George's Cars » Morris Minor Traveller http://www.gacurley.com/cars site to keep track of what george is doing with his cars at any particular point in time Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:00:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Minor Woes http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2008/12/30/minor-woes/ http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2008/12/30/minor-woes/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:03:28 +0000 george http://www.gacurley.com/cars/?p=258 I have been doing a little work on the morris minor over the last few days. She wasn’t running right and I traced the error to the engine not getting a spark.

So I changed the rotor arm, points, condensor. I tried to start her and off she went. She drove for about 15 miles then bang. There was a huge bang and she lost power. The large backfire ended up blowing about a 7″ hole in the exhaust, but this still didn’t tell me what the prolem was. The guys on www.morrisminoroc.co.uk recommended to change the coil.

So today I changed the coil and replaced the exhaust with a stainless steel version.

Again she started on the first touch. Feeling brave I brought her for a test drive. Again about 20 miles into the journey the started loosing power and died.

So I’m no better off, I still don’t know what is wrong or how to fix it. I don’t know where to start (excuse the pum). I’ll update ye when I know whats the solution to this problem.

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71 Westy – this is away being painted at the moment, hoping to get it back next week

Morris Traveller – this isn;t ok at the moment, on the last drive it cut out on me and i have no idea why, fuel is getting to the carb, it getting a spark but nothing is happening. the carb is clean too so i don’t know what the problem is. It drove perfect for 20 miles then decided that it had enough and had to be trailered home

Beach Buggy – between the holiday and work this have been put on the back burner for the last few weeks but i want to get it going again soon. Newt job is to get all the chassis parts sandblasted and painted so i can continue to build the chassis. I also want to get aluminium checkerplate for the floor of the buggy, i like the rough and ready look.

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]]> http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2008/09/19/22-2-2005/feed/ 0 Early Days http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2008/09/19/early-days/ http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2008/09/19/early-days/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:18:08 +0000 george http://www.gacurley.com/cars/?p=103 I don’t have dates for these picture but these where taken during the first push for getting the car done.

After these picture where taken the car sat for about 5 years and the story picks up again in 2004

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]]> http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2008/09/19/early-days/feed/ 0 Morris Minor Build – Before http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2008/09/19/morris-minor-build-before/ http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2008/09/19/morris-minor-build-before/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:05:36 +0000 george http://www.gacurley.com/cars/?p=96 I’m going to post all the pics of the Morris Minor build here.

This is how the car looked before I started.

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