit is moulded on to the car, just have to finish sanding down the car now ready for some primer, my neighbour is going to paint it for me in his body shop, hes keepin me right getting it ready for paint. car is going to stay the same colour with yellow an black interior have yellow bucket seats igot with it. heres afew pics
the mk2 is in the conner of the shed its striped down to the shell, ive amini in belfast that igetting restored so its comin back in few weeks.the mk2 goin up there then to get the body done so be awhile yet be 4 it sees the road.
idont know what kit it is,it was on the car b4 igot it,the falla igot the car from cut it off with a grinder plannin on sellin it seperate but made amess of it. ipieced it back togelther on the car its not perfected but its never goina be a show car.
im keepin it the same colour, dont know what kinda green it is.
put all new cables in to it last nite,handbrake heater choke speedo accelator as they were all missing,
put new pot joints on the drive shafts an new ball joint on the front as the threds were all worn on them,
its all back togelther now. get some primer on it tomoro nite,hope wont be to long till its on the road.
the engine i put in the car has a pre-engaged starter. the wiring in the engine bay had the solinoid for the older starter. i removed this and took the wires direct to the starter. ihave power in the ingition wire going to the starter solinoid but when iturn the key theres nothin. not even a click. the starter is working perfectly so its not that. im not to well up on wiring so im not sure what to check to sort it out , any ideas have igone wrong some were removing the other solinoid any help appricated
check that when you turn the key to "start" there is power on the white/red wire at the starter. it will be finished on a spade connector, cant remember what size. that the one that triggers the starter.
also check that there is power on the brown cables, they should have power all the time as they are directly joined to the large black battery cable from the boot.
also check that when the ignition is just "on" you have a red warning light at the "alternator" bulb in the dash and that there is voltage (either 6v or 12v more or less) at the plus side of the coil.
i changed a mini from solenoid to pre-engaged starter, i found that the battery cable was too short to run the whole way extra from the solenoid to the starter, how did you lengthen yours?
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i read yours again.. i wonder are you getting power at the key-switch? brown should have power all the time, light green-yellow powered at the second position (accessories like radio etc.), white is also powered when "on* (third position) and white-red at *start* (the fourth position)
yea there was power in all the wires,ill have to borrow the bits from work again to moro an check it all again.
it was the big conector that turned the starter when i crossed it. which wire should be goin to the small conector?
would it matter what wire iused to extend the old wires? the red and white one wasnt long enough to go to the starter. there was power in it when i tryed it.
ididnt extend the battary cable it reached to the starter. its tight tho.
on my '80 estate, the one i converted to pre-engaged starter, on the starter solenoid, there's the black battery cable and 2 or 3 heavy browns going to the solenoid post, held on with a 1/2" nut
there's a heavy brown and red going to a large spade terminal
and right at the bottom of the starter solenoid there's a normal size spade terminal that takes the white and red. that triggers the starter.
as luck would have it, that's the one that's short for you!
be careful with the battery cable: its not fused and carries a huge current, like a welding machine! the engine/subframe/shell will move and flex so allow for that with the cable run.
If you do have to extend it, best way IMHO is to solder an eyelet on the new piece at either end and bolt the two together, wrap it in anealing tape and put a hose around it to stop chafing.
we have life. cheers keith.
its the big spade on mine thats triggerin the starter is that right
ifound out the hard way about the battery cable. when i took it off the old solinoid
i hit it off the body movin it to the starter scared the s**t out of me
ihave it turnin now and its tryin to fire up but the battery died so have to charge it up
and try it tomoro evenin.
my engine is 86 an the wirein loom is 82. says in the haynes manaul white an red from the ignation to the starter. that the 0ne that doesnt have power till iturn the key.idont have a brown-red. ive just got a brown-blue comin from the aultinator
few pics of the car now,
its got a coat of primer needs an other coat yet,
still tryin to get the engine running its turning over now but havnt got it started yet.
changed the carb as it wasnt the best looking when took it apart. goina try a differant
distributor on it as well.its not the in best shape either. gettin there slowly.
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finally got the engine fired up last nite, changed the carb and messed abit with the distributor
and it nearly went, so was told to loosin all the tapped incase some1 had been messin with it be4 igot it,
did that and after a few mins turnin and afew more turns of the distributor it fired up best sound ive heard in months
to nite reset the tappeds and bled the brakes and clutch so the mini now start drives and stops
got the car back from the painters lastnite, looks really well. painted nissan apple green,
same colour as it was. geting the four seam strips painted anice shiny black,
just few bits to get now so ican get it back togelther
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What Minis have you?: 1996 BRG mayfair 1275 auto-lyin up now 1990 1l city-daily driver 1993 cooper spi-completly stripped and upside down! the long term project(advantage) courtesy of mr skelly!! rotten shell-found a floor repair panel in the boot tho!
joeyfinneran wrote:You should put in a blue interior to make it realy stand out
where did u think of dAt colour ?
if he's gonna use the yellow interior i saw in it last it'l defo stand out!!
i'd saw u'r delighted not to have to do any more sanding on it, it's looking really well
Yea the im doin the interior yellow and black. Seats are all yellow an getin yellow door cards with black thro the middle. It turned out better than ithought it would. Lota sandin 2get the archs 2look right. Its not perfect few little bits imissed. Never did body work like that b4 so realy happy with the way it turned out.
, any ideas have igone wrong some were removing the other solinoid any help appricated
