Morris Minor Owners Club

after many questions and more research than i really have time for , yes a van spring can be fitted with modified bushes , but the ride is unrelentingly hard , some question as to whether it would nullify your insurance by fitting a part that wasn't designed to be fitted , so thats that little idea ...

With a postal Minor, it's very difficult to gain entry, especially upon removal of the interior handles. I agree, no amount of electrical safety devices will stop the vehicle being moved/removed. Need to discuss ways to stop the vehicle moving. wheel clamps score against the run of play to make it ...

i really have to dissagree with you on the immobiliser issue , if they were useless the insurance companies wouldn't offer better rates if you car is fitted with one , high value sports cars have them fitted as well as tracking devices. As i said they slow down the opportunist , if they see a car wi...

fortunately i store mine in a specialised secure compound so have no worries for overnight parking, the more desirable cars next to mine are more likely to get nabbed :wink: i was thinking of the wheel clamp as its easier to stow , but its less visible at ground level most folks tend to see whats at...

cheers for the input B2R , see you are a fellow musician too , i'm with a blues old style rock band doing pub gigs at the moment ,but putting together a funk / rock outfit with female front singer , all old farts trying to be kids again

thanks for that answer lowride , that gives me a lot more options .

without giving the game away you'd have to run oa lot more separate wires ,but by then the alarm will have kicked in ,the rottweiller will have eaten its way through the front door and just tucked into your leg as an entree, all joking apart nothing will prevent a serious attempt . so it looks like ...

i have a couple in my evilbay watching but they're not up for a week , there is a pair of traveller springs but one looks o.k with a nice tight curve and tightly compressed leaves and on the other the leaves are apart which probably means its gone soft ,as i said in one of my other meanderings , wit...

i know i bought that one full price think it was over 50 quid i had bid on a few on ebay and got beaten to the draw got fed up and wanted to finish the car off ,heres a tip i used some years ago , i have an old rover p5b saloon and the kienzle clock used to charge then run then charge , this is fine...

and purchased them from well known online morris parts suppliers ,If so how are they performing , do you have high usage, are they sagging already , i'm asking because i see lots of threads about parts being fitted and people say they'll report back and thats where the thread ends ....with no report...

as a follow on from my last post ,and with the blossoming opinion on our messageboards and within spring suppliers opinions ( i have been told today by several spring manufacturers that they are a waste of money )that all of the springs supplied by online morris parts suppliers are sourced from the ...

o.k so you have the engine cranking over , but it still won't start ,and it wont , well it might but not for more than a few seconds , what do you check next and by now you have possibly woken the family rottweiller cranking the engine over , and its coughing and dying , the clock is ticking and you...

tut tut hands off steering wheel to roll up sleeve in order to read watch face and at night impossible to see , whereas my nicely illuminated clock works a treat , tbh i dont wear a watch , i have a couple but i just forget to put them on . i've always had a clock in my car no idea why really , usef...

:D they'll have fun trying to start mine with a starting handle , i used to have a series of hidden cutout switches on a dutton phaeton i built in the early 1980's , it took a fair bit of thinking out but worked a treat, not much fun in the pouring rain trying to set em though , i'm impressed with m...

i have the usual speedo and an oil pressure, engine temp and clock , useful but a bit stressful too i've noticed my new engine runs a whole lot cooler than my previous new engine ....should i worry

thanks for that PT, so its Disklock 1 Euroclamp 0 after half an hours play , blimey they look a seriously big piece of kit where do you stow it ?

Not so , the control box is hidden in such a position that you have to rip certain parts of the car apart to find it i reckon 20-45 minutes at best even if you know where it is , and the wiring very very well concealed so as not to even look as though it has anything retro fitted at all , just looks...

yup the rover was a brute , not difficult just bloody hard work single handed , pretty heavy axle and spring when separate combined it was a plethora of trolley and scissor jacks and pot stands and sweat , the hardest bit was getting the new rubbers to fit i had to use a bloody big vice not having a...

Hi ,i have read with some alarm the stolen vehicles section and whilst it is easy to get paranoid i was wondering what you all recommend as a deterrent , I have already fitted a 'TOAD' immobiliser which cuts the circuit at several vital points , has an arming plug that supposedly cannot be duplicate...

yeah its the top nearside leaf on the front end just before the strap that holds them all together , pig ! the rest of the spring is pretty rusted up i think it would be so much trouble to split the spring and add a s/h or new single leaf and rebuild , probably end up costing more in the long run , ...