Morris Minor Owners Club

Coming home from work yesterday evening,, just made it past roundabout and on to my road home. Suddenly loss of power...and Car comes to a complete halt..just enough time to pull in to some sort of muddy shoulder.

Towed her home..and she refuses to start since..
Ignition will turn over and she has sounded close on starting once or twice.

* Full tank of petol even brought her to garage on way home thinking petrol could have been stolen !!!!

* Checked carb and petrol is going through that...

* when I put turn key can hear Fuel pump...!

* Battery fully fine..

* will not start on Turning handle ?

* Thought it made a whooshy noise during the tramautic last moments..could have imagined it though..


Any Ideas ...or help appreciated..

ello mate ,has it had a service lately? may need things checking/changing on the dizzy,kits only about £15,steve

this happened to our minor the other week, swapped the dizzy over for another i had and has been fine eversince. So i think the dizzy would be a fine place to start.

take the dist cover off. spin the engine and chec for a spark at the points. best done in the dark.
no spark no start. replace points or clean set gap. if no joy could be looking at a new coil,

I'd go for checking the points (check the gap and look to see if the surfaces are burnt if they are replace them) and condensor (Just replace it, its easy and cheap) then the coil, after that you need somebody more technical than me

ooh, make sure that the distriburor doesnt turn freely otherwise your timing will be well out (I have forgotten to tighten the clamp holding my timing on my mini which caused some interesting things to happen) if you have a timing light its easy to check the timing too (it has to be very out to stop an a series)

Before I start, I've been lurking on these forums for quite a while but never posted, so, hi to all!

Splitscreen, this may be a bit of a long shot, but the 'whooshy sound' and the nearly starting bit rang a few bells. Try the suggestions above first, but we had a similar problem which turned out to be a failed head gasket. There wasn't any of the usual water/oil mixture because it had failed between two cylinders. No damage done as it happened very close to home (he always manages to give up in a convenient place!). My husband (who was driving) did manage to keep the engine running for the few hundred yards until he reached the drive, but after that it simply wouldn't start.

When our head gasket blew between 2 and 3 it drove for ages, It was just felt it was down on power, but wasn't sure, I realised it was wrong when it started on only run on 3! This doesn't sound like a head gasket problem to me!

When it rains it pours.. My Laptop packed it in the day after..probably gone to gone just overa year old...

Thanks for the advice...I will get to look at it over the weekend...
These things come in three's...Anglia is next wait and see !

if you want to test the head gasket use a compression tester to see if the pressures are even across teh cylinders when you crank it over

Sounds like compression problem - check the engine compressions. It may have dropped a valve !

Question ?

Will a 1048 engine fit correctly in a 56 spitscreen that is 883 engine ?

Cheers.,

Have a look at my post about fitting a radiator. We fitted a 950 to a MM, and it fits (sort of ). If you are doing it, it is fairly straight forward. You need to play with the clutck linkages, and decide what sort of box you want, but sould be straight forward

Change of direction in diagnosis

I think the head gasket is ok...rad contents fine etc

I checked the fuel resorvoir and when turning her..the fuel is peeing out of this resorvoir.. There is a ballon float in this resoirvoir and maybe that is not operating..

Basically there is a fuel blockage somewhere I think ??
Likely to be faulty carb ??

The way she cut out that evening...really felt like a lack of fuel it was so sudden and no mechanial jolts etc.?

New Carb possibly ??

If it didn't cough and splutter the reason why she stopped is more likely to be electrical. The float chamber problem could be entirley unrelated. I would suggest (but you are probably better off waiting for someone who isn't guessing) that something has stopped the float from rising, meaning that fuel is constantly coming in to the chamber, and is thus overflowing.

If you mean that the fuel is pouring out of the FLOAT CHAMBER
then you need a new 'needle and seating' readily available, and
a simple job to change(just undo the three screws holding the
float bowl on and you will see the needle and seating. Biggest
problem is usually finding a spanner to fit the seating!! (you MUST
fit both items as a pair)

Things are back on track...New Laptop coincided with me getting Morris back on the road..
Twas the Rotor arm.. something as small as that ..!
Cheers for assistance.