Morris Minor Owners Club

Spot on mate thanks, I'll be a moggy master by the time this restoration project is finished (after pickling your brains ofcoarse) I'm a heavy diesel tech myself so shouldn't experience too much bother once I get to know how what works. (Points and positive earth are well before my time of mechanics...

Hello folks, regarding my father in laws minor (20yo no start) got it running ok today. The clutch and brake pedal are to the floor and rock solid. Upon first look before wrapping up today I see they share the same shaft? Is the shaft/bushes prone to siezing up? A little confused as to how the clutc...

So ignition feed to coil + and dizzy to coil - or does that depend on positive or negative ground?

Now it running check its charging, then if so, the dynamo has likely been flashed to make it negative earth, so you now have it set as was. :tu1: Super, she's back under the cover now so will do that tomorrow. Does it matter what side of the coil the wiring runs too? Eg ignition feed to coil+ and d...

Minors were positive earth originally, although many get changed to negative. See this is where he has me pickled. There was no battery fitted in the car, the original battery clamps (no battery) were installed with the + going to ground. He said he was near sure it was changed by touching leads to...

Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Sun Jul 20, 2025 6:37 pm As an observation you have no vacuum advance pipe fitted to the distributor, not a no spark issue but air leak when trying to start.

That was just a random photo he took, been connected once I set the static timing.
Got it firing there fitting the old points dizzy back.

Yeah that was my thinking at least then you have a starting point, thing is hes no idea if it was neg or positive ground as don't think there was a battery in it when he bought it back. And can't remember what battery clamp he cut of where.
Being a young lad iv never even heard of a positive ground.

Hi there, the father in law bought back his minor of 30 years ago (hasn't started in 20) hes replaced the dizzy to a new electronic one, all new plugs and leads and new coil. I set the static timing to tdc on compression cyl 1 and installed the dizzy with rotar arm pointing to cyl 1. A new battery h...