Morris Minor Owners Club

There will always be a debate between those in favour of points and those voting for electronic. Both have their own advantages. The usual advice offered is to consult the Distributor Doctor. This thread does not appear to be a discussion between Kettering and electronic systems. My reply is there ...

Elaine, We know that some service items, marketed these days, are of low quality. The scenario of cold, and damp/wet reminds me of the quality of modern-day replacement ignition leads from years ago - pretty poor in some instances. Might I suggest that when it is really dark and damp, you look at th...

Maybe so Phil. I would personally still use the pinnion with the correct number of teeth to go with the application. As written in my post, ESM did inform me that they have seen the result of the wrong number of teeth causing damage to both starter ring gear and pinnion. A rough and ready measureme...

Firstly, it depends on whether it actually needs changing.

Does it flicker on when actually in the off position?. Repair, IMO, is always better than replacement- if a common, simple, repairable fault.

If this is the only thing bugging you, well done on your purchase.

Barr's Leaks always used to be the stuff when I were a lad. Can you still get it? Plus 1 for Bars leak. Yes, still available but not quite the same as I recall from yers ago. Likely marketed/presented better, these days. I was never confident with radweld 50 years ago. Bars leak has still done the ...

Thanks (from all the forum) for the up-date. One careful step forward at a time is better than one step forward and two steps back! Ask about the detail if not totally sure, before buying parts, etc, and you will get help to point you in the right direction quite quickly. At least your posting might...

The original by-pass (according to the AKD3541) was the concertina type, but was superseded by the straight one....

Operational (expected life before failure) or cheapness considerations? We’ll likely never know….?

Does say both were rubber back in the dim past.

Just for clarity. Those ‘ballast’ resistors would need to be across the LED, not in-line. In-line (series connection) would decrease the circuit current even further when actually it needs a shunt load (in parallel to the LED) to increase the circuit current to a level similar to the original bulb l...

As per MM, but please don’t discharge the battery too much by continually cranking the engine. If you do not get it started - and it is left with a discharged battery - two weeks would not do the battery any good at all. Automotive batteries need to be maintained at full charge - either by rechargin...

new points/gap) it's easier/best to do it out of the car Nope. Perhaps easier to actually reach and change parts but, if you think that altering the points gap is not going to affect the timing, you are mistaken. The points gap will definitely change the timing, particularly if you may be changing ...

A break-before make double pole double throw switch of suitable power handling should do the job?

That simply demonstrates the errors that are possible/ If 1900rpm was correct for 30mph, 60mph should have bee 3800rpm. Alternatively, if the 4000rpm, at 60mph was correct, the 30mph should have been 2000, not 1900rpm an error of + or - 5%, so results within 10%? One thing you can say is that it was...

Tacho? Timing light? On some of my engines (the multi cylinder ones) one uses one of the plug leads to illuminate the flywheel timing marks. Works OK in dim surroundings. Was the best they had, back in the 1920s.

I built a capacitive discharge electronic ignition system, back some 50 years ago. Built from discrete components and a transformer supplied by ETI magazine, as an inexpensive option, for the project it carried, over one or two editions. That worked fine, but still used the points as the trigger, ba...

Simply reduce your ‘indicated’ speed to 3.0/4.22 times any indicated speed you care to choose. That is the way to compare (mainly) the difference to your hearing. A reduction in rpm at any given speed might not necessarily aid the health of your engine - the way it is driven is far more important - ...

Price? Details? Location of car (I can see your location)?

I've had around a dozen ecoboost fiestas as company cars and the engine is brilliant, we've had ecoboost connects to over 200,000 miles with no problems as well. That does not actually tell me anything, without some considerable clarification. Are you telling us that individual cars have covered ov...

It will, of course, depend on the rolling diameter of your wheels, too. Do remember, also, that speedometer readings are notoriously high, in comparison with the truth (the legal requirement of speedo accuracy is +10% and -0%). That, also depends on whether the gearbox and/or speedo head is/are orig...

Good point, as these engines are coming upto to 10 years old in theory the belt should be ok for 10 years but they are failing prematurely most likely due to wrong oil being used, but it's not a big issue to change the belt with engine on the bench, any engine that I would use I would give a freshe...

I suggest you revert to the original Lucas distributor and standard points set up and see how the engine performs. You can then decide if there is any benefit in these "upgrades". Personally I like to keep things simple and as designed. Many will disagree. Many won't. Electronic ignition ...