Morris Minor Owners Club

Well I guess the real question is what has he done already? Has he checked the dampers are working correct oil levels etc. Has he tried draining and refilling the oil, unless he knows what age it is? What does he mean by 'sharp'? Too firm/hard, so not damping enough? The workshop manual does give so...

I don't understand why you feel the need to 'fill the float chamber' the day before. About 10 seconds of the key 'on' should be enough. Fuel isn't that volatile the float chamber contents are going to evaporate in a few months. As Stephen advises, all I do is turn on and wait for the ticking to ease...

My '55 Basil was rewired around 1998/9 but they chose to use a later S3 loom to give him DB10 Indicators, so some 'adaptions were made to get the loom wiring to reach, the most obvious one bringing the Wiper Motor connection back inside the car.. :roll: And of course the horn wiring didn't go to a s...

Thank you Chief and Stephen. The MMOC parts supply in Norfolk is just a little too far for me to travel but I'll let you know how I get on with the above links. Regards, David. Well, with your given Location of 'UK' it's hard for us to guess your desirable travel radius; but what I will say is that...

"when there is restricted flow through the radiator grille." Depending on the restriction, would it matter how big the fan is? The restriction will only allow a finite volume of air to pass through. But additional 'fan assistance' may reduce losses around the outside of the radiator, once...

If you look at Bern's picture it looks as though the smaller length fan has a wider blade. So the air displacement may be closer than you would think. The pitch of the blade would also have an effect as well as the pulley diameter. You wouldn't know your engines temperature without a gauge unless i...

I had a similar issue, Basil had a 'seal' fitted when I brought him, but it was some unknown item with entirely the wrong profile and as much use as the proverbial Chocolate Teapot. I fitted it with the higher side inboard, simply because the other way around the top edge and corners caught on the b...

I concur with firedrake, the other end of that wire is in the blob of solder on the Slip-ring. The Horn Circuit is a switched Earth, the connection from the horn(s) comes to the leaf spring that contacts the Slip-ring. That then comes up to the horn push, the operation of which completes the return ...

Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2026 5:01 pm I think we need to form a Berni fan club
The wearing of the club hat will of course be mandatory.
10" or 12" are both acceptable Screenshot_20260615-165735_Chrome.jpg

Sorry, only Red or Yellow will be permitted...

Just to illustrate Phil's on-the-ball response, here's a photo of a LHD Pedal arrangement.

To complicate things a bit further. My car has a 1098cc Gold Seal engine and ribbed gearbox (Gold Seal). It was originally built with a 948cc engine. The two blade cooling fan is 12" long. Was that fitted to the 948cc engine and transferred to the 1098cc? Or was it fitted with a 10" long ...

Sounds to me that, as Phil has already said, someone who thinks they know better than the designers has fitted the Master Cylinder bolts incorrectly. Bolt heads should be on the outside, not the inside. Though to be totally fair, whilst the Workshop Manual has a note that the bolts have 'special hea...

Great be your fan knowledge Oberni one kenobi :lol: :lol: Just the depths I've been delving into this past few days, trying to understand what's occurring.... I don't like these sort of mysteries. It all seemed simple a 10" blade unless a 1275 which had 12". But I'm finding that more and ...

Wasn't the mini a plastic multi-blade fan? Although you could get a starting handle conversion :D Screenshot_20260429-161658_Chrome.jpg As I understand it, looking at some Mini Forums etc, it went as follows: 1959–1961: Early cars had two or four-blade metal fans and pretty noisy. Pt No 2A997, 10&q...

We need a fan blade length audit! Anybody going to the National with a tape measure? Stephen Well I'm going, though not staying over as it's quite near home, so I shall be looking under every raised bonnet! What I can say Berni is that my own 1098 in the car has a 12" blade and so do the 2x sp...

The fan blades listed in the BMC parts list are:- 2A135.................Normal service. Single blade. 2A241.................Tropical service. Twin blades. The twin blades look identical to the single blade. There is no blade length quoted for the above. There are two lengths of fan blade available ...

Yes, it is not the tidiest, but is behind/underneath and out of sight unless you lie on the floor and look up! But something to work on later. True enough you can't see it but I had a bit of untidiness in the same area and it made pulling the bonnet release annoying. Stephen I had the same when I f...

What I can say Berni is that my own 1098 in the car has a 12" blade and so do the 2x spare 1098 engines I have. That doesn't prove it but it would be rather odd if my 3x 1098 engines all had an unusual size of fan blade! Stephen I agree, the odds are in favour of the 12" being correct. It...

I have no record of the post on the 22nd March 2026. So unsure how to reply to that posting !!!. As regards the part number - BMC allocated a part number for the single blade as it was supplied singular. The twin blades were issued/packaged under a different part number to differentiate from the si...

Berni, do you think your 10" blade is possibly from a midget? less space under the bonnet, Everything online seems to say minor is 12" fan regardless of engine, two or four blade as you illustrated. :-? :-? I've tried to work it out but even Google and AI gets itself very confused. So man...