My Old Smoker

You may or may not know that I’m struggling with my Mini at the moment. I took the spark plugs out one at a time this afternoon. Number one was nice and clean (ish!) normal looking. Two, three and four were sooty and black.

One – four (left to right):

Spark1 Spark Two Spark 3 Spark 4

I jumped in the car to go to see a friend and pick up a compression tester. When we found his house (I forgot how to get there…) the car was making some really horrible clunking noises. We eventually got home and I popped the bonnet to see if I could see anything obvious. Watch the video to see what I saw:

I’m am 105% certain that this isn’t good…

Collin on September 18, 2006 | Filed Under Words

3 Comments

goat  on September 18th, 2006

Doesn’t look overly healthy mate! :o)

Cornell Finch » Some Say I’m A Little Bonkers!  on September 18th, 2006

[...] I went to the annual Sainsbury’s Mini Run yesterday. The idea is to visit four Sainsbury’s (superstore) and a bespoke chocolate shop in as little time as possible (without breaking the law). Due to my car problems I didn’t take the Cooper down. I was just going to take some photos at the start and the end. Wayne from The Cub Club had no co-driver so I volunteered. Rather than actually do the run, Wayne was happy to ferry me around to take photos at the other four locations. We did. On the way to Hedge End (Southampton) I had a thought. This is the result of that thought: [...]

Cornell Finch » Compression Testing  on September 19th, 2006

[...] Completing the compression test on the engine of My Old Smoker (the new, not so complementary name for Harvey the Mini Cooper) has given me some very good news. I now have a way ahead for fixing the bloody thing! [...]

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