“Lost its coolant and driver didn’t notice temperature rising” well in all fairness, standard R56s don’t have a temp gauge

"Okay we'll take this crank pulley off with the 18mm" "Now just remove that" vs any crank pulley I've done ever - right 2m breaker bar, 10ft cheater bar, and the thing still doesnt come out 😂😂

What's the "S" mean. i thought it was SPORT, meaning TURBO... Mine's an S.

GOOD THING car did not catch on fire with all the fuel spilled, since that ratchet produces spark, i seen a co worker clean his impact driver with brake kleen as soon as he hit the trigger right after cleaning it, tool caught on fire

You are awesome! This video helped me and my neighbor replace my head gasket on my 2009 Mini Cooper Base Convertible 6 speed manual tranny. Fortunately, it was just the head gasket that was bad and not the head itself. We also replaced the timing chain kit and water pump even though the car only has 50k miles on it. Also took care of the oil gaskets that were prone to leaking thanks to your heads up. One comment I will make is that the locking pin for the flywheel on the manual transmission is very tricky to engage properly. We initially thought we had it locked but turns out the pin can hit what I believe are the bolts holding the flywheel on giving you a false indication that it’s locked in place. We decided to put a straw in each cylinder and turn the engine until all were of even height across the 4 cylinders. This got the flywheel close enough to find the locking hole without falling on a mounting bolt. Thanks again!

Hey man I’ve got a r60 2011 but far out I can’t find the torque specs for the head cylinder bolts anywhere I’m losing my mind please help

I just replaced the timing chain and got my daughter's 2008 mini cooper base running like a top. She lost her heat inside the car and the overflow bottle top was loose and it lost coolant and she didn't know it. The head gasket is blown now. Do you think the head would be ok? The car shut down immediately when it happened.

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I got to exactly the last stage on this video @Mod Mini and when I went to remove the camshaft locking tool to get to the last 2 head bolts, the exhaust camshaft jumped and span towards me a little bit. Is this bad? What can I do?

I have 2011 clubman 3door turbo 1600 I bought a timing chain kit. The top guard in the head that comes with it rubs agains the top of the chain between the 2 sprockets ex and intake. I put washers under feet of bracket. it clears now.. That says the chain is too thick or guard too low? . next issue is the dip stick is hitting something on the way in about 1/2 way.. Next to the timing chain. ??

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This is one of the most detailed videos with common sense advice I have ever seen on KZfaq. Well done.

Thanks for coming back, I mentioned looking at an 08 S clubman with a cylinder 3 misfire, deal went South, going to look another 08 non S clubman tomorrow.

This video is terrific. It is nice to watch an expert at work.

Hi just want to say thanks for this video. Really helped me a lot today. 👍🏽👍🏽

Glad you're back making repair videos again. They're some of the best I've ever come across. So much so it helped convince me to get an R53 because some of the the big jobs that'd have scared me off otherwise I have the confidence to take them on with your videos.

Thanks for doing this. Nice editing, very fast and concise. Down to business. Appreciate it

Nice video and great effort to edit it down to all the important parts. 👍

Just bought a 2009 mini with this job as the reason for buying it. This video is helping me save tons of time figuring out how this thing comes apart. Thank you so much for this info. My Mini is a cooper S R57 so some things are a bit different but similar enough I can figure the rest out myself.

Great video, saved me a lot of figuring out. Since my headlight bolts went south i started without service mode. This worked well (enough space to pull exh manifold) and saved a lot of work. Only thing is you cant replace exh gasket. In my experience this type of gasket can be reused without problems. Here it also worked. Thx again