At the moment, videos about China as I'm in China at the moment. Otherwise, back in New Zealand, it would be videos about my Morris Minor, various projects, workshop related stuff and other random junk.
Hi there, I ended up replacing it with a modern solid state diaphragm pump - a direct replacement for the original SU pump. It was $100 well spent. Someone had put the wrong type of pump in my morris before me, the fuel pressure was too high for the carb and would overflow in traffic. Cheers
Heya, just a cheap radio that I got online with built in speakers. Works well enough for listening to the radio or some music in traffic, at other times the car is too noisy to hear it anyway! Cheers
The easiest way to put the centrifugal weights is ,put the weights on the distributor cam , then turn distributor upside down and place cam onto spindle . That’s how I taught hundreds of students in my Technical College motor vehicle classes , City & Guilds courses. It saves trying to get the pegs on the cam to line up with the holes in the weights. Give it a try ,hope it helps.
I'm not sure "In fourth by 35mph" is what I'd call really pushing it. Hell, in third by then would be barely nudging it. Brake judder could be ovalled drums, wheel shudder might be tyres need balancing.
By no means was I pushing it, it had more to give but I didn't have the balls! I've since replaced all the bushes in the suspension and the juddering has stopped but thank you for the info. Cheers! :-)
First law of crank-starting a Minor. Always do it right handed. I'm a lefty and tried it once, left handed, only to get cracked across the wrist by the starting handle, a painful lesson I never repeated.
Looks like you did a really good job , well done . Im restoring an old ish Triumph Dolomite and intend to paint it myself when the welding is all finished. At the moment I plan to use small rollers to paint most of it. And see how it goes. If it looks rubbish i may end up spraying it later on.
I don't recommend using rollers as it causes more trouble and headache later if you wanna strip it all off to spray it. Spraying gives significantly consistent and cleaner results, not the mention it's far easier. Best of luck with your restoration! Cheers!
Always good music in the back of these videos. Good job on the car, I know this is an older video, I'm backtracking after finding your channel recently. 👍
Hats off to you Sir... you've done the old girl and yourself proud... It's not an easy undertaking- making a rusty old British car road worthy again - you've done a great job ! I like your approach to this resto'- calm and measured... just the way it should be...
Good job mate ! I have the same model of Morris Minor in dark green and I always enjoy its simple and reliable engine. I drive my Morris as a daily car especially in summer. Very nice video !!! Greetings from Italy
Wow! Never thought a Morris minor would be in Italy! That’s very interesting and cool. That’s exactly how they should be driven haha, as much as possible. Cheers :-)
Thanks for an excellent recap on your journey with the Moggie! I have watched nearly all your videos by the way and just wanted to say you really impressed me in how you tackled this project and your videos are all very well presented. You did an awesome job on the Minor, especially being so young and learning so many skills along the way. Bet you can't wait to get reunited with it. These cars really get under your skin! From a fellow 1966 Trafalgar blue saloon owner!
Yes bud - its the 1098cc 2dr version. Engine was actually reconditioned a while back and it had a rebore of the block at that point so I believe its somewhere around 1115cc now. Still not breaking any land speed records but its great fun to drive! Keep up the good work. Be good to see your reunification video when you eventually get back to moggie!
Nice job! A small suggestion: Morris Minors had pin striping along the bonnet, doors and rear body along the raised bodywork at door handle level. That small addition would really finish off the car beautifully.
China is not a country we see a lot of ordinary city scenes from. Quite interesting. Life seems to tick over there quietly on a Sunday much as it does in many other places.
Thanks for that I'm just getting back to mine but luckily it's a project not my daily driver I think I've gone from novice to expert welder and I thought it just needed a paint.
Thanks for this video. It made it real easy to do this myself. Though the cup on the lower wish bone was stuck, so it got a few extra (light) hits with the hammer to free it up) Thanks heaps.
