Morris Minor Owners Club

greendefender123 wrote:Nice projects. Well done on your mot pass. Keep us updated.

Cheers, I figured if I started posting again it should keep me motivated to crack on!

She needed attention to the back brakes as one side was 'Recording little to no effort'. On a teardown of both sides all the components seemed very clean and new. The shoes and drums had no wear and the cylinders were definitely replaced very recently. I cleaned up both sides, checked the handbrake ...

She got a good helping of seam sealer on the welds, and three coats of paint to protect her.

I made a small panel to finish of the hinge pillar cover, and I tidied up the bottom at a later date (No pictures unfortunately)

I refitted the wing and set about the next item on the MOT fail sheet.

I was pretty chuffed with how my panel turned out! By no means perfect, but this is good practice for finishing up the welding on Fudge.

I made up the flat section of the inner wing and tacked it to get the placement of the captive nuts. I sealed and painted the inside and offered the panel up. The welding was tricky, Its been a good while since I've done any so I seemed to have lost the knack. The first pass below was later ground b...

I started with the curved part of the inner wing to help me keep the shape of the flat section correct. I had already repaired the boxing panel right through to behind the hinge pillar so I had plenty to work with.

This was going to be a project on a budget! So after making up some panels to fix the sills as close to the shape of the originals I set to work on the front corner. After taking the wheel off there was so much rot and very little solid left to weld to. The kidney panel was rotten and there was no s...

She needed a lot of work, mainly to the passenger side floor edge and outer sill, both of which were non existent and had a huge plate just welded over the top. How these MOT places get away with it I'll never know!

And that is as she has stayed, in the meantime me and the old man have been working on a large wooden framed workshop that will be finished shortly, that should give me somewhere warm to crack on with what seems like an endless list of things to do! I did in December purchase another Morris, the thi...

Well, shame on me! My lovely Fudge has been redundant for well over a year now! I have finished Uni, started teaching, bought another Morris, and the list goes on. This is where I left off, the underside welding was finished, and after a lot of hard graft the chassis was taken back to bare metal, an...

I formed the curve with a hammer and bag of sand. Still needs some fettling but will wait till I begin to tackle the rear wing mounting flanges.[frame][/frame]

A rather big hole here! I had to cut so much out to get back to anything thick enough to weld to.[frame][/frame]

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A little bit more progress, Some more prep and primer on the finished areas.[frame][/frame]

A little bit more progress today, welded the rear spring hanger over panel on and repaired the lower inner wing along the box section. Not long now till I get the seam sealer and Gravitex on![frame][/frame]

Not to mention, its currently rigged up with 2 500w floodlights which come in very handy indeed. Not only can I see where everything is when it comes to packing up late, but They also keep me rather warm![frame][/frame]

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Not to mention some photos of my family newly erected car port. I needed something that was going to stand up to the elements a bit better than the 6x3m gazebo that I had been using. Amazing what you can do with some assorted lumber. The actual roof is made out of a huge super heavy duty tarpaulin s...

Getting the spring hanger in and aligned took awhile but got there in the end.
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