Morris Minor Owners Club

hiya,

what sizing systems were used for the screws, nuts and bolts used in the manufacture of a Morris Minor 1000? The types available are bewildering and I want to be sure that if I buy a replacement for any fixing I am definitely getting the right size. I know that there were often a mixture of sizing systems used in a single car, and of course I'm aware that in the thirty-five years since my van was made garages may have substituted fixings of a different sizing system again....

Should I be looking at UNF? UNC? BSF? BSW?

Should i get one of the Namrick "universal" thread gauges? http://www.namrick.co.uk/browse.asp?PCID=22

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juliet xx

All the above - and add Whitworth to the list as well.It's a pain, but it's true. Didn't realise that yours was a '71 Have you got that alloy piece from Dennis yet?

bigginger wrote:All the above - and add Whitworth to the list as well.It's a pain, but it's true.

Bedknobs and broomsticks.

Have you got that alloy piece from Dennis yet?

he's delivering it tomorrow, dude

Cool. Hope it's OK - and you don't mind that it's from a traveller

oh, well in that case!!!! i don't want your smelly travvy ally panel

MY traveller? Was your mouth out with TCP!

arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr van owners unite against the one they call "the traveller"

*can..... feel..... thread being..... pulled..... off topic....... fighting to....... resist........*

wibble_puppy wrote:arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr van owners unite against the one they call "the traveller"

I think you're flogging a dead horse with that one. You are severely outnumbered! There seem to be more and more travellers around at the moment too (or is it just me?).

VERY fashionable jusr now - the 'Travellerati'?

wibble_puppy wrote:what sizing systems were used for the screws, nuts and bolts used in the manufacture of a Morris Minor 1000? The types available are bewildering and I want to be sure that if I buy a replacement for any fixing I am definitely getting the right size. I know that there were often a mixture of sizing systems used in a single car, and of course I'm aware that in the thirty-five years since my van was made garages may have substituted fixings of a different sizing system again....

Should I be looking at UNF? UNC? BSF? BSW?

As a general rule, the mechanicals are UNF & the body is BSF.


Initially, 99% of nuts & bolts were BSF when the Series MM was introduced. There are a couple of exceptions to this though.

The Austin mechanicals were UNF & stayed that way in the Minor body when the Series II came along.

I see that WiDDle puppy is tryin' to drag us off topic (only kiddin' )