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scott6058 wrote:Very special!
My engine/trans builder is almost complete with a proper build.
The chassis is mine to do.
Thanks for the pictures.
I hope to show you mine and share soon.
You brought it a Long way.
Scott

Hi There Scott...

Thanks for the nice words

It would be great to see some pictures from your car... hope it´s goes well with your rebuild.

Greetings from Canada, I am in the process of restoring a 67 Cooper S and I noticed that your windshield wiper motor armature was rusty and that you had cleaned it, just curious how you did that as I have a similar problem in that the armature on the dynamo is pretty rusty. Thanks for posting your efforts, its very helpful to see how you are approaching things.

maddog67 wrote:Greetings from Canada, I am in the process of restoring a 67 Cooper S and I noticed that your windshield wiper motor armature was rusty and that you had cleaned it, just curious how you did that as I have a similar problem in that the armature on the dynamo is pretty rusty. Thanks for posting your efforts, its very helpful to see how you are approaching things.

Hi Maddog...

Thanks for your kind words. All ways nice to get a compliment for the job on the mini..

I surpose you are talkinfg about the bottom on the Lucas wiper motor???

First it was grinded with a wire brush on a drilling machine... After that it was polished on a polish machine to get all the small marks away.. but not too shiny..

Regards from René

I did a little job on the mini since last time.
The engine is now in the car, and it went quite well. No problems at all.
Just hope it will get on with that, and it should be ready to start up for the first time on it´s 50´years birthday. ( Feb. 26 2014 )

A little more pictures from the job...

So sweet as said before you brought this special car a long way.
Rene it was a pleasure to see your work.

scott6058 wrote:So sweet as said before you brought this special car a long way.
Rene it was a pleasure to see your work.

Hi Scott..

Thanks.. And alway nice to get a compliment from you guy´s inhere...

Hope it goes well with you fine car too mate

Best regards from René

very very pretty congrats to a great car !!

cooperlover wrote:very very pretty congrats to a great car !!

Thankyou very much mate

Cheers

Now with the 5 1/2 Lockheed Servo and brakepipes installed...

Looking very neat indeed Rene.
Did the plate arrive okay.?

InimiaD wrote:Looking very neat indeed Rene.
Did the plate arrive okay.?

Thanks mate

It sure did, thanks again, alway nice with some help from inhere

Cheers from René

Ser perfekt ut !! Gillar din noggrannhet

Nisse

Pretty nice brake pipes.
Have you checked the clearance of the brake pipe at the brake cylinder to the air filter housing?
For LHD Coopers the brake and clutch pipes at the cylinders go first in the dirction of the bulked and run parallel to each other behind the brake master cylinder down to the cross member. This gives enaugh clearance to the air filter housing and to all other items.

On the pics you see the original routing of the brake pipes for LHD Cooper Ss

So long
the doc

The brake pipes should be fastened to the "inner wing" like in the pic. Still have all my rusty old pipes as templates And yes, the pipe has to go "the wrong way" from the master brake cylinder

Obviously both routings were used by the factory. Maybe it also differs between 1071S and 1275S.

Similar to you I kept the original brake pipes of my 65' 1275S as tamplates until I installed the new pipes, so I'm pretty sure the routing is correct.

According to the photos of John Panells Book they are fixed to the inner wing. The original sales brochures doesn't has any illustrations of the engine bay. But I have a German Motor Car Magazine from August 65 where they tested the "new Cooper S". In this magazine is an illustration of the engine bay with the brake pipe routing similar to my S and not fixed to the inner wing.
So it would be the best to keep the old brake pipes as long as possible and just rebuild the new ones accordingly.

So long
the doc

Yes And I see now that your "fresh air trunk" finishes in the engine bay and not at the front panel as on my 1071.....maybe this is why they had an other routing of the pipes (due to fouling of the trunk against the servo ?)
I also have a 1275 (1964) with the same configuration as my 1071. One never stops learning

Gareth

Dr.Mabo wrote:Pretty nice brake pipes.
Have you checked the clearance of the brake pipe at the brake cylinder to the air filter housing?
For LHD Coopers the brake and clutch pipes at the cylinders go first in the dirction of the bulked and run parallel to each other behind the brake master cylinder down to the cross member. This gives enaugh clearance to the air filter housing and to all other items.

On the pics you see the original routing of the brake pipes for LHD Cooper Ss

So long
the doc

Hi Doc

Thanks for you reply, and kind word... You´re correct, did not see that. It will be a problem later, well spotted. I will take it over on the other side
of the master cyliner...

About the LHD pipe route your´re correct. My original ones was too rusty to use again, but the lenght is correct. On my old innerwing there was no hole drilled
for the pipeclip. So as you said, on some LHD they were not fitted in the innerwing.

Who knows why they did that on the old BMC factory.... Monday mornings??

Cheers René

Got some spares back from rechroming... door handles has been reassembled.

Fixing the old steering column..