Morris Minor Owners Club

Looking at some wiring I did just a few years ago - auxilliary stuff outside of the main loom like a oil/water gauge bulb wire or the cigarette lighter - I notice quite a bit of it has gone a bit hard and brittle already. More fool me for thinking Halfords electrical cable would be long term... wher...

It's likely that your computer automatically rotates the image and this site doesn't.

What is that measuring? Gs as well?

I've been guilty of spending too much time on eBay and at an antiques centre near Lincoln recently. First, a heating element attachment to go with a Reece Fish carb - attempting to fit the carb itself may get its own thread if I can find or adapt a manifold. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51954...

We've been signed up for a milk delivery service for a while - I was devastated to hear him coming down the road in a diesel van!

Shiply and similar also take a significant cut - they're good for finding people but even better deals can often be found if you contact transporters directly.

A few tired tropes in here, aside from The Telegraph being utter trash since circa 2004. Here they're reporting an anecdote as a generalisable fact about EVs that they know will get people riled up, sad times for the paper. EVs are generally more environmentally costly to produce but the zero-low ta...

Certainly looks more productive than the nonsense I do on the computer every day for work!

I know of an excellent welder in north-east Fife if you're willing to go that far.

That makes sense to me, there are factors that make it safer - standing out, being driven defensively, not being the target of road rage because it's too cute - as well as the obvious structural things that greatly increase the danger if an accident does happen. The name of the game is accident avoi...

Isn't installing side-impact bars in the doors a requirement in Australia? I've often considered getting something welded in there. Regardless, primarily driving a 'Moggie' since I began, eight or so years ago, has made me drive slowly and defensively in all vehicles. The closest I've gotten to some...

Good points well made chaps.

I think I'll paint a spare door card and test it before committing fully.

I have a rebuilt engine ( link ) and newly welded and undersealed shell ( link ) lying about waiting to be combined, and my thoughts turn to the interior. The car is 'Trafalgar Blue' and had the light blue interior, including a filthy carpet, when I bought it back in 2014. I ran it with a darker nav...

"it's never the coil" is burned into my mind too! It's difficult to overstate how much of a resource he was, and strangely still is with the history of forum posts both here and on a mini forum, especially for complete newbies like myself going from not knowing what a spark plug was to doi...

I have a spare rear door sitting in my garage in Huntingdon if it's of any use.

Pretty good bodge no? The big-end doesn't come closer than an inch of the oil pickup bracket although the camera makes it look close. 20211128_120818_HDR.jpg Engine is timed in at the cam figure of 106 and assembly is pretty much done other than waiting on a timing cover gasket in the post. Then I j...

Forgive the intervention - what is the advantage of cross-drilling a wedging?

Yeah Steve is great, annoyingly survives happily by word of mouth and doesn't advertise anywhere so hard to find!

From the video it sounds more pronounced when opening the throttle/accelerating?

I'd take a peek at the timing chain before removing the head and/or dropping the sump in case the old screwdriver trick isn't picking the noise up. Is the distributor gear and plate tightened down correctly?

panky wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 2:39 pm I've just used a about a tin and a half of Built Hamber Dynax S 50 on all the enclosed sections and have some Dynax UC (clear wax) for under the wheel arches

Is that the big tin using your own compressor to spray or their 750ml cans?

Have the car back, the last couple of photos: Nov 8th IMG_20211108_125401727.jpg Nov 8th IMG_20211108_125458900.jpg As per the advice here I'm thinking a high zinc epoxy primer, then I have some body colour paint in a tin to perhaps brush on thick, then an underbody wax like the aforementioned Bilt ...