Pro tip: As you use a punch to dive your main bearings into place.. Don' hammer on the inner race. Only use the punch to the outer race to get it to settle into the case. Even taps around the whole outside. ALso use a shop Ball Peen Hammer for car work. Claw hammers are for houses and Lumber.
You’re a legend mate! I love your videos and the attention to detail it’s amazing! Wish you all the best and keep up the good work! Cheers from Portugal!
Classic Mini DIY I’m not a TH-cam expert or someone you knows the business about recording stuff but sometimes it’s very hard to see thing with excelente quality! For that reason I’m thinking using direct light will help a lot improving your vloging quality! Another thing is saying the tork speck! It helps a lot! But by all means your videos are awesome and please keep up the good work! Cheers
Fitting the bearings with a punch is not good engineering practice, the bearings need to be fitted square to the casing with pressure around the whole outer ring. I used 3/4 drive 1 7/8" socket and copper faced mallet. Worked well for both main bearings.
In a perfect world with access to a press that would be the preferred method but its perfectly safe to install these bearings with a flat punch as long as you hit the center face of the bearing and not the outer ring, taking care to keep your punch on the face and not allowing it to jump into the ball bearings. The socket and mallet method is also a great way to do it as well!
@@classicminidiy sorry to say but as an engineer since 1968 you never ever use the inner face on a ball bearing to tap in the bearing its always always the outer race face if you use the inner face you put the ball bearings under stress and they can fail
The lock tabs before you torque down those gears? Also what final drive is it? I know how you feel with the filming stuff. I had a play film with a GoPro but honestly didn’t feel like doing much with it as it consumes so much time when you just want to get stuck and get something finished. Great videos keep them coming👍
very helpfull. but when checking the clearances you say "lets see if it fits in there" while you block the view completely with your hands :) so no idea where you checked it.. (I do have an idea where, but beginner-mecanics won't. apart from that, great video )
Amazing clean professional work. Any body knows company in UK recondition 1999-2000 mini 1300 Spi cooper classic AP Automatic transmission 4 speed. Repair manual book, special tools. Waiting your help. Best regards,
@@classicminidiy thank you for your quick reply and help, what your advice to me better I overhull the Automatic transmission or I convert it to manual gear. The car 2000 mini 1300 Spi very clean frish paint. Best regards,
Pro tip: As you use a punch to dive your main bearings into place.. Don' hammer on the inner race. Only use the punch to the outer race to get it to settle into the case. Even taps around the whole outside.
ALso use a shop Ball Peen Hammer for car work. Claw hammers are for houses and Lumber.
I confirm this is extremely helpful Cole, thank you!
Hey Cole, great video, you do need to remove the pinion gear though as the locking washer goes on after you install the pinion gear 👍
Yeah only realized after I posted the video. 🤦🏻♂️
Very informative video !
Your videos are 1st class
You’re a legend mate! I love your videos and the attention to detail it’s amazing! Wish you all the best and keep up the good work!
Cheers from Portugal!
Thank you for the kind words! I try my best, I’m sure I still missed something but I’m glad it helps people out. 🙂
Classic Mini DIY I’m not a TH-cam expert or someone you knows the business about recording stuff but sometimes it’s very hard to see thing with excelente quality! For that reason I’m thinking using direct light will help a lot improving your vloging quality! Another thing is saying the tork speck! It helps a lot!
But by all means your videos are awesome and please keep up the good work!
Cheers
Your videos are simply epic. I am following every second 3 times. Thank you
Fitting the bearings with a punch is not good engineering practice, the bearings need to be fitted square to the casing with pressure around the whole outer ring. I used 3/4 drive 1 7/8" socket and copper faced mallet. Worked well for both main bearings.
In a perfect world with access to a press that would be the preferred method but its perfectly safe to install these bearings with a flat punch as long as you hit the center face of the bearing and not the outer ring, taking care to keep your punch on the face and not allowing it to jump into the ball bearings. The socket and mallet method is also a great way to do it as well!
@@classicminidiy sorry to say but as an engineer since 1968 you never ever use the inner face on a ball bearing to tap in the bearing its always always the outer race face if you use the inner face you put the ball bearings under stress and they can fail
what you call your final motion shaft is actually called 1st motion shaft you've got you in s & outs confused
Great video!
Just a suggestion not a criticism but it might be easier to work out your lay shaft end float prior to installing the main shaft and gears.
You know that makes a lot of sense. 🤔 thanks for the tip
Where are you putting the the feeler guage after you've installed the pinion retainer as your arms in the way of shot. You say tolerance is .005
The lock tabs before you torque down those gears? Also what final drive is it?
I know how you feel with the filming stuff. I had a play film with a GoPro but honestly didn’t feel like doing much with it as it consumes so much time when you just want to get stuck and get something finished.
Great videos keep them coming👍
very helpfull. but when checking the clearances you say "lets see if it fits in there" while you block the view completely with your hands :) so no idea where you checked it.. (I do have an idea where, but beginner-mecanics won't. apart from that, great video )
I thought the same, I could not see where the clearance was checked. Any idea?
Still, superb and easy to understand videos.
Amazing clean professional work. Any body knows company in UK recondition 1999-2000 mini 1300 Spi cooper classic AP Automatic transmission 4 speed. Repair manual book, special tools. Waiting your help. Best regards,
Check out Guessworks in the UK. He’s your guy for servicing those automatic transmissions.
@@classicminidiy thank you for your quick reply and help, what your advice to me better I overhull the Automatic transmission or I convert it to manual gear. The car 2000 mini 1300 Spi very clean frish paint. Best regards,
@@classicminidiy I have bad luck Guess works stop working in AP automatic transmission. He mentioned that in website. Best regards
FFS never hit the inner race on a bearing dude.
No torques, cannot see!
What do you mean? Cannot see torque where? All torque specs are published here:
www.classicminidiy.com/technical/torque/
Please do not put these videos up if you are making major assembly mistakes - suggest you look at Guessworks videos
would be good if listed down said mistakes...