Morris Minor Owners Club

I have had an annoying noise emanating ( I thought) from behind the speedo. Have mentioned this a few times in some previous threads and I see now, for more than 4 years! Any way, on scouring the forum for ideas and inspirations because I have tied down literally everything there is behind the speed...

Solved the problem today although it took a while. Firstly the Fuel gauge sender got removed and checked for its variable resistance which was ok - I do not quite understand how it is able to function when immersed in petrol but obviously it is designed that way. Then the glove boxes and their frame...

I agree with Bill. You don't have to remove the glovebox liners - and the passenger side one is very easy anyway. Every Minor 1000 glovebox liner was made with a hole in it to access the speedo screw. It does sound as if the voltage stabiliser (not the voltage regulator which is something completel...

I agree with Bill. You don't have to remove the glovebox liners - and the passenger side one is very easy anyway. Every Minor 1000 glovebox liner was made with a hole in it to access the speedo screw. It does sound as if the voltage stabiliser (not the voltage regulator which is something completel...

Not without drilling a hole in the glove box liner, no.

Rather than open a new thread I have opted to tag onto this one. Electrical gremlins. Up to last week, the black fuel gauge on my 69 Traveller worked fine - when it had a power supply but we solved that. Then it started to misbehave. I did the standard check by earthing the sender wire , when the ga...

A constant irritation to see and hear British people using US Americanisms. The auto correct, if you do not purposely change it, will always default to english(US) so the spelling will use color instead of colour and spell defence with an "s" etc. Probably not particulary important I suppo...

I have it in mind during the second half of May, i.e. next month , to visit relations in the Reading area and come over in my German registered '69 Traveller. It is LHD which will be fun.

Are there any Morris minor events at this time in the area which we could attend ??????

All a bit embarassing really. Asking the forum for help and advice when the solution was a new brain. But thanks for the feedback. At least with the dashboard dismantled for access to the rear of the speedometer, it gave me a chance to replace the instrument lighting with brighter LEDs. Now to put i...

I have solved it! I disconnected each of the 3 green wires in turn from the fuse box until with one removed, I got the 12V reading on the others with the multimeter and also with the voltmeter inside the car. This rogue wire turned out to be the feed to the windscreen wipers. Now I have a bonnet ext...

Yes, i am using a multimeter and am now following the circuit along. I think it is worth doing even though the original point of the exercise was just to fit a voltmeter. In effect, it is showing me that soemthing is amiss even though no symptoms are present e.g weak lights or wipers. Have disconnec...

Sooooo, the plot thickens. I used the piggy back so that the white wire from the ignition output was in place and the Voltmeter connected up. Only 11V !! So I disconnected the white wire to see what happens and the voltmeter read 12,5 V !!! Thus for my logic there is some problem with the white wire...

Did you do this because you had similar problems to mine? Anyway, this morning after having my think, I removed the ignition switch and as suggested cleaned the terminal tags. Before doing this however, i checked the Voltage with a multimeter which gave the proper readings of 12,6V on both the live ...

yes, but only the "I" terminal is regulated to 10V, more or less.. The "B" terminal is just a connection point and is a nominal 12V..........only in my case it isn't..

Hallo Berni, thankyou for your suggestion - I will try to give the ignition switch a clean and see what happens. Your nice diagramme interpretation is perfect. Incidentally a Brian Hawley, who may well be a MMOC member, has downloaded this excellent colour wiring diagramme. https://www.dropbox.com/s...

I want to install an aftermarket Voltmeter in my 69 Traveller. However, when I connect it up via the incoming green wire to the voltage regulator, it only registered 10V. And no, it was not attached to the fuel gauge output. So back to basics. Using an extension wire I connected it directly to the p...

In preparation for a trip to Europe this Summer (and anticipating traffic jams in heat) I have fitted a stainless steel carburettor heat shield and Grumpy rising fuel pipe heat shield. I have actually never experienced fuel vaporisation in this car but I thought I would take precautionary measures b...

I had already surmised that this was the case so cleaned up the fuse clips and now all is well. The fuse box itself seems in quite reasonable condition and does not need replacing. i might however supplement it in future. It was nice to drive it again ('69 Traveller) after the winter lay off on dry ...

There always seems to be something new that appears after the annual winter hibernation. I have just replaced the tappet covers with new gaskets as one used to leak oil excessively. As ever, the central bolt had not been put back with the correct gaskets and just using silicon. My test drive earlier...

i have stumbled across this thread because having removed the manifold from my 1098 Traveller in order to gain access to the tappet covers, I wanted to know if when replacing the gasket ( a new one) it should be smeared with grease or not? That seems to be the case. I noticed when removing the nuts ...