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[quote=Trickydicky post_id=662962 time=<a href="tel:1610560272">1610560272</a> user_id=15158] If the brakes have had a full overhaul the best place to start is at the front drivers side, use the 2 man (or woman) method with a tube and jam jar depressing the brake pedal while opening the bleed nippl...

With respect to the learned, why would you want to jack the car to some strange angle to bleed the brakes and leave it overnight with the brake pedal depressed? They wouldn’t do this if you took the car to a garage :o If the brakes have had a full overhaul the best place to start is at the front dri...

I remember driving over the M62 one year in February to the Manchester Bus Museum rally from Leeds, the car never got warmed up. It convinced me to use a blank in front of the radiator when driving the car in lower temperatures. I also remember a couple of cars on show also had period radiator blank...

It wouldn’t hurt to remove the solenoid and clean the rear of it to check it is earthed properly.

Brand new ones are available, https://www.morrisminorspares.com/rear- ... -c89#page2

[quote=Shropshiremoggie post_id=660377 time=<a href="tel:1603354147">1603354147</a> user_id=37344] Is that an additional ‘ lever / stick ‘ between the gear stick and hand brake ? The car is currently fitted with hand controls, the additional stick on the floor operates the brakes, and the levers on...

It’s a garage floor Your gonna walk on it Your gonna drive a car over it Your gonna spill things on it Your gonna fix a car on it Make sure you prepare the surface as best you can because no doubt things have been already spilt on it and will have have soaked into the surface. Then use a decent pain...

Plus you have now fitted a heavy duty battery which will take longer to charge. Perhaps you could explain/expand on this, please? ‘Cos I disagree - unless discharged to a degree of capacity more than the lighter duty battery! I, too, lost a posting yesterday morning (turned off computer too quickly...

Been watching this thread from afar and rather than add my thoughts the cause looks to have been identified, a bad battery. With this I have a couple of points to raise, it seems you use your car as your daily driver. Do you have a dynamo or an alternator fitted? It may be advisable if you have a dy...

You have used too much ptfe tape, that and the quality of the brass fitting caused it to shear when you tightened it up. I once fitted a central heating radiator with extension tails on the end which constantly weeped when filled. I made exactly the same mistake of using too much ptfe and in the end...

One of the main things to consider when overhauling brakes is that if the M/C is old the cylinder bore may be pitted. When you start bleeding the brakes and pumping the cylinder to it’s full stroke it will wreck the seals.
As a belt and braces approach I would consider replacing the cylinder.

At that buy it now price it is a bargain. Anyone wanting to fit a temp gauge to a 948 engine should buy this.
If I still had my 948 it would be mine by now

Try stripping it down first and check the brushes, the springs holding them onto the commuter may have rusted away and they are not making contact with the commuter. If the brushes have worn away replacements are available.
A cheap and easy repair.

Which thread is stripped? Top or bottom hole? Personally I wouldn’t helicoil it, I would drill and tap a flat piece of steel and cut a slot Underneath the Cross beam and feed it up, you will get more purchase on the tapped steel than a helicoil when you tighten it up. You could even weld the same si...

Here is a comprehensive video on how to spruce up your heater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v75LjUrVaPE

They were cheap cars quickly thrown together in the factories. The engines and running gear did not have a long service life. By the introduction of the 1098 engine they were so outdated in style and layout, BMC just didn't care about them and only continued making them because they sold well. Comp...

Probably not a casting fault, the cylinders are a tight fit so may have been broken when installed.

As above, set it up as per the workshop/Haynes manual. Release the handbrake, adjust the shoes to lock the drums. Pull the handbrake up 3 notches and check the cables at the handbrake end are adjusted up correctly.
Release the handbrake adjust the shoes as per normal and retest.

Keith has hit the nail on the head on a number of points, The main one for me is Education, when smart motorways were starting to be introduced there was very little Information made available for the ordinary motorist. On another note of education, it is only recently that motorway driving tuition ...

I recently sold a 948 gearbox on eBay for £55, the spares you have maybe interchangeable with other models so may not command a high price.