Morris Minor Owners Club

As a last resort this might be the case, but I'd like to find out why it worked one minute & not the next Looking back to your first post, I see your car is only a year younger than mine and mine had a new loom fitted around 1999. :o So the answer to your question is because that wiring is arou...

You've spoken of the Top and Bottom Fuse, so I;m assuming you have this arrangement, since the later fuse box was mounted with the fuses vertical, side-by-side, not horizontal. This is not my car, it's one I took from the internet as my car has a modified arrangement, thanks to a past owner. Ignore ...

On the subject of capacitors, this Youtube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNiztRfaNzY&t=935s is very instructive in regard to their construction and self-repair capabilities (specifically from about 17 minutes onwards but the whole thing is well worth watching and, for electrical numpties...

panky wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:58 pm Have you checked the in line fuse up near the control box

That's only for the side, number plate and panel lights, introduced in 1966 at the same time as the sealed beam headlights.

... don’t connect the red illumination wire as it will feedback through the car lighting circuit, i.e., the clock will illuminate continuously draining the battery when the car lights are off and when the car lights are on the clock light will be off. Regards John yes, I hadn't thought of that, wel...

Looking at that, there's a Red cable for an inbuilt lamp, and the Yellow powers the clock.
You'll be OK so long as the case is insulated from the Car Earth, i.e. the body or metal mounting bracket.
So mount it in an all Plastic Gauge Holder bracket and you can reverse the connections.

It really does help to have a Workshop Manual ..... The language used can sometimes mislead too. ...both were intact & the bottom one had 12v , whereas the top one only carried 1/2 a volt. When you say that do you mean you measured across the fuse, one end top the other, or were you going from t...

Not all cars have the buffer spacers… another variation was the upright part of the battery tray just had a rectangular piece of thin black plastic stuck to it, and the clamp likewise to insulate it. You're sure the buffers weren't just missing? My own car has the thin black plastic and the buffers...

I don’t know if all models had the buffers, I would have thought so though. Check if you have the appropriate holes to retain the buffers. Basil, being a SII, has the Big Rubber Bung fitted in the hole behind the battery and that gives ample spacing from the metalwork. However, he does have the spa...

Exactly so they shouldn’t be changed. Positive earth is correct. There was never any good reason to change to negative earth Other than to be the same as the rest of the motor world, with all the benefits that provides. Unlike the Minor, several other Makes and Models changed polarity during their ...

Battery is the wrong way round. Terminals should be at the back. Never mind it’s loose which is bad enough but it’s at risk of a terminal short (both meanings of the word terminal) from the battery retaining bar at the front. Wrong battery! A great many Minor have the terminals at the front because...

Well there's several differences between a 61 and a 67, including lights, wipers and steering wheel. You're right Highway Yellow was only 61-62. This website will help you decide which the car is: http://potteries.mmoc.org.uk/Identification.htm Quite honestly, in my opinion, so long as it's not gari...

Yet the 2 previous iterations of the ID prefix, did identify as 'Morris Minor', either by the use of SMM on the early MM cars, or F on the 52-58 style plate, covering MM, SII and early S3.... But I totally agree the Minor has always been the MM, SII or 1000; the use of S3 or S5 on the 1000 is a bit ...

I've seen the statement "NOTE: Series IV was allocated to the Mini-Minor" on a couple of lists of Minor notable the Potteries website, and it took me ages to understand what had gone on..... Their numbering prefix system crossed Models without any 'logic' to the outside person when it was ...

See this topic about pipe size.
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I don’t have my car MOT’d annually either, primarily because there isn’t a single MOT test centre within a reasonable distance of me that I’d trust with a car of this age. The nearest garage I trust enough to let near it is thirty miles away and it isn’t a test centre. I’m confident it would pass a...

I'm not sure when Mike applied. Just before Christmas Berni. Best wishes, Mike. Good to hear they are getting their act together again then. :tu1: When I got mine, I sent the paper form in 3 times because at first attempt, with £5 cheque, some Numpty sent it back as 'not eligible' because he hadn't...

I also got the same level of info from DVLA that Mike did, but in my case it was back in 2017, I'm not sure when Mike applied. But there has been stuff posted here in more recent years that DVLA have tightened the system even further, and now even that level of info is regarded as out of bounds... :...

See this page for info on speedo numbers: http://potteries.mmoc.org.uk/ID/Speedo.htm

I would've thought that someone who claims to have worked on aeroplanes would know all about the effect of extraneous light sources on night vision. I had the courtesy to acknowledge your idea as a possible reason and you just have to be ... well 'You'... making personal comments. Perhaps it's beca...