Morris Minor Owners Club

the Minor is shown as insured on the database .....

Hi there guys, Just a quick note to thank everyone whom has helped me on here with my general queries and questions and the patience shown to someone new to the World Of The Moggy. All the owners I've met and corrosponded with have had small egos and big hearts, a very friendly club indeed, but then...

Yup thats the one. My friend thinks he may have a dizzy in his garage for a 1098 along with some other bits and bobs, I maybe in luck.

My Moggies had a cruise misfire that was so bad it screamed ' ignition system '. ....so I had a little poke under my dizzy cap and found the points plate has a broken return spring. I'm thinking this return spring must be unique to the 1098 dizzy, even may by year I'm guessing? I suppose any moggy 1...

irmscher wrote:Invest in a good quality battery

.....battery?..electric starter motor?....Ive got a new car for all that cutting edge technology

Excellent explanation...cant go wrong with that.

PS To OP where in Norfolk are you off to?

I understand the OP confusion....as Vicky Pollard would say. Yes.....the dizzy shaft can only fit one way... but... No ...the dizzies 'outside' can be twisted so that lead number one could be 90' or 180' degrees out. ....its difficult to put into words...a eureka moment will happen and it all drops ...

Feliz Navidad

irmscher wrote:And Gremlins

Ya on fire

next time I see Alien I'll be checking its lair ..be full of nuts, bolts, washers, circlips, split pins and spacers!

That'll be christmas treat to start her on the 'andle...I do live such an exciting life

I've just noticed my Moggy has a hole in the front bumper for a starting handle....only the second car I've ever owned with the this feature, the first being a 2CV.

Is it just a case of ignition on, choke out, (handbrake on/in neutral!) and spin away, or is there some witchcraft needed?

cheers guys

the same stuff that Aliens excrete if you cut them...it must be, I saw the film!

Gold Seal being a 'drop in' engine, a full recon' (with starter, dizzy and alternator) and Silver Seal a short engine only no acilleries being just the block? But somewhere my poor memory tells me that engines that were no longer in production were only ever Silver Seal with a higher proportion of u...

RKM's?

Or put out to sub contract?

If BMC/BL did them where did they do them.....one would of thought at the original engine factory....which then makes me think were the engines made in one factory or built from products from multiple factories?

Just been looking at the photos of the block face I took....didn't notice them before, but yes the block is marked on the nearside outside of the studs, I missed them the first time of looking. 8) ....the numbers are three grade 2's and yes one grade 3! I suppose it's actually a backhanded complimen...

Last thing to do on my head refitting mission.... the nuts that hold the carb to manifold on.....and as usual even though all parts are laid out in the order then came off, the aliens have been around and abducted one of my nuts... That sounds like a sore thing!..:o Regards Declan I wouldn't mind b...

Have you got the spring and washer plate in the filter bowl? Did you change the rubber seal? I normally do not change the seal and have no leaks. It is a brass nut so no use looking for it with a magnet Used the old seals as the light was fading....my fault. Yes spring and the other parts all there...

philthehill wrote:3/8" UNF.
Use a 9/16" UNF spanner.

Cheers phil

Last thing to do on my head refitting mission.... the nuts that hold the carb to manifold on.....and as usual even though all parts are laid out in the order then came off, the aliens have been around and abducted one of my nuts...can't find it anywhere and obviously it won't turn up until I have a ...