92 City, My First Rebuild by big-jay

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Update,

Well, today was the day, eight months of welding and grinding is at an end and the Mini is now off for her shiny new coat.

Started the day with a quick trip to Minispares to pick up a few things, boot lid, seam strips, clips and some new mirrors. Here's a few pictures -







Then we finished a few small jobs that needed doing, mostly sealing to be honest. Here are a few pictures of the finished door gapping's.

Passenger door -







Drivers door -







Wasn't an easy job, and probably the one I enjoyed the least, but is definitely worth doing to get nice tight shut lines.

Anyway, here's a quick picture of me and my dad waiting for the guys from the garage to come and pick her up -





Loading her onto the trailer, started to rain so we had to throw the car cover over -



All set and ready to go -



On the move, the furthest she's moved in almost a year -



We arrived at the body shop and went through what we wanted doing, paint codes and what not. Then it was time to go, this is how I left her -





Felt quite strange coming home to an empty drive, but the next time she's back she'll be fully painted and awaiting me to put her back together again

I'll also be checking in with the body shop regularly to make sure it's all going to plan, and is being done to a standard I'm happy with.

8-24-2014

Update,

Stripped down most of the running gear today, radius arms, top arms, hubs and drive shafts.

Here's a couple of pictures -









Still got to strip down the other hub and driveshaft, and remove the bearings from the top arms, radius arms and the rear hubs, then they can go off for blasting and powder coating.

Not to sure if you can remove the bearings from the drive shaft or the UJ that attaches to it, so will have to pop a question up on here.

8-29-2014

Parts Update,

Picked up a few things that we took down to be blasted and powder coated last week, here's a few pictures.

Front Subframe -







A few various bits and pieces -











Stopped at Minispares on the way back and picked up my Newton Commercial carpet set, very nice bit of kit indeed -







And a nice little touch from them -



We're going down to the body shop tomorrow to see how there getting on, hopefully they'll be some good progress being made, will update with some photos when I have them !