Morris Minor Owners Club

as i started one on front suspension, i thought i'd give the rear ago too.

i know that a escort rear axle has been mention and that of a marina rear axle what differences are involved.

obviously the PCD would be different and as far as i know theres not enough meat on the escort half shafts to redrill for a different PCD.
are there any other alternatives?

If it's just the pcd thats a problem you could re-drill the wheels, like I had done on my Wellers.
Or by fitting the ford front disc brake conversion you can opt for the ford pcd or Morris pcd with those. And if fitting the marina rear axle fit the marina front discs if you can find any.

so what other axles fit say with marina pcd, midget,mgb??????????

Midget is just a narrower version of Minor axle. You can fit any axle you like - they will all need work - none are just 'bolt on'.

ok, thats fine. i have swapped axles before between makes, as minors are fairly new to me i need to learn what are the conventional alxe swaps.

i would like to make a nice road car.

has anyone fitted an irs rear

Ive read recently about the MGB axle, what are the big problems with doing this? can the original spring locations be used? what are the ratios like? presumably the wolsley brakes (or discs) would balance out the beefier rear brakes.
Would inboard telescopic dampers (inboard tops) handle the axle suffecently? how would this cope with say... 200 ponies (as a ballpark) can the "wraparound" on the rear leaves be solved (when the leaves try and wrap around the axle under hard acceleration)

Sorry for all the questions (and thread hijack )

I'm sure some have fitted the B axle. If you use 7 leaf traveller springs they are much less prone to winding up - and anti-tramp bars are readily available anyway. But for 200 bhp (!!) you will probably want at least a Panhard or a Watts linkage - and a limited slip diff!

...and a 5 link set up, and some serious chassis strengthening, and, and and...

what hijack

There was one axle that was rumoured to bolt straight onto the Minor leaf springs. I think it was one of the early Capri, or it could have been Cortina.......

Capri Mk 1 3 litre fitted straight on to the springs - just needed new U bolts, prop sorted to match, and the capri handbrake lever (minor one didn't have enough travel). I'm sure I even use the minor (Riley 1.5 in my case) brake pipes.
It is slightly wider though, but not much.

Pete

morris62 wrote:what hijack

Don't know, none by me. Merely pointing out that there's a lot more to a 200 brake Minor than a big engine

bigginger wrote:

morris62 wrote:what hijack

Don't know, none by me. Merely pointing out that there's a lot more to a 200 brake Minor than a big engine

Depends on how strong your sphincter is.

Pete

& your forehead/chest/legs

you forgot wallet in that list!

you forgot wallet in that list!

Has anybody fitted an independent rear end before? Is it a lot more work?

I'm sure Jaguar rear suspension units are commonly used on V8 conversions ! For more normal use -just use a well located rear axle.

Lukey wrote:Has anybody fitted an independent rear end before? Is it a lot more work?

I've got Ford Sierra XR4 independent rear suspension on the convertable but that has a space-frame chassis too!
Disc brakes and a limited slip diff come as standard.