Morris Minor Owners Club

White, grey, purple and green are your four speaker wires. White is left front, grey is right front. Green is left rear and purple is right rear. The same colours with black tracers are your earths for each corresponding speaker. If you're only going to have front speakers just insulate the ends of ...

I'm from Morchard Bishop (draw a straight line on a map between Exeter and Barnstaple and halfway along that line will be a tiny village called 'growing up in hell'), I go to college and work in Exeter though, which is a bit of a trek but the only civilisation for miles (I don't like being a teenage...

No pictures really but in the carpark behind the house, along with my sister's car. The drive in front of the house is occupied by my parent's car (even though we can get the Moggy on there too if we try) and the garage is filled with junk/workshop

I take personal offence to that! I love my boot rack :oops: Hardly BBQ-like either, a simple metal loop and legs with wooden slats making up most of the construction. You don't see it on classic cars so much but it's very popular in the rat movement at the moment - stretched tyres. They look absolut...

Thank you muchly, I shall try this out when I next get the chance. I'll post back with results soon.

Ok here are a couple of pictures. At rest with nobody in the car the rear shackles are about 90* to the chassis, with no sign of touching the chassis behind them. http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/230494_10150593026700123_778410122_18277005_8192450_n.jpg Bump stops are about an inch, ma...

Someone's taken apart an MGB V8 and put the interesting bits into a Minor - engine, gearbox, rear axle and front suspension. Looked pretty insane but there wasn't much leg room inside afterwards

If the work doesn't involve taking the wheels off then trusty wheel ramps would always be my favourite for doing any decent work under the car. There's very little to go wrong and it gets the car a decent height off the ground.

It has Spax telescopics on the front so the front lever dampers simply locate the suspension. The rear dampers were refilled just under a year ago for the MOT and both certainly still had fluid in them when I replaced both the rods that link them to the chassis a month ago - so much so I could barel...

If you search 'stereo' on the forum there could be a couple of other threads in which I've explained in detail which coloured wire does what. Once you've done one stereo it gets easier, I've done a few now and they're pretty much second nature now, including switched amps and subs

praps a bit of terminology explanation might help: "Earth" in this case is your car's body. Think of the body of your car (the metal) as one huge electrical wire, connected to one side of your battery. In your case, the negative side (hence.. negative earth). "Live" means a wire...

The two spades are the important ones. The green cylinder attached to the lighter is simply a backlight. The inner spade (the one lower down in your picture) is positive, the outer one is earth. I made my bracket out of a small plate of aluminium. I drilled lots of holes with a medium sized drill bi...

I'm not sure about this one. With just one or two people in the car (it's used primarily for me to drive to work in and to get home after a night out) it's absolutely fine - handles like a dream and irons out all but the worst bumps in the 10 miles of country lane I have to drive along to get to the...

Oh well, I have a friend with a classic mini I could persuade to take it off my hands if it doesn't fit. Thanks

Which gearknob/gearstick? Some gearknobs have rubber inserts. The thread on my 1098 gear lever is 18TPI Bit of an old thread, but does that 18TPI equate to 5/16ths UNC? ie the same thread as a classic Mini gear knob? I'm trying to track down an 8 ball gear knob (I had one in the Land Rover and I lo...

If you were going to sell the wheels for a reasonable price I'd like them I'd prefer a set of modulars (circle holes rather than triangle holes) but these would do.

I got my first quote with FJ a year ago for £630 fully comp, aged 18 and a half, having held my license for a year with no accidents (but was a named driver, so no NCB). Last month I got my renewal through the post and it'd gone up to £850!! Not happy! Phoned around a few other insurance companies b...

I've found that my bottle jack sits perfectly under either the leaf spring/damper mounts for the rear axle or under the front suspension arm. Three or four pumps and the wheel is off the ground, and if the jack fails it only drops less than an inch before bottoming out. Obviously for working under t...

I gave up on getting mine to work so converted it to an electric pump. Get looaaddss more liquid through and it requires much less effort and attention, so I can keep my thoughts on driving instead. The only downside is that the switch for it is by my right knee and the switch for the windscreen wip...

I though it was a pretty common mod to stick something like an HS4 in to improve performance slightly. It's basic physics that if you can get more air and petrol into the engine you'll get more power. It's obviously not going to give it blistering acceleration but a little extra grunt would be VERY ...