Morris Minor Owners Club

Thank you Nickol for sharing your adventure!

Coincidentally, I viewed a Traveller looking just like yours on Saturday and may end up buying it. We shall see.

Thank you Stephen. I decided to chance it.

Thank you all, especially Stephen for the valuable detail.

The car is at the workshop for the brakes and also
unfortunately, three patches of chassis welding.

I have been told my adjusters are worn. Do they typically do that?
Thanks.

Beautiful van in Milford on Sea.

Lovely!

Thank you Stephen. Wise advice. I am considering my options.

Also, thank you very much jaekl. I will investigate my brakes further using your suggestions, so I at least understand them better. Irrespective of what I do repair-wise.

Are the wheel cylinders working? The piston maybe moving outward but doesn't return freely. Thanks jaekl. have no idea unfortunately. Is there anyway I can find out without the full rebuild, as talked about? I have an MOT booked for next week in High Brooms nearby. Planning to take it along very ca...

Thanks Bill. Good advice!

Is that brake drum screw snapped off in the hub or is that just muck? The half shaft screw is also butchered ... Thanks Stephen. I tried both drum threads with my single screw and both were fine. So I'm just missing a screw. I also tried that other screwhead and despite the gob of grease, it starte...

Thanks Bill. It all looks pretty awful to me - I doubt anything is 'sliding freely as it should'. I guess I need to strip it all down etc.

Not really what I want to do at present. Will have a think and listen to advice from here. Thanks in advance.

PS thank you Stephen, I will get to your points.

Managed to shift the car and access the right-hand rear adjuster. It seemed to be turned clockwise as far as it would go. Don't know how that could have happened? I have adjusted them before to cure dragging. Rear brake now turns. Here are some photos - can you see anything untoward? The lower shoe ...

Thank you, I know now where to expect it. I'm going to come back to this tomorrow and investigate the left side and the springs too, once I can move the car more easily.

Thank you Stephen. I doubt I will be able to remove the drum with the brakes dragging so badly, but I will try.
Is the left in your photo the rear of the car?

This may sound silly. My rear brakes are dragging so badly I cannot move the car without the engine suddenly. And then it's a real pain repeatedly jacking up the car and removing a wheel, trying to see the adjuster through the hole. Please help me find it.. a photo with drum off would be best. PXL_2...

PXL_20260830_142128266~2.jpg I've been investigating possible factory-fitted reinforcement for the left hand front belt. I could have looked the right hand (drivers) side I suppose, but I wanted to follow on from geoberni's photo above. 1. I can feel a thick vertical metal plate acting as a washer ...

Thanks Bill.
Kevin

Replaced the sender with a new one and the temperature gauge is now working again. No changes to the wiring needed. So that old sender I bought new just a few months ago, failed quickly and after only modest use. Poor. The new sender looks identical, so I'll see how long it lasts. . PXL_20260830_101...

Thank you all so much. This is a wonderful message board! So it looks like my belts may be using the factory mountings. I will check it carefully tomorrow against your photos and illustrations. And I will think if fixed belts might work better. Thanks Stephen, I hope your car show goes well tomorrow...

Thank you both. So that's likely to be factory mounting points? Ahh that did not occur to me. So presumably, legally I should always use the belts on the road? Must admit, I thought that was optional given the vehicle's age and historic tax class. Nevertheless, I do use it, even though it tends to s...