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Went to Hocking Hills, with mrntd and Drove my car like never before...it was completely a new experience for me..

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Ummm why did you not move the car before taking down the pop up tent? :mad2::mad2::mad2: :idea::idea:

 

left the car at the stealership for PS pump recall. Lots of fat overweight Minis in for service.

Tech very happy to drive something cool into the shop, although he was more interested in the Gary Fisher bicycle I pulled out of the back of the R53 than the car.

 

Everyone makes mistakes... Just look at my track record with women! [emoji12]


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I think you're being way to hard on yourself......your not stupid you just did an incredibly dumb thing and then spilled the beanz on yourself !!

 

big mistake to do the recall - picked up the car just before closing and then a half mile into it realized they broke something. It idles like a cold diesel and 1st to second gear shifts go with a loud bang, plus in my drive way the thing sounded like something was going to fall off the suspension or exhaust. Jacking it up now to find out what they forgot. My best guess is the lower engine mount is missing, or something else is completely off down there. He told me on the way out the pump is now in the way of my Fumoto engine drain plug. Huh?

 

ok, so they didn't forget the engine mount, but what they let me drive home is difficult to understand: The new PS fan makes hard permanent contact with the top of the Fumoto drain. It is already bent and there is a good amount of oil leaking from the bottom of it. WTF doesn't even begin to describe it. They could have called, I would have gladly paid for a new regular plug as I don't even use it any longer after buying a vacuum oil change pump. The test drove the car and didn't say a thing... Going up my steep driveway, the engine drain slapped so hard against that fan, I thought my suspension was broken again.

Going to do an oil change (after 1800 miles...) tonight, change the plug, bend that new fan into proper position, as it looks totally out of place, nowhere near the location where the old fan was located, or am I imagining things?


Hard contact between fan and top of drain



full install - what's up with that fan at this shallow angle?


the fresh Mobil 1 is dripping...

 

Well, I bought a MaxJax for my MINI. Guess that kinda counts. It's an enabler.


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Interesting, I purchase a Fumoto for my FL '05 a few years ago and it had the same clearance problem. At the time, I didn't just want to bend the fan up and just used it on another car. I wondered how so many MINI owners were using one without seeing any posts about it hitting the fan.

Hidden problems, shortcuts, and unnecessary "test" drives are reasons I don't like to bring any of my cars in for service. :frown5:

 

I didn't do it, but here's what was done to my MINI--by Barry-the past few days...

 

And another...

 

Yesterday, we won at Buttonwillow. Not once, but twice!

Congratulations to my buddy Steve! :beer

 

Today I've been tackling some door seam rust I found.













One more coat to go on the driver's side and passenger side door seams - then I just need to let it set and cure.

 

I think rust is like car cancer. You got to catch it early and get it removed or it will spread.

Not to make lite of real cancer for people or pets.

 

Yep.

This was really minor and minimal, but I didn't want it to become an issue down the road.

 

Cool!

You need a big rubber spider to put in the middle of that cage.

 

It is slightly more robust than my autopower 4 point was.

 

I appreciate the brakes on my MINI. Some bonehead ran a stop sign from a sidestreet into traffic. It was his meaning in life to put everybody else in danger just so he could get in front of a MINI.

 

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Fixed that for you.:devil: