1970 Morris 1500, from Oz

its a 1970 morris 1500, basically a 1300 with an E series from the factory. have a look here for the aussie BMC range www.elevenhundred.com/morris1500/ so its basically a maxi engine and 5 speed box in a 1300! she has 50ish k miles on her, but the engine is a reco unit with 20,000 miles on it. and the username? I'm a pommie mechanic living in aus, who has a yellow ford falcon ex taxi as a daily, which the boss knicknamed the pommietaxi....

not a massive update, but i rebuilt and flushed the mastewr cylinder, and rebled the brakes today... another small step

Thats brilliant and I love the period tuning bits. You need a set of period wheels like Cosmics or maybe some wider steels for a real period cool look.

holy thread ressurection!
I'm gonna copy and patse from another thread, as its easier for me.

2nd nov 2011
these pics also give an idea of what it like here.
from the house door:

hmmm someones left all thses shonky cars here:

the view from the shed doors:


and some of the donor. spot my foot:




rotten much? its a 1975 model, one of the very last:




bootlid, holy funk!:

and now, doris. heres the areas needing attention:





and some arty ones:




11 nov 2011
not alots happened with the green morris, its still seized and finding a gasket kit here is impossible. so today after a legnthy googe sesh, i had a go at unseizing it. the original plan was ATF and diesel in an equal parts mix, poured down the plug holes, 200ml per cylinder. problem was i have no diesel, so some petrol was used. i spent 30 mins adapting a spark plug socket and extension to work without a rachet (mine curse word itself) and whipped the 20ish year old plugs out. i then added 200ml or so of derv+ATF, and left to simmer for a day. hopefully by tomorrow evening it will have done something. spontaneously combusted no doubt....

the brown spares car is on its roof at the mo, as i chop the rear quarter off it. then its going to the local fire brigades metal skip so they can build a new shed.

3-12-2011
update, and a health warning.

got some stripping done today (oooo-eeeer) half the roof and the front wing. the method for this? my grinder, wire wheel attachment and this:

i soon realised i was highly allergic to this, when a tiny spot landed on my arm, and instantly it blistered...... hmmmm. if your paint strippering a car/bike/pot plant/ mother in law, be careful, wear big gloves and goggles!!
anyway, i managed to get the wing looking like this:


not too shabby for 30 mins work.
i masked up the side of the car, ready for me to do the doors and rear quarter tomorrow.

and finally i found an old pye ghetto blaster in the shed, prefect for working on the car.


awesomes!

3-1-2012

spent 2 hrs today applying rust converting primer to the wing, its now a healthy black, ready for filler. i also made a start with removing the engine and gearbox. this is where it gets odd..... about 4-6 weeks ago i spent a day trying to unseize the engine. it didnt work, so i left it at that, and went with the "remove the whole lot" plan.

today after removing the radiator and basically anything connected to the engine, for some reason i grabbed the fan and turned it. this time though, the full engine turned....

WTF...

spurrewd on by this, i grabbed my slave battery and powered up the starter, which turned the engine like the day it was new. so the new plan (i like plans) is to rebuild the top end and get it running. its a weight off reallly....

4-1-2012
todays update is sponsored by rust.

started with this:

drivers front floorpan

passenger front floorpan, with a coating of surface rust due to water getting in somehow.....

after a wire wheel....

sadly these have appeared. pinholes. i hate them, a cow to weld, due to blowing ever bigger....

so thats where the water came from, inner wheelarch to bulkhead to outerbulkhead. basically behind the kickpanel, a traditional ado16 rot spot. ado16 is the model code btw.

so heres the floors after a coat of rust convertor and primer. this will be micro wire wheeled where the holes are, welded then recoated. then por 15 will be applied.

this dries to a black finish, like new panels.

heres the engine bay, wiring loom removed, aswell as master cyls and any other bolt on bits.

the next two areas were wire wheeled and the rust converted and primed.



so thats upto date. i also tested the electrics and the car turns on the key, and raises fuel, so once the heads machined etc i'll bosh it back together.

enjoy.

thats the company i work for mate. this now has the later 5 speed box. nomads are super rare now. 30 k's huh, in the valley then?

he has. its stunning and nearly done. i prefer the brit stuff, its differnt from a hq with a 350.

you'd like my other car, a 1956 ford prefect....

Awesome little car - will be watching this thread

Interesting car, mate. From what I understand these are very rare. A mate of mine is an apprentice mechanic at Minisport here in Adelaide, and when we were at the old U-Pull-It in Lonsdale, he spotted one amongst the rows of cars. It was dead straight and still nearly complete, only missing the interior. He went mad for it and instantly had to buy it on his credit card! The guy in the office told us that the site was getting closed down at the end of the week and all the cars would be crushed, so that was it, he got it pulled out of the wreckers and onto a tow truck! He somehow got a full interior for it from his contacts at work and from car clubs and had it back on the road in about a week! ;D

I have no idea where it is now, he sold it on because he already had a supercharged Morris 1100, plus a Mini and a bunch of other cars. But he saved it from the crusher.