Mini Pickup Restoration Project No.2! Finally Underway! by pickupmad87

By diyauto
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3 minute(s) of a 66 minute read

2-20-2013

picked these up yesterday from minispeed, very helpfull good service and
very reasonable price. just waiting for a couple more parts to come in next
week as they only had some in stock, then we canstart the slow process of
trial fitting and fettling everything to fit!!


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also ordered some doorstep repairs and they came today. so we started picking off the old wing from
the door shuts and trial fitted the panel, not too bad for first time fit.


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we also quickly fitted the doorstep repair.


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whilst im waiting for the other panels to turn up i have brought my roundnose back in because
it keeps poping out of second gear so i have decided to swap the gear box ready for a club rolling road sess
at the beginning of march. heres a pic of the sump plug when i took it out.


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not looking too good!!

so we prepared the engine for removal


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lifted the engine out


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removed the bell housing and the clutch and undone all the bolts holding the gearbox to the block


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and then lifted the block from the gear box.


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with the gearbox removed we inspected the gears expexting to find chunks out of the teeth but cant
seem to find any damage on the gears themselves. a bit of further investigation found a lot of play
in the small cogs inside the diff. we are hoping this is the problem and if it is we will stick that
gear box back on the block. my dad is going to take the box and the diff to minispeed tomorrow to get
it inspected.

more tomorrow.



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