Morris Minor Owners Club

HI and welcome. If you want to find evidence of the original colour, the recommendation generally is to look behind the speedometer at the bulkhead, this is the area most often missed during a respray - on my Minor which was resprayed white, the original Peat Brown is very evident there.

Our Herald estate had a hole in the passenger side floor - I can still remember the panic when I dropped a gold fish in a bag I'd just won at the fair

The Herald estate got me excited - my mum had one of these - and it runs and drives! Now what am I doing on 7th March?

Hopefully the new ESM valves will provide a reliable replacement - the quality of replacement heater valves is a regular topic on Mini forums. An alternative is to fit an inline valve like the one below which I believe are more reliable - sometimes fitted to Midgets which didn't have heater control ...

I had a rear brake pipe fail on a 1275 Midget a number of years ago - fortunately i was on the M1 at the time, so was able to slow down and stop safely on the hard shoulder. It was copper and failed on the pipe from T piece to the brake cylinder. I put it down to fatigue due to not being strapped to...

Not much done today ( visit to the O gauge model show in Bristol ) but did cut out the ‘repair’ panel and found this:

So change of plan - I've decided to deal with the off side sills next rather than the the rear wheel arches. My thought are that by dealing with both sets of sills first, I can then replace the cross member and then the front end will be sorted and solid, so less likely to twist when I move onto the...

So i'm now moving onto the near side rear wheel arch and rear spring hanger. The inner wheel arch panel doesn't look too bad on first inspection, however 90% of the flange between inner arch and body work is missing, the leading corner above the front hanger is missing, there are various small perfo...

Rear suspension front hanger fitted - the angle iron is my jig fitted to the rear suspension mount and welded to the bump stop. The mounting is within 1mm of the original fixing, and checked against the dimensions in the manual ( see separate thread). 2AE9DCD6-EA1A-49DD-B2CF-83176CD035F9.jpeg Now on...

I can't believe it's been over 6 months since I last posted. In the interim I've rechecked the dimensions and realised that the rear hanger panel is the correct dimension, and it was my setting out which was out. The lesson I'm learning is to temporarily fit ALL the panels before welding. Although I...

For those who don't know, if you are insuring a young person as the main driver it is worth adding a couple of adults as named drivers, for some reason it reduces the premiums as well as being handy (but if they keep their car in the state my daughter does you will never want to drive it!).

One of our local breweries, Chedder Ales https://www.cheddarales.co.uk/ brew an excellent range of gluten free beers.

My first step would be to clean the points - these can get become corroded over time increasing the resistance, or arcing can cause them to 'stick'. A quick clean between the points with a bit of very fine folded abrasive ( 600-800) might make all the difference.

A drop of mulled cider after a trip to Lilleys shop. Just the job for warming up after an afternoon in the garage.

Bath today in the sunshine.

My garage had plain concrete which dusted badly. I used Leyland floor paint from Screwfix which I applied with a roller after cleaning and hovering to remove any loose dust and has done the job - no more concrete dust, and easy to clear up the inevitable oil drips. I didn't seal the concrete first, ...

i had the same issues with paint stripper available in the shops, and bought 5L of "industrial" paint stripper in eBay, comes with the usual ' only to be used by professionals' warning. Found this was much more effective, and just like Nitromors used to be. for larger items i prefer the el...

Looks good. i'm curious about plug welding this panel in place - my understanding was that perceived practice is that plug welding is ok where spot welds existed before, but butt or seam welding is preferred when repairing partial panels. Whilst this sounds logical in principle, i would have thought...

Looks good. i'm curious about plug welding this panel in place - my understanding was that perceived practice is that plug welding is ok where spot welds existed before, but butt or seam welding is preferred when repairing partial panels. Whilst this sounds logical in principle, i would have thought...

I know this is an old thread, but answers a question I had - taking bmcecosse’s point. if drain via the lights is an issue would putting a diode between buzzer and the feed from the lighting switch address this? Do the commercial 2 wire buzzers sold for this purpose have a diode in circuit?