Morris Minor Owners Club

I changed the head gasket the yesterday and it all went well. I only just got the car so I am giving it a full service. The engine does start with virtually no choke and is obviously running rich. I have misplaced my colourtune tool and I wondered if there was a good way to make a reasonable adjustment without any special tools.

Also what the cannister thing connected to the card by a pipe at the rear of the engine.

It's a 1098cc engine by the way.

Thanks

Andy

You do not need tools to set the mixture, just get the engine up to normal temperature and set it to as slow an idle as it will accept. You now feel for the 'lifting pin' which is found underneath the dashpot. It is
a small spring loaded pin which, if pressed upwards will lift the piston up.
You lift it until you feel it contact the bottom of the piston and then lift
it about 1/16"or so higher. If the tickover speed goes up then you need to adjust the mixture nut UP, if the tickover speed goes down then adjust
the nut DOWN. You move this mixture nut ONE FLAT AT A TIME until you reach the condition whereby lifting the pin causes the tickover to momentarily rise and then settle back again. The mixture nut is below the Carb body, at the top of the jet housing and is spring loaded. You adjust it by hand you do not need a spanner. Do not understand what
'cannister thing connected to a card' means.

I think he may be referring to cannister thing to the carB.

The breather for the crankcase on the later cars

Onne wrote:I think he may be referring to cannister thing to the carB.

The breather for the crankcase on the later cars

Sorry a bit of a typo, I did mean carb. Does the cannister have anything in it and what does it actually do ?.

Thanks for the tip on the mix setting Willie, I will have a go at that.

As Onne suggests it is an oil trap in the breathing system for the engine,
it contains wire mesh. Have you retightened the head nuts after the first hundred miles?

Willie wrote:As Onne suggests it is an oil trap in the breathing system for the engine,
it contains wire mesh. Have you retightened the head nuts after the first hundred miles?

I only did it yesterday, but I will re check the torque and do the tappets as well.

Found a bit of rust in the sills today so I will have to find a garage to weld them for me. There are a couple of holes in them, just behind the front wheels and just in front of the rear wheels. It's strange as they are only small area's and everything else seems very strong.

Are they a MOT failure ?.

This restoration project will take a while I think !

That is a shame, the holes are where the areas are blasted with dirt and rain thrown up by the wheels I expect. If the holes came through from the INSIDE then that is indicative of internal rot which wouldhave to be attended to.