Morris Minor Owners Club

The trouble is with how the preservative is introduced into the timber. Absorbtion is always better down the end grain and the treatment of assemblies (sides and doors, etc) will be less effective because much of the end grain will be buried in joints, covered with adhesive. Less penetration into th...

I've got a small 'L' shaped lever made from a flat strip of steel that came with the first saloon I bought years ago, it went into the tool box and is still in use today. It's perfect for removing hub caps, every corner's rounded and it's plated/treated, it's also strong/rigid. It's got to be an ori...

Apologies for this, it'll be boring! The machined profile is set to (I estimate) at about 3-4 degrees from horizontal, that's a reasonable slope to encourage the run - off of water in most parts of the UK. As the sides and other panels of a traveller are leaning in - by design - the slope is then ne...

Thanks Millerman, I've just joined them. You sound like you're informed about their set-up, will I see you there?
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Get it to a PC repairer quick, it'll cost a bit but they should sort it out. I had the same thing, I was trying to find a repairer I could trust locally and left it switched off in the desk. After a week away, I was chuffed to find it had gone, my anti virus was back working and it identified/remove...

Boy, you guys take this quite seriously don't you! The headlamp cowls were just randomly chucked in as a gesture to the range of people's tastes and not representative of my personal preferences, you must surely get what I'm on about by now? It's all about sensible, feasible and achievable changes t...

I agree with you there about the high quality of the raw materials used at that time, also the phrase 'recycled coke cans' comes to mind when I think about some of the GM/Vauxhall and Ford cars produced during the seventies! As a biker myself, it seems that they're putting their lives - and others -...

Thanks for the replies, it's apparently an area that invokes a response! A bit of background though... The first car I had was a 'maroon b' 2 door saloon for about 5 years until it got nicked and burnt out, that had crossplies on so I had the fun bit of rally driving on the road, in the rain & s...

Hi, before I start my rant, let me say that I love Minors. With all due respect to the designers and all of the owners (not just purists) who keep their cars maintained with often a load of time, money and frustration spent.. Why hasn't anybody dealt with the obvious (to me) design problems with tra...

Hi Evan, further to the first reply, about half of the weep holes are for the inside track while the remainder try to drain the outside one. I used a screwdriver as suggested but found that where the holes were meant to pass through the metal track, they didn't align or weren't there! If this happen...

Thanks for the confirmation, it's the same logic I used. Steve (Foreman) even said that some of his customers didn't want them put on when the wood was replaced by him... Seemed a bit drastic but as he said, if the plates are left off there isn't any place for water to accumulate and with proper pre...

I became the proud owner of a traveller at the end of this summer. As I started 'going through' the car it became obvious that the previous owner(s?) didn't have much mechanical acumen and had let a lot of things get done by individuals - or businesses - of varying ability. The closing panels were c...

I've just bought a traveller, nice enough and as (almost) always it's going to be a 'work in progress'. Since getting it - through the wonder of e bay (!) - I've had a reasonably thorough look over and into it... It's a bit like our old cat, in as much that the bones (floor, chassis, etc) are good/b...

Hi, try taking the dynamo to bits again and have a look at the commutator (the thin copper strips at the end of the field windings where the brushes rub) even if you've cleaned then and fitted new brushes then they may be ineffective. It's a common problem caused by them wearing as they rotate again...