Morris Minor Owners Club

Where was that in Hockley Heath please , I know the area well from the 1950s through to now but I cant place it . Just curious ! If you turn right off the Stratford Road in Hockley Heath village by the old Pearsons Hardware stores down school road and follow the road to the end (Illshaw Heath) and ...

I used to visit a scrapyard in Hockley Heath which was a good old fashioned place, I climbed 2 cars to remove a pair of front wings for my 1st car a Renault 4, at the same time filling my toolbox with switches and fixings!

How did you attach them back in? My glove boxes are a little lose inside and wander around...!!
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I just used the existing screw holes an rescrewed the glove boxes to the metal frame, you may need to poke the hoes on the new lining to fit.

Thanks for the replies guys. As I had already purchased fibreglass I was having a wee touch of the collywobbles.but feel a lot better now! I wouldnt worry too much about the fibreglass wings, I have fibreglass on my convertible front and rear and nobody would notice the difference tbh. The only dif...

I gave up with my heater valve and fitted the brass tap used on earlier models instead. No problem since .
You would think that a replacement valve could be made to a decent standard though wouldn't you
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I did exactly the same on my Convertible as 2 previous heater valves leaked

Loving the bodge stories..how creative we all are

Before I replaced my wood earlier this year someone suggested that I buy the Morris minor traveller book written by Ray Newell. It was invaluable to me and gives step by step aswell as tips of replacing the wood frame. A godsend to me.

I do like that E type dash meshing in the first picture.

Well done Earling! Now its time to enjoy one of the best classic cars every made.

Great points by manyminors, I sold one of my old minors some years ago to a student and the car was spot on. After 2 weeks I received a letter with a long list of faults which were more characteristics of these cars or..poor brakes. When I replied to the list there was nothing out of the ordinary so...

Thats good news Martin and Im sure the Redex will help too.

My bodges that come to mind are a Rover 800 drivers wiper arm snapped off so I swapped the smaller passenger side one to get me from Torquay to home. A mk1 Ford escort exhaust silencer mounting snapping so I used my belt to tie it up..ruined when I got home! The loss of coolant in my old Moggie whic...

Ive really enjoyed the new series and I think the 3 new presenters are a good mix.
I would like a classic car road test section though.

Hi Joe welcome to te wonderful world of Morris Minor

My intermittent cutting out and non start when it wanted to resulted in a faulty coil lead.

That's a weird one Martin I'm glad that it wasn't a head gasket problem, I wonder if there is some lube that you can use to avoid the problem happening again?

Just to throw my tuppence worth in I had a similar problem with starting where my car was difficult to start or wouldn't start and I found after checking the ignition side of things and checking leads, the fault was a 3 month old Accuspark coil lead giving poor connection to the coil. I have replace...

Hi Suzie, you just undo the bolt from the inside of the car that secures the two seat brackets.
The captive nuts are what the bolts screw into under the floor welded underside so just spray some wd40 into the threads when they are undone.

That's really interesting and something that I never knew.

That's really interesting and something that I never knew.