1946 Morris 8 Series E - off to storage

Keep up the good work - better to have a rest then start afresh than to burn yourself out

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Right, Surgery went well and after a week my leg is almost working properly. I was feeling tired so not much progress this weekend.

I bought this off another forum member, so chance i might end up super charging the morris... or compound charging. Pulley looks to be keyless press fit, so may prove interesting trying to reduce pulley size.




I got the rack shortened. Went well with the exception that I c*cked up on the thread size. I thought I measured it at M16, but its M17. The machinist caught it, smacked me round the back of the head and educated me on the error of my ways.






Just the housing to sort now....


Cut out excess section from the center of the housing.




Tack on some angle iron to ensure all square.



Tack parts together





Trial fit components, then final weld. Clean up and prime.







I then went and put a few more weld beads on some of the panels








The started work on the transmission tunnel close out panels.

Fairly straight forward shape, but I decided to match the round portal shape from the front bulkhead.







I ran out of primer so didnt weld the panel on






By this point my knee was aching a bit so I gave up and came in.

Yep, it makes a big difference.

I've done my share of rust wrecks in the past and with having worked on this, i'm seriously tempted to get the next project dipped / blasted before I start it..... but that'll be a looooong while off having to worry about that.

Even non exciting progress is progress .

Brilliant build. Love the thought you're putting in to this.

That's another idea of yours I might be copying, the inner arches on my Austin are sh-gged, as are the returns, I'm fortunate mine are basically circular, and can get away with using trailer arches for the inner arch repair, I was just going to patch the returns, but I'm sure I can make a new one now,

The morris unfortunately has a few radii in the rear arches, so making the inner arches is going to be a bit of a mare.

If the person who had a go at the arches before me hadnt made such a mess of them, i'd probably look to tidy up and patch in sections rather than make an entire new lip. I'm concerned it's going to pull the panel when I weld it on. Fingers crossed.

Alas Sonus i have 5 days of work in between the riding sessions. I'm heading to Glentress/Innerleithen near Peebles (about 30 miles south of Edinburgh) this weekend, followed by riding closer to home in Cumbria the week after. I'm intending to get out and do some time in the alps next summer though.

Well, its been a long time since i got any work done on this.

I got distracted by destroying and re-building my kitchen which took ages.

I was about to get back to it this weekend, but a fairly routine cambelt change on my vx220 car has taken a major turn for the worst. A spark plug snapped off in the head....

After a significant amount of raging i've started stripping the head off to remove the remains of the broken plug, and to clear out any detritus thats ended up in the bore. 7hrs of graft today has seen 6 broken exhaust studs, but finally the inlet and exhaust manifolds disconnected. Just to to strip all the other parts from the head before I can remove it. The car is a mare to work on.

Anyways I have been doing some Morris shaped thinking. I've started firming up designs for the pedal box. Its still unbelievably tight in there, but it'll be what it is.

After 8 months (!) off the car, I finally got a couple of hours on it today.

I finished rebuilding the VX220 on Sunday morning and gave it a shake down. All seems ok and nothing went bang. But the workshop was a state so first stop tidy up.

Where's the morris?



Bench too messy to think



better






Right, where was I with the morris? Um..... Um.... Oh yeah, replace the rotten wheel arches.

spin it out into the workshop floor to get a better look round it.



Having looked at how floppy the back end would become with the arches cut out, it was time to weld the body onto the chassis.






sill to chassis fill plates



The extra filler plate will be cut off once its all welded solid.


better put some temporary stiffeners in as well.



giving the shell a good push and the was still a fair bit of lateral movement in the back end. Time to tie it all together.

Bracket from cage to window rail

Mocked up in cardboard



Taped in and trial fitted window. All clears nicely and can still get the glass in / out.

Steel time. Make two back to back as quicker



My metal shear and q-cutters are massive time savers :-)





Holes.... cant have holes without swages :-)



Bending this was a right pain in the bum.



roughly in position



welded in (still needs a clean up)



otherside



The shell is now suitably stiff.

Manky old arch.



manky old arch gone



More ferrous for the recycling pile



other side



This was the end of progress for the day as the drummer in my band called to ask where I was.... turns out today is monday not sunday and I was late for band rehearsal. OOps

Not sure when I'll get onto the morris again but might be a couple of weeks.