Morris Minor Owners Club

Thanks very much everyone for useful advice.

Now then, it's been a while. Over 5 years since I sold my lovely Minor due to house move resulting in no garage. I do have a sheltered drive though and i see car covers have certainly improved with 4 layered ones available. Just how bad is it to keep a Minor outside I wonder? Is it common in UK or w...

I can confirm my traveller is/was pinking; everything else OK.

I think when travelling at 30 ish about 65-70psi & about 30-40 ticking over but I would need to double check to make sure on that.

The car is a daily driver although not massive miles; about a thousand over last couple of months. The previous owner had the valve clearances adjusted to rattle a bit (he said) though I was never that sure why that was. Since I adjusted them a couple of weeks ago to 12 thou, the tappety rattle has ...

Thanks for your help Michael/Matt. I think I will have another tinker and increase the gaps on the exhaust outlets cause the science behind what you say is obviously sound and I cannot afford major engine work at the moment! Is the uphill rattling a sign/symptom of something to worry about generally...

I have that classic rattly sound when the engine is under a bit of load i.e. going up a hill. I adjusted the valve gaps to 12 thou as per the hand book and that made things a bit quieter. What I mean is that I used the one in nine rule and adjusted the 8 gaps accordingly, noticing that some had no g...

Eeeeeeeeeee Tennerifeee; personally I would be tempted to spend the whole holiday with the Limeflower Trav.....

Stripped everything out again today and fitted further new tubes, three way connector and further new jets. I now have four strong sprays of water hitting screen. I think there must have been a blockage in the other new three way, maybe a tiny piece of plastic inside that was moving with the water f...

Lovely to see one of the last Travellers saved for all time and going to a good home. It will have been manufactured at Adderley Park, Birmingham rather than Cowley or Abingdon. I think BMC moved production to Adderley in July 69 where the last ones were made (including Henry - you should never forc...

Look how nice it is![frame][/frame]

I did wonder about the underside of the car, bearing in mind the state of the wood and bodywork. They usually show a lot of the prep work for painting and more mechanical stuff but as the wood took so long in the program, I guess lots had to be edited out. Surely Edd and his back office team wouldn'...

Seconded. My main concern is spoiling a lovely Traveller by using it in all weathers. Lots of road salt about at the moment and values are defying the economy by actually increasing. Mine is almost as good as you can get but it won't be a year from now, which is a great shame. I can't afford to run ...

I'm glad I started this strand! Very interesting and so basically as Minor drivers, we would rather they tried to crush us than crash into us! Mine is a Traveller and I think (I could be wrong) that whilst it is a more practical design for daily use, it is more 'crushable' as a result of the back en...

Many thanks. Will try that.

Wow. Very interesting clip. I wonder how a traveller would have fared.....

it is yes.

Thanks but no, all are new parts including the bottle and it's valve. At least it washes the driver's side now which is a lot better.

Me too and there are 'times of struggle' when I wish Edd was in my garage with a few hours to spare.

I enjoy the program but not sure a traveller can be restored from such a poor state to 7k plus level in so short a time with a small spend! It will be interesting to see what they didn't do....