Morris Minor Owners Club

Leave the dipstick alone.
The oil filler cap should be vented, it is available from ESM.
You don't need a pcv in the tube, the carb was designed so that one isn't needed.
You could look for a rocker cover that doesn't have a breather tube.

When I stripped mine down I found that the bushes were okay but the spindle was worn.

Google blockley tyres and get a local garage to fit them.

Have a look at https://www.mmoc.org.uk/Messageboard/vi ... vo#p419930
Unfortunately Declan Burns drawing is missing

12g940 head, hardened valve seats (ex Austin 1300), the valve seats have been set 0.020" into the head to save pocketing the block. Hif38 carb on a mini sport alloy manifold with a Austin 1800 air box and K&N filter. MGB thermostat housing. Standard exhaust manifold with the inlet removed t...

If you overfill it the excess oil will leak out of the gaiters anyway.

Have a phone round any local engineer shops, I use Dave Rushton in stoke on Trent, hardened valve seats and the valves recut was about £250.

I thought that the rear bearings were lubricated by the diff oil.

Search for a thread called clutch pedal travel.

I have two r-tech machines, mig and a tig set, both are excellent.

I use Morris's oil simply because I was given a old Morris's oil jug.

I think that the beehive is the right size, I think that it's the centre leg which is slightly short

I have the correct Snap-On tool but have still only managed to fit 3 of the springs.

I think that the Blockley tyres are the same outer diameter as the original tyres that were fitted when the cars were new.

The problem is that by replacing the housing with brass the only aluminium left will be the water pump. The question is, would this then corrode quicker? Also, the aluminium oxide (corrosion product) has to go somewhere, like blocking the radiator. I have just replaced the housing due to it corrodin...

Thank you all for your replies, I am considering making a brass housing but I don't want to spend a couple of days making one to find that I've caused corrosion elsewhere.

I also use Kopr-Kote on the studs which I got from a similar place to King Kenny

I was also wondering if anyone had used galvanized studs and nuts to fasten the thermostat housing to prevent the build up of corrosion products. Phil, is your thermostat housing cast iron or cast steel?

About 15 years ago, someone called Minor Developments produced and sold brass thermostat housings. I didn't bother getting one as I had fitted a 12g940 head and used a pre 67 MGB housing. Does anyone know if they were successful or did they cause the water pump to corrode faster? Has anyone ever mad...

Apprentice welder for 4 years at Foden truck factory, Elworth.

Sounds to me like you have put the big end caps on the wrong way round