Morris Minor Owners Club

I'd prefer not to fit the light clusters from a later Morris, because it does alter the appearance significantly - "it looks wrong for the car". I've just converted another large classic car away from the flashing brake light type of indicator, after a friend who'd followed me on a sunny d...

If I read the ebay seller's stream of consciousness correctly, it still has its semaphoe indicators and no flashers. If so, I'd strongly recommend adding flashers - people just don't look for trafficators these days. The easiest way to do it is perhaps to buy two reversing lights (less than a tenner...

Sorry it's a delayed reply, but Autosparks are an excellent firm to deal with - helpful, and they know their business thoroughly. 5 minutes from M1 J25, too.

Vehicle Wiring Products at Ilkeston are good, too.

Kevin

Can't see how a diode would 'quench' anything. Unless there is a reverse emf in the coil when the points open - and the diode shorts that to ground ? Yup. Collapsing magnetic fields, and all that. The diode provides a path to the battery, which you can think of as behaving like a big capacitor. See...

Why would fuel pumps be fitted with diodes anyway ? I believe they're known as "quenching" diodes - they are to reduce sparking when the contacts open. And if they are - and it prevents operation when earthing polarity is changed - then presumably it's just a matter of turning the diode r...

bmcecosse wrote:Ahh - diodes hadn't been invented when my Minor was built!

That's odd - I'm sure the Haynes manual shows it with valves. Perhaps they're triodes.

Kevin

Fully agree about Minors needing suck pumps not blow pumps (or LP as against HP in SU-talk), but there are some non-electronic SU pumps which are polarity-conscious, i.e. those fitted with internal diodes. Those with capacitors across the points are OK. See http://www.sucarb.co.uk/TechnicalDetail.as...

What does SS mean. Im sure I saw that on my can of oil. Is it a very old can? Made in Germany, specified for Kubelwagens? If so, it's Schutzstaffel. More likely, though, that it's either Semi-Synthetic, or intended to make you think it's semi-synthetic. There's some good stuff at http://www.carbibl...

I wouldn't normally argue with bmcecosse, but I must put the case for BSF/BSW. In the common car sizes: UN bolt heads are too shallow, the A/F sizes are reasonable for 1/4", but get progressively worse for 5/16 and 3/8, which just looks wrong (too small) and 3/8 UNF is just too fine. And I won'...

Contaminated brake linings? Brake fluid on shoes can give strange effects, and a series of hard brake applications can burn it off temporarily. Other possibilities: missing steady pins, allowing the shoes to tilt? Incorrectly positioned pulloff springs, again allowing tilting and wedging? Both depen...