We bought a new-to-us car - a 2024 Mini Clubman! Jim has been searching for the right car for quite a while, as my Suzuki is 14 years old. We wanted small and AWD, which is a really hard combination to find. 2024 is the last year of the Clubman's, which is the model we like. Jim found the perfect car and I love it! Because they stopped making manual transmissions in 2019, this is an automatic so there's a steep learning curve involved. Neither Jim nor I have ever had a car with an automatic transmission!
Now Jim and I have almost matching Minis!
Back in the shop, Jim continued working on putting together the block. Attaching the oil pump...
Jim had to get very creative to find a new seat for the water bypass pipe. This is the old seal...
The seal has to be heat resistant and Jim couldn't find a readymade replacement. So he bought a block of this seal - it came in a 12" block which he had to cut in half twice to get it to the right thickness. Trying it out...
He used some of the adhesive we used for attaching insulation to the cold-formed steel...
Attaching...
Installed!
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| 9.27 - High 61.6/Low 55.9 9.28 - High 57.7/Low 55.8 9.29 - High 58/Low 55.6 9.30 - High 62.8/Low 54.6 |
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