Morris Minor Owners Club

All. Thanks for all your input, which of course was spot on and has left me feeling very foolish for not having checked the head gasket as soon as I had lifted it. The knocking noise had me thinking bearings or valve stem before I realised that two cylinders were out. I least everything else I’ve ch...

My Minor 1000 recently started to make a knocking noise on acceleration and is now running on only two cylinders. I have owned the car since 1978 and was convinced this was an internal failure. I swapped the spark plugs around to eliminate these as the problem. I removed the rocker cover, turned her...