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If you have any clues - part number etc I'd be grateful. Thanks. Otherwise I'm happy to just glue something over it.

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Yep that looks like it. I'll be trawling local skips for a small piece of roofing felt...

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Thanks for that photo svenedin. Here's a pic - it's the same hole, almost above the first silencer, next to the chassis rail. On the part of the floor that slopes upwards. There didn't seem to be anything covering it except the felt. I guess gluing something over it is the way to go. Thanks all.

Hi all, On the passenger side of my late Traveller, there's a rectangular hole in the toe board - the sloping part of the bulkhead. I think it might be for left hand drive pedals to pass through. But I was wondering how people block it up to stop water coming in? I could weld it up - but is there a ...

Hello all, I knocked my Traveller's propshaft while working under the car the other day, and noticed that it had a very musical resonance. In another part of my life I write music, so I recorded various bangs and scrapes along it, and I'm in the process of turning them into a virtual instrument on m...

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Hi all, I'd be grateful for a bit of advice please. I'm part way through replacing the bootwell floor of my Traveller (and inevitably, part of the inner wing too), and there are finger-wide gaps between the left and right edges of the bootwell floor / ends of the flanges and the inside corners of th...

Hi 1000179, I'm not a paint expert, but I have suffered from solvent pop before (when I was using high build primer). Sadly I couldn't find any solution but to rub it back and start again. It happens when the top layer of paint dries too quickly, before the solvent below fully goes off. It's more co...

Thanks very much for those pics Taupe – nice work! And very helpful references. I'm glad it's not as bad as yours was! If I had more time I’d certainly have a go at it. I’m no stranger to the angle iron approach to fabrication, and the section I’m replacing has nothing other than right angles which ...

Hi again, I'm making slow (but as careful as possible) progress with this, and I have another question - grateful for any advice please. I'm not planning to replace the damper pin, so only the back part of the repair section (you can see my cut in the pic below). The rust ahead of the cut is superfi...

Ha ha! Yes I was a bit like that doing the Cortina. I have -some- experience but it's limited. I'm sure I'll wince when I look underneath it in the future. But it's certainly better than it was... The thought of just cutting into it fills me with horror! I measure, agonise, visualise, prevaricate, a...

Thanks Rob, you're right, it's welded around the shackle pin tube exit. I would have had to carefully grind around it to take off the remnants of the shipping panel. Bob - thanks. You're right, of course - I was being optimistic! I've got the flat panel - one way or another I was always going to nee...

Hi again, Slow progress, but I've dropped the spring and taken off the shipping bracket (or most of it anyway). There's a bit of surface rust inside, but I'm surprised how OK it seems to be overall. My question now is whether the trapezoid supporting bracket for the shackle pin tube you can see on t...

Thanks mogbob, much appreciated. I cut my teeth on 'real' bodywork last year replacing the passenger footwell of my Cortina, and this will be the first bit of proper work on the Morris, so I'll go carefully. Once the weather warms up a bit!

Sorry for the delay replying - I changed my password and my account got suspended! Thanks very much for the advice both of you. I've already taken the tank out - I figured that even if I was only replacing the bootwell floor it's a bit close for my liking (particularly as the tank is original and I ...

Thanks for the info Mark. I agree - it could almost have been designed to catch mud...

Bother! It looked fine in preview.

Trying again: The lower pic looks horrific, but I don't think it's as bad as all that...

Hi all, I've read quite a few of the threads in here about rear spring hangers - enough of them to know that I've got away quite lightly with my traveller. It hasn't ever been patched in this area, so it's pretty 'honest'. In the top pic below, you can see that the inner wing is holed just behind th...

Thanks Mogob! Encouragement indeed! I think I've been pretty lucky with nuts and bolts so far - no complete disasters, although I'm about to ask another Q, about rear spring hangers. Taking off the underseal has been an eye opener...

Great photos Mark, thanks. And to Rob for the tip off about the link. I'll take a look for that now.

Had a coach bolt shear yesterday, although the other three seem fine. Why is there always one which goes?...