When I left work late for the garage at 8pm tonight, I just wanted to finish cleaning up stuff that was left from last weekend’s job. But with a completely empty workbench motivation to work on the Mini was back. There wasn’t a lot left to do. In order to get to the right hand side tower bolt – the wiper motor had to be removed. And as I had to disconnect the brake lines anyway – I went ahead and removed the brake servo as well.
After the tower bolts were out I secured a piece of old wood with two M12 bolts through the holes for the brake lines (which I removed earlier). With the engine hoist ropes around this wooden board, I removed the front and rear subframe bolts. What you can’t see in the pictures is that I also initially had a jack and second board underneath the subframe. This was just a precaution as I used the hoist method for the first time – but it turned out to be unnecessary.
The entire removal took less than an hour. I am glad that I addressed this now. This was my first complete restoration project eight years ago and all in all it held up ok. Especially, that I used Miffi a lot during the winter. There is some fixable rust on the subframe. If I would have waited for another year or two – I am sure it would not be as easily fixable as it is now.
Some suspension parts still need to be removed. More on this later this week.
Good work Tim well done!
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