Morris Minor Owners Club

Heya everyone I hope you can help me

Tell me if the brakes are meant to be like this but I have a fair amount of free play and then the pedal is pretty much solid when to floor

on top of that the brake lights only come when pedal is right at the floor being really heavenly pressed

Someone please help I'm thinking it could be brake fluid or wheel cylinders but that would cause a spongey pedal if they were at fault wouldn't they

Oh dear - many problems I suspect! The 'long' pedal may just be the brakes needing adjustment - so try that first. If you don't have a Workshop Manual to tell you how to do that - then Google for it - there are FREE down loads out there. If that makes the brakes work effectively - but the brake lights are still slow to respond - then a new brake light pressure switch will be required. Realistically though - you are likely to need 4 new front cylinders + shoes, and 2 new rear cylinders + shoes.........and a new brake light switch.....and a litre of Brake Fluid.

bmcecosse wrote:Oh dear - many problems I suspect! The 'long' pedal may just be the brakes needing adjustment - so try that first. If you don't have a Workshop Manual to tell you how to do that - then Google for it - there are FREE down loads out there. If that makes the brakes work effectively - but the brake lights are still slow to respond - then a new brake light pressure switch will be required. Realistically though - you are likely to need 4 new front cylinders + shoes, and 2 new rear cylinders + shoes.........and a new brake light switch.....and a litre of Brake Fluid.

Ahhh ok was thinking of looking into adjusting but wasnt sure 100% you could, I will try adjusting next week when I have time to as I work weekends :S and yeah I was worried I may have I've only had it converted start of this month so I was planning on a full fluids change anyway but will inspect the drums whilst at it

Thanks will comment on here with results next week

You've only had it converted To what ,a bit more info required re this conversion.

kennatt wrote:You've only had it converted To what ,a bit more info required re this conversion.

Sorry not sure where converted came from

That sentence was ment to say I've only owned it since start of this month

Since you owned it have the brakes always been like this?

Trickydicky wrote:Since you owned it have the brakes always been like this?

Yeah they have, just seems as if the previous owner didn't know the meaning of the word adjusting so I wouldn't be surprised if they need adjusting. I've had to adjust the front drivers wing and now have to paint the door because it's taken the paint off, ive had to adjust the bonnet as it kept catching on the wiper and has taken the paint off the bonnet and also dented it and also had to adjust the clutch as I had like 3inches of free play

well the satement in your second post :iv'e only had it converted the start of this month: threw me right off,thought it had been converted to disc brakes which would lead to a totally different reponse to the problem you have.. but good luck with it.

kennatt wrote:well the satement in your second post :iv'e only had it converted the start of this month: threw me right off,thought it had been converted to disc brakes which would lead to a totally different reponse to the problem you have.. but good luck with it.

Yeah sorry on my iPhone so has this stupid predictive text think