Random notes on the restauration of Morgans, MGBs and Minis
The last weeks have been extremely busy. Business travel to Zurich and Berlin kept me from my garage. The only reminder of my cars was that I ran across MGB GTs on both trips. In Zurich a nice dark green GT with the recessed shark mouth grille (so 1971/1972 I think) and in Berlin a... Continue Reading →
The Morgan wiring loom is finally finished and back in C6622. It was a good thing I tested everything on the workbench - besides an unexpected failure of the horn (it has a short circuit and blows the fuse right away) - everything is working well now. I took an insane amount of time to... Continue Reading →
Last weekend I worked hard to finish off the Morgan wiring. A closed-end battery cable connector had to be cramped onto the new brown cables from the fuse box. As I don't have the right tool for this I drove over to Stephan's workshop and borrowed the large hydraulic cramping tools from him. Next, I... Continue Reading →
Thanks to my colleague Artur in Poland, I was able to continue with my Morgan's wiring loom. As mentioned before, it was impossible to get MTA Uni F630 bus connectors. Artur was able to order them in Poland and forwarded them to me. Jestem ci winien piwo, Artur. These are fuse box connectors which perfectly... Continue Reading →
With summer coming closer the main priority is to get the Morgan back on the road. All bookings for our Bonn-Barecelona-Balears trip have been made by now. But C6622 is currently not going anywhere without a wiring harness. Even though I started rebuilding the loom back in November last year I never got around to... Continue Reading →
While doing the LeLog2023 with Martin's 1971 Mini Cooper S I fell in love with the (old) Minispares intermittent wiper unit he had retrofitted to his car. Nowadays, MiniSpares is selling a different unit (new) - which features a pontiometer to control the delay. The two reasons why this was not what I wanted were a)... Continue Reading →
After removing the wiring harness from the Morgan a while back I thought that fixing it will be a quick job. Removing the entire PVC tape wrap took an entire evening. A shortage caused by the white (ignition) cable slipping of the Weber Idle solenoid, caused more damage than I initially saw. It was pure... Continue Reading →
Is it the third or fourth time I am rewriting this post? With all the iterations I went through mentally - I cannot even recall.... The weekend started with a visit at Stefan's garage. He had some old 195/65R15 tires I could trial fit on the new Dunlop D-style wheels I bought for the MGB.... Continue Reading →
While I have the important tasks for out upcoming trip all sorted, there is always something that comes up last minute. The biggest change: my wife insists on keeping the rear bench in for our trip. As our kids come and visit us in Italy - is does make sense to have a rear bench... Continue Reading →
It was a cold, dark winter day when my wife and I decided on how we want to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. For a long time, we had the crazy idea to do a Land Rover Experience tour. But it turns out that these trips are way more expensive than they used to be.... Continue Reading →
Fixing C6622 