I now have masses of room to move around in the garage :) In the last day or so over the Easter break, I have cut up the White Mini (I have seriously never seen sooo much rust in a car!) so that all that remains is a front cut for my engine & subframe test mule/rig. I have made up some legs on castors so it can be easily moved around. The engine crane, a big crate of parts, the Red Mini and white Mini front cut can all easily fit in the length of one side of my garage and all that needs to be done is to get rid of the rest of the rusty-as white mini panels (in the background of the pic below) and I can finally fit our other car (Mazda6) in half the garage!! My wife will be ecstatic hehe.
I also starting dismantling the MG Metro brakes I have. They have been painted a few times from the looks of it so the calipers & hubs really need to be sandblasted, repainted (and rebuilt?). The discs need to be machined slightly. There are marks on the driveshaft which indicate that the bearings may have started overheating and on their way out so I will replace those with a tapered bearing kit. I haven't removed the actual bearings yet and I'm really hoping I don't find any scoring in the inner hub surface.
I also starting dismantling the MG Metro brakes I have. They have been painted a few times from the looks of it so the calipers & hubs really need to be sandblasted, repainted (and rebuilt?). The discs need to be machined slightly. There are marks on the driveshaft which indicate that the bearings may have started overheating and on their way out so I will replace those with a tapered bearing kit. I haven't removed the actual bearings yet and I'm really hoping I don't find any scoring in the inner hub surface.
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