Morris Minor Owners Club

..... and in with the equally as old!!

Anyway my rattling, oil leaking / consuming, mobile fog bank has been removed and replaced by another ex- midget engine, which I'm hoping will lead to clearer air around Mansfield.......

I won't be disposing of my old unit though, as prior to disgracing itself at every given opportunity over the last few months, it was a great little engine, so it will be rebuilt when time and funds allow.

This leaves me with three engines though, so I will be advertising my spare (not seized but I'd recommend an inspection / new gaskets and a repaint at least) 1300cc ex- Marina engine on eBay, along with the Moggy flywheel that I had a new ring-gear fitted to and holes drilled in to allow it to be fitted (to the Marina engine).
The engine owes me in the region of £100 and the flywheel £80 if anyone on here's interested......

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One of the best investments I ever made..... an engine crane.
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You will notice that my (not so) new engine has a breather on the timing chest cover and not one on the rocker cover, do people think this a better set up? If so I shall continue to run this 'as is'.

Ironically I've replaced one problem and ended up with another! I now have no pedal pressure on my clutch. It was okay before and I'm not loosing fluid, I suspect one of two things (or maybe both)......
during the various occasions when I have had to remove my engine I have simply hung / rested the clutch slave cylinder to one side, could this have put strain on the flexi-hose connecting it to the master cylinder? Someone has already suggested that it may have collapsed internally, would this lead to loss of pressure?
I have a new spare flexi-hose, so this is the easy solution... providing I can separate it from where it joins to the master!
Secondly could the slave cylinder have failed? I never felt it was a particularly strong (/ powerful) unit but it was part of the hydraulic clutch kit I bought from David Manners in Birmingham (no reflection on them as I've always found them very helpful) to attach top my type 9 gearbox.
Has anyone had any problems with these / can anyone suggest a better slave unit that will fit?
Many thanks in advance for any help / advice.
Best wishes,
Mike.

The timing case breather is essential on a 1275 - WITH a rocker cover breather -use them both! Your new engine doesn't have a crankshaft damper (or starting handle dog...) ...why is that?? ALL 1275 engines have a crank damper - fit the ones from your old engine if you don't have spares... You will gain a good few BHP if you cut the inlet section off that cast manifold - and use an alloy inlet instead -the cast exhaust is fine - keep it. No idea about hydraulic clutch - but i can't see it will suddenly be anything gone wrong - have you used the flywheel and clutch pack from the old engine - transferred to the new ? Oh -and DO NOT lift the engine like that! You will bend the studs and maybe damage the rocker cover....... You need a spreader bar fitted to, or through, the lifting eyes so the lift on each of the lifting eyes is vertical - not angled inwards as your picture shows!!!

The perils of going to a hydraulic clutch.... Seems very strange this would happen when an engine is changed.. Are you sure the clutch stroke is the same now as it was before? Flyhwheel same thickness/sitting on an identical crank flange?

Well - it's NEVER just 'one of these things'.... Maybe the second engine had been fitted with a Marina crank ?? Someone had been 'at it' when it had no damper fitted. Just to get it clear in my head again...did you fit the same flywheel - transferred complete from one engine to the other? And the carbon release - was it changed or just the same ?

PM sent about marina engine.

PM sent about marina engine.

"You will notice that my (not so) new engine has a breather on the timing chest cover and not one on the rocker cover, do people think this a better set up? If so I shall continue to run this 'as is'".

Never seen a 1275 engine without a crank breather before, any more pics of the engine?, how did you establish that it was a 1275 motor?

bmcecosse wrote:Your new engine doesn't have a crankshaft damper (or starting handle dog...) ...why is that?? ALL 1275 engines have a crank damper

My '68 sprite 1275 Gold Seal engine doesn't (well didn't - its got a damped pulley now). The crank pulley was exactly the same colour as the engine

Well done getting it fixed.....and for keeping us updated.

Treat it carefully!