Morris Minor Owners Club

The water outlet on the head being vertical is the easiest way but the block has the oil filler tube further forward compared to the Minor engine.

The flywheel's different too, in the tooth count.

There's a small B&W photo in Paul Skilleter's book in the Series MM section.

I've always read that the hole behind the battery was for the Rotodip shaft to pass through.

If that's the case, then the first Series MMs might not have been through the process as they didn't have the hole behind the battery.

'48s & early '49s had guttering with a sharp edge.

I've been through a few of the brake light switches that the UK specialists sell & they don't last long before you need a lot of line pressure to get them working. I found a Hella switch to be a perfect fit & it's worked fine for the last few years. Hella # 4565. http://db.hella.com.au/image...

Oli, It might pay to fit belts after you get the car on the road, otherwise you might need to get the mounts passed by an engineer. I can't see anyone in Australia passing the UK top mounts, especially with inertia reel belts. In an accident with inertia reel belts, the top mount takes 2-3 times the...

The oil thrower stops direct oil splash against the seal so it's pretty important.

You can machine out the timing cover & sump to take a modern oil seal. It works well.

According to the parts book the 1st change was at LHD 12338, RHD 31790. I have a sneaking suspicion that this might have been the point in drum/hub where it changed to the push in grease cap. I have seen a couple of other early cars locally but have yet to see another early, early drum/hub in the f...

Genuine original chrome bar: no
New part from UK: yes (in my experience).

Without spacers, it sat too close to the panel & didn't match up with the hockey sticks.

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Aha - my car has one of those & I've been looking for a 2nd one for the past 20 odd years. I have never seen another one until now.


Are they commonish in the UK?

The rail in the photo looks to be upside down. Nice carpets. Oliver & Judge have the bar the right way. It looks like Oliver might have fitted the shelf on the other side of the bar to Judge's though. Mike, yours has been rotated approx. 45deg back towards the driver for some reason (possible f...

The inlet manifold touches the head in 2 places so I think that maybe a thicker manifold gasket is needed. Anyone else found this problem? half way along the back of the manifold and just below the thermostat. I wonder if your manifold is off a different type of sidevalve MM. I know it's different ...

RobThomas wrote:Do all MM carbs lack a spring in the chamber

Yes.
Depending on clearances, you might need to play around with different oils. I ended up using ATF in mine.

The metal rail should be the same colour as the glove box lid "dashboard gold" and the parcel shelf a similar colour. My '48 was (and is still) the same brown used for the steering wheel/column. I assume that the cars with the gold column would have a gold parcel shelf too if MP's is that...

Yes. There's bolts further down too. No need to remove all 4 screws from the top corner area. Just 2 will do & the angle joining piece will stay with one of the channels. It can be tight to lift the rear channel all the way out. You might need to remove the bailey rubber (between the glass &...

It's easier if you remove the rear channel altogether.

Coming in a bit late but I have a 1970 Trafalgar Blue 2 door sedan.

UK built cars are fairly scarce in Australia so you could probably count the number of Trafalgar cars here on one hand.

Marina's (Aussie ones at least) are a strange PCD. They're 4.25" I believe which limits the use of wheels. Old Escort/Cortina are the same PCD. To fit the Freeway hubs, you'd need to know what size stub axle they used. I never delved too deeply into this side of the conversion but using a Holde...

RobThomas wrote:There is a strange wiring plug on the right side of the block that may be some form of heater element? Does it get cold where you live?

Looks like a sender unit for the temperature gauge.

thanks for that useful info Rob, my difficulty is to find a brake that can be adapted to either the s/v stub axle or the OHV stub, and allow use of a 4.5" PCD wheel such as Oxford or Freeway. needed for supercharged and modified to the max s/v motor. The Toyota & Datsun disc brake conversi...