Morris Minor Owners Club

Goes to show reconditioners can be wrong. Its all about oil pressure, and its interesting. Knocking on No3 with lead back on plug. Sump off again, measure properly, ( thanks Phil) and hopefully I have an all round room for a .002 under shells. I don't mind buying a set, as they will be used eventual...

Starting the engine with No.3 Lead off the plug, it was quiet. So Ive squirted 8 oil can squirts of 20/50 oil into that cylinder and I will leave it and start it tomorrow morning, and see what happens. If it knocks, I have an over clearance number 3. big end bearing. And in theory it should be a lit...

I quizzed the reconditioner mainly about getting an odd set of bearings .002, or .003 under whatever size is in the engine, and thats possible. He said it doesn't sound like a bearing if there is no noise hot, and I cant argue with his hypothesis, so as I progress eventually to single out the cylind...

Thanks Phil.It sounds about right for a big end. It is a knock/rattle I think the main knock would be deeper. I tried start with No4 lead off, and the noise was still there but much muted. Tomorrow No3 . Its a restorers inspiration killer, these things.When I assembled the engine I should have check...

I know nowt about the bottom end of these engines. I would be checking the centre main bearing. It is likely out of spec. I had this on a 5 bearing crank which rattled until the oil pressure built up at a cold start. Only lasted a couple of seconds but indicated big trouble ahead (especially the wa...

Thanks Mark. Ive written to a well known Minor restoration business Charles Ware, and asked can they sell me the step by step I need. If not, its trial and error. Its a pain but thats all I can do.

Yes, I think sometimes hope distorts diagnosis. I will start engine cold with a random plug lead off, every morning until I locate the bearing in question, I will then measure that crank journal and the rod end, as you suggest, and buy a set of .002 bearing shells and fit a pair to that particular r...

Motor is fairly newly reco, (948 A motor) and Ive plastiguaged the big ends twice, and if anything one may have 3-4 thou instead of 2 Motor runs quiet as a mouse otherwise. A technical point that maybe someone can enlighten me, is how much big end clearance, would allow that to happen as a guesstima...

Time erases salient bits of important memory, and to try to prevent that I was wondering if anybody had a step by step front and rear door assembly procedure. Ive taken some notes but Im bound to make mistakes, concerning the sequence of assembling components. Id be grateful.

Thanks for your post. I am always skeptical about anything aftermarket in older cars, so it is encouraging to hear that the glass wiper pieces work. Getting back to the angle pieces held by 2 bolts in the centre of the door, I don't think the rear door pieces make contact with the glass/regulator, b...

Are you talking about the strips with spring clips that go either side of the glass in the top of the doors?

Well I agree with you on the rear one, but Im not so sure about the front(doors) Anyway, there is no way the glass will fit through the top, glued on to the regulator plate,with the glass wipers in place, so there has to be a way, and when I find out I will tell you. Fiddly things MM doors, but extr...

Having completely dismantled doors for sandblasting/etch priming, I wondered how they fitted the two longitudinal sealing strips in the top of the doors. I think I may have the answer. Two thirds if the way down, inside the doors, there is a stopper plate. held in by two bolts. I believe that leavin...

Sorry Many Minors I didnt see your post. I agree with you, as new sealing strips surely would be wider than the old ones, any way either way when the doors come back I will work it out.

Hi When I pulled the glass out, it had the U piece glued on the bottom of the window, to fasten to the regulator( which I wont disturb) and I had a job to get the glass out of the door. Now either the new top glass seals are more flexible OR the two seal strips need to be fitted after the glass is i...

Thanks Mike. I finally bit the bullet and stripped a door. 3 to go You are right. May I ask. When I reassemble, and fit the main glass, do the side wipers need to be fitted after the glass? The glass was pretty tight through the top. and I thought maybe the go was to insert the inner and outer wiper...

Despite popular opinion I intend, or have fitted the metal etched wings loosely in place, spaced out 10 mill, ready to paint. The too hard basket is the doors. Do I really have to pull them all apart, as it looks like an awful job, but I have to bare metal them. I have a combination of metal etched ...

Nice vids, thanks very much. Im amazed that the crush pinion bearing spacers have been around so long. Anyway replacing a diff pinion seal, is no big deal, as Ive done heaps, and try to keep the re tension sensible. I love all the tech bits, and Ive done a few diffs in my 60 odd years of mechanical....

I was pleasantly surprised that ESM have not only the seal but the sleeve to cover the wear. No use replacing a pinion seal without it, if its grooved where the seal runs. I don't think crush spacers had been invented back then, at least I hope not as it makes it easier to retorque tighten the flange.

Thanks for the replies Seems optional. Rather the pipe than messy caulk. Took 4 wings boot and hood to sand blaster/etchcoater. Looking forward to see the results. Its a long road.