Morris Minor Owners Club

I'm much more relaxed about it. I keep a mental note in my head and roughly follow the schedule, but this is quite flexible and I don't work to specific dates, so its a bit rough and ready....nothing gets left too long though

I find 30psi all round is good. Anyone run on more than that?

Astounded? Its only two pages. Using the choke is a much more simple operation to fitting beehive springs and that thread ended up at nine pages! I suspect it would have been even longer had it not eventually been locked

I doubt that piece of rusty metal is original. As for 'old man mods', it does seem Dr. Frankenstein has been tinkering with it, but not enough to prevent you from rectifying things. Nice seats as well

I once rigged a Morris Minor horn to the doorbell push. Didn't half make you jump when someone came to the door!

Oh, I forgot to mention above another brake issue which was seized brake cylinders all round - but, again, nothing to do with beehive springs.....

Are they really necessary? I've never had them fitted in over 40 years of Minor driving and never had any brake problems other than a master cylinder failing - which, of course, is nothing to do with the beehive springs.

I found the red ESM tool to be useless as it didn't fit properly and the bend is too far back to get good leverage. I now use a socket wrench without issue.

Quite so. And there are previous threads on here by people who decided to 'fix it', even though it was not broken - and were then beset by problems!

The price of most things seem to have skyrocketed!
One option might be to post in the 'wants' section here - you never know if a good second-hand one is available. I have both bought and sold good quality second-hand chrome stuff on here before....

Thanks Stephen for your guidance, it has certainly got me thinking though. The car runs good anyway,I was just considering future proofing it.I am about to give it a full service etc so it should be ok for a while. Thanks again. The car is 56 years old and still 'runs good'. So it was 'future proof...

Maybe its chrome-plated brass and you've got down to the brass?

But from 'classic car's post it sounds more like the pedal suddenly went to the floor - i.e. something in the linkage broke.

Hmmm, yes, previous owners often have a lot to answer for! As we all know

A little tongue in cheek, perhaps. Believe me, Bill, I am not advocating such an approach to night driving, of course not. But once was out of necessity as the battery was no longer being charged. And it was in deep rural, no towns, no villages, just the occasional farm house and I knew the lanes li...

I can't see how brighter lights would help with most of those things. I have driven several miles down country lanes at night with no lights at all more than once - the full moon was enough to see by! Eat lots of carrots!

Swirls in the oil are common. Metal grains in the drain plug are also common. Just fill the gearbox until it overflows from the filler plug. Let any excess oil drain away and then re-fit the filler/level plug. Or just measure out the correct amount and check that it is up to the level of the filler...

I have had a thermostat housing corrode through from the inside - after 65 years. I replaced with like and slathered the studs in copper grease. The cork gasket I used did leak and so I replaced it with one of the upgraded types (for a mini?) Stephen refers to. Sorted.

"At my local MMOC branch meeting this week only 2 out of 20 or so members drove their Minors to the evening meeting. The reason given was that it was too dark on the country roads and the Minor headlights too poor." I don't really understand this. I have been driving bog-standard Minors f...

Nor did I - are they?