Morris Minor Owners Club

Spotted at lunchtime, today, Black 4-door PCY 357G, driving along Teddington High Street in the direction of Teddington Lock (location of the old Associated Rediffusion/Thames TV studios). Driven by a young lady - went past all too quickly for me to get mobile phone out of pocket to take photo.

David, sorry to have missed you. I may not have been carrying a spare Coil (edited) to solve my own Saturday problem, but I did have my tool-kit with "dog-bone" key (has all the sizes and shapes required for undoing drain plugs on Moggies and other old cars) - could have helped in that dep...

Except for when it overheats - it can go temporarily faulty. I may test this by "cooking" the original coil in a saucepan whilst connected to tne AVO. I've actually done a bit more research (limited, on the Internet), but also managed to talk to someone in Elta Lighting, the company that m...

OK, We have 2 people that say mount the modern coil upright, 1 person that says mount it upside down, I've seen underbonnet photos of engine bays with coils mounted miles away from the normal location (on the bulkhead) but upside down. I spent a while going through my "collection" of coils...

Thanks Matt, Mr Roy (who sold me the coil) said they had to be mounted upright (like what he had on display). There were no instructions in the box and I think we all need to have a definitive answer as to the plight of modern coils and which way up they should go. If I mount mine "upside down&...

The brand new one from Roy's Spares cost £16.96 + VAT - it was the "middle" quality one.

Thanks Roy,
In light of all this, I've ammended the subject line. Regards, George.

Spotted this morning along the Hawley Road, Farnborough, on my way to the M3 at about 09:14 - a very good looking Black SS saloon. I've extracted a cropped still frame from my CrashCam - from the corner of the image.[frame][/frame]

But Roy, it definitely was not working on Saturday, the teminals were tested using a car bulb and wire from the "+" terminal to engine earth (thermostat cover on a -ve earth car) - lit OK and then from the "-" terminal to same location and bulb did not light. My coil was quite ho...

The 'so many' refers to the doubts about the fuel pump - and loose/broken connections at the HT leads etc. Don't get me wrong, just sometimes it IS the coil. My catchphrase is there to make folks think - and not just automatically blame the poor old coil. It really is (almost) never the coil..........

I also bought a "pre used" cleaned up and tested coil from another trader (£5) - he threw in another used coil (untested) free of charge. The only things I had to attend to, recently, were the fuel pump and (Saturday) the ignition - hardly "so many other things wrong". When I got...

Hear Hear - very poor show on catering facilities. As most of the attendees would have been pre-booked, there is no excuse for having such poor facilities. Normally at such large events, there are a Plethora of catering vans. This International Rally site, for size, was on a par with some Game Fairs...

No, they are buried in the gravel

Seriously, they are flat and the wood has all gone (some literally - no sign!). Will be putting this in the For Sale section, with more photos soon.

Alex, I'm afraid that they were the "donor" ones I took of an old Dizzy, that I had in my "spares", when I was working on the Traveller engine last year and they are going to come out and be replaced by black silicon ones, like the HT coil lead. It'll all be plain boring black so...

Car conked out, yesterday (Saturday), on the way to the Internaltional Rally, in the middle Woodstock. Within moments a black saloon pulled up and I siad I shoild be OK as it is probably the Su pump contacts (had some problems on the Thursday. Well - it wasn't the pump contacts (but there may have b...

When I got home, tonight, after inspecting a friend of a friend's Traveller (left to stand in the front garden for 10 years), I got under my own Traveller and ran my hands the length of the under-body metal fuel pipe - no trace of any leaks. Checked the aging rubber filler pipe to tank, and that loo...

Bob, no smell of fuel (being an ex-smoker and clear for over 30yrs, I have a very sensitive sniffer). I also have a non-braided fuel line from pump to carb. The only stains on the tarmac are from oil drips - seems I also have an oily steering rack (noted when trying to trace oil source from undernea...

BMC, as always, many thanks for your wise input. As it happens, I do have a spare 1408 speedo, but it has a horrible face and hand and different bulb connectors etc. So it looks like, whoever had the engine replaced, must have replaced the Diff. If the engine was changed out in 1986, how on earth co...

Well folks, when I got home, this evening I dived into my Moggy "work clothes" - green work trousers and green shirt, to go with the green car (co-incidental) and a very eventfull evening ensued ... Jacked the right hand side rear axle and positioned the drive shaft grease nipple at a view...

Great, thanks for that Islip - saves me searching the messageboard. I've also remembered something else. After putting the top of the engine back together again (last November) and prior to taking the car on the road (working on brakes etc), I did have the engine idling for long periods to check wat...