Morris Minor Owners Club

Looking good, i'm about 2/3 of the way through my rebuild and I've got a similar rotisserie using a 2" water pipe, I lock mine off with webbing straps attached to roof beams.

I wonder if you could find a space saver spare at the breakers with the correct PCD which would fit in the space available? It would at least get you home.

So I've been playing around with them this evening and discovered that the plunger bodies are not identical - the spring recess in the plunger bodies that use the ball bearings are 23mm deep, the bullet shaped plunger body recess is 30mm deep, so that when using the same spring the overall assembled...

Phil all the plungers are identical, it's just that I've fitted fibre washers to two of them which are hiding the waisted part. The second thread you reference is mine, when I was trying to adapt a standard extension and add a reversing light switch. Anyway I'll reassemble the extension with the lef...

Phil I think we may be at cross purposes, as the reverse selector plunger doesn't engage with the control shaft, it engages in a notch in the reverse protection plunger ( 100 in the illustration), providing the positive feel of going through a 'gate' when you move the gear lever across when selectin...

The gearstick play plunger 22a84 is a brass tube if you google the part number (108), so it's not that. However, looking at the Moss catalogue in more detail it looks like there are two options for the reverse plunger - 105 (a ball bearing) and 112 in the image? Both parts are listed as BLS110 which...

Just rebuilding a gearbox with a new extension with reversing light switch, and I've got two versions of the reverse selector plunger. 20201101_193654_crop_73.jpg Is there any difference between them? Also how far in do most people end up screwing it in? I found if I screw it well in I can't select ...

I used this paint https://www.toolstation.com/leyland-trade-floor-paint-5l/p64607 after vacuuming the floor carefully to remove the dust. Gave it two coats. Did the job, no more dust, easy to wipe up the inevitable oil leaks , and appears hard wearing ( been down 6 year ). I was looking at that ear...

I used this paint https://www.toolstation.com/leyland-tra ... -5l/p64607 after vacuuming the floor carefully to remove the dust. Gave it two coats. Did the job, no more dust, easy to wipe up the inevitable oil leaks , and appears hard wearing ( been down 6 year ).

I would suggest you take the welded route - my bonnet brace has been repaired by bolting with countersunk screws, and the paint has failed around the bolt heads - with the stresses and flexing of the bonnet encountered in normal use any bolts used in this way are likely to move even slightly resulti...

I've got 4 gearboxes - two are 1275 Midget boxes, two are 1098 Minor boxes. The serial numbers stamped on the casings are: 1275 Midget MB 1527, and MB 39010 L 1098 Minor M 28737, and MA 19 708 9 I assume the B on the Midget boxes signifies the later B type gears, but wondered if anyone knows what th...

Thanks Phil, I've been told by various people over the years that the jumping out of gear in overrun was worn syncro, but I was always sceptical. Below is the second gear, how worn is this?

Tried attaching a photo again this morning, working now - think the website troll just needed a lie down

my gearbox has been jumping out of gear in second on overrun which I'm told is probably due to worn synchromesh ring. I've tried loading a photo but the website won't let me despite having resized ( others have had this issue) can any one describe any visual difference between a new and worn synchro...

Thanks both, sounds like i might not need them - once i strip the gearbox i'll measure and post here for future reference.

Thanks Phil, I'd seen them on the Moss website, and actually they can be got cheaper from some of the Mini suppliers http://www.somerfordmini.co.uk/eshop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13091 But as I'm buying other parts from Simply Bearings I was wondering if they might be cheaper dir...

so as a break from welding Vanessa I'm rebuilding gearboxes - 2 Minor 1098 and 2 Midget 1275 boxes, because you can never have too many gearboxes :D Does anyone know the length and diameter of the needle rollers in the Midget gearbox mainshaft as I was hoping they might be cheaper from a bearing sup...

I'm in exactly the same position - I've been welding Vanessa for about 3 years and I break off periodically to do other things. By a strange coincidence I'm currently rebuilding a spare gearbox too, and spent the last two enjoyable evenings machining my spare gearbox and Vanessa's gearbox input shaf...

Before fitting it may be worth carrying out the restraining cable mod suggested by philthehill in another thread; When fitting the restraining cable bracket to the gearbox drill and tap the screws to 5/16" UNC. The 1/4" UNF screws are not man enough to restrain the gearbox. They were never designed ...

inner nearside rear wing removed - although the central part was OK it had completely disintegrated round the wheel arch and front and rear corners so I decided that it was easier to replace the whole inner wing than multiple repairs. I've cut out the lower rear suspension mount so that I can replac...