Morris Minor Owners Club

Electric pump on a convertible? All I'll need is soap on a rope.

WW1 fighter pilots had some sort of interrupter gear to prevent them from shooting the blades off their propellors. Do you have one on your Minor? Screen washer squirters mounted on the scuttle seem to be designed to wet the underside of the wipers and little else. This leaves the driver, or assista...

For the OP's info. When I had the garage 'do' the brakes we agreed on an hour a corner to take into account the 'x' factor if necessary. I supplied the parts. This was to clean everything up, replace shoes, cylinders, hoses, bleed, adjust and test. Job done. I don't really know if this was overly ge...

Is the chirping from rubber to metal contact? If so dry silicone spray might help.

Before buying ours (it is a conversion) the vendor let us fill it up with four adults bouncing and see if the doors still opened and closed and the gaps remained constant.

It passed the test.

This is the bit I find difficult single handed:

"Whilst holding the fully extended hood up, pull the material in around the curve of the rear windows."

I fear the time may have come to put the roof up on our convertible. It has been down and has stayed down since the end of April (the car lives in a garage). The operation is fairly straightforward and can be done without the loss of fingers...however, I always have a problem. The canvas part of the...

Sooty dust made by the fan belt rubbing on something?

Where are you?

After a couple of years with the car I still find the very upright angle of the seat backs rather uncomfortable. It has not bent me to its will. I've tried raising the front of the seat, although this helps it is not enough. I know original reclining seats are very rare and I know that I shouldn't e...

Petrol cans can build up pressure in hot weather and start smelling.

Best to let the pressure off when it is toasty out there.

You can try:

Woolies Trim
https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk

Not long ago I removed the 'Spitfire Multispark' from the coil to distributor lead.

Guess what...no discernible difference.

I am inclined to open it up and see what is in inside.

So, from a reliability point of view, does the panel think that moving the coil to the inner wing is a GOOD THING?

Is it proven in any way?

My coil is bolted vertically to the inside of the wing rather than horizontally on top of a hot alternator.

I have no idea if this makes any difference but it just seems more 'sensible'.

I had an Austin Seven not long ago. It was a 'box' saloon, an RP from 1934 (if my memory is correct). It was/is lovely little thing. Spares and good advice very easy to come by. My opinion (not shared by Austin 7 folk) is that it was just too old to be useable in modern traffic. I could spend days w...

Thanks, that will keep me out of the sun for a while!

I agree that Car and Classic is a good start but it doesn't include the various auction houses and their forthcoming sales.

Is there a website that pulls all the 'classic' cars up for auction into one place? A bit like Rightmove does for houses?

Might seem obvious but the longer diesel sits in contact with old deposits of junk the better it softens them.

I did this job on a Fiat 600 a little bit at a time.

When you've done the oil it is time to think about the water, flushing the cooling system is an excellent way of finding weak points...