Promoting the Preservation and Use of the Postwar Morris Minor
https://board.mmoc.org.uk/
Sell it to someone with the unleaded jitters then! Mine is also thrashed mercilessly around the same sort of mileage/week, and (slapped wrists) I haven't even checked the valve gaps since.....oh, I don't know when!aupickup wrote:i do between 300 and 400 miles a week in the moggie
so far the gaps seem ok
i do have an unleaded head in the garage but so far not fitted it
nahhhhhhhhhhhhh Hi bmcbmcecosse wrote:There is absolutely NO need to use any 'snake oil' fluids........the engine will run for many many many many thousands of miles without any worries. But - do check the valve gaps, and set the exhausts to 15 thou (inlets 12 thou) - and check/reset them every 3000 miles. Only caveat is if doing many many hard motorway miles - and then you should really fit an unleaded head (and still set gaps as earlier!). No need for this to be expensive - the 998 Mini head is supposedly 'unleaded' in all later engines and entirely suitable for 948 engines and cheap as chips to buy. And 1098 engines can either use that same head with slight loss of power (but actually it may give better economy) - or upgrade to an unleaded 12G940 head from a 1275 engine. And obviously - any 1275 can simply use the unleaded head from a later engine.
I always thought that was because of the phrase "refitting is the opposite to removal"bmcecosse wrote:Yea - Haynes is ALWAYS right - that's why the Mini lads call it HBOL - Haynes Book of Lies...... Do it that way if you think Haynes know better......
