Have been a bit of a slacker recently and not updated the blog for a while, however that is because I have been making the most of the weather and getting more little jobs done on the Morris.
Firstly over Easter I picked her up and drove her home. She performed perfectly with no oil leaks and managed even the biggest hills with no evidence of a mis-fire.
In fact she was running so nicely I forgot what I was driving and got a bit enthusiastic on the Basingstoke Road causing the back to slip out a bit and squealing protest from the rear tyres!
The following weekend I decided to tackle the seats.
This was an absolute pig of a job. Removing the seats was easy enough and getting them out of the car was equally simple.
What I needed to do was remove the rubber straps which hold in the seat cushions and then replace both the cushions and the straps with un perished and slightly better tensioned new articles.
It was the type of job that probably has a specialist tool or a real knack to it as the rubber webs have to be pulled really tight and then their little hooks have to be seated in the holes drilled into the seat frame.
It was soon very evident that I did not possess the right tool or the knack to do it so I had to resort to brute force and profanity.
I got it all done in about an hour but the following day I really ached.
As I still had some daylight left I decided to take off the hideous maestro mirrors that the car had fitted and put on some more period chrome ones. This again proved a bit difficult but with some grade A bodging I managed to get them on - they look lovely BUT are so small they are almost totally ineffective!
Monday this week I finally got round to taking the car for it's MOT. I left it with my mate Dave the mechanic and kept everything crossed.
Unsurprisingly it failed requiring some structural welding and the brakes needed sorting. As these are both critical safety features I have left it with Dave to sort- who knows what other nasty surprises he will un-earth!
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