Morris Minor Owners Club

What ho, chums!
Over the last week Lidl have been selling the above at £6.99 each. Anyone got one? I've not seen them but am strongly tempted. MikeN.

I see this morning that my local Lidl store (in Andover, Hants) has these 1 tonne chain hoists back in stock at the reduced price of £35. I'm tempted. MikeN.

Phil, I've replied.
MikeN.

I understand your wish to fit the oil cooler. To me, the Minor is like a beautiful lady who's already well dressed but on whom a few jewels would not go amiss. For me, its extra instrumentation and headlights but if I'd an oil cooler I'd be wanting to fit that too. However, you don't tell us if its ...

Ah yes, the magnets! I'm obliged to m'Learned Friend for his reminder. Please, please fit magnets to ALL drain plugs i.e. engine, gearbox and back axle. Either drill your existing ones or buy new ones from your nearest plumber's store - you'll find that they're all BSPT thread and the store will cha...

Above, Mr Scrooge95 asks "and also a water or oil temperature gauge (which is better? Or both?)" Water temperature is more important but please fit an oil temperature gauge too! I've fitted one and know of no one else who's done so and with whom I can compare notes. Regards to all from Mik...

I pushed out the Trav at dawn to check the brakes and do a bit of greasing before the sun was up and after sitting outside all day I've just put it away. I noticed that the Smith's water temperature gauge was reading 90F even without the engine started!
Corr! MikeN.

As Mr Panky says, modern hard rubber mounts can cause roughness in the 30-40 mph range that I cured in my installation by drilling holes through the rubber; see here https://board.mmoc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=606467#p606467 Alas, the photos in these old posts seem to have been lost but I did 3 holes ...

Well, Oldisbetter, Pete Bags expressed it well here a couple of years ago when he wrote “I often feel the old car is a bit like me - I could use the medicines suggested when I was born, but I'll happily use the more modern ones, as I feel they will keep me alive for longer!" And you have fitted...

What ho, chums! From Sunday the 8th of May in the UK the supermarket Lidl will have on offer a digital auto-range multimeter for £9.99 and a battery charger with an “intelligent microprocessor control” for £13.99, (the latter covering both 6 and 12 volt batteries). I’ve owned these Lidl bits of kit ...

What ho, chums!
I see that from this Sunday (the 10th of April) Lidl have the above for £39.99; see here https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-tools/park ... ist/p51246 They'll probably have only a couple per store so if you fancy one I recommend you get there early.
Regards from MikeN.

I see from the latest "Minor Matters" magazine that our club Spares Manager, Bryan Gosling, has been on the committee of the MMOC for 40 years and " . . is looking to step back from his role to concentrate on parts unique to the Series MM and Series II so is keen to recruit members to...

Thank you Geoberni, That classic Car LED link gives the site that I remember (and one that you gave us before?) so a red LED is the one I would want. But if I've understood your them correctly, your videos suggest that the LEDs are no brighter than the orthodox filament bulbs so perhaps I should sta...

Dear Surfgirl, Is that a red LED bulb behind a clear (i.e. non red) glass? The centre looks a bit white but the reflection around the lamp looks v red; a trick of photography? I ask, 'cos I'm considering changing my rear light bulbs on my Trav to LEDs to make them brighter and I'm also following you...

On this misty morn spotted at 0645hrs passing the church in Hurstbourne Tarrant, CAS 522 a black saloon covered in damp. Not local, so on a long cross country journey? A good day for it and I wish I was going with him!
Regards to him from MikeN.

Thanks Kevin - found them! Your advice is better than I got from brokers I approached.
MikeN.

Thanks Des.

What ho, chums! I've my 18 year old grand-daughter is coming next week and she hoped to get a drive on the old Traveller. She's on a provisional (currently all tests are way behind) and has passed her theoretical and I had hoped to insure her via "A-Plan" the local brokers who cover my Tra...

I see that Kevin S is in the "Minor Addict" class so I definitely wish to "teach not a parent's mother to extract the embryo juices of an egg by suction", but that said, I hope as Liammonty recommended that you've checked the accuracy of the oil pressure gauge. I repeat this 'cos...

Now this deep stuff:-

"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana".

It needs thinking about doesn't it!