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94touring

Quote from: Willie_B on March 07, 2021, 10:55:20 AM
Could make it a mini transporter.

Maybe this is what I need  8.gif

BruceK

Did any of you guys watch that Indonesian/Bangladesh bus video I posted above? 
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94touring

Quote from: BruceK on March 07, 2021, 03:30:14 PM
Did any of you guys watch that Indonesian/Bangladesh bus video I posted above?

I just did.  I wonder why they're in such a big hurry over there?

MPlayle

Quote from: BruceK on March 07, 2021, 03:30:14 PM
Did any of you guys watch that Indonesian/Bangladesh bus video I posted above?

I watched it shortly after you posted.  I thought the Philippine bus drivers were bad when we lived there, but these guys seem worse.

BruceK

Quote from: 94touring on March 07, 2021, 03:50:38 PM
Quote from: BruceK on March 07, 2021, 03:30:14 PM
Did any of you guys watch that Indonesian/Bangladesh bus video I posted above?

I just did.  I wonder why they're in such a big hurry over there?

I dunno.  Seems to be a competition among the bus drivers about who's going to get to the destinations first?  Grudge matches?
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MiniDave

Looked to me to be a competition to see who arrives at the scene of the accident first!
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BruceK


Fire breathing A-series fun.  Jump to the 5:00 mark to see and hear it.

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BruceK

It's been at least a decade since these TV commercials first aired, but I still get a kick out of them. 

"Say what.  What? "

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BruceK

#158
Edd China, everyone's favorite very tall mechanic, has started a new YouTube channel called Workshop Diaries.  The first couple of episodes are out now.  Seems like a lot of  the familiar work he did on Wheeler Dealers.

There's also a Mini in the background of many shots that appears to have a very short roof. I wonder if we're going to learn about that car?

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MiniDave

I think Episode 2 is out already too, maybe this should have it's own thread so we can follow them?
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BruceK

Good idea.  I'll do it.
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BruceK

Some basics on threads. 

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2002 MINI Cooper S
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MiniDave

Yep, I clean every hole in an engine block before it goes to the jet wash, or before I assemble an engine. The problem with those sets he shows is that you need a much bigger set than he showed, and I need both metric and imperial sizes. I have saved some bolts that my students screwed up in class with one of those sets!

If I have bolts that I'm going to re-use first they get the threads cleaned on the bench grinder's fine wire brush, but most of the time I just use new bolts - the extra cost is just nothing compared to the time it takes to clean all these bolts, and I almost always use new nuts and washers. The only exceptions are specialty bolts that I can't buy new or that aren't readily available. There are a very few of those on a Mini engine or suspension and if I plan ahead I can even get those from Spares.
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BruceK

#163
Idiots + water + cars + lack of mechanical understanding = predictable results.


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ADRay

hadn't heard of this until yesterday. 1:45 and 5:30

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MiniDave

Wonder why they call it "grass" racing - they're on the dirt!

Second, these cars look to all be rear wheel drive? It looked like the Pup had the motor in the bed?
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BruceK

1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

How do you say "flying toilet paper roll" in Italian?    ;D

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MiniDave

First use of the ducted fan principle? I wonder what the goal was, more efficiency, greater speed? But to what end as the design sure limits the rest of the functionality.....
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tsumini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ua3fUzsUg&feature=emb_rel_end
Yeah ducted fan. link discusses some of the pluses and miuses of the design.

cstudep

Second, these cars look to all be rear wheel drive? It looked like the Pup had the motor in the bed?
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At about 1:45 there are a load of front wheel drive minis. So it appears like there are some front wheel drive classes at least. Looks like a load of fun though either way!

BruceK

Not sure what's happening here, but it sure is wacky.

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MPlayle

Suspension "torture" track being run by a three-wheeler in the Reliant Robin style configuration - single front wheel.

That sort of track is meant to be straddled (left wheels on one set of bumps and the right wheels on the other), which puts the single front wheel riding the common edge of all the bumps, throwing it all over the place.


BruceK

A Mini video whose narration would definitely not be done today.  I think they were trying to be clever and funny.  Still, interesting to see how times have changed.

1988 Austin Mini
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1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Here's a "Bugatti" undergoing the same torture test as that 3-wheeler.   



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1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara