Morris Minor Owners Club

Then can we have a photo of what's inside? You need someone who has one fitted to take a picture of their one too for comparison, or contact Accuspark via the link that I posted previously.

Accuspark do provide full instructions, and those are here: http://www.accuspark.co.uk/fitting_guide.html and I recommend that you read them; but in a nutshell, it appears that your black lead goes to the -ve or CB terminal on the coil and your red lead goes to a +ve supply, which can probably be th...

Almost certtainly -ve with an alternator, but easy to check: which terminal on the battery is connected to the vehicle body and which goes to the starter solenoid?

Is your car +ve earth or converted to -ve earth? Electronic ignition is available in both, but can be very sensitive, so we need to know.

You do, of course, already have a reservoir - it's integral with the master cylinder. However, the remote reservoirs do make life easy. Just be aware that you need to fit a new endcap to the master cylinder in order to connect the remote feed and a new filler cap to prevent leaks. You might be able ...

There are different types of door lock. If I remember correctly (40+ years since I drove a four door), four doors and LCVs can be locked by pushing the operating lever forwards. That's perfect, becuase you automatically unlock it when opening the door to get out. On a two door or traveller, the late...

There have been a lot of duplicate posts recently. This seems to be caused by the site being a little slow. Someone clicks the "Submit" and nothing seems to happen, so they click the button again, and get two posts. PLEASE, when posting, be patient. Click the submit buton ONCE and then wait up to a ...

Do you want to keep the car as +ve earth? It's very simple to convert to -ve earth, and that does make using modern accessories much easier; but if you want to keep originality, then that's fine. As regards the USB converter, check that it is fully insulated and that no part of the circuitry can com...

Yes, "out" towards the components. One problem with old cars is not knowing what might have been changed over the years, so a multimeter is a really useful tool. With the fuse removed and the ignition on, check for 12 volts on the terminals. One set, the "in" will have 12v whilst the "out" will have...

I noticed what looked like a brake cable coming from the offside trafficator ??? :o The brake light switch is a common failure, but it only stops working, not usual for it to short to earth - very limited potential for that to happen. The highly corroded fuse box is not going to help matters. You c...

You are correct that new heater valves have been a problem for quite a while, but ESM claim to have overcome this issue. See their newsletter: https://www.morrisminorspares.com/newsletter/preview/22

You have the correct plugs. The standard gap is 25 thou. I'm not aware that Lumeniton recommend any variation, but I'm open to correction if anyone has better information.

I don't have a strong view either way. If it's open, we can moderate, if it's not, then no problem. As others have suggsted, there were problems in the past where someone would place a perfectly reasonable advert, only for others to start criticising, and some of the comments were upsetting to the o...

Ah, that wonderful petition site that encourages you to send money and share your details. Much more effective is to use the Government petition site, which, if sufficient signatures are received, could lead to a debate in the House of Commons. https://www.gov.uk/petition-government. There have been...

As standard, your car would have been positive earth, but many have been converted to negative. I mention this because a green wire is usually the opposite from earth, but without knowing your car, I can;t say whether it will be +ve or -ve, but if it came loose then it could cause a spark if it touc...

This is something that concerns all car users, not just classic cars - from what I can discover, none of the fatalaties to date has involved a broken down classic, they have all been incidents in more modern vehicles. It won't really matter how close together signal gantries are erected: Even at 100...

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Welcome, we'll look forward to seeing the van in due course, but in the meantime, once you have pumped it and got pressure, can you hold the pedal down and it remains firm with no creep whatsoever? It's easy to say no air in the system, but symptoms could suggest otherwise. With the remote reservoir...

My background is information security and data protection. Having seen lives ruined by breaches of privacy I think people are right to be obsessed by it. My background too, and as I said, there are some good things in the GDPR, but there are also things which are bad. I cannot agree that anyone's l...

I view it as an unintended consequence of the General Data Protection Regulation (much of which originated in the EU, but is also a global industry in its own right), some of which is definitely good, some of which is definitely bad. I doubt whether witholding the name and address of the first keepe...