Morris Minor Owners Club

thanks all for your helpful suggestions.

I have looked at the dash - where there was much less fade and sage green definitely has it!

thank you for your help, bring on the respray.

Hi all I did have a good look through the stickied posts above, but the colour chart link seemed to be broken for me, and I can't find a code that matches the list anywhere on the car. I'm looking at doing a re-spray on the wife's morris minor 1000 (1957 model, but no idea if that's what year the pa...

Just like to say thanks to everyone for their help :) All back up and running and the wife has used it every day for 2 weeks. She's happy, the car is running sweet and I can get back to my projects as well :D Everyone happy here. Without a servo it's "ok", but in the fullness of time we'll...

Yeah hope so! And then we both desperately want to get it her out of her workshop prison for the last 6 weeks and get out on the open road! Which end of the torsion bar would you recommend sliding off and rotating around a few splines? I gather either would give the same end result, but looking at i...

eek! That sounds scarily like the what we had before :o The front discs were dragging indeed. I put that down to the calipers seizing (they were seized). D'oh... So it may happen again. Drat. That's a lot of work to re-do. I might leave it for a bit and see if it crops up again, because with the pre...

Thanks for the suggestions. Not sure about a top hat seal... Every seal that came out was matched up perfectly, by type and direction with a new one (where given in the kit, and matched up to the drawing in the haynes manual) and put back exactly how it was before. I checked it on the bench with hyd...

Hi All First off just like to say thanks for all your support so far - this forum has been tremendously useful to us with friendly happy people tripping over themselves to help, knowledgeable and experienced! Thanks! ( bmcecosse and philthehill you know who you are :D ) Spread across a few other thr...

Do you have a link by chance? Or something to stick in google that would be helpful

Great stuff thank you I'll try that at the weekend and let you know. We do have a haynes manual for it, proper old school with all the dimensions and weights in imperial units

Good suggestion - thanks. I think the flexis will be OK, they are goodridge braided hoses and only look a few years old. How does one go about adjusting the rear shoes? I had assumed they were self adjusting. Thanks for all your ideas, I do appreciate it. Modern stuff I'm kinda OK with (I've built m...

Just like to say thanks very much to philthehill - He was correct, they are marina/ital pads. Ordered a new set and they fit great

Just need to try and cure the spongy pedal now - will try changing the fluid and bleeding, and if that doesn't work a new master cylinder I guess?

Hi There I'm just undergoing a bit of light restoration to our 1957 Saloon 1000 (1098cc). At some point in its past it's had a fairly decent front disc conversion, with (I think) Girling calipers. Unfortunately I can't find any details in the huge stack of receipts we've got with the car. The front ...