Morris Minor Owners Club

i had a lot of trouble with an order from them recently, so i dont by from them anymore. you will need to keep the car garaged and dry if you want the hood to last. they do look good, but shop around for quality.

Hi phil. i replyed to your email, and thanks for bringing me back to the board.

the worst job on a Minor is in the winter!

try and measure the thickness of the metal there, and get a plate of the same thickness if not a little thicker gauge. The engine shaking must have caused the metal to fracture.

if you try the butt weld its easier to cut it square and weld

your hole looks like it cracked out rather then rust. you seam to have clean edges. like you could weld to them. the thing is to fill the hole as neatly, and as strong as possible.

cut it as you need to, but the plate from underneath allows you to pool the weld. but dont cut more then is necessary, its just to get those 2 edges square

i would try and weld the crack, not cut it out. the shape dont matter, best to try and remove as little as possible. the tick plate from underneath will help get a good weld. the butt type can melt through. got to be accurat with the butt weld

thats it. cut it nice and square. is that a crack to the left?. could it be possible to pull up a plate up from inside/underneath, allowing you to weld along the edge of the hole. ie the plate has a threaded hole, which studding could be used to pull it in position, welded, then remove the studding ...

thats an mot issue. it will need to have a good strong plate butt welded into position, to be a good job. i dont think plating it is allowed at mot, if its near the shock. Its near the starter rather then the shock point, so a plate may be ok. best make a strong neet job.

try these people for tools
www.shiremoorcompressors.co.uk

200 psi is enough for the flying scotsman to pull a 12 coach train.

That what happened to me too, but we had a boy . 20 december 5.30 in the morning. And thats why you did not here very much from me recently. We called him Niko, and hes going to get me to clean up my garage.

they are all fake.

but this is how we get our recon king pins.

bmcecosse wrote:Applied metal - hmmm - the mind boggles.

http://www.gordonengland.co.uk/cws.htm

I thought that the recon king pins had metal applied to the threads and then recut, to give the correct thread. This would alow for standard trunnions to be used, of the shelf. If the king pin thread was only recut, we would have to find trunnions that match the recut king pin. This is not the case....

I am a fan of gs jones, and have been for something like 15 years, if not more. hes never let me down and good quality. he also likes to give away free oil if you take a 1 day delivery, and he give a discount for mmoc members.

Those ones on ebay are top quality. produced many years ago in the uk, with real good chrome. ive had some on my minors for a couple of years now. no pitting. good ones.