Morris Minor Owners Club

that's an excellent idea! now time to find a vice!

Hi All,
I was looking at buying a matched lock set for my car but was under the impression you needed to un-peen the boot lock shaft, remove the bell to get to the securing pin for the boot lock barrel..

is there any chance there is a tool that could re-peen the shaft post unpeening?

Cheers,
Tom

thank you so so much! ill use that as my guide! MOST APPRECIATED!!!

Hi All, been a while! I'm in Scotland from Sydney Australia at the moment! I'm wanting to trim the following: 1. front and base of my front seats 2. front and base of my rear seat 3. front and rear door cards and semaphore cards in tartan or tweed and i thought while in scotland why not save on post...

those posts are perfect!
thank you so very much!

thank you louise m! so that confirms it.. you need to move the bell housing over the little tabs and then get access to the pins.. i managed to do that but thought i was stuffing up the bell.. i guess what you need to to then is 'squoosh' the bell so that it's held by the little tabs on re-assembly?...

Hi Guys,
I bought a boot lock barrel and have the handle off but can't work out how to remove the bell from the boot lock bar to shift the washers up to hammer out the pin!

any advice would be most awesome! as I don't want to wreck the bell pushing down the spring washer!

Thanks
Tom

It's my friends car.. the trimming in it is beautiful! very jealous! if i had the cash id get the same guy to do the moggie!

yes love those mudflaps! they've been on his car for years! look wonderful when you can find them!

Hi guys just wondering if anyone knew of a place I could find these bmc side mudflaps!

my mate had them on his mini k van and has 1 left.. i just need one more!

Hi guys,
alas in australia it is a requirement that with central locking installed you still need to be able to mechanically open the door from the inside.. how would you get around that using this setup? cheers,
Tom

Hi Scott,
by rear channel do you mean the chrome channel closest to the door handle? ie undo the top and side screws and pull that whole channel up and out?
Cheers,
Tom

This guy has an EXCELLENT article.. (alas i couldn't actually get the handle out of the door) he said to move the window channel slightly to give yourself room.. try as i might i couldn't get enough room to pull the handle out so I think i'll have to undo the entire window channel assembly and pull ...

Hi!
Yes yes i am! I wanted to replace those bushes and was looking at the best way to try and do that as I have never touched the torsion bar on a car!
so just wondering if there were hints to changing the bushes or a set of instruction?

yes but the name of the pins is the same.. sus105 are shackle pins according to my manual.. which are the pins that go in the rear front suspension..

When looking at this exploded pic..
http://www.morris-minor.co.uk/p238.htm

does that mean i should take off the front of the steel plates and replace the rubbers as from the diagram it looks like the torsion bar feeds in to the back of the rear plate??


cheers.
Tom

I need to replace them as the rubbers are worn through and when i go up and down driveways or over bumps im getting a loud knocking noise..
Cheers.
Tom

Thanks guys!
i have never done the job before so thought id ask if there were any gotchas!
i bought polyurethene bushes to replace the old ones

Hi Guys, just wondering when replacing the rear shackle pins and rubbers if there was anything to look out for.. ive never done anything near the torsion bar before so just wondering what to watch out for ie can you change the settings accidently and stuff and if so what are the implications and how...

Thanks so much for the really nice comments guys.. my wife and I decided to sell the pink moggie http://mollythemoggie.blogspot.com/ as we found alot of rust in the seams in the roof and through the floors upon initial investigation.. what this let us do was go moggie hunting! we ended up coming acr...

Hi All, really sorry to ask another colour question but I was just wondering what colour this would be as the identification plate's colour has been worn off! The car was resprayed the original colour 7 years ago but the previous owner has been a bit slow providing me with paperwork for nearly every...