Morris Minor Owners Club

I have used a Brian James clubman single axle trailer to move my Morris about for several years and is a good trailer after having put up with home built trailers for many years.
The Brian James clubman trailer has been superseded by a revised model and unfortunately now costs a lot more than I paid.

The oil goes everywhere because the oil filter is mounted upside down. That is the downside of having a Marina/Ital engine. There are oil filters that do not drain when removed - if I can find a part number I will post on here. The Marina/Ital oil filter can be mounted remotely so as to get over the...

Alan
The open length of the damper from eye centre to eye centre is 330mm.
The closed length of the damper from eye centre to eye centre is 210mm

First thing I would do is check the compression.

There are ways of overcoming the difference in oil pump drive. You do not have to machine the block. Most if not all camshaft now sold have the slot drive. You do not have to buy a pin drive camshaft. You can with most oil pumps change the drive shaft to suit the cam drive. Use a shaft with a Woodru...

There are beehive springs and everything else.
The thread is specifically about beehive springs not everything else.

I do not remember having come across the beehive springs on other cars but that does not mean that they were not fitted to other cars. The most common shoe to backplate retaining clip is the pin through the backplate with a parallel coil spring and slotted spring cap retained by two bulbous projecti...

Better to have the sludge in the oil filter rather than in the rest of the engine. When I worked in the garage trade we looked after a high annual mileage petrol Hillman Hunter. The engine was filled with diesel engine oil and it was surprising how clean the engine internals were when it was strippe...

Get the timing marks lined up and then paint new marks on the timing chain cover and crankshaft pulley rim. There is no need to go overboard on the timing marks.

If you want the 'A' Series block internals and the sump to be clean use a high detergent diesel engine oil.
The engine and sump will be clean but the engine oil filter will need changing more regularly.

The diff ratio is stamped on the top of the rear axle diff housing i.e. 9/38 which equates to a 4.222 to 1 diff ratio.

The BMC distributer data above is really academic in that the data is for a 'A' series engine using a fuel (petrol) that is no longer available. All that the chart will tell you :- is the advance both mechanical and vacuum advance working within the parameters of the data - yes or no. You can set th...

The only indicator I can give you is look for wear on the drive splines. The wear will take place on the rear drive face of the spline. The wear takes place there as most driving is in the forward direction. Look at the splines and if you can see wear on the spline that wear must be to the rear of t...

It has been a good kit and has been fitted to my speed hill-climb and sprint Minor for quite a while. The suspension has been lowered by 2" (reset springs) but damper upward travel currently equates to the clearance between the top face of the axle bump rubber and body bump plate. On a non lowe...

The reason for the beehive springs is the way round the brake shoe return springs are fitted. If fitted to the inside of the shoe the springs pull the shoe towards the backplate so no beehive spring required. If the springs are fitted to the outside of the shoe the springs pull the shoe away from th...

Depends on how much you want or need a 1275cc engine.
Have a look at the video below - it outlines the work required to convert the transverse 1275cc engine to an 1275cc inline unit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sxy1pUq83Y

As to the scarcity of 1275cc in line 'A' Series engines - they are out there but the price has risen considerably. They now command a price of around £700 for a engine that is in need of overhaul. The overcome the lack of 1275cc in line engines the 1275cc transverse engine can be modified to fit as ...

Whilst I have not fitted a 'O' Series to a Minor I did have a Morris Ital estate fitted with a 1.7 'O' Series engine and I was not impressed with the engine or performance.
Nowhere as good as my previous Morris Marina estate fitted with the 1.8 'B' Series engine.

Just use a 3/8" square drive 'T' bar.
Does the job superbly.

It may not be able to go anywhere but it could cause a lot of expensive damage if the spring came adrift.
It would be cheaper to replace the duff beehive spring with a new beehive spring.