1969 Morris MK-II 1800 AT, repaired!

David

If you are talking about the black item at the upper part of boot.  It's an Evaporator -- the rear air conditioning system.  There is another one in the front, before the passenger.  These use the same compressor.

It's hot here.   Father added them when she arrived to Taiwan.  So they are old enough, still working.  In fact father imported this kind of products from Japan in 1970s and installed on many vehicles here.


Regards



Tony

Hi Tony

Now I can see the compressor on your engine; I assume the alternator is mounted below - I'm trying to make out if you have double pulleys on the crankshaft? I've never seen two evaporators, very impressive. It's very hot here so my interest in the installation is more than academic.

As far as the orange electronic ignition unit I concerned, I have seen units here in Thailand on modified classic cars that look very similar. Do you have any more details how the are triggered and whether they use the original distributor etc?

regards

David

continue telling the story.

Just made an invoice about the door seals and window seal from Anthony Wood.  Parents went to the central city so there was a text drive after the repair.  Of cause, doors were able to be closed.  On the way back near our garage, there was a big annoying noise coming from the AT while accelerating.  Back to the garage, father and I tried to make sure where it came from.  Father was very sure the location and told me about the primary drive chain, which he did the modification on the original sprockets and changed the chain about 20 years ago.  But last time there was no any noise, just suddenly less power.

I sent Tony a mail about this problem and the need of putting off the previous deal and to wait for the answer from me again.

Next day the whole engine plus AT was removed out ( I know there is someone here who has shown how to only remove the AT out. )




Father starts to remove parts in order to get the engine and AT out.






We found the cause like father said before.  The teeth of two sprockets were worn out and the chain had become loose.  Got the answer and the new require was carried out.  A good news from Tony again --- he found the parts we needed.

The front left side.




The front right side.




Master brake removed with its pipe connected.  The electronic fans are not needed any more because there has been a wrong guess we made last Summer.  We drove her for half an hour and the engine's temperature got hotter, hadn't reached the hot area.  We thought we had just installed a new water pump for a few months before, which shouldn't be.  No water leaks. Enough coolant.  As of the hot Summer???  Anyway, father added the fans, which still didn't help much.  Old school ideas!  When hotter, drive her to a nearby garage and lift her up.  Found the cause --- the front two brake fluid l hoses problem --- front brake gradually pressured fluid was unable to return to the master brake system when the brake is released.

Tony

ps: about time I went to sleep!  Have a good time and night to everyone!

Just before removal of the engine plus AT.   The orange engine mounting support ( blue arrowed) was created here 2 years old.  We just had to use its metal plates to make a new one. There is another extra mounting support ( red circled ), which will support partly the weigh of engine plus AT if the engine mounting support fails.  There is another story about this.  I bought a new engine mounting support in London in 1996.  It was stored until 2012 when the one on Morris failed. We installed the new stored one, funny thing happened.  It just last for a week!!!  So I didn't know about Anthony Wood at that time.  Therefore we had to make one.  A new created one came here and was installed, the same, last for 10 days.  Manufacturer came to see to it and created another stronger one for us to install.  A big cost!!!  Now it has been since then.




The power pump ( left ) connects to the back of the alternator ( right ).




Finally removed them out.

Took this opportunity to overhaul the AT.




There are some cracks of the flywheel.