Morris Minor Owners Club

Your description of what happens in point 1 & 2 is exactly what has been happening. I'm at work at the moment but I'll look at Mr Grumpy for the heat shield this evening.

Cheers for all the help from everyone and hopefully things should be fine for next summer.

That's exactly what I did get with the petrol pump ticking but the garage I went to replaced the Morris pump with a larger (possibly the Marina) pump and that seemed to happen less.

What does fuel vapouration actually mean and why would it have been occuring? Anything that can be done about it?

Cheers for the information. I've used the 'heater on' method a few times with little result. The car just continues to heat up until the engine looses all power and then won't restart. Maybe the heater isn't powerful enough :wink: I'll have a look on the net for some more information about kenlowe f...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help with this long term issue? I've had my Series II since 1993 and used it as my main source of transport during University. When I finished in 1996 I decided to upgrade it and had a Marina engine put in it. However, since then it has always overheated in the traf...