Morris Minor Owners Club

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Wheel bearings are the same. If they don't need replacing, don't bother. Only replace if noisy or wobbly.

Jacking up the car relieves some of the torsion bar pressure, but not all. The top arms sit on their rebound stops before the torsion bars are fully 'unwound'. You have to support the load under the bottom trunnion (with a jack), whilst you disconnect the top trunnion from the 'pin' of the damper arm. Once the top trunnion is free, release the jack and the whole lot will fall until the torsion bar is neutral.

As you've got tele dampers too, you may need to disconnect these somewhere to allow the torsion bar to fully unwind, as they too may reach their limit before the bar relaxes.

Torsion bars are just about indestructible, unless you plan to fit uprated ones then they are fine to reuse.

If the additional dampers are the 'bolt on' variety - consider throwing them away! But worry mostly about the front wheel angle - essential you sort that out.

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Poly bushes - Spridget hubs are same bearings as Minor.

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Drain and refill the standard dampers with SAE 40 oil - the difference will amaze you. The trunnion wear would need to be criminal for it to seriously affect the king pin angle........ Check for problems with the chassis legs...and the top damper mounting bolts. Droning bearings -try a clean and regrease?

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What state were the eye bolt bushed in?
The large flat washer should be behind the eye bolt, not under the nut.

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Is it just me - or is that top arm sitting at a 'funny' angle ?? It appears to be slightly twisted anti-clockwise?? And the weakening of the damper mounting with these silly damper brackets can't be helping..... Has the bulkhead been distorted?? Obviously the lower arm inner rubber bush is terrible - poly bushes will help a LOT. Could explain the king pin at an angle I suppose..... You will just need to re-assemble it best you can with new bushes - then take some measurements of the wheel angle. Flat surface and spirit level (or plumb bob) and a good steel rule will be required!

Get the bush out of the eye bolt before you start ordering parts, that one is so far gone it looks like a new pin and eye bolt will be required.

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I don't see any 'angle' there - I only see the wheel pointing outwards - but surely that's just steering angle - or is the other wheel straight ahead?? Is it not just a tracking problem?? Is the steering arm maybe bent??

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Well - slightly leaning in at the top is negative camber - and it's GOOD for a Minor - best thing you can do to the front suspension (within reason of course, before someone comes back with some exotic F 1 suspension set up...) so what I think you should do is to fit a thickish washer behind the eyebolt head on the DRIVER side until they both lean in by the same amount...

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