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- Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:36 pm
- Forum: Do you know....?
- Topic: Variation on the engine number queries
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7126
Re: Variation on the engine number queries
The 10V engine prefix indicates a Series 5 1098cc van with closed circuit breathing. I don't believe that the 10V prefix is anything specific to the van. I have a late Minor 1000 car with an original 10V engine prefix. The 10 denotes a 1098cc engine. The "V" was used to denote an inline e...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 1:47 pm
- Forum: Mechanical
- Topic: Loosing water from radiator
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6345
Re: Loosing water from radiator
Bad luck. I don't think I've ever suffered from coolant loss from that area.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:44 am
- Forum: Restoration Projects
- Topic: restoration of my minor convertible
- Replies: 48
- Views: 51462
Re: restoration of my minor convertible
They are just an angled plastic spacer. They echo the chromed metal one on the outside. A quick ring around the Minor specialists should find you some if yours have gone missing. I've never found anything for a Minor 1000 very problematic to get hold of. The cars are well served by parts suppliers -...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11354
Re: Hello
Lots of things could change within the next four years but it is good to have a plan. A Minor 1000 is a very practical and useable car and quite economical too. The Traveller is very versatile and makes a useful car BUT you have to pay quite a lot more for a Traveller in the first place and then you...
Re: seats
Don't forget that 1953 seats and 1969 seats are completely different.
They bear no resemblance to each other in terms of appearance OR construction
They bear no resemblance to each other in terms of appearance OR construction
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Progress
- Replies: 17
- Views: 37887
Re: Progress
Yum yum. Looks great! A rare car now. That'll be a lovely comfortable and entertaining motor to smoke around in .
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:25 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: Fuel gauge reading half-full when empty
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8376
Re: Fuel gauge reading half-full when empty
Thank you. My car is a Series 2, which has now got a later Speedo with bimetallic gauge & voltage regulator. The fuel tank is a 6 1/2 gallon but the sender is the early type used with the gold gauge. The car is converted to negative earth. It the tank wasn't brim full, I'd take the sender out. ...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 3:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Progress
- Replies: 17
- Views: 37887
Re: Progress
Can't wait to see it
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Progress
- Replies: 17
- Views: 37887
Re: Progress
I do hope we'll soon learn what your new transport is to be! I am often tempted by something different and have run all sorts of cars over the years. There are still cars I would like to sample before I have to eventually give up the few remaining pleasurable miles of driving!
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1954 split screen
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9513
Re: 1954 split screen
Congratulation on acquiring a Morris Minor. We will all hope that you get lots of fun from it. As you suggest, the VXU registration is a recent issue given by the DVLA as a re-registration after an import or registration number sale or similar so it will be difficult to trace much history from that ...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Canvas Back - Moggy Pickup
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7071
Re: Canvas Back - Moggy Pickup
Don't forget that the canvas cover was an optional extra when the pick-ups were new. They were not fitted to all of them. If your truck didn't have one, it won't have the fittings such as the timber parts across the roof joint which you might also need to obtain as well as the metal hoops, clips etc...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: Bodywork
- Topic: Bonnet adjustment
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11029
Re: Bonnet adjustment
There is a certain amount of adjustment where the hinges are fitted to the bulkhead AND where they are fitted to the bonnet. Also, the bonnet catch itself can be adjusted up and down where it is attached to the bonnet itself. Open the bonnet and look up inside it at the catch. You have to remove the...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:08 pm
- Forum: Restoration Projects
- Topic: 1965 Four Door - sympathetic resto
- Replies: 47
- Views: 52948
Re: 1965 Four Door - sympathetic resto
If you cut out the rear quarter floor and the end of the centre crossmember, you should be able to replace the rear quarter floor and then weld a new crossmember end onto it. There should be no gap between the front and the rear quarter floor panels. Once you've cut all the old rusty sill sections a...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger glove box lid insert?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21170
Re: Passenger glove box lid insert?
And here is a copy of the page taken from the BMC parts book of the period showing all the components of that design of glovebox lid. The stay is shown as Item no. 25 Support - lid). An extraordinary number of components go into making that lid. No surprise that BMC simply deleted them during the ne...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger glove box lid insert?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21170
Re: Passenger glove box lid insert?
The attached photos are the clearest I could find of the glovebox lid in question and showing the correct catch and stay which was standard on that model. As Jaekl says, you need the correct catch, or something similar, to fit this type of lid to a different model.
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 11:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger glove box lid insert?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21170
Re: Passenger glove box lid insert?
It does to me Numbers below sourced from several sources on the web. Production of the Minor 1000 1956 - 1972 (inclusive) produced 847,491 cars. That is around 56,499 cars per year over 15 years (possibly 16 years but will calculate on 15 years) for the purpose of this exercise. So production from ...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger glove box lid insert?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21170
Re: Passenger glove box lid insert?
243959 left hand glove box lids :o - that number seems very high to me for such a short production run. BMC claimed production of 100,000 Minors per year for the first few years of Minor 1000 production, so 243,000 doesn't seem unrealistic does it in almost 3 years? It is hardly a short production ...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 12:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger glove box lid insert?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21170
Re: Passenger glove box lid insert?
It is nothing to do with the de-luxe specification. The glovebox lid pictured along with the chromed surround and the stay allowing to it sit horizontally is the bog standard glovebox lid fitted to all Minor 1000 cars from about February 1959 (saloon chassis number 695736) until around November 1961...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger glove box lid insert?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21170
Re: Passenger glove box lid insert?
No cut-out to fit a cup was standard but a 1959-1961 Minor WOULD have had a passenger side glovebox lid which opened to form a suitable shelf. Strangely deleted on later models.
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New boy!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3187
Re: New boy!
Why on earth would a driver "Need" a disc brake conversion? Well done with your choice of car. Drum brakes on a 1968 Morris Minor 1000 should be more than adequate. As above, just ensure they are working properly :wink: I have never felt the need to fit disc brakes to any of mine. Nothing ...