E35 - A look inside the chassis 👀
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 เม.ย. 2024
- With a little time to spare a tentative cut into the chassis to discover the unknown! The old Morris Minor still has some secrets to reveal, but one step at a time we will sort the car out little by little. sorry for the delay in video. Family, Work and a bad back slowed me down!
Hi again, more from Canada. For a short time, I converted the MM to run on propane gas. Remember this was 1970 and I was just 16 or 17 years old. Drilled a hole in the intake manifold and tapped it for 1/8” pipe thread. Ran a hose to a regulator on a 20 pound propane tank located - wait for it - in the passenger foot well. Put a switch in the gasoline fuel pump circuit. Started the engine on gasoline, switched off the fuel pump, waited for the carb bowl to empty and the engine to falter, then turned on the propane valve. There was some sort of vacuum controlled regulator in the propane line which I ordered from the Whole Earth Catalogue (who remembers that?). Car would idle but that was all due to low pressure set on the tank regulator. But it worked!
Hi from Ontario Canada, I just stumbled across your channel and I’m very glad I did. My first car was a 1958 MM Estate which I bought for $25 when I was 16. The throw out bushing was destroyed so I changed it in situ which I later learned was impossible when I acquired the shop manual! I took the car in for a wheel alignment but the tech laughed at me when he discovered that the rusted frame had been patched up by welding a piece of angle iron to it making the wheels 1/2” out of true. The inside of the front tires wore down extremely quickly so I bought 4 retreads and rotated them weekly! I loved that car. Eventually the frame collapsed while I was driving: the left torsion bar snapped free, the steering veered to full right turn, and I ground to a stop over the low stump of a newly felled tree. I took a route home involving only right hand turns where I inflicted the car on my parents where it sat until it was towed away to its metallic grave. Probably got melted down to become part of a Buick or a fridge.
Another MM reminisce from Canada… as I watch your videos in sequence! Much like you I spent countless hours repairing my MM. patched gaping holes with fibreglass, brazed in pieces of bodywork. Bought pieces of red oak to refashion rotted parts of the frame of the estate portion. Painted it a lovely colour of… oh no what looked like ivory cream under the fluorescent lights in the store turned out to be a lurid flesh tone pink! Remember the rusted, twisted frame? That explains why it went through so many synchromesh rings. In 1970 or 1971 there were lots of old MMs rusted and abandoned and I acquired a bunch of transmissions - I got fairly proficient at swapping out transmissions and could do it in about 2 hours! Once, in an attempt to boost the power, I removed the head, ground the valves, then put the head back on substituting some gasket goo material for the head gasket to decrease cylinder volume and increase compression. It worked. Zoomed like a race car! But… wouldn’t shut off! Dieseled merrily on with no ignition on! But the fuel pump switch from the propane gas experiment came in handy! I’m lucky I lived to be 18, let alone 71 as I am today!
Thank you for all your kind comments and reminiscing. Having owned the car for over 25 years, I could regale countless stories of memories, problems, heartache and joy that I have experienced with the car. I am thinking about doing an episode on the journeys. The car and myself have been on and how much it means to me to have it repaired and back on the road. I think it will be a long process over many years but hopefully it will be worth it one day. Keep your thoughts coming!
More great progress, keep it up.
Thankyou. Just chipping away. Thanks for your support.
good progress , your doing great , its time to get the hoover out to hoover all the rubbish n rust out of the chassis rail 👍👍
You are right! I also have a duster on a piece string to run through the chassis leg
Keep up the great work, currently doing the same on my 106 GTi hole after hole, but all learning curve, slow and steady. All the best.
Thank you, I really appreciate the encouragement
It may be a good idea to use Bonda Rust primer in the chassis box section before you close it up , keep up the good work.👍
I think I will. I will also leave a small hole to allow for air movement and some additional rust prevention! Thankyou
Just put the paint on thick, that'll give it back it's strength.
2 coats then 🤣
Hi buddy
I am a classic car owner and a mechanic I would cut it out and replace it but to be fair only seen a quick look at your project
Thankyou. I'm going to spend some time tomorrow (hopefully) to have a proper poke around. Finger 🤞