02-29-2016, 01:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-29-2016, 02:16 PM by Quinny1293.)
Hi everyone,
So finally I'm putting up a thread of my mini. It's not a beauty, but got me from a to d, not too far just incase something happens
It's a 1982 Leyland Rebel Clubman, as far as i know the motor is fairly standard apart form the pistons that have been reboured to 20thou.
![[Image: DSC_0464_zpsb467a2e2.jpg]](http://i1338.photobucket.com/albums/o691/quintonbassani/DSC_0464_zpsb467a2e2.jpg)
This is what she looked like the day i got her home, yip i know bonnet was already open the first day I got her. Long story short, the guy told me she was in perfect condition and she wasn't. first problem and still a problem was clutch judder badly, with water hose leaking then 2nd time i went it was misfiring badly and wouldnt even start properly, 3rd time he phoned me and said could take the car at R5000 less (I know most of you will be reading this thinking how stupid could he be even after 2nd time to rather let the car go and search for another one) and i would have to fix it, unfortunately financially my parents couldnt afford anything else and my dad said yes.
After getting her it turned out the timing was out and the spark plugs were connected wrong. Drove it a while then found the carb was stuffed and got my hands on a downdraft manifold and sticked a weber 38dgas on from my dads v6, with a few mods and other jets it wasn't running too bad, then after saving and selling a few other stuff I managed to get a weber 36 DCD and that ran so well. Stupid enough I wanted a set of twins and sold the weber and got that, at that time my brother was driving my mini and was complaining like a little girl the fuel consumption was bad etc, so after pressure from him and my dad i sold it and bought a "recon" carb from someone and he stopped whinning for a bit. While also owning it I got a set of Bucket seats got them recovered in red leather and black cloth. Also got the interior redone and got some branches for the mini and made my own 2" exhaust from straight piupe i got. (thinking of it now, i know how stupid) There were a lot of other problems as well in between and head was off, gasket blew etc. Now at least i know it's normal for the mini.
After staring too long at her too many times, looking ayt the badly faded paint, thats when i thought time for a rebuild and some new make-up on her.
Will start a thread in the right place for that.
So finally I'm putting up a thread of my mini. It's not a beauty, but got me from a to d, not too far just incase something happens
It's a 1982 Leyland Rebel Clubman, as far as i know the motor is fairly standard apart form the pistons that have been reboured to 20thou.
![[Image: DSC_0464_zpsb467a2e2.jpg]](http://s1338.photobucket.com/user/quintonbassani/media/DSC_0464_zpsb467a2e2.jpg.html)
This is what she looked like the day i got her home, yip i know bonnet was already open the first day I got her. Long story short, the guy told me she was in perfect condition and she wasn't. first problem and still a problem was clutch judder badly, with water hose leaking then 2nd time i went it was misfiring badly and wouldnt even start properly, 3rd time he phoned me and said could take the car at R5000 less (I know most of you will be reading this thinking how stupid could he be even after 2nd time to rather let the car go and search for another one) and i would have to fix it, unfortunately financially my parents couldnt afford anything else and my dad said yes.
After getting her it turned out the timing was out and the spark plugs were connected wrong. Drove it a while then found the carb was stuffed and got my hands on a downdraft manifold and sticked a weber 38dgas on from my dads v6, with a few mods and other jets it wasn't running too bad, then after saving and selling a few other stuff I managed to get a weber 36 DCD and that ran so well. Stupid enough I wanted a set of twins and sold the weber and got that, at that time my brother was driving my mini and was complaining like a little girl the fuel consumption was bad etc, so after pressure from him and my dad i sold it and bought a "recon" carb from someone and he stopped whinning for a bit. While also owning it I got a set of Bucket seats got them recovered in red leather and black cloth. Also got the interior redone and got some branches for the mini and made my own 2" exhaust from straight piupe i got. (thinking of it now, i know how stupid) There were a lot of other problems as well in between and head was off, gasket blew etc. Now at least i know it's normal for the mini.
After staring too long at her too many times, looking ayt the badly faded paint, thats when i thought time for a rebuild and some new make-up on her.
Will start a thread in the right place for that.
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