Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

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Re: Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

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Overall shot of the car. Hope I haven't bored you much with all the photos. Its nice to see some nice clean sharp new metal edges and not the rusty edge panels peppered with holes.

Thanks for reading.
Dave.
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Re: Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

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Looking good Dave .
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Re: Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

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Hi all.
Just after a bit of advice on quarter panel floor fitment. The front quarter floor edge has a joggle on the sill side edge to allow the floor to be simply dropped in against the inner sill step and on top of the chassis leg. The rear quarter floor then is shaped to the transmission tunnel shape with then a high back to weld to the heel board. However there is no joggle on the rear quarter floor sill edge. When the floor is dropped in on the rear it fits nicely but how much overlap have people left of the original floor? Mine was very badly rotten so I literally just have the inner sill floor flange. There just seems a large step underneath from underneath from the inner sill edge to the new floor panel. Do people on here seam weld the floor from inside the car and underneath and use of a seam sealer? Originally the floors would have been sandwiched between the inner sill and under sill front to rear but originally also the floor had the undersills attached to them. Just wondering what peoples experiences are for these drop inside floor replacements? The sensible thing would of to put a joggle on the rear floor edge like the front quarter floor has.
Many thanks
Dave
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Re: Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

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I suppose what I'm trying to say is that it's going to be impossible to get a flush floor fit with the original floor edge. unless I cut the new floor quarter to get a butt joint fit. But that means joggling the heel board high back corner edge too. The heel board high back drops straight onto the original heel board flange. So I guess I'm going to have to live with a step from the floor edge I've cut out to the new floor panel.
Dave
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Re: Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

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Hello all,
Work still commencing on the Morris Minor. There was nothing left and a bit of a make shift jacking point on the offside of the car. It was definitely to hard to tell what was original to the car. I've photographed the near side jacking point and it seems to be attached or sat on a box to take up the clearance between the jacking point and the underside of the car. See photos. You can see in the photos what looks to be the original jacking point and the end of the cross member. Can anyone confirm the correct fitment of jacking points with photos? Mine is a 1960, 2 door.


Many thanks

Dave
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Re: Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

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Looking at the new Cross members that are available it looks like someone previously has cut the ends off mine where the cross member should extend under the sill and where the jacking point welds to.!!!!
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Re: Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

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Hi,
You're making good progress, we have all had issues with the fit of new panels, so you are not alone there.
Restoration posts are always an interesting read, it's just a shame that this site (or the last one that this was moved from) has lost quite a few of the images on page 2.
Best wishes,
Mike.

Edit: I just paged back, more in hope than expectation, to find most have 'reinstated' themselves.......
So I don't know what's going on there???.............
1954 Series 2: 4 door: "Sally" -- Back on the ground with (slave) wheels and waiting to be resprayed......
1970 Triumph Herald 1200: "Hetty" -- Driven back from Llangollen in Wales (twice.....)
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Re: Maisey, 2 door 1960 Morris Minor 1000 (871XUU)

Post by kevin s »

I think someone may have been trying to address the inherent weakness in the original jacking point design by moving it under the inner sill and adding the box to spread the load, the implementation is not very pretty though!

Given how weak the std jacking point design is and what a rust trap it is I choose to leave it off altogether and carry a scissor jack.
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