Pickup restoration part three

[davidmiles]

now how to go about this? I guess the screws here come out first..[frame][/frame]

[MarkyB]

If you can get a carb with a pipe to connect the rocker cover breather to, the oil leak may stop.

[Neil MG]

Easiest way is to remove the door glass frame and 1/4 light assembly. Easy then to split and replace the rubber. I did the same on mine and it's not difficult and allows you to fully paint the frame parts. You could also take the opportunity to weld the crack in the door shell. Trickiest job can be the two nuts that hold the 1/4 light to the top of the door, but with the right length socket extension on a 1/4" drive ratchet should be no problem.

[davidmiles]

Thanks Neil, Marky the breather pipe is fitted like this at the moment.[frame][/frame]

[davidmiles]

stripping out the old rubbers is the easy part...[frame][/frame]
a chance to clean out the gutter under the runbber[frame][/frame]

[davidmiles]

this is the upper swivel hinge, I found it far easier to connect the lower swivel hole in the rubber to the raised swivel pipe, then chase it around squeezing the rubber in. Then this swivel can be connected to the Q/L frame.
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If you connect the bottom up first the rest will follow. Looks pritty tidy when it's done, the first one is always the hardest.[frame][/frame]

[davidmiles]

but the rule seems to be, as soon as I fix one thing, another thing breaks, so, the exhaust tail end angle braket has sheared off.[frame][/frame]

[davidmiles]

the angle bracket that I cut out of sheet metal has sheared off, seems the vibration caused metal fatigue and it gave way.[frame][/frame]

[MarkyB]

What are those blobs on it?
Looks like it had cracked and been welded with very poor penetration.

[davidmiles]

No Marky, the other half of the bracket is still welded to the chassis, I need to source a thicker gauge piece and rebuild it.
It was the thin nature of the steel, ok for body repair, not for an exhaust bracket

[davidmiles]

Well, Halfords sell the bracket on the right of this picture for only £3. It's made with thicker steel than my failed bracket, so worth a go.[frame][/frame]
With the car up on a stand, there's plenty of room to work, and an old poise lamp provides enough light in just the right place.[frame][/frame]

[davidmiles]

The clamp part of the Halford bracket is too large for the end of the exhaust pipe, even when the bolts are done up to the maximum. But hanging down from above is an improvement over what I made before.
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So I've combined old and new, using there Halfords bracket but the original Morris Minor pickup clamp. It bolts up on one of the floor bolts so there was no additional welding to be done. Result[frame][/frame]

[davidmiles]

A test run went well, all the exhaust chattering had gone, I got out and checked it on the test drive and all looked well, when I got home and placed the oil can under the engine it was dripping out in three different spots underneath.[frame][/frame]
For some reason, oil loss has increased lately.[frame][/frame]

[davidmiles]

Returning to MARKY B's point about crank case pressure relief at the cover pipe to Carb, I dismantled the air filter housing to examine it for blockages.[frame][/frame]
Mayo in the pipe..[frame][/frame]
mayo in the air filter pipe too.

[davidmiles]

The filter dismantled with mayo on the corresponding part of the air filter element[frame][/frame]
and this is what it looked like close up.[frame][/frame]
Should the filter have a gap in it here to allow gas to pass through? or am I using the wrong type.

[les]

The filter is held away from the hole, you'll notice the location is stepped up to allow a gap.

[davidmiles]

Thanks Les, so is the mayonaise type contamination that far up the pipe a sign of overheating?

[brucek]

To be honest David, I think your air filter looks a bit past it - they only have a certain life span - a change wouldn't hurt. Mayo in the crankcase breather system - esp a build up in the rocker cover or crankcase breather pipe is usually a sign that the engine isn't getting hot enough - often typified by lots of fairly short runs where the engine only just gets up to temperature then cools again. The recent cold weather may have made this worse than normal, and, the minor engine, with its massive radiator area is also over cooled too so a combination of these may have contributed to the build up of mayo. Try going for a long run, getting the engine properly hot and up to full working temperature for a while and working fully through all gears and that should clear it.

[DaisyMayFozz]

Yeah change the air filter.
Mine has the same mayo, like brucek says the cold weather probably hasn't helped, My problem is a lack of decent runs- it generally only just gets warmed up by the time I get to my destination.

[janstolp]

I use this in winter.Better for the engine and a warmer heater...
Regards Jan
A few weeks ago I used a tyrib in the middle to reduce the covered area that is why it looks a bit shabby but winter returned



This picture was taken today 28-3-2013 on the Sneekermeer