I have recently found your channel and must say I’m hooked. Your attention to detail is mind blowing . I love watching you manufacture or remanufacture a part to make things work. I wish I had tools and skills to to do this. 👍
Good vid, looks like your typical abandoned project where the owner has bitten off more than they can chew, but at least it'll be sorted when they get it back. Best advice would be to pay you to finish it!
@@skidmores.garage Yep, but at the end of the day sometimes you have to accept you need to spend money if its not something you can do yourself, in my case bodywork! There's obviously a good chunk of money been spent there for no benefit so far. I'm guessing the wirings been done enough to fire the engine and thats it.
Funny about the wife's attitude about your beard. I've had a beard since 1977. My wife and kids asked me to shave it off so I did about 30 years ago. My youngest who was about 3 at the time took one look and said " grow it back". My wife said give it a day or two. The next day she agreed " grow it back"
Great stuff as always Matt. The best 'tool' I have bought for my garage this year, was a foam kneeling pad to go on the garage floor - call me a softee, but it is BLISS! - watching you kneeling on that hard, cold floor made me think of it - if you don't have one then treat yourself for Chrimbo - you won't look back!
What you could not see in the video is I hit my knee of the bolts sticking out the front subframe and spent 5 mins saying some horrible things to that bolt lol
When you took about the willwood brakes you like, is that the dynalite 4 pot callipers? Does someone make a kit or you just make adaptors? And do they work with 10inch wheels? In nz the KAD brakes are very expensive compared to the willwood callipers
Yes mate the 4 pot wilwood ether dynamite or power light. Zcar used to make the kit but I don’t know if they do any more they are 265mm disc do only for the 13” wheel I think the biggest you can fit under 10” is the kad 6 pot setup on a 7.9” disc
You could be right. I drove a mate's Metro turbo many years ago and that had a lose rack. It felt wrong, with loads of vibration through the steering wheel. He knew he had a problem but it took us a while to figure it out. I thought the track rod ends were completely shot, but they were fine, the rack was moving.
Your customer will notice the difference when he gets the mini back .great work .
Hope so buddy
What a great show…if I had the money, I would ship my 79 mini from Toronto to you for your experience!
thanks buddy that means a lot, i bet the shipping would be costly with how the prices of everything is going up now
just as I was thinking to myself "they need a linish" you said it. Such a rarely used word too haha.
Haha yer a quick zip zip with the welders best friend and they fit a dream
I have recently found your channel and must say I’m hooked. Your attention to detail is mind blowing . I love watching you manufacture or remanufacture a part to make things work. I wish I had tools and skills to to do this. 👍
Thanks buddy I appreciate it. Glad to have you as a subscriber 🙏🏻
Good vid, looks like your typical abandoned project where the owner has bitten off more than they can chew, but at least it'll be sorted when they get it back. Best advice would be to pay you to finish it!
We will have to see if he has the budget really, money is tight for everyone these days isn’t it mate.
@@skidmores.garage Yep, but at the end of the day sometimes you have to accept you need to spend money if its not something you can do yourself, in my case bodywork! There's obviously a good chunk of money been spent there for no benefit so far. I'm guessing the wirings been done enough to fire the engine and thats it.
@@MiniPerformance apparently it runs and all the electrics work but as you will see in my next upload today the loom going in the bin
Funny about the wife's attitude about your beard. I've had a beard since 1977. My wife and kids asked me to shave it off so I did about 30 years ago. My youngest who was about 3 at the time took one look and said " grow it back". My wife said give it a day or two. The next day she agreed " grow it back"
Yer my son said you look like a different person and also doesn’t like it lol
Another enjoyable video Matt. Keep them coming lol.
Will do mate
Nice bit of info about the brakes, I need me one of those brake clean catchers!
If you mean that round black tray it’s from my local garden centre buddy it’s for under plant pots, I keep about 10 in as they cheap as chips
@@skidmores.garage top chap, I’ll pop to mine and get some, thanks
Great stuff as always Matt. The best 'tool' I have bought for my garage this year, was a foam kneeling pad to go on the garage floor - call me a softee, but it is BLISS! - watching you kneeling on that hard, cold floor made me think of it - if you don't have one then treat yourself for Chrimbo - you won't look back!
What you could not see in the video is I hit my knee of the bolts sticking out the front subframe and spent 5 mins saying some horrible things to that bolt lol
cheers
🙏🏻👍🏻
When you took about the willwood brakes you like, is that the dynalite 4 pot callipers?
Does someone make a kit or you just make adaptors? And do they work with 10inch wheels?
In nz the KAD brakes are very expensive compared to the willwood callipers
Yes mate the 4 pot wilwood ether dynamite or power light. Zcar used to make the kit but I don’t know if they do any more they are 265mm disc do only for the 13” wheel I think the biggest you can fit under 10” is the kad 6 pot setup on a 7.9” disc
Thankyou.
Im Horrified to see another Stearing Rack on the move, Especially on a Road Car, Doesn't Bare thinking about
It baffles me, how the owner did not realise they had something dramatically wrong, and have a quick peep underneath?
@@neilbedford5082 I dont think its moved enough to see that??
You could be right. I drove a mate's Metro turbo many years ago and that had a lose rack. It felt wrong, with loads of vibration through the steering wheel. He knew he had a problem but it took us a while to figure it out. I thought the track rod ends were completely shot, but they were fine, the rack was moving.
Bad wasn’t it buys
I agree I don’t thing he has used this much at all