Hi Baz. Really enjoying the channel and content. Don't envy anyone in the motor trade these days, cars are becoming more and more complicated and difficult to work on! When i started as a mechanic back in 1980 cars were so simple! Plugs, points, condenser etc, relatively easy to diagnose and fix any car back in the day. Glad I got out when I did, been retired 3 years now. Don't miss the trade one bit! Keep up the good work!!
I've done a lot of work on my wife's Mini over the years. She loves the car, it handles well and they are stylish. All I would say, is that I don't find the build quality that good - things often break when you're doing a job and cause delays and trips to the Mini parts department! 😄
Hats off to you mate.. I do this shit for a living, same quality of a job but when that banjo shears and the job is 5x more work I stress and swear, you seem so calm and just carry on. Bloody well done mate keep the content coming 👏
He swears off camera. We all swear. It's stress relief. As a home mechanic, no better feeling than when a bolt just frees itself. No worse than when you feel a bolt rounding off...
Fire solve a lot of things especaily blocked pipes like that, fire is like the mechanics secret wepon to unblock pipes is there owt fire can't fix, grate video Baz keep it up.
Amazing diagnostics & repairs...Only question I have: since you replaced so many gaskets, washers & bolts...Why not just replace the small pipe which was clogged...?
A gasket is a gasket and they need replacing when removed... The pipe is a pipe and is now clear if I had any doubt I would have replaced it, I agree what you're saying and it's a good point
Baz, I have no idea how you do all that fiddly work with the engine in situ. That would drive me up the wall and down the other side….anyway, top work as always.
Mates a main dealer mech on these - says that banjo bolt always carks - they now leave it on & use fire/pokey pokey to avoid the ballache of removing the manifold. Renaults do the exact same.,
@@bazmeredith Personally I hit the banjo with a blowtorch before trying to remove it & have had great luck wiggling them back & forth gently before winding out. I have the time to do that tho - his place is always manic so they do the least risky/fastest fix every time. Plus they don't really care, lol, so once it's vaguely unblocked, they send it. :-)
Great video showing the complexities of working on a Mini. Certainly not for ramps on the drive methinks! The OBD Computer is certainly a must for working on modern cars. Main dealers are minting it on service for sure . 👍
I've just done the same pipe on a 1 series and them bolts always snap just have to work it and re tap and die the bolt and the thread in the manifold before pitting it back on
