Morris Minor Owners Club

Right then.... went to it today after at least a week of standing and wouldn't start. Changed batteries after one went flat trying and then it ran. Still not perfect but running non-the-less. I'm thinking it could be the cruddy old fuel coming through that isn't helping. Anyhow decided to do the plu...

Cheers Dean, you're dead right mate it's a brilliant feeling, especially to someone like me who has the mechanical abilities of drunken slug! We had T-cutted a bit of the wing and some of the roof first incidentally, just easier to photograph the bonnet due to car's location. The seats are coming up...

Cheers. Still haven't located starting handle unfortunately and being honest living in hope it's something like leads or fuel or points. Old petrol still smells sort of stale/horrible and though I've added some fresh I expect the mixture of old and new in the tank is probably favouring the old at th...

Taadaa! Nice one fellas, it's running! Got the original type pump for it and some braided fuel line (Bull Motif) and as advised went to a plumber's merchants. They supplied a screw on fitting for the pump and told me I'd need 10mm copper pipe ideally. Only did a large roll (twenty odd quid) so I whi...

Thanks Dean. Do you (or anyone else) happen to know the diameter of the original copper(?) fuel line from tank to pump please? Cheers.

Thanks. I prefer the white myself and think the green paintwork will offset the colour nicely.

My 1971 Morris has silver standard road wheels fitted but is this the original colour? For some reason I thought all Morris 1000/Minor wheels were white, possibly Old English white? Am I right (for once!) or totally wrong as usual? :) Ps if they are supposed to be white, anyone know where I can get ...

Cheers fellas, have ordered a new pump and when it arrives I'll hotfoot it down to nearest plumbing supply company and see what they can do. There must be a union that will fit and be leak proof and I'd imagine there must be a device to make a join onto the existing pipe?

Thanks again all. BMC, when you say a hose fitting from an old pump do you mean the male end already supplied (but from another pump obviously) and then screw this into/onto the threaded female 'hole' in the pump for the other fuel pipe?
Thanks and regards,

Cheers peeps. BMC, I certainly did, seemed easier as picture was quite clear! Dean: many thanks. Alex: That's exactly what happened by the look of it. Is there a way I could have a fitting attached to the pump so I could run braided fuel hose between end of line and pump do you think? Thanks for the...

Cheers Dean. Don't have that red cable but assuming it's the live I have another one that will run to pump no problem. Many thanks.

Evening all! Right, after a bit of a run round with a new universal pump I'm not at all happy it's afe or a good idea and have now found somehere I can get an original pump. Now, just to be right nuisance, can someone please show me pictures of the bits where the fuel lines go in and out of the orig...

Oh sorry, yes user id is hidden but hovering the mouse/clicking on the bidders will show you what percentage of bid activity they've had with the seller. It's when the listing is a private one that things change: you cannot check bid history and if feedback is left then it cannot be viewed. This enc...

Most listings are public and in my experience (and those of others I know) private listings mean seller has something to hide such as schill bidding or items not as described so you can't see poor feedback if left.
I'll keep an eye on it and thanks once again for the link.

Thanks gents. Shame about that pump bmc, spotted it a little earlier on eBay but it's a private listing and I never bid on those.

Ah, thanks. Hopefully I can get some of that when I find somewhere local who supplies petrol pipe.

Can someone please post a link and/or photograph of the 'proper' piece of pipe that I need. The one I have looks exactly the same as the one currently on the car (not that that means anything I know) but I'm sure when I looked at a MM spares place the ones they offered looked exactly the same? Marky...

Thanks BMC. Ok, removed fuel pump which says 'Fuelflo' on the bottom and certainly appears to be a solid unit. It IS getting power to it and some distinctly old and smelly looking petrol came out. Hoping thatw as the problem we tapped it a few times and tried refitting it to see what happened. Unsur...

Thanks Dean. Phoned round a few places today to check availability of fuel pumps and seems order in only and there's no universal type ones available. That doesn't help me unless I can either find a suitable/similar one from another car or order an original one in. Still plan to test the electrics f...

Looks like we're going to need some welding doing to our Morris and it's something I couldn't tackle myself (for now). Could someone please recommend a good, reasonably priced welder in the Chester area or maybe one of the members of this forum is local and can weld? Happy to pay the going rate for ...