Morris Minor Owners Club

As promised an update on Nelly... a second more qualified opinion confirmed that the oil is coming from the crankshaft. We were then offered a second hand engine with about 30k on it fitted for a very reasonable price and so she is currently waiting for her heart surgery to start tomorrow. All going...

Thanks for all of your help. It is great to have second opinions on things. Nelly has always dripped a bit, but on a recent trip doen from Gatwick to Dorset on Boxing day we spotted a dinner plate sized oil slick under her after returning to the car after a 5 minute comfort break. We poured some oil...

My little Nelly has just started to leak even more oil than usual and the first diagnosis that we have been given is that this is probably leaking from the back end of the crank shaft. I have been told that the best fix for this would be to have a recondition unit fitted as fixing the current engine...