NAME A CAR PART.... i did edit out a part saying if this mini was in the USA, this subframe would run for another 15 years, and a whole sarcastic skit about in british taking structural integrity seriously, but i cut it out. it is pretty daft. that subframe was fine and the hole was actually covered with a big flake of lovely iron oxide! i think the MOT tester didnt like mini's and gave it a good prod till it was definitely a hole.. anyway! what you gunna do. it is what it is. Part of me was tempted to whack out the epoxy fibre glass and fill it in then cover it with underseal and take it to another MOT tester, but i wouldn't have got a video then! and to be honest doing it properly like this, does feel good :). even though i am 500 quid lighter lol. Also apologies for lack of vids last couple of weeks, the youtubers secret santa machine this year is really kicking me bum bum! but its worth it! you wait and see! Wether you like the odd video on cars or not, let us know! but tbh its the only way i would have found the time to fix it haha.
Public libraries used to full of those Microfiche (pronounced 'feesh') machines. This video brought back many good memories of my 1974 second Mini. Don't ask about the first, the ball joint collapsed about 3 miles after getting off the M1 at Leicester 38 years ago. You did a great job, young man.
As a mini owner you are right to replace the subframe. Lots of people spend a lot of time trying to make 'invisible repairs' but at the end of the day it is a safety critical component and not that expensive in the scheme of things. Glad to see you switched the trumpets for Hilos - a very sensible upgrade. Great to see a young mini fan!
as a mechanic of over 20 years, that is THE BEST description of a brake system I've ever heard. I might have to steal that one, my friend. Fucking Perfect!
Haha I just scrolled down to comment on the brake servo explanation as well. Though purely as an amateur myself (I watched and "helped" my brother fix motorbikes when he was a teenager lol)
microfiche WAS the future... In the 80s and 90s it was absolutely huge. It allowed libraries to store vastly larger literature collections than they would have been able to otherwise. I spent many long hours on microfiche machines scanning old documents. Yeah, the internet and computers replaced them, but they were a fantastic resource in their day.
There are 5 rites of passage to become a true Mini owner (there may be more) 1. Burn and cut your hands to ribbons when trying to replace the speedo cable on the back of the A Series block. Made even worse with an 3 branch aftermarket manifold. 2. Trying to find a way of stopping the hand brake cable, 90º guides and quadrant from seizing every MOT anniversary. 3. Coming up with ingenious ways to prevent the slightest puddle or rain from finding its way into the distributor and killing the ignition. 4. Replacing the annoying water hose (all 3" of it) that goes between the head and block by the thermostat without taking the head off, or using the rubbish concertina one - it will only fail! 5. Replacing the rear subframe. I'm sure there are more. Love the content by the way.
@@stevejones4061 alright Jonesy, thanks for the input. Loved your work with the pistols. That’s a really nice guitar tone you got there and your chugganometery is spot on!
Umm; using the choke for cruise control. Driving it for long enough in cold weather to achieve an actually demisted front window! There must be an inclusion for insane grins through equally insane cornering action.
For decades I used to drive four hours to Boston, then sit in the Boston Public Library’s Patent Library, to scour microfiche for information about obscure technologies. I usually had an excuse (like I was doing research for a client) but ultimately I just loved seeing how people solved strange problems in stranger ways. Thanks for the blast from the past!
I had the identical Mini in racing green. Same decals with rollback sunroof. Janspeed central exhaust. You bring back happy 90s memories as my ALPINE stereo cost more than the car... OH JOY !!!
This reminds me so much of working on my old Triumph Spit back in the day. Rust holes, seized bolts, you fix something and in the process something else breaks :D :D almost nostalgic until I remember being constantly frozen and achey and filthy!! Anyway good on you man, keeping these lovely old things on the road. Not to mention your great music DIY! Cheers
Respect for owning a car that can be maintained at home and doing it yourself. Took me back in time. Learnt a lot in the 80’s working on my 70’s mini and had fun as well driving it. Mind you always seemed to need work in the winter months…….😂
Having owned and worked on minis since I was a kid, you were very lucky the bolts in the heel board came out easily. If you ever want to try out an electric converted one give me a shout.
God, I hated using microfiche - probably just because it was routine and tedious, not because of the tech itself. At the time, I worked in credit control for a company and all our invoices were microfilmed and stored on reels of microfiche. So looking up an invoice involved finding the date, and scanning or searching through a reel to find the right one. Great if you actually had the correct date and number, but a pain in the arse if you only had vague or incorrect details. Quickly scanning trhough to try and find something was tiring on the eyes.
Oh, yes, a nausea machine. My first job had one for chip datasheets. Great rack of microfilm cartridges with just about every chip ever on them. It saved time if you could catch chip numbers and page numbers on the frames as they whizzed past, but after a few minutes you definitely felt grim.
I used to keep and try and keep my old english cars going back in the nineties like my 70s Triumph 2500, all those British Leyland engines leak oil and replacing things like 'rubber' engine mounts a nightmare. Basically to keep these old jalopies going you have to be your own mechanic and your workshop manual becomes soiled with oil and grease...
When i started studying (and programming), i needed much books to read. The university-library had a "Mikrofilm"-database, and it was really easy to learn how to use it. There were films sorted by authors, other sorted by themes. There were lots of microfishe-readers and every one has a box with the filmed databases. Did not took as much time as i thought to find the correct books.
Minis are gloriously simple, small enough to work on in a small garage, parts are widely available and cheap. £300 for a subframe isn't bad! plenty of newer cars end up scrapped due to not being able to get subframes cheap enough.
Sam, if you haven't seen it, you gotta check out a film from New Zealand called 'Goodbye, Porkpie', a young lad rents a mini 1000 with a stolen ID and takes off cannonball style from Auckland all the way down to Invercargill evading police with tons of hijinx! It might still be here on TH-cam full length, also!
As a lover of old electronics, music, random collectibles and of cars, this just became my second favorit youtube channel, right after garbage time (dankpods)
I subbed years ago for the music and have loved every upload since. I work as a mechanic and seeing videos like this make my day. I love the car videos you make
Use The Drome Garage in Manston, man. They're good over there. They might still fail your car for subframe, but they're not like the cowboys at Halfords over at Westwood Cross. They failed my car on a misdiagnosis, then didn't care that they were wrong. Ended up replacing parts that were in perfect condition, once removed.
Wow, now that's taking me back 30+ years...had to do exactly the same on my S-reg. It's pretty funny lifting the back of the car up when there's no subframe attached...scary how light it was.
Nice Mini, looks well looked after, mine passed yesterday after doing lots of work too, I was so pleased I promised it a good polish, and some posh 98-ron petrol, which it happily turned into raspberry noises. 😛 Mini's, turning ex-dinosaurs into noise since 1959.
0:43 OMG! We had one of these in our workshop libary for the swissair aircrafs, like boxes full of these cards with all the drawings for all the difrend airplains of the fleet !
I used to work with these microfilm devices in the university library in the 90s. There was also another type for microfilm on roll, which was used for newspaper archives.
Excellent job on the mini. I'm doing the rear sub-frame on my 20 year old Audi A2 (shot blasted and 2 part epoxy paint as new are no longer available). Your month is a lot quicker than what I'm taking but then my car has past it's MOT. I'm just doing it as the sub-frame is looking tired and are failing on other A2s.
Proud owner of a 1998 Rover Mini Cooper S. Will be picking mine up next week after a complete engine and gearbox rebuild - Following restoration to body, suspension and exhaust last year. Can't wait, it's been bored out to the next oversize and fitted with upgraded crank, pistons and head. Should be like proverbial shit off a shovel.
honestly I wish more places inspected like this. I know it's annoying but we have cars on the road that are one pothole away from rapid disassembly due to corrosion.
Pretty sure most OECD countries have annual tests like the MOT. NZ has the WoF (Warrant of Fitness). From memory the US is the odd one out with it being up to every state to decide and many deciding not to.
@@ZaphodHarkonnen Canada generally does not require annual safety inspections either, apart from a few of the smaller Maritime provinces. In some provinces such as Ontario, you only need an inspection when you register a car, which makes it difficult to uncompliant vehicles, but some like BC don't require inspections at all-except when importing from out-of-province (they're very strict with that one).
Excellent! Remember the microfiche really well. I built a hillclimbing 1275GT as a teenager. The local Austin Rover dealership parts chap knew most of the stock codes off by heart! Though, on occasion he had to get the microfiche out and get me to point at what I wanted on the viewer!
In the 80's I worked for an insurance company that had lots of Microfiche - computer output was directly sent to camera machines so clerks could then look up the data/documents (after locating the correct fiche - very labour intensive). I proposed that we should run a pilot IT project to evaluate document imaging where computer output and document correspondence was scanned to laser disks and then clerks could view on a computer workstation and pass the work around electronically. We felt obliged to ask the incumbent supplier of the Microfiche machines (big name in celluloid film) to also put in a proposal. Their solution was for a clerk to key the fiche number into a terminal, the fiche would then be automatically retrieved from storage cassettes, loaded into a microfiche reader with a TV camera stuck in front and then the TV image would be sent to the clerk. Talk about being wed to old technology! They didn't get the job but we had a good laugh! Today, document image processing is super-ceded by electronic messaging, web forms and apps.
And now I know what it looks like under the gaiter of a steering rack. Ah thank you! That has been bothering me for about 3 weeks now. Seriously. Oddly difficult to find that information.
I've never been a car guy, but ive always loved watching people fix things. Especially people figuring it out while they do it! (Which is exactly how i work). Incidentally, what are you aiming for with your "narrator" voice? It does a remarkable job of not sounding at all like you. :) :) :) (i like it tho!)
Nice work Sam , changed so many of them when I was a lad lol At least you had a car bolt it back into, used to have to weld repair sections in with the captive nuts on them a lot , then all knackered radius arm bearings and ball joints but worse of all on wet minis rotten Hydroelastic pipes , ones from BL came as a pre bent pipe you had to drop the front subframe and rack to get them in You should have shown the welding that’s not boring Happy days
I love watching car-videos - that is basically the majority of what I watch on youtube, so more of that is always welcome. Can't get enough of it, ever! BTW - That Mini looks exactly how a Mini should look: the right colour and the right wheels!
Great job, only bit I'd mention is the front trunnion bolts have the rubbers on the wrong way round. Good excuse to go polly bush on them 😂 And if I was being fussy I'd say grease the bit where the long handbrake goes together on the subframe and squish the tabs in on it and do a wee pinch on the quadrants. I'm an ex mini mechanic 😁
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER next owner? Mini is for life 😁 The tabs are the sort of spoon shaped bits on the subframe where the cable comes together for the link cable. On the quadrants it's a wee squeeze on the corner of it. They're to stop the cable coming off/out when it gets slack from the rear shoes getting worn/cable stretch which hasn't been adjusted out at the rear drums/handbrake link cable. Enjoy your mini 😊
Nice job, but I'd advise using a liberal coating of grease on all those handbrake linkages, and where the cables run in the quadrants, also spray rust-proofing such as Lanoguard or Waxoyl everywhere it's likely to rust on a classic Mini. I did actually MIG-weld a very small area of rust on my Abarth Grande Punto's front subframe, then gave it all a good lick of black paint all over; the factory paint is pretty poor.
Love that comment about the brake servo, "it's like an amplifier for your feet, it makes your feet bigger, kinda". Funny, and also weirdly accurate in terms of torques involved... hydraulics are so fun.
Was recently down at the museum and my mate and I were having a great time looking at the microfiche viewer. I found many many parts that my own mini also needs. Also was really cool to meet you and the team. P.S. the people need a working furby organ!
Looking at your pinned comment, you aren't wrong. That frame really _would_ run another 15 years in the US. 😅 We have a 2001 Chevy S10 truck (lorry?) that finally failed inspection due to frame rust three years ago. We patched it (well, we paid a professional welder to patch it) and it's still on the road. 😁👍
I worked on a digitising project in the mid 2000s that made the first 100 years of Australian patent documents accessible and searchable (full text!) online. Most of those were stored on microfiche - over 600000 sheets of it. We used special fiche scanners from Kodak, plus a bunch of in-house software. The best thing about fiche is probably the durability. Given a stable dark environment that's not too hot it's supposedly good for 100 years - don't need special climate control crap. Way better than regular (non-archive-grade) paper/ink, and as you say it's also much more compact.
My Mother years ago had a Mini, I think it was the Mini Morris and she learned to drive in the thing. Good work on this Mini in the video, Mini's may have lasted longer down under as well.
I reckon you ought to get some chainsaw bar-oil (thinned a bit with paint thinners), stick it in a shutz gun and cover the underside with a lovely sticky goo! been doing this for years and it really helps. waxoyl's fine, but doesn't get into all the seams, nooks and crannies like bar-oil does. the thinners helps it really wick into everywhere that the salty british road-water will end up, and once the thinners flashes off, it leaves a nice film of oil behind. it might be a good idea to adjust your steering stops so those giant wheels don't rub too!
I really do enjoy your occasional auto episodes, as I do your others. I'm either easily pleased, or you're just a very capable educator and entertainer. I think it's probably all of those things!
My first car was an old 1100. The radius arms started to make a graunching sound one day so I jacked it up , put some timber under the sills and released the jack under the rear subframe. As the jack came down, so did the subframe. The metalastic mounts all just came apart. Lucky I hadn't pulled the handbrake on whilst moving otherwise I might have left part of the car behind.
Nice video, really entertaining, and that "speed run" from ~7 minutes was a twist i never expected :D thank you very much :D what is the name of the song in the background from ~7:30 ? It added a lot :)
The microfiche brings back memories. I remember using them at the library to do research with old newspaper articles. I guess it beat going through stacks of old newspapers.
Crikey, you are a man of many talents! I guess our coastal location with the sea salt laden air probably didn't help, especially in the past couple of weeks with the stormy weather. I should know as I don't live too far away from you here at Folkestone.
Literally just took the subframe and radius arms out of my mini last week. Winter work is to refurb the radius arm bushes, but obviously it's spiralling as minis do 😅
There are very few moments I am glad I live in the USA. No, I retract that. This is a first. To get an old car registered in most states, all you need are working head lights, two mirrors, turn signals if that was an original option on you car, and whatever OEM seatbelt situation. It doesn’t even have to run. Brakes? Yeah, it’s basic logic to have working brakes, but in America we don’t let basic logic get in the way of freedom!!
Hah, I put the finned drums on the rear of mine too. They're not really much better but they do look cooler. Yours is almost a twin to mine but mine is a Balmoral edition with the tartan interior. Very cool
I was just waiting for this: "...And I also rewired the whole car electronics to run on MIDI!" *revs engine, honks the horn and turns on the turn signals with a midi keyboard*
NAME A CAR PART....
i did edit out a part saying if this mini was in the USA, this subframe would run for another 15 years, and a whole sarcastic skit about in british taking structural integrity seriously, but i cut it out. it is pretty daft. that subframe was fine and the hole was actually covered with a big flake of lovely iron oxide! i think the MOT tester didnt like mini's and gave it a good prod till it was definitely a hole.. anyway! what you gunna do. it is what it is.
Part of me was tempted to whack out the epoxy fibre glass and fill it in then cover it with underseal and take it to another MOT tester, but i wouldn't have got a video then! and to be honest doing it properly like this, does feel good :). even though i am 500 quid lighter lol.
Also apologies for lack of vids last couple of weeks,
the youtubers secret santa machine this year is really kicking me bum bum! but its worth it! you wait and see!
Wether you like the odd video on cars or not, let us know! but tbh its the only way i would have found the time to fix it haha.
Master cylinder!
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Public libraries used to full of those Microfiche (pronounced 'feesh') machines. This video brought back many good memories of my 1974 second Mini. Don't ask about the first, the ball joint collapsed about 3 miles after getting off the M1 at Leicester 38 years ago. You did a great job, young man.
Depends what state you’re in. Some states don’t have any inspection and others are super strict and will fail for even superficial rust on the body.
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As a mini owner you are right to replace the subframe. Lots of people spend a lot of time trying to make 'invisible repairs' but at the end of the day it is a safety critical component and not that expensive in the scheme of things. Glad to see you switched the trumpets for Hilos - a very sensible upgrade. Great to see a young mini fan!
The subframe is incredibly cheap if you compare it to the price of an aircraft carrier :)
@robertschnobert9090It's cheap if you fit it yourself, I imagine it might be rather expensive if you had to pay a mechanic.
Once again@robertschnobert9090, you have made an excellent point.
this is what i love about your videos, not that you just focus on one single topic, but you simply show your hobbys! - very well done, mate!
as a mechanic of over 20 years, that is THE BEST description of a brake system I've ever heard. I might have to steal that one, my friend. Fucking Perfect!
Haha I just scrolled down to comment on the brake servo explanation as well. Though purely as an amateur myself (I watched and "helped" my brother fix motorbikes when he was a teenager lol)
microfiche WAS the future... In the 80s and 90s it was absolutely huge. It allowed libraries to store vastly larger literature collections than they would have been able to otherwise. I spent many long hours on microfiche machines scanning old documents. Yeah, the internet and computers replaced them, but they were a fantastic resource in their day.
The ways skilled operators could zoom around the microfiche still has a speed that the fastest broadband struggles to rival.
There are 5 rites of passage to become a true Mini owner (there may be more)
1. Burn and cut your hands to ribbons when trying to replace the speedo cable on the back of the A Series block. Made even worse with an 3 branch aftermarket manifold.
2. Trying to find a way of stopping the hand brake cable, 90º guides and quadrant from seizing every MOT anniversary.
3. Coming up with ingenious ways to prevent the slightest puddle or rain from finding its way into the distributor and killing the ignition.
4. Replacing the annoying water hose (all 3" of it) that goes between the head and block by the thermostat without taking the head off, or using the rubbish concertina one - it will only fail!
5. Replacing the rear subframe.
I'm sure there are more. Love the content by the way.
@@stevejones4061 alright Jonesy, thanks for the input. Loved your work with the pistols. That’s a really nice guitar tone you got there and your chugganometery is spot on!
@@Compliment_Thief I'm not that Jonesy, unfortunately. But we are a similar age! Did he ever have a Mini?
@ yea pretty sure he says he drove McLaren about in a mini van Iirc
Umm;
using the choke for cruise control.
Driving it for long enough in cold weather to achieve an actually demisted front window!
There must be an inclusion for insane grins through equally insane cornering action.
I was wondering whether the water hose was going to make the list. Have a great weekend!
Dude, you give me so much strength. Thank you for invincibly being yourself in a world that's trying to stop any and all fun.
For decades I used to drive four hours to Boston, then sit in the Boston Public Library’s Patent Library, to scour microfiche for information about obscure technologies.
I usually had an excuse (like I was doing research for a client) but ultimately I just loved seeing how people solved strange problems in stranger ways. Thanks for the blast from the past!
I like LOOKMUMNOCAR and look forward to more episodes.
I like the humour you gave to this vlog. nice work here
Well done! Any day that you manage to pass the MOT is a very good day indeed !
finally a new episode of project binky!
I had to check too!
I had the identical Mini in racing green. Same decals with rollback sunroof. Janspeed central exhaust. You bring back happy 90s memories as my ALPINE stereo cost more than the car... OH JOY !!!
I think this is my favourite video of yours so far - the voice 😂
"The magpie inside of me got the better of me!"
Well said, sir.
What a beautiful little mini.
Always appreciated a mini, mini fix video !
what a brilliant and entertaining video! loved it!
Thanks for taking the time to create, edit, and share :)
The only car-repair-vids I watch!! And, I always liked the mini :)
I get weirdly excited about these car videos. Keep 'em coming!
This reminds me so much of working on my old Triumph Spit back in the day. Rust holes, seized bolts, you fix something and in the process something else breaks :D :D almost nostalgic until I remember being constantly frozen and achey and filthy!! Anyway good on you man, keeping these lovely old things on the road. Not to mention your great music DIY! Cheers
Respect for owning a car that can be maintained at home and doing it yourself. Took me back in time. Learnt a lot in the 80’s working on my 70’s mini and had fun as well driving it. Mind you always seemed to need work in the winter months…….😂
Having owned and worked on minis since I was a kid, you were very lucky the bolts in the heel board came out easily.
If you ever want to try out an electric converted one give me a shout.
God, I hated using microfiche - probably just because it was routine and tedious, not because of the tech itself.
At the time, I worked in credit control for a company and all our invoices were microfilmed and stored on reels of microfiche. So looking up an invoice involved finding the date, and scanning or searching through a reel to find the right one. Great if you actually had the correct date and number, but a pain in the arse if you only had vague or incorrect details.
Quickly scanning trhough to try and find something was tiring on the eyes.
yeah i bet! even just a little go on it, scrubbing between aint fun
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER and trying to do it after a night on the beer made it worse too
Oh, yes, a nausea machine. My first job had one for chip datasheets. Great rack of microfilm cartridges with just about every chip ever on them. It saved time if you could catch chip numbers and page numbers on the frames as they whizzed past, but after a few minutes you definitely felt grim.
I used to keep and try and keep my old english cars going back in the nineties like my 70s Triumph 2500, all those British Leyland engines leak oil and replacing things like 'rubber' engine mounts a nightmare. Basically to keep these old jalopies going you have to be your own mechanic and your workshop manual becomes soiled with oil and grease...
Good work! Sometimes getting minis through mot's can be a pain.. some testers can be abit heavy handed with them. Im so glad mine are mot exempt now!
as a gas service engineer I would be on the microfiche every morning looking up part numbers. actually worked really well.
I still regret selling my minis, so much fun to be had!
Great video!
When i started studying (and programming), i needed much books to read. The university-library had a "Mikrofilm"-database, and it was really easy to learn how to use it. There were films sorted by authors, other sorted by themes. There were lots of microfishe-readers and every one has a box with the filmed databases. Did not took as much time as i thought to find the correct books.
This was a treat of a vid, been more into cars than synths lately!
Minis are gloriously simple, small enough to work on in a small garage, parts are widely available and cheap. £300 for a subframe isn't bad! plenty of newer cars end up scrapped due to not being able to get subframes cheap enough.
Sam, if you haven't seen it, you gotta check out a film from New Zealand called 'Goodbye, Porkpie', a young lad rents a mini 1000 with a stolen ID and takes off cannonball style from Auckland all the way down to Invercargill evading police with tons of hijinx!
It might still be here on TH-cam full length, also!
As a lover of old electronics, music, random collectibles and of cars, this just became my second favorit youtube channel, right after garbage time (dankpods)
I worked with these micro fiches when I was in vocational training in the 80s. What a loveley car. Never give that green beast away. Never!!! 😀👍
I subbed years ago for the music and have loved every upload since. I work as a mechanic and seeing videos like this make my day. I love the car videos you make
Use The Drome Garage in Manston, man. They're good over there. They might still fail your car for subframe, but they're not like the cowboys at Halfords over at Westwood Cross. They failed my car on a misdiagnosis, then didn't care that they were wrong. Ended up replacing parts that were in perfect condition, once removed.
Nice Car. I replaced the back subframe on my Mini way back in the 1970's. Put me off fixing cars for life.
lol
Wow, now that's taking me back 30+ years...had to do exactly the same on my S-reg. It's pretty funny lifting the back of the car up when there's no subframe attached...scary how light it was.
Nice Mini, looks well looked after, mine passed yesterday after doing lots of work too, I was so pleased I promised it a good polish, and some posh 98-ron petrol, which it happily turned into raspberry noises. 😛 Mini's, turning ex-dinosaurs into noise since 1959.
0:43 OMG! We had one of these in our workshop libary for the swissair aircrafs, like boxes full of these cards with all the drawings for all the difrend airplains of the fleet !
I used to work with these microfilm devices in the university library in the 90s. There was also another type for microfilm on roll, which was used for newspaper archives.
Excellent job on the mini. I'm doing the rear sub-frame on my 20 year old Audi A2 (shot blasted and 2 part epoxy paint as new are no longer available). Your month is a lot quicker than what I'm taking but then my car has past it's MOT. I'm just doing it as the sub-frame is looking tired and are failing on other A2s.
Love the Mini, such a cool design.
Proud owner of a 1998 Rover Mini Cooper S. Will be picking mine up next week after a complete engine and gearbox rebuild - Following restoration to body, suspension and exhaust last year. Can't wait, it's been bored out to the next oversize and fitted with upgraded crank, pistons and head. Should be like proverbial shit off a shovel.
honestly I wish more places inspected like this. I know it's annoying but we have cars on the road that are one pothole away from rapid disassembly due to corrosion.
Pretty sure most OECD countries have annual tests like the MOT. NZ has the WoF (Warrant of Fitness). From memory the US is the odd one out with it being up to every state to decide and many deciding not to.
@@ZaphodHarkonnen Canada generally does not require annual safety inspections either, apart from a few of the smaller Maritime provinces.
In some provinces such as Ontario, you only need an inspection when you register a car, which makes it difficult to uncompliant vehicles, but some like BC don't require inspections at all-except when importing from out-of-province (they're very strict with that one).
Came here to say this. You see some really scary stuff on the roads here (US west coast).
@@ZaphodHarkonnen NZ WOF is every 6 months too! mental.
@@lemagreengreen Only for vehicles built before Jan 1 2000. The vast majority of vehicles are every year. Or start with 3 years if brand new.
Excellent! Remember the microfiche really well. I built a hillclimbing 1275GT as a teenager. The local Austin Rover dealership parts chap knew most of the stock codes off by heart! Though, on occasion he had to get the microfiche out and get me to point at what I wanted on the viewer!
In the 80's I worked for an insurance company that had lots of Microfiche - computer output was directly sent to camera machines so clerks could then look up the data/documents (after locating the correct fiche - very labour intensive). I proposed that we should run a pilot IT project to evaluate document imaging where computer output and document correspondence was scanned to laser disks and then clerks could view on a computer workstation and pass the work around electronically.
We felt obliged to ask the incumbent supplier of the Microfiche machines (big name in celluloid film) to also put in a proposal. Their solution was for a clerk to key the fiche number into a terminal, the fiche would then be automatically retrieved from storage cassettes, loaded into a microfiche reader with a TV camera stuck in front and then the TV image would be sent to the clerk. Talk about being wed to old technology! They didn't get the job but we had a good laugh!
Today, document image processing is super-ceded by electronic messaging, web forms and apps.
And now I know what it looks like under the gaiter of a steering rack. Ah thank you! That has been bothering me for about 3 weeks now. Seriously. Oddly difficult to find that information.
I feel your pain, I did this myself on the driveway with my father inlaw in the late 80's. Not a fun way to spend a weekend.
I've never been a car guy, but ive always loved watching people fix things. Especially people figuring it out while they do it! (Which is exactly how i work).
Incidentally, what are you aiming for with your "narrator" voice? It does a remarkable job of not sounding at all like you. :) :) :) (i like it tho!)
Nice work Sam , changed so many of them when I was a lad lol
At least you had a car bolt it back into, used to have to weld repair sections in with the captive nuts on them a lot , then all knackered radius arm bearings and ball joints but worse of all on wet minis rotten Hydroelastic pipes , ones from BL came as a pre bent pipe you had to drop the front subframe and rack to get them in
You should have shown the welding that’s not boring
Happy days
Brother you are like a window into the past. Its amazing.
I love watching car-videos - that is basically the majority of what I watch on youtube, so more of that is always welcome. Can't get enough of it, ever! BTW - That Mini looks exactly how a Mini should look: the right colour and the right wheels!
Great work Sir!
Great job, only bit I'd mention is the front trunnion bolts have the rubbers on the wrong way round. Good excuse to go polly bush on them 😂
And if I was being fussy I'd say grease the bit where the long handbrake goes together on the subframe and squish the tabs in on it and do a wee pinch on the quadrants.
I'm an ex mini mechanic 😁
Thanks! Bit late on the trunion rubbers. I was following the exploded diagram. Ooops! Well that's a problem for the next owner now ha. Cheers!
Which tabs do
You speak of?
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER next owner? Mini is for life 😁
The tabs are the sort of spoon shaped bits on the subframe where the cable comes together for the link cable. On the quadrants it's a wee squeeze on the corner of it. They're to stop the cable coming off/out when it gets slack from the rear shoes getting worn/cable stretch which hasn't been adjusted out at the rear drums/handbrake link cable.
Enjoy your mini 😊
Thanks I was not aware. Will sort
Int morning!
Nice job, but I'd advise using a liberal coating of grease on all those handbrake linkages, and where the cables run in the quadrants, also spray rust-proofing such as Lanoguard or Waxoyl everywhere it's likely to rust on a classic Mini.
I did actually MIG-weld a very small area of rust on my Abarth Grande Punto's front subframe, then gave it all a good lick of black paint all over; the factory paint is pretty poor.
Love that comment about the brake servo, "it's like an amplifier for your feet, it makes your feet bigger, kinda". Funny, and also weirdly accurate in terms of torques involved... hydraulics are so fun.
This is all great and stuff. Got your mini on the road. But where is the tape delay? Cheers, mate! Gratz!
Was recently down at the museum and my mate and I were having a great time looking at the microfiche viewer. I found many many parts that my own mini also needs. Also was really cool to meet you and the team.
P.S. the people need a working furby organ!
Been there done that, several times! Had loads of Mini's through the years. And its SUPER Minifins when they have the 1" spacer on them 😉
Are you really using microfiche to keep up the 'no computer' pretense?! 😂
I like your 'trusty car mechanic' voice today
At the end it slips into sounding like Parker from Thunderbirds 😆 love it
I love it when you work on your car!
Looking at your pinned comment, you aren't wrong. That frame really _would_ run another 15 years in the US. 😅 We have a 2001 Chevy S10 truck (lorry?) that finally failed inspection due to frame rust three years ago. We patched it (well, we paid a professional welder to patch it) and it's still on the road. 😁👍
I worked on a digitising project in the mid 2000s that made the first 100 years of Australian patent documents accessible and searchable (full text!) online. Most of those were stored on microfiche - over 600000 sheets of it. We used special fiche scanners from Kodak, plus a bunch of in-house software. The best thing about fiche is probably the durability. Given a stable dark environment that's not too hot it's supposedly good for 100 years - don't need special climate control crap. Way better than regular (non-archive-grade) paper/ink, and as you say it's also much more compact.
My Mother years ago had a Mini, I think it was the Mini Morris and she learned to drive in the thing. Good work on this Mini in the video, Mini's may have lasted longer down under as well.
Great pacing! Great info. Entertaining. And just weird enough to be fun!! I'd enjoy more of these videos myself.
Nicely done. Love car content like this.
Love the new theme! Of course you DIY.
I reckon you ought to get some chainsaw bar-oil (thinned a bit with paint thinners), stick it in a shutz gun and cover the underside with a lovely sticky goo! been doing this for years and it really helps. waxoyl's fine, but doesn't get into all the seams, nooks and crannies like bar-oil does. the thinners helps it really wick into everywhere that the salty british road-water will end up, and once the thinners flashes off, it leaves a nice film of oil behind.
it might be a good idea to adjust your steering stops so those giant wheels don't rub too!
microfiche! I love those machines. I remember printing out many an old article at the library.
Had a 1984 Mayfair Mini, loved it.
My mini's last MOT (before it became exempt) had 2 pages of major faults 😅
My dad said there were cars in scrap yards with fewer issues!!
I love the commentary, great video
I really do enjoy your occasional auto episodes, as I do your others. I'm either easily pleased, or you're just a very capable educator and entertainer. I think it's probably all of those things!
My first car was an old 1100. The radius arms started to make a graunching sound one day so I jacked it up , put some timber under the sills and released the jack under the rear subframe. As the jack came down, so did the subframe. The metalastic mounts all just came apart. Lucky I hadn't pulled the handbrake on whilst moving otherwise I might have left part of the car behind.
Loving the mini content and your unique presentation 😂
Love all your content, variety is the spice of life 🔧👍
"it sort of makes your feet bigger in a weird way" lmao
Nice video, really entertaining, and that "speed run" from ~7 minutes was a twist i never expected :D thank you very much :D what is the name of the song in the background from ~7:30 ? It added a lot :)
Mate please do more car videos cos I’m so close to getting a mini myself now I’ve always wanted one 😂
Totally mind blowing Sam job, it just shows you can put your mind to anything and repair/upgrade/fix-it. 10/10
The microfiche brings back memories. I remember using them at the library to do research with old newspaper articles. I guess it beat going through stacks of old newspapers.
This was absolutely hilarious. I loved it.
Love those gold 8 spoke wheels, had some on a 71 VW.
Crikey, you are a man of many talents! I guess our coastal location with the sea salt laden air probably didn't help, especially in the past couple of weeks with the stormy weather. I should know as I don't live too far away from you here at Folkestone.
Minis are great fun providing you like constantly fixing things, which fortunately I do!
This goes for any classic British car.
The old mota struggle, is ace👍🏴
Lovely Mini.
Thanks for the amazing narration, cheers
Good job, Sam. Keeping the old car on the road a little longer. Also that microfiche is cool.
Literally just took the subframe and radius arms out of my mini last week. Winter work is to refurb the radius arm bushes, but obviously it's spiralling as minis do 😅
There are very few moments I am glad I live in the USA. No, I retract that. This is a first.
To get an old car registered in most states, all you need are working head lights, two mirrors, turn signals if that was an original option on you car, and whatever OEM seatbelt situation. It doesn’t even have to run. Brakes? Yeah, it’s basic logic to have working brakes, but in America we don’t let basic logic get in the way of freedom!!
Hah, I put the finned drums on the rear of mine too. They're not really much better but they do look cooler. Yours is almost a twin to mine but mine is a Balmoral edition with the tartan interior. Very cool
Nice repair
Wow you out did yourself nice subframe !!
I dig the Mini repairs!
Awesome video! So interesting to see the inner workings of a mota'
I enjoyed that, you did well there lad, so good to do things yourself, i must of saved many thousands over the years. Love your channel.
I was just waiting for this:
"...And I also rewired the whole car electronics to run on MIDI!"
*revs engine, honks the horn and turns on the turn signals with a midi keyboard*
Motoring Industry Digital Interface
Didn't he already do MIDI-controlled throttle? Honking the horn would be easy in comparison.
Loving the new editing style! 😂