Morris Minor Owners Club

Thanks very much geoberni

Hmm,
That is curious.
Are there any tell tale signs which would help identify the age of my car?
I've read there may be a stamped panel in the floor near the brake master cylinder?

Here you go! (image needs rotating 90 degrees anticlockwise)

Mine has a 4" hole there that looks like it was used for the fresh air vent?

Hello all,
I'm trying to locate the VIN number of my 1959 2 door minor and have located 2 plates screwed into the top right hand side (offside, RHD Car)
Are these the ones as the DVLA are insisting that the VIN should be "pressed" into the body shell.
TIA

Hi oliver90owner, granted it wasn't what I suspected initially but with all the help I had on here and a stock of known good items (coil, distributor cap and leads) to perform the recommended tests, it had to be the condenser. I think you may have read my message like I thought that all along which ...

Hi Oliver90owner,
I suspected it was the condenser after I'd tried known good components and the condenser was the only thing I did not have a spare of.
A quick order from Minispares and it was running again in moments, along with the rev counter working too

Hello all, jut a quick note to say it's sorted. It was the condenser as I suspected.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Hi Stephen, I'm in the north west,
Let me try the condenser 1st, may be as easy as that.

Hi John, I did remove all cables from the coil and distributor and run the bare minimum cabling so there is definitely no immobiliser or additional wires going anywhere, also tried with a known good coil from a running car. I have left the car pretty much for 24 hours in-between attempts so it won't...

Yes, 2 lives to the Tacho.
One to the spade to active the tacho coil and the other to the input side of the tacho coil

....thinking about it, I'm not sure I removed the switched positive from the ignition to the coil so actually could have had 2 lives to the coil (the proper one and my temp one). Could that have damaged something?

Hi myoldjalopy,
I ran a temp live from the + on battery to the spade and one side of the rev counter. Then ran the other side of the rev counter to the + on the coil.

Hello StillGotMy1stCAr, thanks very much for that, very helpful. The other/spurious wires in there are something for me to tidy and are not connected to anything. I've only owned the car for 5 weeks or so, so need to get into that.... I actually did run a separate/new wire from the - terminal on the...

Thanks for that, I'm pretty sure the points were closed but will have another look.
1 think that is quite disturbing is the amount of sparks I get when I connect the spade up to the Distributor. Is that normal?

...and with the Dizzy connected to the - on the coil, I measure 1v at the - terminal.
Without the dizzy connected I measure 12v at the same - terminal on the coil.

So, as you suggested there is a healthy spark from the HT lead, so that's the coil eliminated.

Thanks very much, I'll try that in an hour or so and post the results.
I have tried with a known good coil from another car though but would like to confirm this is happening.

So nothing there that would stop it running.
I think I'd better take a look at the fueling next then. As I say, been running fine but suddenly stopped when I was messing about. Coincidence maybe?

Hi all, many thanks for all the help so far...
Please see the pics..