Morris Minor Owners Club

thanks for the advice on the dampers, I get payed in a couple of weeks so it might be the purchase, depending on the snagging list from the MOT

Ive seen reconditioned ones available, wondering if they are worth using? by the time you apply the surcharge and postage costs of returning old ones, and claimed it back i may as well bought new. question is if i do go through the process of trying to save my money by using recon units, will they b...

Yep I put its back side on the ground, and got inside it rocked it around, pushed up and down on the wings, and then set about tightening everything up, its a doddle with all new bolts, although i notice one of the rear dampers is now leaking oil out of the seal where the arm protrudes, is there a r...

success, the white grease worked a treat! I had it done in an hour in the rain, replaced the rear shackle bolts as well, all new bushes, put her wheel back on lowered her to the ground and then set about tightening, one side done, and its now dark. I got absolutely soaked, but I don't care cause i w...

Indeed i am fitting front pins first, i think its just the lubrication issue, and the fact ive only had a bit of time when i get home from, work, i will strike tomorrow with renewed enthusiasm

dont worry about being new to this, there are a few of us out here who are also quite new, ive been driving my minor since jan and im still finding out new things all the time, i dont profess to know every bolt. i wouldnt have known TRE either ;-) but now i do. My car being older than i am is teachi...

no need, the pin is not et far enough in to the plate to prevent the rocking :-), i literally only need to get the infernal thing a few more mill through so i can get the nut on the other side, however this is without the aid of the grease that is white.im sure with all this advice i will get there ...

sounds good to me

lol, white grease norwich, gives you an Indian restaurant

I have a Maplins nearby and i will pop in there to get it. ;-)

white grease, sorry for sounding dumb, but what is it and where can i get some from, my wife thinks lard might be ok

dean i will 'bear' that in mind :-) i now have the problem of getting the new bolt back on, i cant get it allthe way through, i put one bush inside the spring and the other on the bolt, ive tried using a g clamp i have but i cant seam to get it far enough through to get a nut on it :-( damn car.... ...

p.s. there weren't any small trees around i could thrash it with

:-) kicking the hub caps, i can sympathize with that, after marching up and down calling the car all the names in the sun, kicking everything around, throwing the can of wd40 across the street, and winging about my eye, i opened it only to see my neighbors watching in amazement. to which i said, old...

they are described as king pin upper and lower joints in the Haynes manual, if yours is the same as mine on the routine maintenance section page 10 you have an image of them image number 7 top and bottom, the routine maintenance tasks are good in this manual to follow, so i suggest you start at the ...

got it, on order :-) cut through the two little bolts on the flat plate, Order new pins and plates, then whack the bejeebers out of it until it's free. ( it helps to pretend its your mother in-law). Got the old spring off. So much for a days work, gonna have to oil up the push bike for the week. :-)...

its that front spring hanger bolt, i'm trying to remove it without mashing the treads, but i don't think i'm gonna manage it.... its always one sodding bolt, when everything else is flapping about grrrrr

all i can say is after looking at the manual, and decided to tackle this job, it can seriously damage your health..... :-) so, I nearly cut my finger off with the grinder, then hit my thumb with the lump hammer, and to top it all of i squirted wd40 directly in my eye... and guess what the old spring...

well thanks to everyone on this forum, shes running very well now, im not sure if im entirely happy but im sure with some tweeking i can get her even better. next job is to take a look at the brakes... :-) bit of juddering on the steering wheel from the front, she has marina disks and i think there ...

well I set my carb up as described and it did sort out the juddering , good luck with the starting worries.

Mine has a ford flasher fitted, I don't know what its from but If you want any info off it, i can get my head under the bonnet and read off the part numbers. Agreed it doesn't look original, but it works! you could always hide it somewhere other than its original location.