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MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:43 am
by Minidave
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Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:58 am
by Minidave
Met up with some interesting MOMO's along the way....
"MINI Owners Of Mid Ohio"
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:10 pm
by MiniManiac
Awesome!!
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:23 pm
by ragtopday Johnna
^^What Seth said!!^^ Can't wait to see it!
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:00 pm
by Minidave
Seth, same carb as yours, I'll be tearing it down this week, maybe bring yours down to my shop and we can check it over too - I think that's where your problem is - I think you have a sticking float.
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:34 pm
by Minidave
A few more pics....
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:37 pm
by Minidave
Couple more....
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:56 pm
by MiniManiac
Beautiful!
Now we have a tool truck for the trip!
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:35 pm
by BLUGOOSE
That is sweet David. Good luck with it.
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:42 pm
by DA MINI
Pretty sweet! Will it make the donut run?
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:55 pm
by Minidave
Unless it's down for parts, that's the plan......
I have a number of things I need to do to it before the Classic Mini Fun Run on the 20th.
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:04 pm
by davester
Very nice and clean!
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:10 pm
by Minidave
Alrighty then, after only 3 hours of jousting with officialdom, Buzz is now a duly inspected, licensed, taxed, registered and plated member of Kansas society.
Today it's 75* and the temp gauge actually got up to the middle of "normal", without the fan kicking on.....the fan does come on a few minutes after I shut it off tho, as it should.
The alternator light has quit flashing at me completely, don't know WHAT that was all about, and I have parts on the way to fix the most egregious oil leaks. Things are moving forward for our first event this weekend - the donut run.
Then next week we leave for the Missouri Ozarks and a weekend of hooning about the hills with half dozen other classics. Should be fun!
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:12 pm
by Zack
So you now own
2 Clubmans, a Jag, and an Audi.
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:29 pm
by Minidave
Yes.
Your point is......?????
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:30 pm
by Zack
No point at all
Very cool. I definitely want a ride in it at some point. Never been in a classic Mini.
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:17 pm
by boxer
Very cool !
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:07 am
by Hagar46
My parents had 2 different Travellers(Clubman) from 1963 to 1968! One was a woodie. Very cool!
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:22 pm
by Counterfit_Mini
Awww
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:40 pm
by Minidave
Stephie, would you consider donating your Classic Cooper Bentley manual to the club? I still have it BTW......
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 9:46 pm
by Minidave
Ready to go!
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:56 pm
by Minidave
The driver's seat was really beat down, like a 400 lb person had been in there so I stripped the cover off, bought some new foam and re-padded the seat, it sits much better now. When you watch ol Wheeler Dealers, Edd China's always installing a nice set of seat squabs and covers on whatever little English car project he's working on, but I could not find anyone in the states who sold just the foam parts, so I had to make my own.
Now on to the wood dash repairs and wiring issues.....
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:05 pm
by Minidave
Next challenge, now that the seat is done - dash rattles - which is how Buzz got his name!
I made some new clips to replace the missing ones on the wood dash insert, I also shimmed the glove box door catch and put felt along the edges where it contacts the plastic covered dash......just to make sure I put a dab of epoxy on those tabs to give a tiny bit more strength. We'll see if it makes any difference....
Next I'm going to do a little straightening out on that wiring mess.....
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:18 pm
by DA MINI
Looks like you are having lots of fun!
Re: MINI Max has a New Little Brother, Buzz
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:34 am
by dimini
If you remove too many of the rattles and other noise makers, Buzz might have to be renamed Purr. You could give him a proper last name, like Pudwell from Yorkshire. I still can't get over the fact that your car came with a notebook full of maintenance records and proper UK registration docs spanning it's entire lifespan--how normal! Only thing I know about my frankenmini is that it began life dressed in green.