Morris Minor Owners Club

Apart from dressing as an eskimo, does anyone have any tips for keeping warm in the winter in your mog?

I think the door seal has deteriorated on the back drivers door and will replace that, but its still flipping freezing ....

so, any tips??

Give your heater a service. I have never had a cold Moggie. Even the convertibles are toasty!

Like you say stopping the drafts is the first thing you can buy an uprated heater or some say a mini heater gives a greater heat output.

Personally I have changed to a mini heater(but not had much chance to try it yet) wear warm clothing, keep a blanket handy to wrap round my legs and if it's really cold a pair of gloves. It isn't unknown for me to stop in a layby to get out the car to warm up before I get frostbite in my feet. Oh and a flask of coffee can be handy. The joys of minoring.

Yep, a heater flushout is needed. We just took our '62 Minor on a 30 mile trip to the supermarket with the outside temperature of just 3 degrees celcius, and we had to keep turning the heater off because it was too hot!

Hmmm.... I didnt think about the heater not working properly, I just assumed it was the joys of the morris

It does get warm ...... eventually ...... lol



I shall look into that ....

thanks

Got to agree with peetee i own a convertible and was out on monday last with the hood down and my feet were as warm as toast with only the ram system in use i didn,t need to switch the fan on

Have you checked that the water tap on the cylinder head (screw or cable) is opening properly?

put the heater on today for the first time in Mog ownership (round Smiths type) and was gobsmacked at how good it was.

my heater is awful.

With my cars, the heater in the Traveller is great- works very well, lots of hot air, but the convertible works less well- needs a service.

All you need to do is flush the heater. Best done with it removed from the car and as said above, make sure the heater tap/ valve is working. Oh, and check the thermostat, if that is jammed fully open then the heater will not work very well as too much coolant will be reaching the radiator too soon.

Winter thermostat (88 or 92) helps greatly. Also block off the water pump bypass if you can - this speeds up heater 'warm up ' time considerably - and keeps the hot water flowing around the heater matrix even when idling in traffic - otherwise it tends to go cold until you rev up. Consider fitting an electric fan and removing the blades on the water pump - either control it with a thermostatic switch - or manually with a temp gauge. In winter it will rarely run except if stuck in traffic for long periods. The Mini 'fresh air' heater has a larger fan - and the Minor front plate is a straight swop so it looks no different - well worth doing.

Make sure there is a thermostat fitted!
Without one the heater will never work properly, and the engine will run too cold.

Ah Hah!!!! lightbulb moment ..... we did something with the thermostat in the summer .... but I cant remember what ...... hmm, will have to investigate further ....

thanks for all the replies tho, they are helpful

Porridge---------------thats the answer.Eat a huge piping hot bucketfull of the stuff,and you could drive through Siberia in your swim suit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Aye right......

I've got a heater matrix from a transit stuck next to my legs. I definatly don't get cold. Loud buggar though.

weimylady wrote:Apart from dressing as an eskimo, does anyone have any tips for keeping warm in the winter in your mog?

I think the door seal has deteriorated on the back drivers door and will replace that, but its still flipping freezing ....

so, any tips??

When the really cold weather is hear disconnect the elephants truch from the side of the heater and plug the hole with an old scarf etc, that will stop the blast of cold air going onto the matrix cooling it down and it only takes 2 minutes to do.

shut the windows

dalebrignall wrote:shut the windows

Tuck the trunk behind the radiator (avoid the fan!) so it gets warm air from the rad.

I fitted the high output heater from the B'ham Minor Centre - best item I've ever bought. 2 speeds. The higher speed demists the rear doors on the Traveller. Even at the lower speed after a few minutes I have to turn it off - it's too warm! A bit knuckle scraping to fit but worth every penny!