Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi all, hope to early next week fit glove box inserts to my Morris Minor. Has anyone got a photo of a van or pickup dashboard showing their gloveboxes. Trying to work out before I fit them, how the glove box insert is fitted eg does it sit on top of the metal surround or does the metal surround edge...

Many thanks Phil for the reply and the links, will let you know how i get on. Thanks for all your help. Much appreciated. Richard

Phil I have just bought this as I have two morris minors , this one comes without the connector union, I am presuming as its for a mini MG etc it should be the same thread for a connector for a morris minor? Out of interest where can you buy the correct connector union from with the right threads on...

Many thanks for the info Phil, as always you have been extremely helpful thankyou. Planning on fitting the oil pressure gauage soon, prob in next month or so, whenever i am over at dads next and have a bit of spare time, once I am in the process to be starting it i will let you know how I get on. Th...

Many thanks for the info Phil, much appreciated. Out of interest why does doing a couple of loops near to the take off adapter stop any vibration? Is that vibration coming from the engine or as the car moves or both? I guess maybe as its not a straight line it cant vibrate easily along the pipe? Man...

Meant to ask, what sort of reading on the oil gauge would you expect to see?
R

Hi all, was given the enclose contents ( on photo) to me a few years ago from a gentleman i know who was clearing out his garage. I believe it has come from an MG although maybe wrong. I have never fitted an oil pressure gauge before. Would I be right in thinking the male end of the connector goes i...

Thanks Tom, yes was very pleased that all the results were all pretty consistent with each other, the spark plugs were very black and sooty, probably because they have probably done no mileage but what mileage they have done has been on full choke as the van has been started but has hardly left my d...

Evening all, spent an afternoon with my father in law working on the van yesterday, first job was to do a compression test, these are the results:- Cylinder 1. 2. 3. 4. Dry test. 170. 172. 168. 172. Wet test 180. 190. 172. 165. Am a bit confused about cylinder 4’s wet result vs the dry result, in hi...

Many thanks Don, I had wondered that given it was a van whether it was a low compression engine, the original diff has been replaced with a traveller / saloon diff, so I was wondering if the engine was original? The engine number plate when I bought the van was no longer on the engine so I have no w...

Should have said the reason why i want to do it as it dosent seem to have as much power in the engine as my other Morris Minor when you accelerate, the van has been in bits for the past x years so now trying to iron out all the issues as i progress with the rebuild. R

Many thanks Tom. Have a good weekend.
Be in touch once i have been over to dads to do it.
Richard

Many thanks to you all for your help, very grateful for all your inputs, will have a go and put the compression readings on here, and maybe you could help me discifer them? So warm engine, plugs out and labelled, take lead off coil, connect gauge into first cylinder, start car and turn over for 10 s...

Hi Tom, thats a huge help thankyou, pleased you mentioned about not using the starting handle, i know the button you mean on the starter solenoid, I replaced mine recently so unsure if the new one has a button? - will have to check. If i haven't got a button on the solenoid, is it just a case of tur...

Hi all, going to do a compression test on the engine at some point in the next month. As I understand it, I have to warm the engine first and bring the engine up to temperature, label the HT leads eg the order they are currently located in the engine and then remove leads and plugs from the engine, ...

Many thanks to you all for your input, much appreciated. Will hopefully be back over at dads in next few weeks so will let you know how I get on. Much appreciated for all your individual comments/ help.
Richard

Many thanks for all your inputs, much appreciated, the temp went up to early 90’s but i needed to do a few jobs for my dad so thats when i turned it off. Ok thankyou sounds like i need to take it for a longer run and see what happens. Will take a bottle of water with me, thankyou. Out of interest if...

Morning all, am in the process of restoring a austin minor van, been an ongoing project for past 7 years, finally got to drive the van up and down a housing estate road near my dads which is where the van is stored (its all taxed and insured). Engine seem to be very hot very quickly yesterday, with ...

Many thanks for all your input, looks like i have some homework to do!
Thanks again