Morris Minor Owners Club

This thread now trundles merrily along to some kind of conclusion................. (Re-post due to clicking error). I hope you are all well! No matter what I try, I can't get a picture up. I never used to have a problem......any pointers, please? (Imagine a picture of the underside of my car) I pain...

Well, we went to do some Christmas shopping today....jumped in the little Fiat and sped off to town. Oops! It's about minus 7C here. I couldn't lock either of the doors when I parked up. So, I warmed up the key with my lighter, and managed to get the key fully inserted into each lock. Then, dipped t...

Maybe keep it under wraps from now on - you might wake up one morning to find no car but a note saying it has been commandeered by the military. I've heard they are short of tanks!!

You will really enjoy the build-up, once the pesky welding is out of the way.

Keep us posted! Stunning work!

The trick with applying the brake fluid is to hold an absorbent cloth under the lock. The cloth has never, in fifteen years of my applying brake fluid to locks, picked up even a drop of brake fluid, as I shake any excess fluid from the key before inserting it into the lock, and repeat the procedure ...

So, one chassis leg is already off, eh?

Never mind! Simply update your thinking to take into account the ever-changing rustscape.

It's that easy :)

The main thing is that thinking takes place in an ongoing fashion.

A few thoughts.... In view of all the stripping out of the mechanical parts, and getting the car up for working on, I think I would view changing the crossmember as part of a whole, rather than an individual job. With all major bodywork jobs, time spent thinking beforehand pays great dividends! One ...

Their loss, not yours! Have you considered re-training? I heard on the Beeb yesterday that Mandy has announced a new scheme to train 30,000 or so 'technicians' over the next two years........to work in "tech labs", I believe. I did't catch everything as Long Wave radio fades in and out. Su...

I did a Minor for my dad years ago, all the welding, and all the mechanical stuff and brakes.

One weekend, soon after the MOT, he Hammerited it with a brush. Hammered effect, not smooth!

The free Irfan View programme (my all-time favourite!) is worth checking out......a very nice guy has given it to the world and it does everything without a hitch! Never had a hiccup in eight years or so. Download, install (in seconds), load picture, click on 'Image', then 'Resize/Resample'....the r...

Yes, our old friend the BBC......not flawless, thankfully. I've seen a 'trailer' for a programme about the fall of the Berlin wall a few times now........ The reporter says: ".....and they're all rushing through the open gates, just in case it's only a dream.....". Well, if it were only a ...

Maybe there's a degree of vapourisation of the grease, which allows the gears to spin in a light mist of lubrication.

But the fan would blow this away!

Still confused, I'm afraid.

NO risk to PAINTwork if ONE is careful. But you could be right, for typical UK temperatures. I only know what I know......I didn't know the freezing point of WD40, although I could have put some in the freezer, at minus 20C, to find out....well, down to minus 20C, at least. But I did know that brake...

Would I be right in saying that the Minor gearbox is the easiest one in the world to work on? No special tools..........really, no special talent required, if one has a good workshop manual. Take bmc's advice...................it does sound to me that this 'mechanic' shouldn't be allowed near any ca...

Re-training?

Only if they've not had a haircut!

Hand-washing really gets the grime out from under your fingernails :D !

Another thing for my "things I must do before I croak" list.......good grief, it's too long to fit into a stocking, now! Start a movement, urging folk to buy their presents and festive food and stuff during the year. Then, as soon as the first Christmas ad hits the screen..............STOP...

The best thing I've ever used to keep lock barrels and plungers moving in freezing weather is.......brake fluid. Be very careful to keep it off the paintwork. I dip the key in the fluid (saved old fluid for this!) and insert it quickly into the lock, before any drips can drip off. Repeat this severa...

Hello, taupe!

But the communtator has a fan on it......so just how hot does it get?

By the way, remember not to cover the vent holes in the body as you merrily grind away. This is easy to do when you are wearing thick leather gloves (which you should be wearing....steel toe-capped boots as well!)

I saw my first Christmas ad on TV in Poland today......bah!!!!! November 4th!!!!!!!!!!!! When I came fifteen years ago, there were hardly any, and they didn't start until a couple of weeks before the big event. This enamoured me to the country.....it was so nice to get away from the bombardment I ha...