Morris Minor Owners Club

Yup, its a traveller without the wood...

Modern inverter MIGs are impressive bits of kit...

Im still using a Cebora 130A one, modified to accept a eurotorch….

Modern inverter MIGs are impressive bits of kit...

Im still using a Cebora 130A one, modified to accept a eurotorch….

I would need 15ishL for a single coat

I would suggest a towbar mounted bike track too!

How well does the cat travel in a traveller?

sid wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:44 pm

what the winning bidder needs to do first of all is fit disc brakes...

I agree, afterall a sheep may unexpectedly walk out in front of it on the Orkney lanes

kennatt wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:24 am

yes correct,they don't publicise that freely ,wonder why, I use on average about £60 of diesel a month,would double my expenditure.

If only that were true for me!! I average 1.5 fill ups a week around £70 and that's just the daily drive, not all the other stuff I drive too

JOWETTJAVELIN wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 30, 2020 8:19 pm

It's like that on preserved railways too, you have to pay a yearly subscription to work for them for free, which I find bizarre.

It doesn't work like that on the Ffestiniog/Welsh Highland

If the ignition is on, the fuel pump ticks rapidly to get fuel to the carb and then it should stop. If it keeps ticking, albeit at a reduced rate the valve is probably partially sticking open. If you take the air filter off, and hold the throttle open you might even be able to see the fuel coming in...

Whats the difference between a Hippo and a Zippo?

Ones really heavy, the other is a little lighter.

It all happened in the good old, bad old, days when I was still a moderator on the site (march 2014)... before I decided that paying for MMOC membership costs pretty much just to do work for them was a little daft and I let my membership lapse (April 2014)

The needle valve in the float chamber isn't sticking open is it?

If you are methodical its not hard to put a new wiring loom in. I restored a sprite a few years ago and entrusted the loom install to a friend, who I was confident knew what he was doing, because I didn't have the time. Needless to say that didn't work out too well, various things didn't work proper...

They are not the same

Of course it won't go on a Morris Minor, because they are all older than that number plate...

The pressure plate is a standard 1098 morris minor one, available from any morris minor supplier

The pressure plate is a standard 1098 morris minor one, available from any morris minor supplier

Have you offered up the MX5 clutch plate to the flywheel and the 1098 cover? There is often spare space around the edge of the friction material and it might just about work without any mucking about?

Heres another one https://www.burtonpower.com/helix-hd-cl ... -1605.html

I can't remember exactly what you need... but every MT75/T9 gearbox I have come across has a 1" x 23 tooth spline. FWD boxes have a smaller spline. I have a T9 input shaft in my tool box specifically to be a clutch alignment tool. That looks like a standard 1098 clutch cover to me and I think this m...