Morris Minor Owners Club

Ahh so that's why people sitting in a queue blind me with stop lights, I though modern cars didn't have handbrakes! :D It is annoying, but some cars do it intentionally. My last two Mercs, if you jab the footbrake down and let go it puts the car into HOLD, and it sits there with the brake lights on...

Perfect thank you, so it is in that hole, it just didn't look right. If early cars had the wiring coming from the engine bay it probably explains the odd metalwork under the plinth that the switch is mounted on, always wondered why something that it just screwed to the floor needed a recess and a pi...

This is a somewhat strange request, but does anyone have a picture of the dipswitch / toeboard area of a car please. The wiring as it comes down has a metal clip to secure the wiring to the toeboard, I have removed all of the interior to paint the floor. Coming to put it back together and I cant for...

There is some discussion about these in Practical Classic this month, I think some were fitted to Matt Tomkins Traveller as a test.

Glad its resolving and getting sorted out. Slapping a patch on is not the way there, as that rot will extend by the looks of it. By the looks of the photo so without a proper look and a prod that could be a new rear chassis section and possibly inner wing section. You'll enjoy her once shes sorted. ...

Yes, the bolt assembly for want of a better word comes apart, but is held by the pin that goes to the operating rod. The pin is riveted to the bolt, I just turned a new one up.

So sorry to hear of the hassle and aggravation, buying from a so called specialist ypu would have hoped for it to be right. There will always be things and issues with an old car no matter how perfect it's sold as, that is some of the fun of it and why we have a forum full of questions. That said st...

I work in an IT related occupation, medical IT. All of the main line brands are fiine, I do agree with steering clear of the lilke of packard bell, medion, acer etc - limited or no support. As mentioned the places that sell on ex corporate machines are worth a look, as corporate machines tend to be ...

Excellent, glad it all worked out for you, makes a straight forward job of repairing them.

I have one of the adjustable leveling bars that goes between the hoist and the engine. It has four small chains attached to it, with an L shaped bracket on the end of them, that fit under the rocker studs nicely. A really useful piece of kit, and if you ever pull the engine leaving the gearbox in th...

Thanks Phil, if you get a picture at some stage it would be really interesting to see how it actually was when it left the factory. I think I can imagine the route by what you describe. Always awkward when there is nothing to go on other than prior bodgery. Wish I had taken a photo of what I had pri...

Thanks, its much better than how it was, the pipe was below the chassis leg and had been slightly flattened, and the wiring loom had been catching on the clutch linkage, only the PVC sleeving it had been run through but none the less not good. I may even make a clip up off of the gearbox bracket to ...

I have attached some pictures of my solution, not the finished job yet but you can see the idea. I run the brake line in some spilt sleeving so it fitted the clips better, and just for some protection. No idea why some are upside down, they are not on my system so you will have to look at them the o...

I have just done this same job, fitting a new brake pipe between the MC and front T, and also sorting out more poor wiring. It is certainly a strange design to route such things so near a moving linkage. I ended up kicking it up and over the top of the clutch transfer linkage, and along the lip of t...

When I added 13' to my garage a couple of years ago, again all because of the Minor it was under permitted development and did not need a full planning application. The planning Dept. advised I let building control know but did say it was a grey area, of course I never bothered with that and just go...

Link is below to who supplied them to me, lovely people to deal with, they are in Austria so I was near...

http://www.paulparts.at/contents/en-uk/ ... s.html#p79

Thats a common problem, there's a chap in Germany if I remember right that is making the springs, I bought a couple off of him to replace mine. I will look the details up for you and post them later on.

I am not familiar with that vintage of Minor, mine being later, but I am sure I have seen these fittings within the dash panel providing instrument illumination. May be a clue.

Definately, they wont be metric !.

If they are new(ish) seat mount plates they could well be M8 as mine are, although as you say they are crudded up they are more than likely be old and 5/16.