Morris Minor Owners Club

hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with some info. i want
to know the capacity of the fuel tank on my traveller. i'm going to repower it and have a feeling the tank will be way too small.....

Isn't it 6.5 gallons, on a late traveller? Same as a saloon? ( and presumably 5 for an earlier one) Or am I mad?

That's somwere around 26 litres, I think, off the top of my head.

That's right Kate, it is 6.5 gallons which actually is 29.6 litres, although when I fill up it is usually 25/26 litres so you are bang on!!

My tuned 1380 usually does 32 MPG ish so I can get about 170-180 miles out of a tank if I take it easy.

thanks cam / kate. that's really helpful. doug

it is 6.5 gallons which actually is 29.6 litres

Like Cam, I've never got this amount in without spilling fuel - usually it chokes on 26 or 27 litres. At a constant 60mph you might get 250 miles+ out of a 1098cc's fuel tank, but 180-200 miles is more typical.

225 was the most I ever managed - I came back from Essex to Midlands and had to bodge a radiator repair, so I kept the speed down to below 60. Otherwise I've always struggled to get 200 miles out of a full tank on a 1098. 180 - 200 sounds about right.

The Birmingham centre do a larger capacity tank which I think is 9 Gallon capacity.

The earlier cars (the first 1000s up to '63 ish) had a 6 gallon tank, but later ones were definitely 6.5.

The B'ham modified tank is 9 gallons, which still isn't a vast amount, but could stop you being on first name terms with the cashier at the BP station... Hmm... some would argue that wasn't such a selling point... More seriously; would you have to fit a different fuel gauge sender to the larger tank? Anyone know?

no the one i was reading about says it uses the same sender ...

cheers
grainger

I would want to use the same sender - however to cope with the extra tank height it would be nice if you could make the sender arm longer (provided it would not foul the side of the tank). That way you would still get a full scale reading from a whole tank. From memory it's just a float on the end of a wire - it can't be rocket science to alter that.

The earlier cars (the first 1000s up to '63 ish) had a 6 gallon tank

Wasn't it only 5 gallons? Perhaps that was not such a problem to the average 1950s driver?

Yes, the early cars were 5 gallons (my '52 is).

Wasn't it only 5 gallons? Perhaps that was not such a problem to the average 1950s driver?

well if you believe all the dreamers on e-bay and their '29,300 miles - believed to be genuine' words of wisdom then surely a 5 gallon tank would last most people 2 or 3 months

believed to be `genuine' words of wisdom

That sounds like a good saying to me.
It ranks alongside my favorite `GOOD CONDITION FOR YEAR`

Wasn't it only 5 gallons?

Yes, quite right. My Haynes manual reckons that 948cc cars had a 5gal tank. Although my handbook (for the late 948) states 6.5gal. Don't know where I got the idea of a 6gal tank from then...

A case of "the wheel's spinning, but the hamster's dead", I suppose.

thanks everyone for all your input, i like the idea of the 9 gallon tank.
cheers, doug.