Morris Minor Owners Club

Bull Motif charge about £870 for a 1300 A series, and about £800 for a 1098 engine.
Much cheaper than your quote for a rebuild:D

Thanks Lads, He lives half a week in Inverness and half a week in Wick. Then spends most weekends in Durness, where he found this car on his travelings. I agree with your comments and shall advise him accordingly. I'm going up in May for a week to stay, so if it's still there I shall have a good pok...

The car is in Bettyhill, Sutherland. The photo's he's sent to me show a car in pretty good condition, unfortunately they only show exterior views.
He's looking to buy and drive - his mechanical skills are only basic at the moment.

cheers,
Iddy

Mmmm......

That's what I'm concerned about.
Also, with no mot he can't take it to a garage for some quotes before he buys. Plus he doesn't know anyone who could give him an idea of the work needed to be done.

Thanks for the info lads,
Iddy

My son is thinking about buying a Traveller which is an mot failure. Unfortunately he's living in Scotland, so I'm not much help down here in Wales. I'd like an idea of the work and price involved for the following information from the seller: Work needed on NSR and OSF brakes due to binding / N/S h...

Jock

I've succesfuly used a free program called Recuva to recover deleted data. I shouldn't think it will work in this instance, but a good back up program to have on your pc. It's important to install this before you actually need to use it, otherwise installing a recovery program could overwrite the fi...

The nasty mot man poked the manual windscreen washer through the dash :o In fairness it was getting a bit stiff and finicky. Anyway, I've bought an electric one as a replacement. Where's the best place to put it? I thought of putting it next to the top up bottle, although I'd rather not drill into t...

I have a seized rear brake cylinder (mot failure), so am going to change both rears while I'm at it.
Do I need to bleed all four brakes or can I just do the rears? I'd rather not disturb the front - if it ain't broke etc.

cheers
iddy

There are a few decent free programs about:
DriveRescue, HandyRecovery, Restoration, Findntfs etc.
As previously stated - drive out and plug into pc,and don't load any of these data recovery programs onto the drive from the hard disk recorder. Use the pc hard disk to load these programs.

iddy

The part costs about £2 from ESM spares.
I've got a gif diagram showing the assembly of the three types of paper filters. If anyone wants a copy email me.

iddy

Here's some info about studs and bolts which might come in handy. It refers to the modern ones used where I work, but might also be applicable to older ones. Part numbers: The part numbers of a bolt or stud don't just come off the top of a manufactures head, they include all the information needed. ...

Well, she's up and running and all is OK. :D Have rechecked nuts and reset valve gaps. I happened to be talking to a retired mechanic yesteday, he worked in a Morris garage years ago and told me they used to set the valves at 12 thou for intakes and 15 thou for exhausts. He said the engines ran quie...

Thanks again bmc.
I've got two manuals - one in the garage covered in oil and grease, and one clean one in the house for pre maintenance reading!

iddy

Will do bmc - except for the valves bit, not quite sure what to do there. Will have to read up on it for next time! And get a spring compressor.
Can I use one of those small conical grinding stones that fit on a drill for the countersinking?

What does the grease do btw?

Much obliged,
iddy

Doh,
I meant NO particular order
iddy

Mmmm,

Will have to adjust size next time

And the names are in particular order

iddy

My blooming head gasket needs changing. Can I take the studs out with a molegrips so I can clean the block face, and when replacing is there a problem with torque or do I just tighten them until they don't move? Can I just clean the head and block faces with fine emery paper? I notice the new gasket...

Cheers,
Will give it a bash this wekend.
iddy

Dashpot has 3 in1 oil and everthing seems to be free.

iddy