Morris Minor Owners Club

What work do you want to get done? MH Annable's in Darley Abbey Mills (north side of the playing fields, by the Rugby club on Mile Ash Lane off Dunfield road) is a family run firm. They specialise in Jaguar, Rover and Triumph services and restoration of all types, but cater for virtually all classic...

Clever solution above, thanks. Might look into that. My first thoughts following MarkyB's post was to make up some thick steel strips similar to those on Land Rovers and bend them round, which I assume is what most people must be doing anyway? For any interested parties, this post outlines the basic...

* nudge * Looking to get the springs back in a few weeks so want to overhaul them before then. This will never be a top end car, just a dependable Sunday driver so I don't plan to fit new springs. Simply looking to break them apart, rub the leaves back to bare metal, coat them in PTFE paint and reas...

I just wanted to say I once owned a 2000tc and thought it had the most fantastic driving position, fitted like a glove. I suppose it was my first 'real' car. They're a remarkable thing aren't they - ergonomically perfect.... though apparently not for discussion. :o In the end, I managed to mod a Bo...

@gtt1951 Haha! That is absolutely fantastic! I love it!! @MattTomkins True, but it doesn't need to go through an MOT, and most trailers are wooden anyway. Just struck me as something that was easier to modify. But can't deny the workmanship that has to go into a saloon back is far more impressive! M...

I've seen several photos of them, though never one in the flesh. I never understood why so many were made from saloon backs, when the Traveller - in both chassis and shape - is far better suited!

Alex, I think that's a really neat and innovative solution, well done. I like it a lot :D It's been a few years since I did anything with PCB's, but I did it the old fashioned way of zapping them with UV through a bit of acetate and dissolving the exposed areas in NaOH. I did make some on the little...

As LambrettaLad says, the hill element could be a red herring! Don't rule out the basics - it could be something as simple as a dynamo bearing on its way out - or a loose mount. These would be more inclined to let out a tok tok tokking when under load through the belt during acceleration. It all dep...

Chaps and Chapesses, Is it true the rebound clips for the leaf springs are unobtainium? I'll be refurbing the 5-leaf springs from my 1098 next weekend, but on inspection, two of the clips are beyond practical use. One is stress fractured across the retaining tab, the other is split completely. In ei...

I've heard mixed reviews about modern Champion plugs. N6Y/N7Y etc were the recommended for Rover 2000's, and I think I'm remembering correctly when I say N9Y (??) was used in the majority of standard compression ratio A-series engines during this period. It may simply have been a bad batch, but ther...

Vaccuum advance is effected by vacuum from the inlet manifold being placed against a diaphragm in the unit attached to the side of the dizzy. If you lift the dizzy cap away, there should be a coiled wire hooking onto a pin on the dizzy base plate. When vacuum pulls the diaphragm, the coiled wire pul...

Hiya,

7/16 Whitworth.

Michael

VERY interesting..!!! Didn't know about ABS on the Jensen FF... that is early! In terms of disc brakes, you're right the Crosley is recorded as genesis, although the first disc braking system to be used widely with any success is generally regarded as the Dunlop setup which was jointly developed wit...

There's a pressed aluminium tab with '1100' on it by the crankcase breather pipe, but this could easily have fallen off by now.

Hi Ian, Thanks. Sounds like you're a busy man! The furthest my job takes me is Glasgow and Cardiff, but I know what it's like to not have the tinker time you'd like on you classic on a pleasant summer's weekday evening! I don't know what height the lens would end up at, but I don't think it would be...

Rover 2000 was the first car British with multi-directional column stalks. The right side is indicator and horn, the left side is dip/main and pull for flash. That was 1963, so unless anyone can improve on that, we may have a winner. Compact Jags of the period didn't have a flasher, and I don't beli...

Hi Deaconbrody, Did you find a solution to this? I'm thinking along similar lines myself for when the welding is done at the end of the summer. A small step in sideways thinking let me to the Series II boot badge, which appears to have a reflector built in. I can't imagine it would be too hard to ma...

I think the idea is that it's always better to air of the safe side with a standard head and unleaded fuel. Exhaust valves always expand more than inlets owing to the thermal expansion causing by the very very hot (600 deg!) exhaust gases bathing them when exiting the combustion chambers. But unlead...

Only on cast iron bell frames. Worked very well! But a belfry environment is very different to underneath a car, so I'm not sure how durable it would be here. It strikes me that coverage (or completeness of coverage) would be the issue with any brush on rust converter product in a car, so thoroughne...

I'm more inclined to come down on the side of MOrris WOlseley & Garages = MOWOG for the reasons labrettalad highlights. If it tallies with chassis prefixes then I see no reason not to reference MG in the acronym. But I don't think it need necessarily conform to a strict referencing system. There...