Morris Minor Owners Club

I'd wondered about that engine in a Morris, though I still favour the Isuzu 1.5 that Corsas use having had two Corsas with them - I seem to remember that the 1.4 Peugeot was capable of about 60 to the gallon in the Metro, which can't be bad!

That's excellent news Timmo - I haven't got to it yet as work on the house has intervened - but if it's a hopeless case I shall be in touch! Who knows, I might have something you need in return!

Brilliant, I love the near instant answers on this forum - thank you!

Thanks both, I thought that was the answer I would get! I take it the dismantling is fairly straightforward? Is there an exploded drawing in existance? And I could just get an impression of the rheostat through the holes - it looks like it's a 'bend back the tabs and work on the internal parts' unit...

Right - round heater as fitted to our '62 traveller seems to have given up the ghost. I suspect the rheostat switch as it used to work if you fiddled with it. Is there any way to get at the switch without removing the heater completely? Doesn't seem to get a mention in any of my manuals, looks like ...

I think you'd find these rare earth magnets would hold to the side of a jet plane in flight (if it was steel) some of them just about need a screwdriver to prise them off......

I like the new functionality that the change has brung: not having to log in every time is a real boon! The only real change I'd make is choosing a different theme, there are some much better icon/balloons out there!

Or just the time of year - the Nova board always goes quiet for a bit round Christmas/early January.

They also have a tendancy to colapse if twisted, which you really wouldn't want! Overbraid looks pretty so long as you can tidy up the ends (I've got a length of rad-hose sized stuff hung up in the garage waiting for something!) but it does hide possible early warning of failures.

Hard drive magnets are the best - there are also pretty good ones inside the motors of cordless drills (or anything else with that sort of motor) if you've wrecked the drill in some way you might as well recover something out of it!

Not wanting to spoil the thread by keeping it on topic - but the original question was about a particular Ebay marketed, points/condenser replacing (probably Hall effect?) electronic ignition - has anybody tried this one?

Been toying with getting a set from BM for a while then spotted these: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Morris-Minor-Eletronic-Ignition-Kit-45D-distributor_W0QQitemZ120511423890QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item1c0f0a6592 I see from his feedback that he's sold a few has anybody on h...

Vans are great, I love em! His price sounds reasonable, Ebay 'project' ones tend to go for more than that - isn't it pretty expensive getting them off the Channel Islands though?

If you're running Firefox and 'adblock plus' you just right click on any offending image, add it to the 'filtered items' and it's gone in a puff of logic!

I bought a bypass hose-less water pump (new in box unfitted) by mistake a while back if you win the head you can have it for a fiver + postage...... I've just got to find where I stashed it

Sometimes you would get both (though motor factors - in the days when they sold useful things - used to keep copper then plastic pipes in various lengths so you bought to suit your car) but the water temp pipe is integral with the gauge (and filled with a liquid) you often see the gauges at car-boot...

If you've got the sort of head with a blanking plug below the thermostat (above the dynamo) you're in luck because it will just screw in there. Without that, you've got no quick and easy soloution. Our 1098 van has the tapping and has the gauge fitted, the other two (948s) don't and are awaiting me ...

We paid a lot less than that for one in very good condition - the gearbox was a bit noisy and the gear stick very much so (as it was missing its support spring....:roll: ) but the owner threw in a good condition gearbox as part of the deal. For £5k I wouldn't want to be having to play around with an...

In some ways, I've got both - though the Beetle is clothed in a slightly more interesting black plastic body...... on balance, for everything except exotic styling - I'd go for a Minor every time. It's a no-brainer as to which is more actual 'use'!

My Lancia's front suspension towers both decided that they wanted to be (a lot) closer to each other as I backed it out of the drive one morning - having completely seperated from the inner wings...... that was the end of that! Nice engine though (basically Fiat twin cam with pretty 'Lancia' letteri...