keithcanfixit · Aug 3, 2018

Having spent this weekend shedding blood, loads of sweat and tears rebuilding front suspension including fitting new ball joints (don't want to do that again)
new wheel bearings (definitely don't want to do that again), track rod, drag link, steering damper, painting hubs and carriers, new discs and pads and a new front prop shaft what do I get for my blood loss and aches.....A BLOODY FLAT BATTERY, what is it with these vehicles, why do we love them, had new battery and alternator couple of months ago now I have got to find the drain, life was so much simpler 40 years ago

Grrrrrr · Aug 3, 2018

Quite like the moggies; my father always had one. You had to carry spare points and dizzy rotar arm around, just in case but other than that they were fun. Light steering, skinny wheels, power through the back wheels - and simple as f*ck. Not so good off road though.

keithcanfixit · Aug 3, 2018

Don't know about that ,managed to plough up a field avoiding a tractor coming the other way on a narrow country road down in devon as a 19 year old, don't know who was going faster , the tractor or me, think it was me in my reckless youth, definitely a change of underwear time though

Gazbo · Aug 4, 2018

Grrrrrr said:
Quite like the moggies; my father always had one. You had to carry spare points and dizzy rotar arm around, just in case but other than that they were fun. Light steering, skinny wheels, power through the back wheels - and simple as f*ck. Not so good off road though.

My old Dad owned quite a few "moggy boxes", as we called them here, right from the original low light with side valve engine up to the 1000 with the lovely little 998 A series.
Actually surprising where they would go offroad, the old mans "mogs" always had cracked, (in the case of the alloy sumped side valve), or badly dented and scraped sumps in the later ohv versions. A really great little British motor, the absolute epitome of simplicity indeed, sadly lacking in most of today's offerings.

johnnyb70 · Aug 4, 2018

My dad had a lateish one for 13 years and it was used when he brought it! It was f plated so about 68 69. A really great car he was so enamoured with the Morris badge after this he "treated" himself to a marina! From the best to the worst overnight.

Turboman · Aug 4, 2018

johnnyb70 said:
My dad had a lateish one for 13 years and it was used when he brought it! It was f plated so about 68 69. A really great car he was so enamoured with the Morris badge after this he "treated" himself to a marina! From the best to the worst overnight.

I love Minors. Great all round car, and still a practical classic on the road now, especially with some mods to up performance.

Mother had a Marina, it wasn't a bad motor for it's time, to be fair, she did a lot of miles in it, and it was generally reliable.

tomcat59alan · Aug 4, 2018

Turboman said:
I love Minors. Great all round car, and still a practical classic on the road now, especially with some mods to up performance.

Mother had a Marina, it wasn't a bad motor for it's time, to be fair, she did a lot of miles in it, and it was generally reliable.

I had a Marina as a tow hitch cover once,silly boy racer couldn't stop,i was stationary waiting to turn right into a car park.the impact pushed the engine back so far that the gearbox joined the driver inside the car. Luckily no one hurt. Marina v Classic,only one winner.

Turboman · Aug 4, 2018

tomcat59alan said:
I had a Marina as a tow hitch cover once,silly boy racer couldn't stop,i was stationary waiting to turn right into a car park.the impact pushed the engine back so far that the gearbox joined the driver inside the car. Luckily no one hurt. Marina v Classic,only one winner.

Unsurprised. In an impact, the lighter vehicle almost always comes off worst.

Dippypud · Aug 4, 2018

keithcanfixit said:
Having spent this weekend shedding blood, loads of sweat and tears rebuilding front suspension including fitting new ball joints (don't want to do that again)
new wheel bearings (definitely don't want to do that again), track rod, drag link, steering damper, painting hubs and carriers, new discs and pads and a new front prop shaft what do I get for my blood loss and aches.....A BLOODY FLAT BATTERY, what is it with these vehicles, why do we love them, had new battery and alternator couple of months ago now I have got to find the drain, life was so much simpler 40 years ago

Put the Moggy engine into a Reliant Regal van and race them ....

Colthebrummie · Aug 4, 2018

Marinas were not as bad as top gear made out, it was when they started calling them Itals that it all went wrong.

Col

raywin · Aug 4, 2018

Moggies had their moments did you ever do the brake master cylinder? and the shock absorbers were strange, my handbrake cable used to seize up every few months even though it had a grease nipple in the centre of the outer cable.
Mine was a 1963 our first car and we travelled many thousands of miles in it but most weekends were spent doing something to it.
Happy memories but on a 350 mile drive to Devon give me my FL2 any day.

Datatek · Aug 4, 2018

Dippypud said:
Put the Moggy engine into a Reliant Regal van and race them ....

Nowt wrong with the later reliant OHV engines, used to use them in F750 racing, very light and very tuneable,

Turboman · Aug 4, 2018

Datatek said:
Nowt wrong with the later reliant OHV engines, used to use them in F750 racing, very light and very tuneable,

Nothing wrong with the rest of the cars, either. Quite ground breaking for their time, and a lot of the ideas, like plastic bodywork and separate subframes are now mainstream in the industry.

Colthebrummie · Aug 5, 2018

Turboman said:
Nothing wrong with the rest of the cars, either. Quite ground breaking for their time, and a lot of the ideas, like plastic bodywork and separate subframes are now mainstream in the industry.

It was just going round corners they had trouble with.

Col

Dippypud · Aug 5, 2018

Colthebrummie said:
It was just going round corners they had trouble with.

Col

Corners were fine ... if taken at the appropriate speed for the curve ... :/

Gazbo · Aug 5, 2018

Dippypud said:
Corners were fine ... if taken at the appropriate speed for the curve ... :/

Walking pace??

raywin · Aug 5, 2018

They also had a trick where the bottom of the king pin let go and the suspension collapsed leaving the wheel sticking out.
Usually happened when turning in a tight circle, which thankfully was usually done in car parks.
How we laughed

Magicgrotto · Aug 5, 2018

I LOVE the sound off a moggy exhaust on deceleration

wammers · Aug 5, 2018

raywin said:
They also had a trick where the bottom of the king pin let go and the suspension collapsed leaving the wheel sticking out.
Usually happened when turning in a tight circle, which thankfully was usually done in car parks.
How we laughed

Yep bad maintenance has always carried just rewards.

JimS · Aug 5, 2018

Magicgrotto said:
I LOVE the sound off a moggy exhaust on deceleration

Wot this farty sound

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