Morris Minor Owners Club

The main problem is that many owners dont wish to change the underbonnet looks which makes the 3 main mods impractical, these being the pusher pump above as mentioned, the repositioning of the pump lower in the engine bay or if you have the opening in your block to fit a mechanical pump which is al...

Looks like there's a cat munching its way through the floor in the first pic ;)

Best way to check on a sill is to take the sill cover panels of the door threshold and then all will be revealed. I've ground off the seized bolts holding the driver's side cover panel on, and the sill isn't too bad at all underneath. I'd been having nightmares about finding nothing but rust under ...

I had an electric fan on my 2.25l petrol Land Rover and I think I switched it on maybe twice. No problems at all with overheating. I had loads of trouble with my first Moggy though (1968 1098cc saloon). Flushed everything back and forth several times, replaced the thermostat and the water pump, but ...

Ah, I see.

Packedup wrote:And spray some milkstone remover over it - I've now tried the stuff and it seems to work rather well for the money!

Milkstone remover? What does that do?

Great, thanks

I've finally managed to get Fenchurch, my recently acquired Traveller, over the inspection pit to have a proper look at the underside. Here are some pictures of the worst bit (driver's side crossmember): http://www.alexholden.net/misc/crossmember1.jpg http://www.alexholden.net/misc/crossmember2.jpg ...

I think the person who said "servo" was actually getting a bit confused and meant master cylinder Probably because on modern cars the two are usually fixed together as a single unit. I bet my brakes are in a worse state than yours :P The previous owner started to rebuild the system years ...

The master cylinder is the thing the brake pedal pushes on, which forces hydraulic fluid down the brake pipes to the slave cylinders on the wheels. It's underneath the driver's feet on a Moggy. A brake servo is a thing that uses vacuum from the engine's intake manifold to amplify the force applied t...

Maybe it had been sat around for a while and corrosion increased the friction in the selector mechanism, but your driving it has freed it up?

We brought the Traveller home tonight on a dolly borrowed from a friend who's into classic Merc's. That proved to be a bit of an adventure in itself, particularly getting it back off the dolly without the aid of a winch or a running engine (I tried hand-cranking it in reverse but I think the clutch ...

HarryMango wrote: Date of your Traveller is mid 1963.

Great, thanks Rog

I've just bought a Traveller, and it didn't come with the relevant paperwork (it's been garaged for 15 years and the former owner died recently). This is what it says on the chassis plate on the driver's side of the engine bay: M/AW5 D 1030618 I've worked out that the first part means Morris; A seri...