Morris Minor Owners Club

So I've stripped, cleaned up the heater and painted it. Two questions - where can I get replacement foam to seal around the matrix, as far as I can see none of the usual suppliers have this. Secondly the plastic 'wings' on the heater have been badly painted, how would you address this- should these ...

Welcome from a fellow relative newbie. It's interesting how many of us are former Midget owners. My first car was a 74 Midget, my Minor is my first, although not in as good condition as yours, and is currently in the process of being stripped for a bit of welding. I'm not far from you in NE Somerset.

I'm refurbishing Vanessa's bits as I take them off :wink: , and have stripped the heater. the matrix is in reasonable condition, and appears not to be leaking, so I've flushed back and forward a couple of times, so it no longer runs brown. but i suspect there is still crud adhering to its inners ( o...

Thanks Phil and Bob, I suspect you are right. From experience the ends of wiring where the connectors are fitted are often black and brittle, and although I haven't got as far as inspecting all of the ends I will probably find this to be the case. I'm curious as to why car wiring deteriorates like t...

The cloth covering on my wiring loom has substantially rotted, but the PVC covered wiring appears to be generally in a reasonable condition. Has anyone recovered their loom, either with cloth, or alternatively expanding plastic braid or similar ? I'm thinking of doing this rather than buying a new l...

I don't know what the correct part dimensions are, but I've always just used a tap washer

Bought a MIG welder recently ( early Christmas present), started off with making some intergrips for holding panels together when welding, currently making a trolley for the welder and gas bottle, before moving onto a rotisserie to put Vanessa on ( the name my wife gave the car, not a female family ...

I recently repaired a very corroded thermostat housing for a Midget, which had much bigger holes in it, using an Aluminium welding kit similar to https://www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/info-DURA01.html which I've had in my tool kit for about 15 years. i was able to fill substantial holes with this and ...

Thanks Rob. Out of interest what diameter / wall thickness of tube did you use? Did you build your own rotisserie ? I'm proposing building two hinged A frames out of 50x50 3mm box, with an M10 tie bar so that I can adjust the height.

in the not too distant future i am stripping my car, and mounting it on a rotisserie, so that i can replace spring hangers, sills, etc. My question is, where is the centre of gravity on a saloon? ive found this on You tube https://youtu.be/IGLWtwZOYsI which implies for a convertible shell it is abou...

I haven't changed my Minor clutch yet, but changed a number on my Midget in the past, and always found it was easiest with the engine and gearbox out as a unit ( in the midget it can be done with the gearbox left in situ). For the less experience i would imagine it is easier to change the clutch, sp...

Just to close this one out, I got round to removing it last night and it is evident that when they resprayed the car white, that included the head lining which had been left in situ! Hence the sticky finish.

For taps at a reasonable price try Tracy tools

http://www.tracytools.com/taps-and-dies ... 16-tpi-unc

Carbon steel tap should be ok for cleaning threads, and are cheaper than HSS, but carbon taps can snap if not used with care . For the extra few pounds I would go for HSS.

You can get 'concertina' hoses that you can fit without removing anything, but they are very fiddly and really only intended as a ' get you home' measure. We did it by removing the radiator and water pump, took about an hour.

So took the other rear wing off today - rust, aluminium mesh and filler and fibreglass bodges, I've found it all!

Thanks Manyminors, I takled the windows today, and once I started they popped out frighteningly easily. The window and seal were in fact quite 'loose' in the frame, so probably not very weathertight, so they'll get some suitable sealant when I replace them.

Just to prove I'm still working on Vanessa when I can, more horrors I've exposed. Next is to remove the glass as she is going to get a full respray in due course. The window seals are all virtually new, the question is it practical to remove the side windows without damaging the glass or seals, or s...

Just to reinforce Phil's comment about the eye bolt - below is an eyebolt i recently changed - what you can't see from the picture is that it was oval where it had rubbed against the eyebolt. Also mine was very corroded, and if i had left it in situ the movement against the new bush would damage them.

A bit belated, but how did you get on with the soda blasting? I'm just starting on a similar project and was considering buying a soda blaster but don't have any experience of how easy to use, effective or messy they are.

Phil, good point, I'd forgotten about the adaptor, so yes this isn't the torque in question for the banjo bolt. Gavin