Morris Minor Owners Club

The prop shaft is no more special than any change of gearbox / rear axle would require.

My local prop shaft company in bridgend was able to knock one up for me without any problems.

from what i understand most car security systems connect to the door light switches ( under the dash is where i seem to rember doing it ) and the battery. When the door is opened the interior light goes on the alarm detects the voltage drop and the alram goes off. Obviously this depends on if your c...

I did it a few years ago and it really worked very well. You will need a triumph dolomite overdrive gearbox not the dolomite sprint gearbox ( as i found out to my cost having bought the sprint box :oops: so do not buy the sprint box i am currently selling on ebay! ) I followed the conversion as desc...

The second moggy I bought had the mirrors fitted to the quarter light, my first had them on top of the wings. At the first roundabout I came to I found they were directly in my line of vision. I found them so distracting on roundabouts they lasted about a week before i removed them and mounted the m...

I tried the method from practical classics over the weekend and was very impressed. I manged to get the soda crystals from wilkinson at 55p a kilo it does seem to take a while to work, i am going to try a big anode next time to see if it is any quicker, but i would recomend giving it a try.

When I removed mine I also had to remove one of the wheel boxes (forgive me if that is not the correct term) that the wipers are on as it had seized up and would not allow the cable to come out.

bmcecosse wrote:Aye - but they won't fit a Minor unless you are doing as Ian has done - swapping the centres.

or change the rear axle and front hubs to the ford stud pattern... which is the route i am going, the mondeo just happens to have the correct offset for the rear axle, the front will need spacers

Do not rule out ebay as a source of wheels, I recently picked up a set of four mondeo wheels for 99p. When i went to pay the guy he said not to worry, he was just grateful to get them out of his shed!

Provided a) you do not carry many people and b) you have a two door this solution worked for me.. The back rest became the base in my moggy, the seat cover comes off the back very quickly, I then screwed a piece of wood on to the metal back that butted up against the lip on the box section that the ...