Morris Minor Owners Club

Oh and p.s When I went to collect the car, the lights were still on. They had not the decency to disconnect the battery to prevent it being flattened. The lights are not fused, so it is no good removing the fuses. Fortunately the battery is good so the car started.

Clive.

How about this one for a cheek then. I took the Moggy for MOT yesterday morning, having checked it over carefully the previous day. It failed. The problem was that the side and tail lights "were permanently on" and when you switched the headlamps on "the side and tail lamps went off&q...

[quote="MoggyTech"] I assume by copper brake lines, you mean proper Kunifer type? Anti corrosion brake lines often get called 'copper' yet copper on it's own is useless for brake pipe, as it work hardens with vibration and fractures. quote] Yes, the pipes are the propper ones as you would ...

AC switches often struggle with DC current - better use a switch that is rated for DC use. Yes that is correct. Also, the rating of the switch needs to be several times that of the steady 3.5 amperes that the 21 watt bulbs draw. When you first switch on an incandescent lamp, the filiment represents...

I had not realised that Mole Grips is a brand name. I've been using them since at least the early 60's when I was at school, so they have been around for a long time. I suppose it's a bit like the name Hoover. By the way, it's getting hard to buy a decent pair these days, does anyone know a reliable...

Yes, the microswitch is looking like a good option. You can at least hear them click (if the engine is not running. Perhaps it might be better to let sleeping dogs lie, regarding the 4 way and switch. It's so easy to open up a can of worms. Lets have more practical detail and the pictures if possibl...

I once fitted a micro switch to the brake pedal on an mbg(Same pressure system) as a temp measure for MOT My son has the car now 10 years on and still working off the micro switch. Where did you fix the microswitch and what switch did you use ? It would have to be one which makes when the tension i...

[quote="bigginger"]I usually use a pair of vice grips to hold the 4 way steady while I work on it, What are vice grips, are they the same thing as Mole grips, or locking pliers? I have some lengths of fairly hefty angle iron. I was considering cutting two U-shaped notches in the end of a p...

Can anyone suggest a way of holding the four way union whilst trying to remove the brake light switch. I have tried holding the bit underneath the switch with mole grips, but I cannot stop it turning. The new switch seems smaller and a bit different from the old one and its not clear to me in fact w...

Hello again, Well all is now revealed, when I removed the floor cover around the gearbox. At some point in time the chassis leg has been replaced and never drilled or tapped for the relay shaft bush housing. there was no steel plate inside the leg, the housing has been welded from the word go. When ...

[quote="les"]The relay shaft housing is held on by 2 bolts that screw into a 5mm metal plate that is welded on the inside of the chassis, not captive nuts. So if the threads in the plate are no longer serviceable, maybe you could tap them out slightly larger. It is unlikely that this plate...

It is common for corrosion inside the chassis legs to have rendered the captive nuts U/S. It has just occurred to me that the captive nuts for the relay shaft bush housing inside the chassis leg may have broken away , rather than the bolts sheared in the nuts. If this turns out to be the case, my i...

Hello you guys. can anyone advise ? The clutch problem I had posted on the other week turned out to be a collapsed bush on the relay shaft. Common enough. But I found that the bush housing has been welded to the chassis leg by someone previous to me owning the car. I pressume that the bolts are shea...

Otherwise I guess the pressure plate mechanism has collapsed - although normally reliable. Hmm, I think this is probably the case. What I did not mention for fear of sounding silly, was that the pedal went soft as I was changing from 1st to 2nd, as i had just moved off, having sat with the car in 1...

Nothing good ever lasts! I was on the way home yesterday from the Malvern Classic car show, having had a very good day. Just pulling out of a junction when the clutch pedal suddenly gave in and sank almost to the floor. Not with a bang I might say, but it sank within a second or two. I managed to li...

and the noise and vibration would put off even the most mechanically unsympathetic person !!

Yes it would. I would not want to drive far with the gasket blown between cylinders. I would not have thought it would do the bottom end any good either .

Regards, Clive.

I hope it wasnt members of your local branch who reccommended leaving them loose

Yes Kevin, I'm afraid to say it was !!

regards, Clive

I think it highly unlikely. When it goes there are no half measures, the two cylinders concerned will halve their compression reducing their power output to zero. Therefore your 4 cylinder car will now be in effect a 2 cylinder one. Yes, I agree with that. Mine went within a few yards. The two cyli...

The reason it blew was that someone who worked on the engine before I owned the car, had removed the metal heater pipe which runs accross the head and the brackets which share two of the head nuts and had omitted to tighten down the head nuts again after refitting the pipe. The nuts were not even fi...

I have just replaced the head gasket on the 1098cc engine. It had blown between no's 1 and 2 cylinders. Can someone tell me how long I should run the engine before re-torquing the head nuts down again. I daresay this subject has been discussed many times in the past, but I can't find any info on the...