Just a head's up to anyone else who might make the same mistake I made with my Mini.
I wanted to get some slop out of the hubs, so I've been using single, very thin, teflon shims on the axles, before they're inserted through the bearings. This has worked very well until now.
I noticed that there was a teeny bit more I could tune out, so I thought that maybe 2 very thing teflon shims would do the trick. It seemed alright at first, but once the car ran, and everything settled into a groove, the front hubs were almost completely jammed up. Bearings got a little messed up, too.
Don't know why, but it happened.
As for the other slop in the suspension. Don't bother trying to tune it out. I did for quite a while, and discovered that it can actually hinder your car's performance. I'm running what I would have thought was a sloppy suspension now, and the car handles very well by comparison.
Jim