Morris Minor Owners Club

In addition to all the previous - if the battery is an open cell type (non maintenance-free) is the electrolyte level satisfactory and what is the SG?

Burnham, big and small ends refer to the con rods. Main bearings are fitted to suspend the crank in the block. You had me going there, for a moment, when I read the torque for the big ends!😳 Are you cleaning off the bearing shells before fitting? Is it one cap that is going tight? I always fit pisto...

I short-circuit the soaking process - I have a bag of quite old porous items. I submerge the item in lube and exhaust the air above with my high vacuum pump. Any air is soon expanded from the pores and lube replaces same when returning to atmospheric pressure. I expect heating and cooling, while sub...

Pressure = Force/Area. Pressure is transmitted equally in all directions within a fluid, so exactly the same pressure at the master cylinder as at the slaves will be the order of the day! Rearranging the above formula, Pressure*Area = Force. Increasing the slave cylinder diameter has several effects...

Ken, My initial thought - but dispelled by the OP after he gave us the actual details. Water hardly deep enough to wet the bottom of the diff casing, going slowly. Sufficient water ‘pressure’ to displace the exhaust system appears to be absent. Not deep enough for the prop shaft to stir up any water...

... it only has to stall and you risk sucking water back up into the engine.... I cannot see how! The Moggie has virtually 7” of ground clearance and the tailpipe is not the lowest point. Secondly, unless the engine were to ‘run backwards’, there would be exhaust gases filling the exhaust. Only whe...

12jslater wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 03, 2019 3:58 pm

... Just took the head this afternoon, gasket is absolutely fine, put on a new one from the gasket set I have as I didn't want to reuse the old gasket, torqued up and makes the exact same noise. ...

Did you check the piston protrusion/recession while you had the head off?

Perhaps one might be able to ‘half open’ the half bonnet and find a half engine underneath? :D I have ‘watched’ it in my epay, but only to give him hope that someone might be thinking of buying it! It does have a ‘make an offer’ option.... so someone local might make an offer for the bumper, or badg...

We often don’t get any real detail of a fault or the facts leading to it. This may be another case of the same. ”I went through a bit of water, deep but crawled through” , may be the honest facts, but I drive through deep water (might flow over my shoe laces) quite often. I also may drive into it at...

I don’t think you understand my post either. Do read it (or them) again and possibly save yourself some money.

Nothing is moving in relation to each other. A shim is simply a very thin spacer.

If you have it apart, why bother with a new cover? It should not cost £95 to have the cover machined. The oil seal will be less than a fiver, I would think.

Visit your local model engineering society and make an offer of a donation to club funds?

Phil,

What swing over the bed is required?

Edit. Mr Evans may have solved it. That'll be a first! I haven't actually had them apart yet, but it looks like there may be a shim under the solid spacer. Will report later today. cheers N Think about it. If the builder went slightly over the required crush, would he use a new crush washer/spacer ...

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paul 300358 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:22 pm

The way its adjusted, you would think that the clutch would be slipping like mad.

Not sure why. It would appear that the clutch is not disengaging properly/sufficiently, not a case of not engaging fully when the pedal is released

So what does the engine do every time you take your foot off the accelerator and change from ‘loaded’ to ‘driven’ on overrun? Never used a rev counter? Admittedly engines are more modern, but the MOT test for diesels require the engine to be revved to governed speed for emissions testing. But your c...

A one ton trolley jack could be more than adequate to lift the vehicle completely off the surface in one go. However, as Phil indicates, that is not the whole story! Most people only lift one corner, or one end, of the vehicle at a time. Lift height and stability are far more important than the lift...

And the next logical step (depending on the result of Islip Minor’s request) might be to check again, but with the gearbox input shaft stationary.

LEDs are low power, so draw less current (the whole original idea behind their usage) so could use a smaller gauge wire, so no problem at all. If running extra current (higher powered halogens or other auxiliary lighting) it is better to run them through a relay, rather than risking overloading an o...