Morris Minor Owners Club

i'm becoming extremely suspicious of you katiekat,I don't think you are who or as inexpirienced as you are making out to be.You've been repairing cars and painting them for years ,your words, yet you have asked some of the most basic questiones about cars and paint,don't believe you i'm aftraid.

The only way to check the flow is to take off the pipe at the carb and see how much is being pushed through into a container, There should be a steady strong pulse of fuel for each tick of the pump,I think somewhere in the manual tells you how much flow per minute with a funtioning pump.If the carb ...

really sorry to see that sort of repair and at that sort of price you would expect to have it done properly. Classic case of not suporting the top and bottom of the door gap with bracing struts before cutting out the old sills and welding in the new bits.Can you not get some compensation from the se...

yhea I've lost the wife .sure she's under the newly laid patio as well

katie just as an aside you can brush or roller 2k,there was a thread about it (Do a search) It's only dodgy when you spray since there are fine particles in the air to breath in But none when you brush,I've not tried it myself but some say that you get a reasonably good finish with the roller,have a...

Katie it's at cannon park Middlebrough,don't know the street but sure it will be in the yellow pages Try Yell .com.Quite easy to get to just off the a 66 on the outskirts of the town and you can park up outside the door.Down A19 off at A66 first turnoff into M,bro and you are about there.They are ve...

What ,katie you've now got two moggies,our fingertips will be worn out, .starting a collection are you

just picked up this thread ,been on holiday,as roy says do not under any circumstances use that paint,it is 2k by the sound of it,You also will not be able to use water based paint unless you have some form of heating,and I believe that the water based paint then needs to be sprayed with a clear coa...

sometimes the only way is to get it red hot with a welding torch.But try this with one large hammer placed up against the flats on the nut strike the oposite side with a smaller but substantial hammer ,several time this sometimes breaks the rusty bond the nut has,Obviously don't hit the bar (Part of...

its good when things work out,but BETTER when you know what was the fault in the first place. Bet the carb piston was sticking making it too rich and by lifting the pin right up you have freed it off. If you get the same fault do as bm says and lift the piston inside the carb inlet by hand and make ...

as last ,try it, sounds as though it will be fine.

[quote="mike.perry"]The biting point may not physically move. QED.

the biting point will not move whatever you do to the free play it cant it's the point where the clutch friction plate starts to come into contact with the pressure plate,the free play only adjusts free play.It will move the point where you start to feel the pressure plate move on the downwards stro...

Katie the adjustment is only to take up wear in the external linkages,and to set the free play so that the clutch is NOT being held by the pedal when your foot is OFF.If it was the carbon thrust and clutch would wear rapidly.There is no adjustment possible with ithe internal parts of the clutch so t...

One tip when you take the old points off count the number of turns to free the central screw then when you re do it count it back on this way you get the throw of the points .back to where it was saves a bit of messing about.Also take if off the car,about impossible if you try with it still fitted.T...

I would'nt worry about it katie,its when the problem is the other way round, like it only bites right at the top and starts to slip,if the gears engage without problem,then its more than probably ok Are you comparing it with a modern car with hydraulic clutch,they automatically take up any free play...

a bit more info required,when it stops try tapping the body of the fuel pump and listen for a rapid ticking which then slows and stops.This indicates that the pump is the problem. Try tapping lightly on top of the carb where the petrol pipe goes in (Lightly its fragile) if the pump starts to tick as...

katie tom roys at battersby junction near middlesbrough is the nearest commercial garage (That I know of )to you.If you want me to have a look and listen to yours give me a ring and get the car down to me I'll be more than happy to tell you want wants doing.Been at it for 40 years or more and have d...

Gentman,you have been warned,don't do it,I am a recently retired police officer and know of several cases which went to court in exactly the same circumstances. and as others have said, then TRY to get insurance with a conviction for insurance offences,If this is the only way to get insurance ,only ...

why not take the photo to the mot centre and ask,they would also be prewarned so not so much of a shock to their system Can't think of anything to prevent an mot on it.