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Nothing, to the MINI. But I finally finished insulating the ceiling of my detached garage/workshop. I also installed a pellet stove in the shop. It was a nice toasty 70 degrees in there today.

It's been unusable in the winter, I should be able to get things done now.

Dave

 

Drove to work in 2nd gear, lol. Little bit of snow and people think they can't drive. OK, well they CAN"T even when it's dry, but so much worse in the snow.

 

Looks better then the F56 bumper. :lol:

FYI I do drive and have driven my MINI is very bad weather and deep snow. I just don't need to now.

 

Heck Dave if I didn't have those Doc appointments I'd have stayed off the road too. :yesnod:

I was thinking the same thing about the F56. Cover it in frozen slush & it'll look better.

 

Today I let the Mistress take a peek out of the garage door to see the 8 + inches of snow we got last night. It's about 15 degrees but its going down to 5 today with a wind chill of -5.

I will take the SUV out to play in the snow later today since I need some beer for a party this weekend. :devil:

 

Not mine, but a club member's car....

He complained of poor running and a temp gauge that was inop on his 93 Cooper S and since it ran badly he had it towed the 43 miles to my shop.

Once in I started by checking for power at the sending unit in the head, finding nothing there I checked continuity in the wire to the cluster and it was good, so I pulled the cluster and removed the temp/fuel gauge combo. On careful inspection I found the wire that feeds the coil had come unsoldered, so a few minutes with the iron and I had her stuck on good again. I also repaired an open in the flex circuit board that fed the tach and instrument lights. Once back in that all worked so it was on to the poor running.

Often times finding a problem can be as simple as asking what was done to the car last.....in this case the owner had wired in a set of four driving lights and after tracing the wires I found he'd pulled the power for the relay side of the lights off the hot side of the coil! Ooops......

Removing those wires made the engine run just fine again...imagine that! :biggrin5:

I sent him home with a wiring diagram and instructions on how to wire them correctly and since I haven't heard any distress calls, I think he made it home already!

 

Well nothing to either streetable machine today. Lots to the race car though.... June's just around the corner.

 

Nothing. I did tinker on my pit bike project though.

 

It's a nice sunny day. Drove to the monthly library book sale and Herself scored a couple of cheap books. Then, went to lunch for fried catfish and chicken. (Don't tell my MD.)

 

Deep frying makes everything better.

:idea: maybe we should deep fry bacon! :drool

 

Is this a better dollar

 

Hope you brought the engine up to the proper operating temperature.....

 

drove it to work for the last time this week. Today is my Friday!!!!!

 

Drove it home from the shop today where it spent the weekend while I was out of town. New brake pads installed. Plan for next steps in place.

 

Put in new hatch struts so the hatch would not hit me in the head anymore, and ordered a new key to have a spare.
Also put 150 more miles on it! All I want to do is drive it more and more!

 

After a 3 state romp with the GP yesterday (NE, IA, MO) I cleaned the GP up in the garage due to freezing temps, put the cover over it, and grinned remembering the day before...

 

I removed the plastic rings on the posts of the rear seat headrests that prevented them from going all the way down as they were designed to do. Now there's no more rear vision obstruction and it looks 'factory finished' as it should.

 

Makes perfect sense to me. I feel so stupid for buying snow tires when I could have spent many 10's of thousands on a big honkin pickumup. :mad2: Now should I have chrome balls or black ones hanging off that oversized trailer hitch? :wink:

 

Installed the visishield lens on tach and speedo and redid the rear calipers.
Not bad for a 9 year old MINI....

 

I attended the celebration of life for a fellow MINIac. He went by the name DieselHead because his profession was a bus driver. Dan passed away of complications caused by the chemotherapy he had undergone. Everybody thought the chemo had done the job and shrunk his tumor down. Dan was out of the hospital and out motoring again. Glad he didn't die while driving.

In anycase, Dan was far more a MINI nutcase than most of us. Turns out he was totally obsessed with MINIs. His family greatly appreciated that a fellow MINI motorer showed up. He has passed Basil on to his daughter who I hope will join up M/A in the near future.