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It never ends with these cars, fights every step on the way.

With the Cooper S being the gift that keeps on giving, ive stumbled into the realm of oscilloscopes, like a whole new world I always thought of as mystic voodoo has now become accessible. Back probing the coil signal wire on Cylinder 4 and monitoring misfires on a Kingbolen K10 pro, behaving on...

Finally got round to putting some wheel cribs together, they stack so you can have some choice on height. Heres a link for general info on cribbing etc. I have it as each 4"x4" junction (16" square) is good for 6000lbs, or 375lbs per square inch. Ive used 3"x4" for the top rails so have...

Good overall but can be a bit much at times. I have them switched so you can run left / right or both. Both is great for general inspection as the whole underside gets well lit, left / right only works well if you want the light at the back of you. When topside looking down on suspension /...

Guilty as charged :thumbup:

Yep, the other side is the same so lucky in that sense, unlucky that the hard lines look like they will chew themselves up taking it all down, probably why the guy who's not long fitted the shiny new back plates swerved the job 😅 It does look that way, but according to the Merc manual its how...

Yep, for use in Australia only (y)

Yep, the calipers are symmetrical enough that some poor pilgrim got them mixed up going back on, I can picture the scene now "Them ****** Mercs are a complete nightmare to bleed!".

Have an old old Merc 230c over the hole today. Can you see what I seeeeeee? :bounce:

Have an ol girl over the hole today, an early 80s Merc w123 230c, shes a non starter due to no power to fuel pump, found to be dry solder joints in the fuel pump relay so kinda easy fix. Looking over the car I noticed a friday night special, can ya see it :bounce:

Thanks for that, will have think about a new title (y)

That makes two of us 😁(y) Was helping a buddy on his Honda CRV the other day, he was up top doing filters and oil etc while I was in the hole doing lower arms, thought that was pretty cool. Plus at least this way ive the choice of hole or no hole, don't have that luxury with posts 😉 No I had it...

Lol, I like to call it 'the power of stubbornness' 😅👍 Cheers man

Cheers guys, am hoping to clean up and modify my pit jack soon, will post it up when im out the other side (y)

First customer, daughters mini cooper s N14... Be really careful about letting one of these things in your garage before you've finished works, that innocent looking little ******* can **** up your whole life in no time flat if it feels so inclined! :ROFLMAO: Gummed up inlet valves due to the...

Urgh, id almost forgot about the mess. Fixed my leaking drier, wrong size clips. Prepped and ready Stevie Wonder couldnt miss it now (y) And a bit of floor paint to seal things up was todays effort.

The much talked about pit extraction fan, I used a kitchen hood extractor with a brushless motor that sits outside the air stream, air change in the pit is around once every 3-4 minutes, 23w running 24/7. Silent, works great (y)

I cut out enough to get the roller door in, will sort the rest of the roof this year when the weathers better. Made a door, just put all thread through the centres and glued it up. Yes, i dunno wot im doing lol turned out pretty good. from the outside all counter battened ready for...

Then ground out to cap the floor. Yeah should have the racking and compressor etc out the but I was picking battles. The other side and front step were just more of the same. Heres how the sump outlet goes atm By this time id already demoed the front wall and doors etc, and started...

Has been a while, heres how things went with the floor and various other bits (y) I cut out to run the vent and services, wanted to do this after the pit was in the interests of stability.