Morris Minor Owners Club

I had the same horrifying problem, and spent a good while removing the seats and carpets and drying everything. I found eventually, that the dum dum seal between the ash frame and the cab had shrunk. I loosened the ash, used black silicon and re tightened the frame to ensure a tight seal.
Phil

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Thank you. We're getting towards school holidays so time is restricted but I shall try this out.

Thanks. What exactly would I hear if the water pump had gone? ( he says a hoping not to hear the answer that it's any if the dozen ticks, wheezes and groans that Horace is already making?!!)

The starter seems to struggle to start the car. I just assumed a new starter would start it quicker or more efficiently? As far as the overheating is concerned, I've got no gauges and the like and so have always left the heater on full to get as much heat out of the engine. If I've got no heat comin...

Hi again. Just to explain, after hours traipsing backwards and forwards with these starter motors, that the supplier accepts they've got a faulty batch, after another customer had the same issue. The fins were two millimetres out so the bendix(?) jammed the ring and had to be manually withdrawn. As ...

Thanks for that. Whilst I wait for a new starter motor to arrive, I've got to switch attention to a badly leaking injector pump on my Bongo campervan. Not having much luck recently. Leamington's a bit of a hike from Edgbaston, but may be a solution. Thanks.

Thanks for the replies so far. This is where my ignorance shows; I think I meant ring gear and not flywheel... The teeth were badly damaged , presumably when the bendix broke on the starter motor. I'm picking things up all the time but it's all new!

Good evening all. This is my first post after watching you all at it for the last few years. I've enjoyed my 1962 Trafalgar Blue Traveller since February last year, really enjoyed the last two rallies at Kelmarsh Hall and of course last year's Cornbury Park. I've yet to make it to the local Branch M...