Morris Minor Owners Club

Cleaned up a few bits at work during my lunch break yesterday using the parts washer and sand blast cabinet.

Shame I can't get the full car in.

Hi thanks everyone for the advice, the car is level and on axle stands on the garage. I will do as suggested strip the cross members and mounts off clean everything up fit new rubbers then when refitting slacken the front engine mounts stabliser on the head see if it lines up better.

Thanks Phil I can bar the holes inline without any problems and make the cover screws fit, all the engine and gearbox the mounts will be getting replaced the one in the photo hasn't separated yet. The rubber mounts are under quite a lot of strain its like the gearbox is too far back but it is not th...

While doing the drivers floor pan I noticed a couple of bolts missing on the gearbox cover. I thought maybe the threads need a tap running through the the holes or maybe a broken bolt to drill out. what I found is the cross member is not lining up with the chassis holes it looks like the gear box mo...

All opened up now and chassis rails emptied ready for cleaning out and preserving I decided a new floor would be easier and look better than patch up what was left of the old one. It looks like a long term leaking gearbox output seal has preserved the chassis rails they seem very sold and original s...

Last year I had a lock up unit in a shared industrial building and I turned up one day to find a sorry looking 1963 Minor parked outside. My landlord and good mate had nowhere to keep the car it was one of his collection of 4 so was going to leave it there until he found somewhere. The car was parke...

Being new to Morris Minor ownership in the last year I have replaced or repaired the os sill area welded up the rear inner wings and replaced the os cross member end including stripping the torsion bar. These cars are so easy to work on every job is a pleasure compared to a modern car a few worn bus...

My renewal with Lancaster has increased about that percentage amount, RH Insurance have quoted about the same as I paid last year with breakdown cover included.