Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi All, Really looking for some help please. I am 5 years into a restoration which has faltered over the last 3 years! I am looking for help to fit the side panels, rear and doors and then the roof. The traveller has been restored form the ground up. All new wood, panels resprayed and fitted, New in...

All Following the submission (below) to the club committee, it was suggested I post this idea....here. I have recently taken a part time job at Stoke Rochford Hall-It is close to the A1, almost in the middle of the country and is a magnificent country hotel, built around 1840, set in parkland and cl...

OK-Understood and my thanks Les.

Thanks bmcecosse Ok-yes I might be a bit nuts in reducing the valve stem-the best i could do was polish afterwards. I do see your point now however in my mind as long as the stem was smooth and the valve had been re seated (ground in) I felt comfortable in rebuilding the head. Turning the shaft in t...

Hello all contributors In re-reading your replies-I find myself no wiser. So could the contributors please give some clarity to the problem presented in order to help my learning and understanding, I summarise the questions as follows; 1. Has anyone come across the problem of the valve guide becomin...

Thank you all for your input. Pleased to say, cylinder head painted and installed. Engine running very smoothly.
Next job-Ignition light on!

....and here is the completed head....[frame][/frame]

Many thanks all for your contributions. I have elected to turn the valve on a lathe and filed just enough so that the valve moves smoothly in the guide. I then smoothed down with emery, ground in all eight valves and then fitted springs etc. As for the blocked holes in the head and block-there seems...

Many thanks for the reply, very much appreciated. The result of the investigation showed that the valve guide appears to have shrunk in diameter??? The nos one valve would fit in the other valve guides and testing one of the remaining valves in the number one valve guide-it would not fit. The only s...

I have recently taken on an unfinished restoration "Pick Up" This week was getting the engine going. Having checked and adjusted spark plugs and dressed and set the points, the engine fired and started-great! or not so great-a real clatter coming from the rocker cover. Investigated and fou...

Many thanks for the info-I have been looking for some time as I complete a restoration job on my Traveller-its just in the paint shop for the body and it will be the wheels next.

Thanks again.

Stuart

Does anyone have the paint code for dark silver?

Please let me know.

Many thanks

Stuart

Does anyone have the paint code for dark silver please? I am restoring a 69 Traveller in Trafalgar Blue and the trim colour is dark silver.
Thanks

Many thanks

On a separate point, is there much demand for a good restoration pick up?

I am looking at a MM Pick Up on Ebay Ref 121745278796 Using The Potteries Branch "Identifying your car" the chassis number is showing the pick up as a van. The seller advises the V5 clearly states a V in the chassis reference and also states it is a pick up and originally Trafalgar Blue. Y...

Hi I am renovating a 1968 MMT. having stripped to bare metal, the new colour will be Trafalgar Blue. In the paint charts the wheels are stated as dark silver. Does anyone have the correct paint number? The closest I have got is the Rover group list of colours for up to 1972 and the code is BLVC88. C...

I am in the middle of a full restoration for a 1969 MMT. I am deviating from the original colour and going Trafalgar Blue with snowberry white grill. Coachline is pearl grey and the wheels are dark silver. Does anyone know the ICI or BMC code for the dark silver please?

Does anyone know which volume in Minor Matters showed how to successfully repair split metal on the inside window ledge-just above where the pull to leather strap is secured. I am in need!

Hi Help please as I rebuild a stripped MMT. Engine rebuilt, engine bay stripped, front wings, bonnet off. front doors still on. New wood treated and top rail felted. All panels for wood along with front grill assembly and rear outer wings at paint shop. In what order should you respray the remainder...

Many thanks to all for your sagely advice. I will now look for a pick up.