Random notes on the restauration of Morgans, MGBs and Minis
The next step after the teardown was measuring and a visit at KS Motortechnik. Even though the camshaft has no pitting or bluing the conclusion after measuring was to replace it. The workshop manual says that lift height should be 6.35mm ( 6.45 to 6.60 the default). The lobs had between 34.05-34.14mm. Subtracting 27.60 mm for... Continue Reading →
Amazon delivered the Draper Verto Clutch puller in the late afternoon and I immediately took off for the garage. After unpacking the tool I was a bit unsure about the quality. The supplied bolts were 8.8 grade ones. My previous tool was second hand and came with really solid 12.9 bolts. But the three metric... Continue Reading →
As you might notice by the title of today's post an older Depeche Mode song was on my playlist this week while removing Miffi's suspension parts. Stripping the subframe and engine were on my list - but a number of other things popped up as well. Since my first Mini restoration in 2019 quite a... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
It was already dark when I got to the garage tonight. All I wanted to do is a bit of clean up and head home early. But after twenty minutes, all tools and parts found their right place and my workbench had the second wipe. I decided to do a test drive with the Morgan... Continue Reading →
By now even native english speaker should have heard this word-for-word translation for the german saying "Auf dem Holzweg sein". And if you have read one of my d a previous entries who know that I still need to fix the wooden frame. After I took the frame from the chassis a couple of month... Continue Reading →
Fixing C6622 