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Thanks, yes all is well, being doing some welding on the moggy today :)

Thankyou, have a merry Christmas too ! - standard is a lot worse up close, but she will look better eventually :)

I hope to try and get it back to what it was. I am concentrating on getting her driveable in the short term.

@@isobelfox629 Sounds like a nice idea to get it back to how it was.

she did, now she is partially in bits ☺

It will be a while, I am struggling to get the head off her

@@isobelfox629 What's the problem?

@@gailjones6273 There was low compression on one cyclinder, I was hoping to take the head off to see if it was a head gasket issue or something else. But it's not coming off the studs, I think corrosion between the studs and head is keeping it stuck on. Currently making a tool to chase down around the studs

@@isobelfox629 Plenty of Plus-Gas or WD40 down the studs, maybe valve seats leaking too. I had the head sticking on a Ford Pinto engine, but in this case it had head bolts which came out ok. The head was stuck down and I had to give it a jolt with a mallet and block of wood which released it. Sounds like you have the problem in hand, good luck.

Would me amazing

No not at all, I tend to do anything that takes her off the road for a while over winter. The Standard is an addition to the fleet :)

Yes I do love the sound she makes ☺

Hello, I am good thanks, I keep meaning to upload an update but been really busy ! I will try and do one this weekend :)

@ glad to hear yr ok , am just the same keep meaning to upload but life gets in the way sometimes 👍😊

Yes at least you know it's working when you do :)

I swapped it in the end, it was a non original one, not points operated. Gone back to an SU one

Hello, she is a 1958 ☺

@@isobelfox629 she is a butifull little car

Thankyou ❤

Thankyou 😊

No she does seem to enjoy eating them :) - have changed my setup to allow for the mounting of two of them, for easy swap over now 😆

Oh cool thanks, I will check it out !

Thankyou, didn't know there were many still outside the UK !

@@isobelfox629 jep ,,,a few here in northern Germany and a lot more in Denmark,,in the 50' s and 60' s it was an affordable car there 👍🚗,,,a friend of mine bought one in Denmark,,good for him, steering wheel on left side 😅,,all the best and lookin' forward to new vids, greetings from the baltic seaside 👍🍀🌞🌊

Thankyou, very interesting to know !

Yes, at least there are not too many things to go wrong, and you can fix a lot at the roadside :)

Likely they were a lot better quality back then. I have some different ones in the post, and I am going to move the mounting location so it gets less heat and vibration from the engine.

Glad you enjoyed it :)

@@isobelfox629 i have enjoyed all of your videos so far.

Thankfully it wasn't very flammable ! :)

:) indeed, I must have got 500 miles out of it before it died at least, got me to the national meeting and back, and a few more runs.

@@isobelfox629 That Acuspark seems better. Do you have electronic ignition too?

@@jaggass Yes, I have a powerspark conversion kit , and I carry a spare of it just in case !

@@isobelfox629 At least you wouldn't need to worry about points etc. We don't know how lucky we are with ECU controlled ignition, coil packs etc. The only thing is getting to them when one has failed. Gone are the days of gapping plugs, ignition timing etc.

With no spark there wasn't much point in trying any more till it was fixed :)

Thankyou, yes wasn't the best place for it to happen, but at least it was quick to resolve !

@@isobelfox629 yeah definitely.

Yes I prefer ones where you look like you could be sat with me. It's also much easier to concentrate on the driving too, rather than what to say next :)

Not so sure I would like being so high up, Blackpool tower is tall enough for me :)

@@isobelfox629 You can see Emley Moor mast from Barnsley and i always see when i go to Shafton.

Pretty sure you can see it from the top of Rabbit Ings

Thankyou glad you like them!

Thankyou

@@isobelfox629 you're welcome

I made a wooden mount that is strapped to the passenger seat, seems to work quite well

@@isobelfox629 Oh, many thanks for that and well done. I like the use of natural materials too. It's just right for the Moggie and like my dad would have made in the 50's and 60's. At a second attempt, I bought quite a solid plastic one that fits on the window, it was still not good enough.

Thankyou ❤

Oh cool, been out a lot more in her this year, spent a lot of time in bits the last few years

lucky.

I replaced the engine with one I sourced from Ebay a few years ago, I don't have any history on what has been done to it, but it pulls really well and makes all the right noises, so i haven't dared look. The one that came with the car overheated badly and I made worse attempting to change the head gasket !

@@isobelfox629 It could have warped the cyl head or damaged the block. More than likely many Minor owners probably had the heads machined to run on UL back in the day.

Thankyou !

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