Morris Minor Owners Club

Looking at your hood it seems too be to narrow at the front width wise which is odd as it fits your frame okay as far as i can tell at the sides it should tuck back under your frame at the sides which it appears to do. The front has been cut far too short in my opinion i think it should have wrapped...

Hello Ewan the side rubbers (2 door) and the rear rubber are reasonably easy to string in as per normal with a decent gauge string and some lubricant, its the front that posses the problems on the splitscreen. The fact that its is two pieces of glass means they can flap like a butterflies wings even...

:D Always remember wear eye protection when hammering (i hate to nag everyone)!! But I speak from recent experience, cost me a trip up the hospital last month to have my eye frozen and a metal splinter removed from my eye not a nice thing I can assure you (i wouldn't recommend it), all I was doing w...

8) I once had to weld a Ford Escort up that had had the Sills filled up with Expanding Foam it was all we could do in the Workshop to stop the car going up in flames (2 fire extingushers later and i dug out what i could before i MIG welded it). Also it obviously didnt stop the rot if anything i ofte...

Looks like its got measels, i'm not letting my Tourer near that car it may be contagious !! leave it exactly as it is (you know you want to) the ideal student hack, park it anywhere without caring, Mc Donalds wrappers, unpaid parking tickets and stolen road signs scattered within it, reminds me of b...

:D Hello Andrew crickey 4 Morris Minors you've got it bad you need to keep taking the medication their must be some cure, even though i've not yet found it, you have even managed to infect the whole family. Good to see Sidney's on his way back to the road after what is now a long break maybe see him...

Try not to take any fingers off or worse (think family tax credit) whilst sorting that head out or you might not be able to sign for your Provisional Licence unless they do a teeth steering auto Morris!!! Ade

Try Wilkinson they had a load the other day when i was looking at very sensible money..............................

Hello Andrew just tape it up like the rest of us do (unless its a show car)! you can heat shrink the headlamp wires up together and maybe the main loom it will just look black plastic but !! I have never seen the braiding for sale ever, only on a new loom, but as you have said for a poor impoverishe...

:D GOOD LUCK I HAVE DONE A COUPLE OF THESE (ONE A SPLITSCREEN) BUT I AM SADLY AT THE BMC RALLY ALL THIS WEEKEND SO I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH SOME POINTERS ALLOW LOADS OF TIME REMEMBER TO HAVE A GOOD STAPLE GUN TO HANDTO TACK IT ALL IN PLACE(ASH IS A HARD WOOD) AND MAKE SURE THE HOOD MATERIAL IS WARM WHE...

CAN ONLY REALLY BE THE SENDER TRY TAKING THE WIRE OFF THE SENDER (NORMALLY IF THEY FAIL OR A WIRE IS BROKEN OR THE GAUGE ITSELF HAS GONE THE DO NOT MOVE FROM THE BOTTOM) AND PUTTING IT TO EARTH WITH ANOTHER WIRE JOINED IF YOU HAVE TO (MAKE SURE ITS A BRIGHT GOOD EARTH) IF THE GAUGE GOES ALL THE WAY ...

:D THE ONLY TIME I CAN RECALL SEEING THIS FAULT WAS WHEN THE FLOAT NEEDLE VALVE WASN'T SHUTTING OFF THE FUEL MEANING THE PETROL IS PUMPING IN UNDER PRESSURE (SO LONG AS IT DOESN'T LEAK OUT OF THE TOP OF THE FLOAT BOWL AS PER NORMAL)MEANING THE MINUTE THE IGNITION IS LIVE IT THEN FLOODS THE ENGINE BY...

Never mind messing about with that old engine Tom gave you, remember you have a Quiz to do next month!!!! and don't you go getting Waxoil in that engine block.