1984 mini mayfair project

[jcrothers]

Hi my name is Jonathan here are photos of my project up to date. I will add more photos from the start of my project at a later time.
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[The Marcos Graveyard]

Very nice Jonathan, liking the two tone paint.

Welcome to the forum.

[jcrothers]

Thank you

I bought the car painted like that as a shell ill add more photos

[jcrothers]

The photos below is the way I bought the car as a painted shell with the parts in boxes.
















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[joeyfinneran]

Colour scheme is cool

[The Marcos Graveyard]

You'd wonder why someone would do such a nice job on the paintwork but not bother to do the small bit of welding need first

[jcrothers]

I got a friend who is a welder to give me a hand

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I used black tec seven to seal the welds to prevent water
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I used shuts to rust prof the new steel. I Used 1 mm thick steel, It worked great on the boot floor it made it alot stronger
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Painting the inside of the car
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refurnishing parts
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[jcrothers]

door handles finished painted and new barrels
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Putting the head liner in tuck me a while to get right, I cleaned and painted it to freshen it up.
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Getting the windows in. The hinges and catches on the Quarter windows where rusty so I painted them with acid edge primer and than matt black.
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Bought new carpet and sound insulation. steam cleaned seat and door cards.
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New wheels
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[maverick]

That's a lovely mini you have there. Nice original touches too. Hope to see it in the tin this year!

[jcrothers]

Thank you

I hope to have it on the road in the next month or two

[kerryminigringo]

Lovely looking Mini you got there,the colour scheme is really nice.There is a Mini in the current Mini Magazine with a gold and brown scheme like yours and it looks class as well.Hope to see it out and about on runs soon.

[jcrothers]

Thank you. Cool ill get it and have a look. Ya I can't wait to get it on the road.

[JayJay]

Nice work on the two tone. Its not something Ive seen before but I likes it.
Great step by step photos too

[jcrothers]

Thank u. I'll have more photos up soon.

[jcrothers]

Hi all haven't had a chance to do much in the last few weeks because of the new job.
Got the Mini started yesterday for the first time.



Test fitted the wheels and aches to see what they looked liked. Need to get the proper nuts not sure which ones any advice would be great? and I need to get better centre caps any ideas would be great?






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[The Marcos Graveyard]

For the nuts you will need to contact the manufacturer to see what the angle of the chamfer is required on the seat of the nut, usually 45 degree or 60 degree.

What size wheel centre do you need I have a few chrome ones that might suit.

[jcrothers]

sorry only getting back to u now I got sorted with wheel nuts and I have centre got centre caps too.

Here's a small update

I had to change the water pump so I did a bit of painting
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need to clean the engine bay some more
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I also put the new wheels on
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[CB_Phil]

As said, love the paint, seen similar in a mag & have been cursing it since as I said I wouldnt touch the paint on mine! but looks

shes coming along well too man look forward to seeing her all done

[jcrothers]

Thanks Phil

here's some photos from the weekend

I had to cut slots in the bumper where the hinges are because the bumper wouldn't fit on and I desided to paint them black
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Then I edged primed it
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I also checked the breaks the front are fine the back are bad ill have to rebuild them Im not sure if I should just do the hole sub frame it has a bit of rust on it.
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[jcrothers]

My rear sub frame and rear breaks where looking like this
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So I did a rebuild of the breaks and sub frame

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I used a angle grinder with twist wire bushes to take the rust off

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paint on rust remedy to treat the rust

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Than I painted acid etch and a chassis/stone chip paint on it
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The car looked like this for the day
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more photos to follow

[kerryminigringo]

Nice clean up job on the rear subbie and I like the on street garage although you don't have the optional gully for fluid disposal like Macker had.

[jcrothers]

thank you Kerry.

more photos. i got the back plates sand blasted,I rust treated them and than painted them with high temperature paint.
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I also stone chipped under the back of the car and arches. The shocks are just rusty they work fine ill change them some other time.
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[woody]

Brakeshoes on backwards

[jcrothers]

O no thank you. what way should they be on? I was looking at the haynes manual tho i had them right

[kerryminigringo]

The way I remember is that when the wheel is rotating in a forward motion the drum should pass over the bit of the shoe that does not have friction material on it if that makes sense.