Morris Minor Owners Club

Free to a good home I have made an executive decision :wink: and will not be progressing any further on building a uprated 998cc in line 'A' Series engine. The block assys are in good condition, the coolant galleries have been soaked in citric acid and are clean. The better of the two blocks I belie...

If you look down onto the top of the pedestals in the photo immediately above - the impression is of looking down at a bulls head. They were produced in both alloy and forged steel - not sintered. They have scalloped sides which allows for some metal to be removed for rocker alignment. The sintered ...

Les
The grease shown above is suitable as is ordinary Castrol LM grease or similar.
Poly bushes will work with just about any grease.

Because it is easier to have a pedestal with oil transfer hole under one part number than have several variations of pedestals with different part numbers. The extra hole is not expensive to produce. The 'bull head' pedestals in the photo above were made in alloy (chuck them in the scrap bin even th...

The pressure plate in the picture above is not scrap it just needs to be set up correctly. It is a job you can do yourself without specialist tools.
Quality control is an issue these days not just with clutches but right across the car spares replacement spectrum.

I may have missed it but was there a reference/comment regarding to moving the No: 1 rocker shaft pillar to the No: 2 position and any issues that may occur? The rocker shaft being used in the rebuild was the later type with the locating peg moved to No: 2 position. The peg was moved by BMC because ...

These are the studs you should be using:-
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They can be torqued to 50 lbf.

Firstly you do not have a Morris Minor gearbox casing fitted. The standard Morris Minor gearbox casing does not have the two threaded holes which are there to mount a hydraulic slave cylinder for operating the clutch release arm. The aperture in the bell housing for the release lever may be compromi...

There is no machining needed with fitting the crankshaft rear lip seal but I would steer well clear of fitting a crank rear (lip) seal. Unless the flywheel mounting flange is perfectly smooth or you have fitted a speedy seal sleeve the lip seal may well be torn to shreds very soon after you have sta...

The Dowty seal bag is a reusable and re-sealable bag designed by Dowty manufacturing.
The hair clip you refer to is I suspect is a split pin.
Split pins are not always supplied as part of a wheel bearing overhaul kit.

There should be one large bearing, one small bearing, one seal (ring) and one packet of grease per hub.
No harm will come to the bearings if to identify them you have to remove them from the factory wrapping.
Once identified re-wrap and re-seal in a Dowty seal bag.

The discs will clean up as will all of it and new bearings are cheap.
The backplates are stone guards.

As regards negative earth for phones etc. Just run a corrected earth dedicated lead direct from the battery via a fuse and the jobs done. I ran for several years a 12v electric positive earth cooling fan on my 24v negative earth Landrover direct from one of the two batteries installed via a dedicate...

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Only if the distance between the extreme edges of the damage is less than 2.64125" diameter would you be able to fit a cylinder liner. See section AAA.12 of Morris Minor 1000 workshop manual AKD 530. If the damage distance is more than that quoted above the remaining damage will still be expose...

If your windscreen is leaking just flood the seal with Captain Tolley's creeping crack cure. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126024991251?epid=2306096349&itmmeta=01HT0C6SF64B8E5BWXH1BZNK3P&hash=item1d57acc213:g:USsAAOSwEmNk6xWi&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0NVn%2BegO9A2Ieq16dmWugHWFYjM3LD%2FhicvHMtAY...

It will be much easier to fit a coolant temp gauge than try and improvise what you want.
If you want the light to illuminate when the engine is overheated it will be too late. With a gauge you will know what the temp is and can observe it rising and stop the engine before the engine gets damaged.

Below is a Marina/Ital stub axle fitted to a Minor swivel. Marina stub axle.JPG The hub nut locking arrangement is different - note the splines onto which a internal splined washer fits, the hub nut does not have any castellation's and is locked by a special locking washer which is secured by a spli...