pre-mot

[anshackles]

on the Morris.  Nothing too difficult, a few trivial fixes, couple of bits of welding, and more attention to the brakes to try to reduce the pedal/handbrake travel.  I have that problem with Edward the Series III (Landie, not Morris) - comes from being old-fashioned non-servo drum brake system, if it's not all adjusted right, you don't get good

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[g8bur]

Those brake adjustments are a pain, as we know only too well - we had that pedal/handbrake lever travel problem back in the '70s and '80s on our three Imps, too, and we had to keep getting underneath and adjusting the brakes (and freeing-off the adjusters when they started to get tight). Neither the Minor 1000 nor the Series MM seem to suffer quite as much from that problem, though.

Our 1000 passed its MoT last Wednesday, after some welding by Geoff, with just a comment that the front brakes were slightly asymmetric, though not enough to fail; possibly a cylinder getting a bit sticky. Our 1000 has always been prone to seized front brake cylinders, ever since we got it nearly 13 years ago - we've had to free them off many times, and change them quite often too.

[anshackles]

put new ones on this so they should be OK. Also skimmed the front drums which weren't as round as they might have been. This is the advantage of having a moderate-sized lathe in the workshop :)

I think part of the problem is we're all spoiled by new-fangled servo-assisted disc brakes, which, by their nature, have minimal travel.

[g8bur]

put new ones on this so they should be OK.

Should be OK for a bit. We put plenty of silicone grease under the caps to keep the damp out too.

This is the advantage of having a moderate-sized lathe in the workshop :)

Geoff has a fair-sized lathe in his workshop too; not sure whether it'd take a brake drum, though.

I think part of the problem is we're all spoiled by new-fangled servo-assisted disc brakes, which, by their nature, have minimal travel.

Oh, absolutely; though the brakes on my Rover 2200TC (before the tinworm ate it in early 1990) would sometimes feel disconcertingly squidgy...

[femsc]

we had that pedal/handbrake lever travel problem back in the '70s and '80s on our three Imps

Eep? Is there something you're not telling me, that I ought to know about?