Morris Minor Owners Club

Thanks. I'm going to watch and wait on this one to see if it returns.

Right, I've had the chance to unhook the fan belt and see what difference it makes. Without the water pump and alternator, the car runs very smoothly - so it was definitely one of the two. Or both contributing. The surprise is that when I put the belt back on, the throbbing has stopped! Before start...

What, if anything, have you Added/Removed/Adjusted in the period between when this was not occurring and when it started.... I went out in my car for Drive It Day and there was a strange metallic rattle when car vibrating, like a nut or ball-bearing being shaken in a tin can.... Took me a few minut...

" I'm thinking it's probably the alternator (converted 30 years ago) or water pump..." Remove the fan belt temporarily and run the engine. If it is either of the two suspects you mention then the noise should disappear as the belt will not be driving them. Don't run for too long without t...

Thanks for the quick replies both. It still has the original 2-blade fan, so I guess it's not that. I haven't changed anything. But it was left largely un-run over the winter, which makes me wonder if the alternator / water pump might have suffered from standing. When I first noticed it, I thought i...

Hello all, I'm hoping for a bit of advice please. My Minor 1000 has started to emit a slow, slightly rough throbbing once the revs get to something like 2500rpm. It pulses a bit faster than once a second, and seems to be coming from somewhere in front of the engine. I'm thinking it's probably the al...

If you have any clues - part number etc I'd be grateful. Thanks. Otherwise I'm happy to just glue something over it.

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Yep that looks like it. I'll be trawling local skips for a small piece of roofing felt...

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Thanks for that photo svenedin. Here's a pic - it's the same hole, almost above the first silencer, next to the chassis rail. On the part of the floor that slopes upwards. There didn't seem to be anything covering it except the felt. I guess gluing something over it is the way to go. Thanks all.

Hi all, On the passenger side of my late Traveller, there's a rectangular hole in the toe board - the sloping part of the bulkhead. I think it might be for left hand drive pedals to pass through. But I was wondering how people block it up to stop water coming in? I could weld it up - but is there a ...

Hello all, I knocked my Traveller's propshaft while working under the car the other day, and noticed that it had a very musical resonance. In another part of my life I write music, so I recorded various bangs and scrapes along it, and I'm in the process of turning them into a virtual instrument on m...

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Hi all, I'd be grateful for a bit of advice please. I'm part way through replacing the bootwell floor of my Traveller (and inevitably, part of the inner wing too), and there are finger-wide gaps between the left and right edges of the bootwell floor / ends of the flanges and the inside corners of th...

Hi 1000179, I'm not a paint expert, but I have suffered from solvent pop before (when I was using high build primer). Sadly I couldn't find any solution but to rub it back and start again. It happens when the top layer of paint dries too quickly, before the solvent below fully goes off. It's more co...

Thanks very much for those pics Taupe – nice work! And very helpful references. I'm glad it's not as bad as yours was! If I had more time I’d certainly have a go at it. I’m no stranger to the angle iron approach to fabrication, and the section I’m replacing has nothing other than right angles which ...

Hi again, I'm making slow (but as careful as possible) progress with this, and I have another question - grateful for any advice please. I'm not planning to replace the damper pin, so only the back part of the repair section (you can see my cut in the pic below). The rust ahead of the cut is superfi...

Ha ha! Yes I was a bit like that doing the Cortina. I have -some- experience but it's limited. I'm sure I'll wince when I look underneath it in the future. But it's certainly better than it was... The thought of just cutting into it fills me with horror! I measure, agonise, visualise, prevaricate, a...

Thanks Rob, you're right, it's welded around the shackle pin tube exit. I would have had to carefully grind around it to take off the remnants of the shipping panel. Bob - thanks. You're right, of course - I was being optimistic! I've got the flat panel - one way or another I was always going to nee...

Hi again, Slow progress, but I've dropped the spring and taken off the shipping bracket (or most of it anyway). There's a bit of surface rust inside, but I'm surprised how OK it seems to be overall. My question now is whether the trapezoid supporting bracket for the shackle pin tube you can see on t...

Thanks mogbob, much appreciated. I cut my teeth on 'real' bodywork last year replacing the passenger footwell of my Cortina, and this will be the first bit of proper work on the Morris, so I'll go carefully. Once the weather warms up a bit!