well, after some (lots) of dramas, Moose, our 69 Mini K arrived yesterday.
she would not work when they tried to drive her off the truck in Brisbane earlier in the week - we sent an auto-sparky out and "apparently" all 4 spark plugs were dead. so he replaced them. Very odd as we put the supposedly broken spark plugs back in yesterday and they worked fine. She was running very rough too.

anyway, we had great fun driving yesterday. we have to work out the speedo as i think she is really out (was doing 70 MPH but certainly did not feel like we were doing 112kph!!!! and there were still cars passing me.

the only thing we can really find wrong with her is that the drivers door handle (outside) is loose. we took the inside panel of this morning to look but all the screws were fine. so it must be the assembly. oh well.

anyway, just wanted to let you know she arrived safe and sound.
thanks for all your help over the past few weeks.

take care

Deb

Sounds like you have some fault finding to do..... Got any pics ?

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What happens is the handle and the escutcheon / base bit don't have any bearings or anything between them, so after forty odd years it wears slack. The square pegs wear loose too, and the clocksprings rust and loose their 'springyness'.

The assembly can be dismantled and rebuilt to be better, or you can find better condition used parts, but the job can be quite fiddly and time consuming to do properly.

think we will just try and find a replacement door handle.

have taken lots of pics but can't remember how to post them on here (don't have a photobucket account)

Deb

Yeah, having to post picts via photobucket is a real pain. There'd be more pictures if it was easier.

It's easy pesy, click on the IMG code at the bottom of the photo in Photobucket, it copies automatically including the image tags...

...then paste that into your reply.

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68 Morris Cooper S Mk1 (*ex 78 1275 LS 4th last built, 70 Morris 1500 OHC & 70 MiniMatic)