Where to Start with Kirby

The Morris Minor looks pretty straight from a body standpoint, but mechanically and electrically it's a wild card.

We knew the wiring was toast so we had already ordered a replacement wire loom. The starter solenoid was not fit to re-use so we determined to replace it with an electrical ignition rather than replace the expensive manual starter. A lot of the existing terminations were marginal so all devices were removed, cleaned and made ready for re-installation.

Rear brake shoes were paper thin and the rotors on the front end were deeply scored. All need to be replaced.

Since Nick has work constraints, every chance I have I bring home parts and pieces to clean up and prepare for reinstalling. I cleaned all carpets as thoroughly as possible, as well as the pad that dampens the road noise. As you can see in the first picture below, the pad is secured to the carpet with spray adhesive to keep the carpet from sliding off the pad.I re-stitched some of the edge bonding that had come loose. As you can see from the third picture, I still have to trim some of the pad where it over hangs the carpet edge but that will be done on re installation.

Since the heater had to come out anyway, it was dismantled, cleaned inside and out, media blasted where acceptable, and reassembled. On the top of the heater a "Y" branch diffuser slides into a rectangular stack. A small piece of the stack was broken out but easily repaired with light gauge aluminum bent to fit. Special thanks to Chad Cansler at British Motor Care, Portland, Oregon, for his support and the use of his media blaster to clean up parts big and small.

More to come. Kirby gets some grill work.