Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi all, Im busy replacing most of the suspension parts on my Minor. Im starting with the front and have purchased new drums, trunnions, shockers, bump stops etc. I have all the suspension off the car and hope to have the kigpins, tie rods, torsion bars, backplates etc sandblasted.
My question is.... Do I paint the new trunnions, drums etc or just leave them as I purchased them? Is it worth having the other parts blasted or just wire brush them? What kind of paint should I use (if any!)
Thanks Croft

Suppose it all depends on how far you intend to go. Personally if I had got all suspension parts off the car I would have them shotblasted ( or use electrolysis to remove rust) and then paint them all the same colour.
Frosts do a chassis black that may be useful.
http://www.frost.co.uk/

I sanded down and wirebrushed everything and painted everything in black, in my opinion it looks smart

yes agreed paint

all suspension parts black
torsion bars silver

Don't bother with the 'blasting' - just wire brush. The glass beads will get into everything! Poundland were selling (may still be) a thick black 'Garden Gate' paint. It's very good!

aupickup wrote:all suspension parts black
torsion bars silver

I thought the tie-bars were originally silver too?

yes tie bars also silver


chassis legs were body colour

Correct Alex, correct aupickup

That's SAD, just too SAD ! Mine are reddish brown - with splashes of underseal ? I bet that's the norm!

my tiebars and torsion bars are silver under underseal

but when the car is resprayed they will be silver and i like being sad

Mine are painted black, hope nobody looks underneath!

hey les i know i have seen them shhhhhhhhhhh

bmcecosse wrote:Mine are reddish brown - with splashes of underseal

Mine are just reddish brown - not even a hint of underseal...

Well mine will be black too, with all the new bits I've been adding the underneath now looks remarkably new!! Not bad for a car that's been sat in a garage for 20 years and I now feel I'm getting somewhere. When my dad sees it I don't think he'll recognise the old gal.

idk, the 1951 vintage grease and grime looks fine on my suspension!

Under the inch or so of gunk and underseal my chassis legs were body colour, but its clearly just overspray from when the body was done!
I would paint all the suspension parts, keeps it all looking tidy. Get the stuff sandblasted it saves so much faffing about with wire brushes.

chassis legas were body colour

" Get the stuff sandblasted it saves so much faffing about with wire brushes. "
Well - only if you can be sure that ALL the little glass beads (sand is NOT allowed!) can be removed from the moving parts afterwards.