Morris Cars & Trucks - Recent Questions, Troubleshooting & Support

Question edited to add full year. Question moved from Misc to 1960 model Morris Minor. Ah, a lovely old school car from the days of my youth. The days when cars were simple to work on. I had a mechanic friend that has on with a Triumph Spitfire engine in it and was in the car of another friend that rolled one with me and two other in it when the front suspension tie rod broke in a bend on a country lane. If you only JUST got it back from the shop, I would take it back. Things to check Fuel pump operation. Ignition timing. Spark Plugs and wires. Distributer and Distributer Cap. Strip and Clean the carburetor. Backfiring is usually from lean mixture, not enough gas if it backfires through the exhaust. Unburnt fuel vapor sits there until ignited.

what car is this, a Morris bla bla in UK? no country told or what it is. posted to cars and trucks and google never heard of it.

With a little initiative, you could probably research this yourself on Wikipedia. A brief review makes no mention of automatic gear boxes in the article on Morris motors. The first automatic transmission, as we currently understand it, with torque converter and planetary gearsets, was the hydramatic transmission introduced by General Motors in 1939.

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they take a lot of lining up, it also depends on the temperature you are doing the work in as the wood sweats and gets wider or shrinks, you need to make the room so that the would can shrink Shrinking and swelling occur as the wood changes moisture content in response to daily as well as seasonal changes in the relative humidity of the atmosphere, i.e., when the air is humid, wood absorbs moisture and swells; when the air is dry, wood loses moisture and shrinks.

the dimension to determine the size of the morse taper is taken at a distance back from the large end of the taper from your large dimension (.434 " ) equates to 11.023 mm and the closest taper to that is morse taper number 1 which has a dimension of 12.065 mm at the measured distance from the taper end the smallest morse taper size is number 0 which is 9.045 mm and the next size up is morse taper number 2 which is 17.780 mm references are from page 74 of the engineers black book edition 2

2.54"bore X 3.3" stroke was a 1098 cc capacity engine of 48 bhp (35.8 KW ) any more --www.carfolio.com

I would need to hear it.