Morris Minor Owners Club

For the record my round Smiths heater is now installed and working very well indeed, it looks period and gets the interior toasty. I think Smiths made two sizes, both the same diameter but one is roughly 3ins deep and one nearly double that, mines the bigger one.[frame] http://mmoc.org.uk/mbimage.ph...

Hi Mike,
Good advice thanks, only my '51 MG doesn't have demisting vents, I can always open the windscreen if it gets to misty

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ASL642 wrote:'63 convertible owner with round Smiths heater. Ours works so well we turn it off it's too hot! Make sure your radiator is fully flushed out and all the hoses are sound.

This is just the sort of reply I was hoping for, do you drive much with the hood down in the winter?

Having sold my Minor convertible a while ago I now have an '51 MG and was thinking of installing an early round Smith's heater as the car doesn't have one originally. Can a convertible owner tell me how efficient these little heaters are? I like to drive with the hood down and don't expect much heat...

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Does anyone have a less tatty scan of this early Morris 'Nustikon' tax-disc-holder paper liner?

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actually it is motorway all the way, there really isn't an alternative unless you want to spend eight hours behind the wheel. I think the easiest way is for him to hire a low-loader and drive down - that's what i'd do, cheapest and quickest. Once I sell a car i'm really loathed to drive it, sods law...

the car will make it, i'm just not sure i would, 220 miles of motorways just isn't my idea of fun motoring.

Probably my last post for a while. I've sold my morris to a chap from Ballynilard in N. Ireland and was wondering the best way to get it to him from S. Devon. It's a distance of 222 miles to Pembroke (ferry port in S. Wales), any readers live in Pembroke where I could get the car dropped off for a s...

i stand to be corrected but i think all the caps were the same, i've never noticed any difference, i bought mine off of ebay.

i've joined this conversation a bit late but i can thoroughly recommend the monsoon cover, it's easy to handle, totally weatherproof, has four breathing 'ears' and the service from the company is first rate. i had a uv problem with one of my covers, rang the company and new one arrived in the post -...

Would never happen to a mog driver of course, apart from the fact they wouldn't be so dumb, they would be fully up for at least three seconds before you got any where close !!

I've got the earlier metal trim but only one piece is in, the other came with the car.

Is there some sort of tool to help it in?

Packedup wrote:
Have you wired the temp through the voltage stabiliser? If not then that might be your problem!

on the back of the regulator there is a short wire going to the fuel gauge, this had a spare 'spade' where it left the regulator so to save breaking into the wire i connected to that.

is this ok?

finally got round to connecting up my instruments. the oil pressure is 50 cold at tick-over and about 35 hot at tick-over, is this reasonable? the water temp is halfway between normal and hot, is this due to the 88 deg C thermostat i fitted and could i expect the temp to drop to normal with a cooler...

wow, thanx guys, that was quick.


it looks so obvious now

can someone advise on connecting this little lot.

i assume B goes to C with a washer between, and D goes into the engine and the spare washer on the back of the gauge, but what of the rest?

On my daily travels around my area i see three minors parked on the road, two on driveways and two on axle stands, that's five regularly used (not including mine). They certainly brighten my day. How many do you see on a regular basis? How many other old cars do you ever see that are used on a daily...

hi kennatt, welcome to the forum.

i would think the reason you've never seen a minor with vinyl roof is due to the extreme curveture, i don't see how you could stretch it around without creases, having said that anything's possible these days.