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Looks good Phil.
Does it leak oil past the adjuster screw?
I suppose the diameter of the ballbearing/spring cup is the same as the standard pressure valve?

For the front damper seals just search for 29x39x5 NBR. Several online shops including 123bearings.eu.

I did the spin-on conversion and had to bend the feed pipe a few mm to nicely fit. Also I used the now redundant blocked-filter-wire for a temperature gauge https://www.morrisminorspares.com/search/temperature with the sender in the hole in the block near the thermostat. Plus I now have free control...

One of the several exhaust/silencer systems fitted to my Minor was from a MG Midget with the silencer at the rear. The exhaust pipe passed under the rear axle which never caused any problems. The Midget front pipe was cut short to connect up with the Minor exhaust just in front of the original Mino...

Does anybody know why the silencer is in the middle of the exhaust pipe and not at the end? Would like to replace it to the rear.

Yes, merely academic,

Engine is absolutely as new. I have the rumble thought from somewhere down in this topic
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Good. No replies means it is nonsense!

I know that if the ignition advance is insufficient, there is a chance of overheating and a sluggish engine. But now I also read that a bottom end rumble can be a symptom?

Chris, I'm puzzled. As is often mentioned in his forum and due to new ball bearings having different measurements, you need special measuring equipment and engineers blue marking compound whenever the crownwheel is disturbed? Could you plaese tell us which measurements did you take and where you bou...

IMG_20200515_110642.jpg Photo is upside down. No idea why :D . One way to loosen the pinion nut. The bar bolted to the flange is a tie bar but I saw also a piece of angle bar with a hole drilled in it being used. The end of the pipe rests on top of the leaf spring. Use a pipe on your T-bar also. It...

I agree with Stephen, the PCV was originally designed to reduce or stop oil leaks from engines which were past their best through a positive crankcase ventilation. In the pre-polution era

Thanks Phil. Thanks all.

Ok. So it is not that the rear brakes grip much later than the front disks than with all round drums.

So the top hat is needed to maintain residual pressure for the drum brakes. If I remove it after a disc brake conversion, what will be the effect on the rear drum brakes?

Thanks Phil, for sharing this with the communty.

svenedin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:14 pm Incidentally, my comment about glass syringes is correct. They really don't have a seal because they're for use with chemicals that would destroy a rubber seal.
Stephen

No, these syringes don't have a seal because a seal can't be sterilised, and also the syringes were/are reused

Sorry, it was in 2020, not 2000....

Bought the springs from ESM in 2000, definitely no sagging.

So it seems oil on NEW springs improves the ride and oil on OLD springs makes them to soft (or to soft under load) ?