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by liammonty
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: Parts for sale
Topic: NOS Distributor drive
Replies: 1
Views: 82

Re: NOS Distributor drive

I've sent you a PM, Les :D
by liammonty
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: Do you know....?
Topic: Current Full Respray Cost
Replies: 22
Views: 5866

Re: Current Full Respray Cost

I'd be interested where you're getting a quote of £1000 in 2024. I could be ok interested at that price. Thanks Me too. The person I paid to respray my car clearly saw me coming as I paid more than that. Wish I'd realised!!! So, EVEN if the job only took 50 hours of work (which is probably on the l...
by liammonty
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: tyre pressures
Replies: 11
Views: 321

Re: tyre pressures

I I have seen the question of tyre pressure come up on facebook and the stupidity of some people is still quite frightening. I've seen it where some answers have been to use the pressure given on the tyre sidewall. That's the Maximum Pressure, whatever the tyre is fitted to! You and me both - I als...
by liammonty
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Availability (or lack thereof) of 145/80 R14 tyres
Replies: 10
Views: 475

Re: Availability (or lack thereof) of 145/80 R14 tyres

I totally agree with ManyMinors. I fitted a set of Blockley tyres to my 1962 car a few months ago and it drives really well on them. Again, I'm not sure why having a rolling radius closer to the original tyres would be a disadvantage?
by liammonty
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Beehive Springs -again!
Replies: 44
Views: 961

Re: Beehive Springs -again!

I feel disappointed. I've been missing out on the drama of beehive springs for 30 years :-( . Some of cars haven't had them, and were fine (pretty sure that BMC weren't even certain they were needed on front brakes, though I know we are talking about rear ones here), and on the cars that I've owned ...
by liammonty
Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:06 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Speedometer Compatibility
Replies: 10
Views: 786

Re: Speedometer Compatibility

I'm pretty sure they would, as I think that the speedo drive gear is the same ratio in 948 and 1098 gearboxes (it's totally different in the earlier 803 boxes though). So, as long as the speedo is matched to the final drive it was intended for (i.e. 948) it will ready accurately. It's the 'TPM' or t...
by liammonty
Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:56 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Speedometer Compatibility
Replies: 10
Views: 786

Re: Speedometer Compatibility

The one that you've said is balck and 90 mph is listed on that site as bronze and 80 mph. that makes sense as all 948 speedos were (to the best of my knowledge) bronze and 80 mph. Early 1098 ones were still bronze, but 90 mph, before the change to black ones. I can't answer regarding the differences...
by liammonty
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ignition timing too far advanced
Replies: 4
Views: 613

Re: Ignition timing too far advanced

The pinking test isn't always the best. I DO have good hearing and of the several Minors I've owned over the years, some just haven't pinked audibly even with ludicrously advanced timing. The engines are relatively low compression which makes pinking a little less likely. The critical thing to check...
by liammonty
Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: 12g206 head thickness
Replies: 9
Views: 4240

Re: 12g206 head thickness

There's a lot of useful info on that in David Vizard's book 'Tuning the A-Series, if you have access to it, regarding determining CR.

Use a sheet of glass or perspex over the cylinder head chambers too for an accurate measurement :-)
by liammonty
Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: 12g206 head thickness
Replies: 9
Views: 4240

Re: 12g206 head thickness

You'd likely need to skim it a little more beyond what it's already had (or at least measure the combustion chamber sizes as they are now) even if fitting it to a 1098, as the chamber sizes are larger than the standard 1098 12G202 head ones. Measure it properly before you fit it to make sure you get...
by liammonty
Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:00 pm
Forum: Electrical
Topic: Dim indicator arm light
Replies: 4
Views: 892

Re: Dim indicator arm light

I suspect it is the flasher unit. I had a similar problem recently and was so sick of the poor quality flasher units available that I sourced and fitted a VDO (German-made) one for a 1970s VW Beetle/T2 van. It works brilliantly. Here is the sort of thing: https://www.heritagepartscentre.com/uk/11195...
by liammonty
Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:50 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Can’t get my daughters car to start
Replies: 163
Views: 12128616

Re: Can’t get my daughters car to start

YES, there is a winter/summer setting: The air filter casing can be rotated so that in the summer the intake tube is pointing away from the exhaust whilst in the winter it is rotated so that it draw warm air from immediately above the exhaust. To make the rotation, simply loosen the wing nut on top...
by liammonty
Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Combining Accuspark and Sparkrite.
Replies: 25
Views: 108037

Re: Combining Accuspark and Sparkrite.

I'd imagine Sparkrite either use an optical sensor in the distributor, or a magnetic one, which then triggers the amplifier. Both will depend on movement, so static timing can be a bit hit & miss Sparkrite uses the original points to trigger their Unit, which then provided the switching to make...
by liammonty
Fri Nov 24, 2023 11:42 am
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: What oil filter
Replies: 25
Views: 50048

Re: What oil filter

The last thing you want on a Minor gearbox synchro baulk ring is extreme pressure oil. You need a oil that is quickly cleared from the baulk ring. Everything else in the Minor gearbox can cope with EP oil. That's interesting Phil as I understood that many other gearboxes that ARE specified EP oil u...
by liammonty
Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fuel pump woes
Replies: 20
Views: 11704

Re: Fuel pump woes

Have you checked the voltage reaching the fuel pump? It seems unlikely that several new pumps would be faulty. I had this problem 20 odd years ago and it was due to a poor power feed to the pump
by liammonty
Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:12 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Engine cut out -fine red particles in the fuel
Replies: 19
Views: 14132

Re: Engine cut out -fine red particles in the fuel

It sounds as though you have identified something that is definitely an issue. That said, I'd keep an open mind as from what I can tell, there isn't any proof that the rust you've found definitely was the cause of the car cutting out. I would keep an open mind as there could be something else causin...
by liammonty
Sat Jul 22, 2023 3:31 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Engine
Replies: 17
Views: 7454

Re: Engine

Mark.stephenson485 wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2023 5:39 pm Plugs are black.
No smoke from exhaust.
You'd do well to answer the question regarding whether the throttle butterfly moves with the actuating lever on the side of the carb :wink:
by liammonty
Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Compressions for 1098 engine
Replies: 10
Views: 3228

Re: Compressions for 1098 engine

I'd be careful before you start stripping the engine for a problem that likely doesn't exist, as you said the car runs and pulls OK. There's not a great difference between 'wet' and 'dry' readings, suggesting the rings aren't bad, and as someone else pointed out, the readings are extremely consisten...
by liammonty
Tue Jul 04, 2023 8:50 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: An odd "Pinking" experience. Not tickled pink!
Replies: 14
Views: 4936

Re: An odd "Pinking" experience. Not tickled pink!

He he! Well, I'm grasping at straws now because I just can't think what happened - nor does anyone else I've mentioned it to....... :-? Like Stephen and his car experience, I wonder if the dizzy clamp loosened somehow, but I don't think it was that.... If you are seeing far more advance than you us...
by liammonty
Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Importing my Morris Minor to the UK
Replies: 9
Views: 4060

Re: Importing my Morris Minor to the UK

Hi Daniel, Good luck with it - I'm sure you'll figure it out? Where abouts are you? I used to love in Ra'anana and also Rishon le Zion years ago. I was tempted to import my mum's car over to the UK from Israel a few years ago, but what stopped me in the end was the bureaucracy at the Israeli end. CA...