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I made a bracket to hold the dimensions and to support the right side, since there's so little metal there now, and will be even less when I cut...
So with the car no longer resting on the lift in the back, I can now get on with cutting out the floors and seeing about replacing them. At Dan's...
Her's what he ordered......no wonder he got hit....but that was a lot of $$$$ in tariffs! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It was tariffs after all. 25% on all parts from England - at least this week! He called DHL and spent an hour on the phone arguing with them but...
So in order to remove the floor pans and sills, I needed to get the weight off of them first....as it is I had a 2X6 across under the floor and...
A local Classic Mini owner ordered a disc brake kit and some other bits from Mini Spares in England (where I get most of my parts too), total came...
More work on the Mini Hot rod, I needed to remove the sound deadening (like dynamat) that was really stuck down on the floor. I had tried to use...
My project is continuing, slowly......in the meantime my buddy Don and I trekked south about an hour from KC to the private Hedge Hollow race...
So I cut out the door step and now I'm trying to figure out what sequence to do the repairs.....I'm also trying to decide if it's a better...
Been working/thinking/planning on the q panel work, first I had to cut another 2" of metal out above where the patch will go as it's too rusty to...
Had to go buy an end for the extension cable, but Home Depot had one. So I gave it a try..... After welding these two together I could not drive...
Next project - try this bad boy out! 220V Miller spot welder. [ATTACH] Several issues..... 1st, it's heavy as hell, 30 lbs is my guess....
Today I went ahead and welded on the valance panel, then trimmed off the excess. I also put a few tacks in where the panel meets the inner...
So, looking at the Sport Pak arches, I went ahead and bolted on one wheel, and took out the brackets and installed the rear shocks, so I could...
So, after making the rear brackets and marking where the holes should go on the rear valance, I dropped it out and welded in some flange nuts. I...
Work plods along, today I built the corner lower brackets for the subframe. I bought some flanged nuts to weld into the sheet metal so I can...
Someone with a lathe and a mill could have done a better job, but it came out OK.....:cool:
[ATTACH] Last year just before we went to Rushmore and MMEMW, I bought a nice new MiniSpares dipstick, with a T handle and a couple of O-rings...
So far yet to go! I also made some short brackets to tie the inner wheel wells to a vertical brace to further strengthen the side of the...
Still don't have the parts for my air punch,, tho they show them shipped out via USPS on March 27th...... Today I cut a chunk out of the old back...