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Just saw the forecast. Heat returns tomorrow, so I will be taking advantage of the last cool day getting stuff done getting ready for MTTS. Might come by, might not, depending on how far I get.
Greg '19 Emerald Grey/Chili Red JCW (F56) <---- Greg's car '08 Dark Silver/Black Cooper S convertible JCW (R52) <---- Greg's other car '02 BRG/White Cooper (R50) Iowa plate: M1N1 <-----Judy's car
Des Moines/KC/whatever
Yep, we were pretty much done by 4 pm, come visit the next shop day if you can.....
Once again, we got everything done we set out to do - almost. MiniX2 had planned to change his inner ball joints but got stymied by the extra work required to get them out, so we left them alone for now. However we did get all the struts/springs changed out and found the original shocks were pretty much toast. He should be cruising smoothly now.
MiniManiac was a little more successful, we got his choke spring set up properly, changed out both axle seals and his shift rod seal, and he got an oil change to boot. But just as all silver linings are attached to a dark cloud, he found he needs new axle boots - so that will have to be on his next shop day.
MiniMax got his brake fluid changed, but found he really didn't need to, so we did Blue Gooses too. We got spark plugs swapped out on nine5raptor's car and everyone's car ran at the end of the day.
We went to Jack Stack for lunch and had a great meal from a lousy waiter, and all in all a fun day. Thanks to everyone who came and helped, worked, kibitzed or just hung out - glad to have you all!
Hi! My name's Dave!
'09 LB/LB Clubman S - "Max"
89 Mini "Racing Green"
94 SPi Project (The Hot Rod)
Thanks all for the help today. Was very happy with what got done! Rides great! Wasn't stymied, just didn't want to take all the time on lift knowing others were waiting and knew it would take another bit of time.
Thanks to all of you fellas who helped MiniX2 get my car rolling smoothly. It floats now, which is nice at this amount of miles. And thanks, too, for your patience in MiniX2's late arrival. He gave me a ride home from the repair shop this morning, which made him a wee bit late. (I have a non-MINI that I drive for work and had to get it fixed today so I can continue making enough money to fund my MINI habit. )
BIG kudos to redsled for fixing the glovebox rattle. I hear you also installed my glovebox last month. It absolutely made my day when I picked my car up and found you had gone to the extra effort to move the drink holder stickers in my old glovebox into the new one. Thanks!!!
Johnna--BMPR CR '05 Chili Red JustaCVT, JCW Sound Kit #D344, JCW BBK, aFe cai, M7 Under Strut System, strut tower plates, Sparkly wheel arches, a little chrome. Garage-sharing w/ '12 Goodwood MCS #372, '06 MCS "Jack" and MiniX4's classic, Moxie.
Greg '19 Emerald Grey/Chili Red JCW (F56) <---- Greg's car '08 Dark Silver/Black Cooper S convertible JCW (R52) <---- Greg's other car '02 BRG/White Cooper (R50) Iowa plate: M1N1 <-----Judy's car
Des Moines/KC/whatever
Minidave wrote:It seems we were all wearing our antigravity boots at lunch!
Whew, that's better.......
Wow. No idea what happened there. Accessed the page and loaded the photo from my smart phone -- some sort of technical glitch.
Greg '19 Emerald Grey/Chili Red JCW (F56) <---- Greg's car '08 Dark Silver/Black Cooper S convertible JCW (R52) <---- Greg's other car '02 BRG/White Cooper (R50) Iowa plate: M1N1 <-----Judy's car
Des Moines/KC/whatever
Just a shout out to David(Davester),Carl and anyone else I might have missed for helping me flush the brake system on the Goose. Also a thank you to Minidave for the use of his facilities.
2010 MCS CR/W with some custom vinyl, JCW sport suspension (minus FSB), CNT cat back, Add a brake, Alta AP, Devil's Own H2O/Meth Injection, random other little stuff, and some good ol' mud flaps
2010 MCS CR/W with some custom vinyl, JCW sport suspension (minus FSB), CNT cat back, Add a brake, Alta AP, Devil's Own H2O/Meth Injection, random other little stuff, and some good ol' mud flaps
Minidave wrote:You had trouble getting that one in, didn't you?
Now you know how to fix it anyway, let me know if/when you need the lift.
Ya, but we got it put back together. I need to replace the outer boot on the right one so it looks like the drive shafts will be pulled sometime. I think this will be a winter project