Tiz's Minis

What's been going on the last couple of months

I've not posted for a while so here's a quick catch up on what's been going on with my mini's.

Sadly I've not found time to even go near mini number 2. It's still sitting on the drive looking sorry for itself. Hopefully it will get looked at before the summer. I'm not too worried about the challenge of getting it MOT'd before Steve's Herald and Chris's A35 as neither has made any progress. Chris has infact managed to go backwards as his A35 is currently being used as a log store!

The MOT was due for E232 WMA at the beginning of January. This is totally the wrong time of the year to be working on cars, way too cold. I knew that I had to replace the track rod ends so I decided to get that sorted and put it in for it's test.

No real problems were encountered changing the ends. As I was replacing them I didn't need to worry about protecting the thread as I was splitting the ball joint. I counted the number of turns it took to remove them to make live easier when putting the new ones back on. I should get my tracking checked but the handling has not been affected.

The car passed it's MOT on the second attempt. I needed to replace a tyre. I consider myself lucky. There were quite a few advisory items to get checked out over the next couple of months. I'll post about them another time. I've now got a 12 month ticket so I'm happy.

Apoplogies for any spelling mistakes. I'm posting this from my pocket pc wth my 6 month old daughter asleep on my lap.

posted by Andy Tyrrell @ 5:44 PM