Well almost, after fitting a new front door and fresh paint on the amended garage door I felt like I had a bit of time for the mini.
Bonnet time. I grab son 2 /assistant and set about bolting it on. A little bit fiddly. Checked alignment, oh look at those lovely huge gaps around the bonnet, yum. I fair bit of tweeking so the bonnet wouldn't rub at the back as it was closed. Found a happy medium for it and moved onto the stay. Quickly stopped playing with that due to there being no plate on the inner wing for the stay to be parked in when the bonnet is up. Sigh, all I know is I didn't take it off. But also I didn't notice it was missing!
Well the next thing would be the catches. I felt a saga creeping in. Few, i wasn't disappointed! The main catch was fun to bolt on , then it was great to see it was sitting to the right and missing the slam panel catch. More adjustment and a quick change of washers to stop them just falling into the large holes of the bonnet. Close, back to adjusting the length of the bonnet catch ... which needed to be longer than it would extend to. A plan B was formed but would have to wait, so moved onto fitting the saftey catch. Wow what a tw@$, it really did fight it self. Everything was always out of alignment making fitting the pin just a little bit hard. With lots of twisting, a thin screwdriver as a guide, pushing sticks, an extra pair of hands/eyes, extra light and a sprinkling of patience the pin finally dropped in.
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