Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi Galaxie - Thanks for the warning! We're planning our annual visit with the Traveller to Kerry at Easter and I wouldn't have known otherwise..... You'll be driving on the other side of the road next!

All the best
Alastair

Now - doesn't that show the doubters the value of the website? Lesley's got her bonnet open, Brixtonmorris has found someone to sort his windows. Anyone in Cornwall fancy building my workshop for me?

Cam - no, I didn't notice any clutch judder with mine - I had bee having trouble with the clutch slave which was why I was wondering about the release bearing contacting the diaphragm. The only reason I noticed the problem before it actually failed on the road was because the gearbox (a ''reconditio...

I had an identical problem to Cam's with my Ford clutch conversion, only it wore through most of the fingers in about 15,000 miles which was rather depressing. I never really got to the bottom of what was causing it but assumed it was the slave cylinder not releasing properly and keeping the thrust ...

Regarding my comment about alternator reliability, I should have been more specific - I guess what I meant, and one or two of you picked up on, is that they are far more susceptible to problems caused by amateur tinkering with the electrics, which is something we are probably all prone to! I have a ...

The alternator in my Ital-engined Traveller cooked the battery the other day, putting out a full, unregulated charge. A new control pack from my local Prince of Darkness agent cost £8 and took 15 minutes to fit with the alternator out. I find the advantage with the alternator is that you don't have ...

For what its worth, I agree with Cam and Rayofleamington - the rear lamps on a Minor are perfectly adequate, provided you keep the lenses clean. If you want a little improvement paint the interior backing white or silver and fit a fog light, but do remember to turn it off when conditions improve. No...

Grab that Ital while you can. They are geting very hard to find, even down here in Cornwall.The motor will transform your Minor. The brakes from the 1300 will fit quite easily provided you buy a new bearing kit and hydraulic pipes from one of the specialists.And you will have to have the spacing of ...

I haven't looked at the pics - its telling me the page is unavailable, but I think you'll find its the panel lights switch. If you slide it across, the instrument lights should go out, or come on if you haven't had any before!

I really do recommend discs if you use your car regularly. But don't do what I did when I fitted mine and put the calipers on upside down, with the bleed nipples at the bottom. It took me two days to work out why I couldn't bleed the little bl##ders. And do fit a servo!

I don't know much about the technicalities of Midget gearboxes but after destroying two 1098 boxes attached to the 1275 Ital motor in my Traveller, a friend who knows about these things said ''What you need is a Midget box''. He reckons that instead of running the shafts/gears on plain bushes the Mi...

Sorry - I should have been more specific. It is the plastic insert which includes the heel which bears against the cam which was melting - two new sets of points in succession. I had installed and lubricated the felt which bears against the cam and it did not appear to be the heel wearing. What seem...

I'm probably being really stupid here, but why did the plastic insert on my points (1300 Ital engine) keep melting. It stopped after the last strip down but I'm intrigued.