Morris Minor Owners Club

Thanks - very helpful!

What's your thoughts on this needing a specialist Morris repair shops experience, or a general welding shop? The latter is much easier for me given location, but willing to go for the former along with it's significantly higher hassle factor!

just called up to insure with the new / current MMOC partner Peter James and turns out they have a blanket no-insurance policy for cars parked in the street in London. They also mentioned that the same applies to multiple other cities (Manchester, Birmingham the two other mentioned). Not great that...

Hi all, Unfortunately I found a significant amount of rust on my nearside mounting plate - looks like it's had anaerobic rusting that hasn't been obvious until now. Weird, as I've always made sure to put cavity wax in the holes under the rear seat, but maybe was compromised when I bought it 12 years...

just called up to insure with the new / current MMOC partner Peter James and turns out they have a blanket no-insurance policy for cars parked in the street in London. They also mentioned that the same applies to multiple other cities (Manchester, Birmingham the two other mentioned). Not great that ...

Evening Does anyone have any experience of fitting rear wing flanges? Me and a friend who has a decent amount of welding experience tried to fit one over the weekend, but wee completely stumped - the 'middle' bit of the flange just didn't seem long enough - about an eight shorter than it looked to b...

nice!

do you ever go down to Waterloo Classics on lower marsh? If not, worth a look - i'm occassionally there in my green traveller!

Yes, mine does this on first start up as well - takes a bit of choke to get going after sitting overnight, but none needed once the engine has warmed up. There's usually a (very small) oil mark under the sump and a black smudge where the exhaust was. As I live in inner London, and most of the vehic...

i've sent you a DM

how's your engine running after what looks like new ESM mounts fitted?

both Svenedin and myself had horrible vibrations and i had to search out 2nd hand rubbers to get rid of it....

I'm currently pickling the hard esm ones whilst I have the nice second hand ones installed in case I ever need another set in future. Pet posts above, I got them to 55-60 shore, but was worried that was just outer rubber and needs longer to get to the core. We should all contact esm though, as their...

it's a really strange one - on all the online exemption checkers both my Morris' show as ULEZ exempt but required to pay congestion - never had a charge for either. will check out the Warlingham show - always up for finding ones closer to London - although getting to that part of south london normal...

aaah, nice - good to hear yours runs fine too. btw - where are you in surrey? (im in bethnal green) planning on going to Waterloo Classics this weekend - contrary to popular belief, our cars are exempt from both ULEZ and congestion charge. have been driving for years through central, with autopay en...

check the dashpot to make sure there's oil in there - lumpy under accelleration can be caused by the carb dashpot being dry

enjoy!! weirdly i replaced the head separately last year, along with the rocker assembly, push rods and followers and it's been a little rattly ever since (about 1 year now, albeit with minimal miles), especially when cold i'm also loving not having leaks and, when i take it on the first long run, h...

yes, the difference is mostly at idle and pullaway revs up to maybe 5-10mph in first under the old mounts. lots of vibration in the body and even through the accelerator pedal. new softer mounts are night and day to be honest. this engine now has a new reconditioned head, reground crank and bearings...

DONE!

New (old) mounts have been installed in place of the horribly hard ESM ones - everything is smooth as now.

The shore of the second hand ones i got were 45-50 btw.

update, have managed to source some second hand engine mounts via Colin, who advertised 1098 spares in last months minor matters.

now to fit these and hope the vibration goes away!

Durometer reading of esm mounts after 25hours in solution

i highly recommend using wintergreen/surgical mix to soften the rubber in that case. I'm not sure how deep the softening has penetrated into the rubber though, but it's certainly helped soften it up

If they're anything like the ones I had installed - you definitely won't like it unfortunately. However, the esm ones are out the pickling jar after 24 hours in the wintergreen/surgical spirit mix and the shore (at least on the outside bits) has gone from 65-70 to 55-65. So, I'm going to leave in fo...