Morris Minor Owners Club

Bought new brackets but once one was ground off the bracket was actually just covering the holes

So 190 mile road trip to get an reconditioned rear axle with brackets fitted

Great tool for easy removal off the rear nut absolute god send

Cleaned these up from all the road dirt and grime the wires brushed and coated with some anti rust and given some coats of filler primer before painting a matt black

All sprayed up now

White grill now added

Rear side windows all cleaned up and new rubbers on just need help when time to put them in.

Found some rust already on the new paint job so not happy, treated it with some rust treatment.

I'm afraid to tell you but that rust looks like it needs to be cut out and welded properly otherwise it will spread.
Having gone so far I would cut it out and repair it.

I had the whole car welded and whole respray done by a company just over a 6 months ago and spent 5k doing it and they had the car for over a year doing it, I wont tell you that when It came back It’s missing lots of the parts that It went with, I thought this was caused by where the metal was rubbing on the boot above ie metal on metal.

Regards
Anthony

I'm only looking at the picture on my tablet but it looks like it's perforated.

Murrayminor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:10 pm I'm only looking at the picture on my tablet but it looks like it's perforated.

No thankfully Its just the new paintwork thats come off on there and also the lid.

Hi
Sorry to say i agree with Murrayminor, get a thin sharp mini screwdriver and see if it pushes through the rust

ian.mcdougall wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:17 pm Hi
Sorry to say i agree with Murrayminor, get a thin sharp mini screwdriver and see if it pushes through the rust

Totally solid It’s the angle of the picture taken, just a bad paint paint job done and It got chipped off and started to rust as the car stands out In the drive with a cover and metal was hitting metal.

Glad to hear that it's nothing more serious than some scratching and light surface rust. You'll be relieved about that !

Just shows how photos can be misleading. Along with some of the others, I looked at that photo a few times and I was convinced it was far worse too.

Bit of work on the doors today including new door straps

Little update, cleaned these bits all up now

Axle rebuild underway

Leaf springs put back on with new rubbers and nuts ,screws and brackets

Pain In the DONT SWEAR OR YOU WILL BE BANNED to get the front secured, seems the nuts that came with kit will not do up even tried a new kit same thing, ended up having to use cutting paste and tighten then slacken and take some metal off the pin.