Morris Minor Owners Club

as Phil said in the first post also take a close look at the engine mounts. the front ones can become completely detached from their backing plates and it may not be obvious until you lift the engine up.

I rebuilt the box on ours last year, nothng to difficult, a puller and something to warm up various parts (I used the gas bbq) was about all that was needed, the old box was noisy but worked OK we changed it because a horrible screeching noise started, that turned out to be a seized prop uj. It's st...

if you look in the restoration section and find the thread "2 door VAE 306H" on page13 I describe how I fittted street Ka seats to my son's minor.

esm do a reground 948 crank and bearings for £200 if you return them.the old one.

If it's a MG engine does it have the larger 2" mains? if so it won't be so easy or cheap to replace.

Depends how far you want to go, as a minimum treat the rust and then coat with some sort of protection wax to stop it getting worse (something like Blt Hamber UC), alternatively brush a coat of thinned epoxy primer and some topcoat over it after the rust treatment.

Assuming it's in reasonable health I'd give it a try and see what happens, I can't see it doing any great harm. Only thing I would think about is adding a ZDDP addative, most modern engines don't have the sliding surfaces of an older design and ZDDP help with this, it also helps with friction which ...

Before taking anything appart I'd check through the other hole in the trans that there is actualy a clearance between the release bearing and the fingers of the clutch, something in the linkage could be bottoming out.

it used to be done by OEM's to prevent noise (imagine an open box member with a few holes in it is a bit like an organ pipe),that would have been after ecoat though and I can't imagine it will have any benefit on a minor.

people seem to be asking at least £600 for any 1275 whatever state it's in, more for one which can be shown to run well, do a search with history in ebay to see what they have gone for.

I may be getting mixed up but I seem to remember the damped pulley needing a longer bolt, I ended up cutting the threaded part of the starter dog off and welding it to the new bolt. (still fitted fine). The other thing was couldn't use the flat ring spanner I had to tighten the bolt up becasue of th...

Best way to get your money back would be to stick a secondhand 1098 engine in as well, 1275's go for the same stupid money as type 9's.

I found the ball and spring type to be far to high too, went back to the original bullet type, idles around 50psi now.

The Ford based disc set up I copied used Ford discs with the stud holes re-drilled at a 4"pcd and the centre bore enlarged so they slip over the std minor hub and align on the spigit usually used to centre the drum with longer studs. The caliper is then mounted on a bracket which uses the origi...

The other option is to stamp a strip of alloy with whatever is on the v5 and rivet it on the engine (this is effectively what happens on moderns) or just remove the tag altogether, if the block has been skimmed there is a good chance it doesen't have one anyway, as far as I am aware there is no lega...

If you are going from a 1275 to a 1098 then you will need a 1098 flywheel suitable for the Type 9 clutch. (1098 has 4 flywheel to crank bolts 1275 has 6)

I fitted a toothed wheel to the crank pulley and megajolt system, which works a treat.

The 1098 is always going to be an issue if you go for max power and consequently high RPM, for a road car most people won't go much over 5000rpm. We have re-built a 1098 with a raised compression (around 8.5:1), re-shaped ports and combustion chamber, a high lift but modest duration cam, damped pull...

I used a beetle dual circuit cylinder with a fabricated frame to mount it in the standard position, it also allowed me to servo assist the front (disc) brakes only which helps with the balance, whole set up works a treat.

I've found lumenition to be great, only question I would have is is it rated to be fitted to the engine? Electronics don't generally like a lot of vibration, mines on the inner wing.