Morris Minor Owners Club

progress report - managed to turn the car around so that i could work inside the garage and strip it all down without having to worry about an immobile car sticking out of the garage! only one problem tho - it wasn't wide enough to draw the halfshafts right out before they hit the wall! hey ho at le...

progress report - managed to turn the car around so that i could work inside the garage and strip it all down without having to worry about an immobile car sticking out of the garage! only one problem tho - it wasn't wide enough to draw the halfshafts right out before they hit the wall! hey ho at le...

i would say its a good 100+kg heavier than stock but its also the size of the wheels which doesn't help! No idea how many leaf springs are on the car and its too far away to go out and check! Maybe Ray can tell us! apart how easy is the escort rear axle conversion? does anyone make the conversion pa...

Told you it would be rumbling! Is it definitely still the original Morris axle ? Did the Pimpers not give a warranty with the car ? to be fair it was only audiable once i got close - its hard to hear much over the exhaust :lol: the pimpers did give the car a full rac check to make sure everything w...

I fail to understand how the back end can be fiesta - fiestas are FWD! as above they were just talking about the stud pattern - 4 x108 (ford fiesta / escort / sierra etc). For the time being i'm going to try and track down some standard half stafts, take em to the local machine shop and cross my fi...

Willie wrote:Do not run the prop shaft for longer than is necessary to identify the broken
half shaft as the 'rumbling ' noise is the broken shaft end grinding away the inner ring of the diff bearing.

doesn't sound healthy! not to worry it was only for a few seconds, just enough to see the prop spinning away!

thanks guys, cam good advice, i'll see what they have put in at the moment, are the moggy studs usually pressed in or are the halfshaft flanges threaded? - steep learning curve here :lol: Peetee - thanks for the offer its very kind, but i'm going to need something really soon, the moggy has to be up...

Bear in mind that the shafts won't have been new in the first place - and you certainly don't know their history. Unless you are going for more power now, just replace as I suggested. You'd be cheaper in the long run to upgrade to Ford as if you upgrade the shafts, the diff is next to go. My wife's...

well there we go, standard halfshafts with the flanges custom drilled to fit studs in the ford 4 x 108 pcd.

looks like its custom drilled heavy duty half shaft time which of course means £££

Measure the PCD for the big wheels - then sort out an axle that will take them. We are all assuming the car retained the original Minor axle - did it ? i appears to have the original rear axle casing, just spoken to the guys that did the work and they say that the rear end was changed to fiesta. go...

lol at 'pimp my axle' :lol: i'd not thought about the drums / flange situation (i'm more akin to vw's don't forget so i'm thinking 1 piece rear drums / hubs but i'm learning!) that does make it all a bit more hassle i suppose. funny you should mention the engine upgrade bit, its something that may b...

[quote="Kevin]Well that could be the quickest way but only with a standard axle casing and providing everything comes apart nicely which I would doubt.[/quote] not quite sure how i managed to reply to your message before you posted it but nevermind! i'm hoping that things should be relatively s...

sorry should have explained - tis the pimp my ride moggy - 17" alloys and about half a ton of in car entertainment neither of which help my issue! I suppose i was thinking i could replace with a later model moggy axle (if that was any stronger) and if possible fit my current brakes (complete dr...

i see what your saying but from my quick look under the back end, i'm thinking - undo a bunch of bolts, whip the whole lot out and bolt the new one in and away you go, as opposed to stripping down, removing the broken part, cleaning everything else to make sure that no bits of metal are floating abo...

ok so something in the rear diff / halfshaft area has decided enough is enough and broken. Rather than spend the time stripping and cleaning and replacing the offending bit i'm opting to replace the entire rear axle assembly. so is it possible to upgrade to something that is a little more sturdy? it...

def wasn't a slipping clutch thats for sure. Anyhow - went and had a good nosey at the moggy at the weekend, started on the button (which is nice) and merrily idled for me. had a look under whilst in gear (with my lovely assistant in the drivers seat just in case) and low and behold the propshaft is...

thanks guys, seems a bit of investigation is in order. I'll go armed with tool kit and haynes and see what i can come up with! lets hope it's relatively simple or its magically cured itself over the last week or so

bigginger wrote:They're inside the axle casing and need pulling out.

thanks,

any way of testing to see if they are broken without stripping it all down? (i've got limited diagnosis time this weekend before i collect the necessary parts and go back to fix it!)

hmmm had feared that but hoped it might have made lots of noise (i snapped one on a beetle once and that made quite a bang :lol: Anyhow, not having been under the back end of a moggy for a while are they enclosed (ie inside a casing like beetles ) or exposed like imp / triumph herald? I assume it'll...

ok the pimp my ride moggy was taken out of hibernation last weekend and after the usual checks and servicing to make sure every thing was fine i took her for a spin round the block, however i made it as far as half way up the first hill until i lost drive completly. No bangs clunks, knocks or genera...