Morris Minor Owners Club

"At my local MMOC branch meeting this week only 2 out of 20 or so members drove their Minors to the evening meeting. The reason given was that it was too dark on the country roads and the Minor headlights too poor." I don't really understand this. I have been driving bog-standard Minors f...

Nor did I - are they?

Yes, clean it all up and give it a few coats of wax. Or I suppose you could try and paint a clear varnish over it.......

Well, I don't know what kind of finish you are wanting (and how pristine or otherwise the rest of the car is) but what you have polished up so far - it looks like part of the grille surround - looks pretty good from the photo!

Make sure the canister is not turning with the bolt as you tighten it up and the canister starts connecting with the top sealing ring or the ring can be damaged. Also, the canister should be roughly 3/4 full of oil before fitting, so you will need to keep finger pressure on the bolt head as you offe...

Surely if something is found it just needs to be fixed? Can't see why there would be a requirement for an MOT as well. Same as if an owner finds the brakes weren't working - he/she fixes them. No need for an MOT and vehicle is roadworthy again (assuming nothing else needs doing).

I would imagine most 'hands-on' owners familiar with Minors would know if the vehicle is roadworthy or not. Even if they put it in for an MOT they would check it over to avoid a fail. Not that I am advocating one way or the other.

Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:16 pm Very good picture but actually all four are the same size 7"
Need a different bug

I believe its a type of jumping spider, Bill. Not that I know much about such things, but the picture 'jumped out' at me when I saw it!

Yes, that's exactly how it is on my car - aftermarket indicators fitted which earth through the screws into the wings.....

I'm thinking that these indicators were added later, as a UK 1959 car would have originally had trafficators. If the existing assemblies have only one wire (feed), they are probably earthed through the screws fixing them to the metal wings rather than having an earth wire......

Stephen I think you have lost your sense of humour,it was in jest :roll: Just because you don,t like something doesn't make it wrong, you have lots of mods on your minor(from your posts) an alternator is just another mod. :tu1: I bought my minor with many existing mods, including alternator and neg...

" Even when I was a student in Scotland (hardly an ideal climate for a tourer!) I rented a dry garage. It was cheap rent but nowhere near where I lived so I had to take a 30 minute bus journey to get the car. A bit mad and my friends thought I was ridiculously eccentric but now I have last lau...

les wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:48 pm Good idea, engine out and you can reach everywhere.

But just not in your car!

One of mine was easy to separate as the channel has rusted to bits! First thing I knew about it was that the glass just dropped into the door one day!
I would be very careful if using a heat gun in case it cracked the glass.......some kind of solvent might do the job?

Bend it back into shape?

The gear box looks like a ribbed case one from a 1098.
Could the oil pressure switch be faulty? You say the engine runs but does it sound good, is it blowing a lot of smoke of any colour?

"My jobs usually take far longer than planned..."
Yes, that is my experience too! Its never quite as straightforward as it *should* be

Re the brake pipes, you can bend the clips open a bit to enable you to carefully raise the pipe as you work underneath it......

Of course, at a distance, it is hard to know how good the existing set-up in the car is (nor how good the 1098 units are). As the vendor has offered to swap over the engine and gearbox I would be asking him more about why he has suggested it and what the pros and cons are. You say the original engin...