Morris Minor Owners Club

Update:
- electronic ignition distributor fitted, together with new king lead
- timing and mixture re-set, nice brown spark plugs
No recurrence yet, will have a big drive and see what happens

Update:
- electronic ignition distributor fitted, together with new king lead
- timing and mixture re-set, nice brown spark plugs
No recurrence yet, will have a big drive and see what happens

Brilliant. Yes, even I can do that. Thanks very much, will try next time.

Thanks myoldjalopy, I’ve got an electronic ignition distributor to try out,

Oliver90owner - I do appreciate the advice and that makes compete sense, but I can’t test for sparks after the fault has arisen unless I can turn the engine over and get under the bonnet at the same time? I don’t have a starter solenoid with a push button on it, and the Missus doesn’t want to come o...

This is the gift that keeps on giving! 25 mins in today, same old fault even though I have the brand new coil on. New coil was cool to touch. The coil is mounted on the drivers side inner wing below the heater fresh air hose. All wires to the coil looked fine. Everything looked normal under the bonn...

Changed the coil on Sunday (ESM Lucas Sport coil). Ran it at idle on the drive for 45 minutes, then went for a spin around the block. 75 minutes running in total, didn’t die.
Hoping that’s it. Will have a proper drive when lockdown ends and report back, but the signs are good!

Ok thanks. I’ll check the coil too. Daft not to take the advice of those who know what they are talking about! Coincidence that the dashpot oil was gone and it ran fine when topped up? I had left the car to cool for 15 mins while the Missus came with the oil. I figured the mixture was too weak at re...

Ok, an update. Haven’t been out on a long (ish) run for a while, but did that today. Was running great, then as per usual the engine slowed and died after about 25 mins. liammonty I checked the fuel camp, no vacuum. This time the engine would turn over and restart but then die after throttle pressed...

Not for the faint hearted, but it is any spark, in the vicinity, which will ignite petrol vapour, not normal manifold and exhaust. Needs to be almost incandescent? I know because my engine was drenched in petrol at a little over a hundred miles an hour - a long time ago (July or August 1976). Switc...

You state that “ ignition warning light comes on when engine dying ”. Have I understood you correctly that the ignition light comes on whilst the engine is coming to a stop from speed i.e. on overrun. If that is the case then when the engine has stopped turning the light will go out when it should ...

Thanks, will have a look at that next time.

I’ve got a reoccurring problem that’s getting me scratching my head. I’d love some thoughts please. 1967 1098 Traveller. Standard engine, distributor and carb. When on a run the car is a pleasure and performs faultlessly...until after about 40 minutes when all of a sudden revs die down and engine st...

I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. Rather than take the head off (did head gasket only 18 months ago) I followed advice in this forum: 1 screwdriver in drain plug hole. Lots of crud but still blocked 2 Coat hanger. A bit more crud, no real progress 3. Speedo cable inner in drill. No joy, ...

OK, got to the bottom of it, but an unexpected twist. When I did the alternator conversion a couple of years ago I ended up with one of those horrible bullet connectors with three wires in and three out to patch together the control box cables. I did my best and covered the end job with shrink cable...

Ok, I charged the battery overnight. Now 13.7V. No faults reported by charger. You can guess where this is going...now starts fine. Strikes me that I have a short somewhere, that ran the battery down. All connections to the battery are good. Back to square one, running car with indicator light perma...

Thanks John and Geoberni. I’d like to think it’s the battery as that’s an easy fix. But I’ve never had one work perfectly then shut down completely before. Also it is showing 12.6v across the terminals. I’ve just put it on a c-tech charger/conditioner so that should let me know what’s what with the ...

Sorry, fuses are showing 12v at top and bottom

I’ve checked the earths in the engine bay. i think there’s one on the gearbox? I’ve not crawled under to check that one, will have a gander. Cheers.

Headlights don’t work. Interior lights don’t work. No lights on dash. No wipers. No ignition. No heater fan.

No equipment or systems working beyond the fuses, but fuses checked/replaced and OK.