More donor stripdown
My Screwfix order including grinder disks and hacksaw blades didn’t turn up today so I wil have to postpone the cutting up of the shell which was today’s planned task. Instead I continued strip down of shell. The only thing left to remove from the front half now is the radiator expansion tank.
After this I had another play with the chassis bits, trying again to figure out what went where. Also, I did a couple of things with the Mini’s gear selector, removing the steady bar and turning the bottom plate around which changes the position of the reverse gate to the opposite side. The gear selector is then mounted on the kit facing backwards so you have reverse where it should be (and 1st becomes 4th,2nd becomes 3rd and so on) The gear selector rod is extended and bends round the bottom of the engine, come backs on its self and enters the gearbox as it would normally.
After that I started to strip down the front suspension. This is when I realised my first mistake. I should have removed the drive shaft retaining nuts while the subframe was on the car, preferably with someone with their foot on the brake. If I try to put any decent force on them now i will just end up turning the driveshaft and wheels. I might try doing it with the driveshaft in a vice later but I think I’ll end up using nut splitters or a hacksaw to remove them.
Time spent - 3 Hours
Money spent - Nothing