Morris Minor Owners Club

Nope ... anybody can buy from them, just tell them that its a private sale, and it'll be fine.

Y'know you should look at doing this kind of thing for everything you buy ... I just put four NEW Uniroyal tyres onto my morris for UNDER £100 simply because I did the running between the tyre reseller, and the garage which fitted them ... everywhere else was quoting £120 for unknown eastern-european tyres!

Some things are easier to get from a morris specialist, but others can be bought closer to the source at MUCH lower prices ... I dunno if your budget is as tight as mine, but every penny I can save is worth the extra legwork!

simply because I did the running between the tyre reseller, and the garage

I did not know you could even do that how do you find out where the tyre resellers are.

I got the number from yellow pages.

I actually happened across it by accident, because I went through the book and wrote down all the numbers on the tyres pages, then just called them one-by-one. I got one set of prices which were WAY below everything else for MUCH better tyres.

So I called them back, and asked if that price included fitting, they then told me that they just sell the tyres and I'd have to find someone else to fit them ... another quick round of phone-calls later and I found a place which would fit them for £2.50 a tyre!!

Admittedly if the tyres place had realised that they hadn't added VAT to my bill, then it would have come out at around the same price as the eastern-european tyres! But even then it would still be worth it to have proper 'name' tyres rather than remoulds from outer mongolia!

Fitting for 2.50!! Boy that's cheap. The best I found recently was £4.00 including balance and valve - and that was because the old tyres were already off the rims.

To tidy up the 'collapsed bearing' issue, there is no danger
from the fact that you have refitted those bearings because,
provided that the 'thrust' faces have been correctly fitted
( inner bearing thrust towards the backplate and outer
bearing thrust towards the nut) the bearings cannot possibly
come apart because the spacer locks them in position. They
cannot pass through the 'thrust' side.

If you buy tyres at a good price why waste the saving on getting them fitted. The standard minor tyre is not difficult to fit at home, admittedly they may need balancing.

Erm, because my time is worth more than £2.50 a tyre. I reckon I could easily spend 3 hours bitching at tyre-levers, scraping my knuckles, and generally getting frustrated!

Compare that with an hour of being sat, giving myself lung-cancer and my continued funding of the typhoo company watching somone else who has the right tools getting the job done in a third of the time.

Hmm, let me think about that for a moment ... yup, I'll get someone else to do this job, and save my bitchin for the real fun jobs, like extracting those outer races!!

I am sure that you are aware that there are two grooves
cut in the casing which allow you to tap the outer races
out with a metal rod and a hammer???

If you can't do the job, alainmoran, without getting in a state, then forget I posted!

Hey, dont take offence, but there are just some jobs I'd rather not get into, especially ones that I dont have the tools for.

I used to work in a garage (when I was 16 - pump attendant), and I have changed tryes using levers before, I have also changed tyres using the proper tools, and I know 100% which method I prefer.

Yeah Willie, I noticed those slots while I was re-packing the bearings, the outer races should be easy to get out as they've always been covered with grease. The inner races on the other hand may be a completely different prospect.

I think you are missing the point... if you tap the outer sleeve
of the large ballrace
via the 'slots' then it will remove the WHOLE bearing
because you are hitting the 'thrust' face...the inners will
be pushed out at the same time.

alainmoran. i have two hubs here, degreased,with the races completly removed ready to fit new bearings. i can let them go for a £10 each