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Hi,

My Dad is just finishing off rescuing an early Mk2 998 Austin Mini and has a problem with the choke cable.

Although the car was complete when we got it, it was robbed of quite a few parts as it was going to be scrapped and so the car was dismantled without much regard for details.

One such detail was the type of choke/throttle cable mounting bracket it had between the carb and manifold. The cable that the car had fitted when we got it was the Mk1 bakelite type with CHOKE on it.

As the picture shows, the bracket fitted is the Mk1 type (as fitted to my 1960 Mk1) but the choke cable looks to be at an awkward angle and makes the operation not very smooth. On my Mk1, the cable passes through the bulkhead UNDER the crossmember, making the flow of the cable upwards much straighter than shown in the picture, where it comes through the bulkhead in the usual place.

Does anyone either know for sure what configuration choke cable and bracketry is correct for an early Mk2 or have any pictures of engine bays of early Mk2's ?

Heres hoping someone can help

My late 68 MK 2 has the choke cable on the other side, that is, the choke is fitted on the left of the switch panel.





I assume it's correct, apart from the colour. The car is pretty well unmolested.

Thanks for the reply and pics.

Yes, that's how most of the Mk2's were from what I can see, much like the later Mk2 Cooper I guess.

Anyone else able to shed any light on the early cars ?

A mk1 I am doing for a friend has the same bracket that you show, with the choke coming up from underneath, and as you described, it comes through a hole under the bulkhead crossmember. Perhaps the bracket you have is incorrect for mk2??

Yes, thats a distinct possibility

Trouble is, we rescued the car from the clutches of the scrap man, mainly for the set of LP883 S wheels it had on it. The car was going to be scrapped by us so it was stripped with little regard to such fine details.

Unfortunately (fortunately for the car though) Dad decided to rebuild it and these fine details are coming back to bite us. We'd like to get it correct if possible to keep the originality police at bay