Morris Minor Owners Club

Suddenly had a thought . Some of you will have seen Im going to have a go at mending the doors on my Morris. Ive had a look at a very useful video online showing how to take them off the body of the car. I suddenly had a thought. Will I need an imperial socket set????

Answer yes.
The Minor is a mixture of AF sockets/ spanners for most of the engine parts and Whitworth sockets / spanners for the rest.
There is a helpful list of spanner sizes at the top of the Mechanical Section of the Forum.Not cpmprehensive but at least it's a start.

Given the age of the vehicles some fixings may have never been removed before ...so a can or aerosol spray of PlusGas dismantling fluid is a very useful addition to the tool kit.
A previous owner may have substituted a metric nut and bolt in some places so don't automatically assume it will be " as it left the factory " !!

Autojumbles are good place to pick up good second hand tools at a reasonable price, as well as dear old Ebay

Bob

Thanks Bob..... You can tell Im a complete novice. Have a traveller in very good nick... but bought my split screen more to learn how to do thing - so all advice and help is really appreciated!

Boot fairs are another source of imperial tools and much cheaper than auto-jumbles.
Look for the words chrome vanadium, this means good quality.

Hi there,
I got some I needed at the time on this web " they are very good........
http://www.whitworthspanners.com/

Good luck
Brian.............

MarkyB wrote:Boot fairs are another source of imperial tools and much cheaper than auto-jumbles.
Look for the words chrome vanadium, this means good quality.

"DROP FORGED INDIA" is NOT!

Also have GordonTools,Snailbrand,Leyland - 3 of the latter courtesy of Black
& White Leyland Royal Tiger's - all in my tool box.

As for sockets, 24point not those cheapo 6point things - best to have a set
of 3/8 & 1/2 drive bsf/ww.

Will I need an imperial socket set????

Not to remove the doors, IIRC the cap screw heads are 1/4 Whitworth.

Which IS Imperial!! ie..It's NOT Metric.....

Im borrowing step father in laws imperial socket set. long term loan like we did with Hong Kong mind you!

Which IS Imperial!! ie..It's NOT Metric.....

My (colonial) understanding of Imperial is inch size, like 1/2" or 9/16". Looking at a chart I see 1/4 Whitworth is .525" which is definitely Imperial although it's not an "inch" size.

Just different lingo. My apologies.