Morris Minor Owners Club

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I find mine has enough charge still in it after over a year of it sitting disconnected in the car for multiple starts, so maybe it would be as easy to just keep it unplugged when not in use? The only reason I had to charge it again the other day was that I could hear it get...

svenedin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:42 pm The engine does not like idling much lower than this.

As an inexperienced mechanic...

Seemed to have a slight stutter between the 6-7 second mark of your video almost like it lost fuel momentarily and then caught itself again.

philthehill wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:53 pm The plug needs to be just nipped up and an extra tweak of about 10 degrees should do it.

Thanks, that's probably about what I did judging by how it felt

les wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:28 pm Refill using distilled water or de-ironised instead of tap water

Oh yes, I'd never use tap water, even when I lived in a soft water area.

Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:53 pm Or just refill with premixed coolant after flushing.

I already have the concentrate and deionised water purchased.

Well it's all filled up now, seemed quite thirsty for oil in fact (and no, I didn't have it pouring through the top and out the bottom :wink: ) have to ask, how tight should the top and bottom plugs actually be? Reason I ask is, I know there are warnings about not over-tightening and damaging the ge...

Thanks - I did wonder if I could do that but on the off chance that was considered over-filling I thought it prudent to ask

So, the water round here is very hard, tap water tastes of limescale and kettles like to get excessively crispy so my question is, should I still flush out the radiator when changing the coolant using a hose pipe or skip that step to avoid the risk of adding limescale into the system or will it be u...

Yesterday I emptied out the 12 year old oil from my 1098 gearbox: old_oil_2.JPG old_oil_1.jpg Not too bad looking colour wise, there were some silver swirls in the main oil which didn't show up on camera (the black lumps are driveway dirt and not from the oil) and the plug was quite full of silver g...

I don't currently have Minor Matters at hand, but there's a person in there (think his name is John) who has an advert and does gearbox restorations and is recommended as doing good work (my current gearbox is one of his which was done as part of my cars restoration). Edit: But I'd be wrong as I was...

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I reckon a mobile phone repair kit which has both a hooked pry bar and a cam shaped flat pry tool would probably do the job without damage (provided it was the light blue plastic variant). Well, I went out and fitted the housing (pre-filled with oil) and pressed it up as best I could while hand tigh...

I drive the car up on ramps. I actually sold mine after I reversed my other car up them, over them, and put some nice new holes in my sills which then required the local garage to do some welding. When re-fitting, wipe the new top seal in grease and carefully locate it in the channel. That's one po...

Absolutely but there’s no harm in having a car inspected by a professional. Which also means that you could presumably just ask a garage to do the safety checks/structural checks without actually putting it through an MOT (though I suppose the hourly rate may be more than an MOT could cost these da...

So, magnetise the Purolator collar and I guess you could collect all sorts of metal particles in the filter housing rather than keeping them in the engine :D even aluminium particles are attracted 'cos ali is paramagnetic, that is, it's weakly magnetic when in the magnetic field. I presume the large...

So, ironically, after weighing up all the Pro's and Con's of the various heads that were for sale on eBay (at the time I was buying) and coming to the conclusion that one that had just been removed from a working engine and was in fully working condition (auction description) would be the best choic...

I'd just like to confirm that this is definitely the correct order (and correct parts) before I go fitting everything: oil_housing_parts.png Since the old head looks in places like it had been previously painted black and mostly removed, I'd always thought this was a paint streak, shame I didn't ins...

In the '60s the footwell mat was also the BMC chocolate box, again I don't know if this or the toe pad firedrake1942 mentions would be period correct for a Series2 if that is a concern for you:
https://www.car-hood.co.uk/rubber-heal-mat

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They are completely wrong like alternators or negative earth! Weren't later models factory fitted with alternators making them right? (also if you want to have a towbar fitted as far as I'm aware the only option is negative earth due to current UK law (which includes backdating to older vehicles li...